Signs and Abbreviations


The following table gives the abbreviations for the editions represented in each item of the collation. For detailed information on these editions see the articles in the Bibliography.

SStephens 1550 (Estienne 1550)
EElzevir 1624
GGriesbach 1805
LLachmann 1842
TTischendorf 1869
TrTregelles 1857
AAlford 1849 as revised in 1871
WWordsworth 1856 as revised in 1870
WH Westcott & Hort 1881
NANestle-Aland 1979 (Aland et al. 1979)
HFHodges & Farstad 1982 as corrected in 1985

The following pre-critical texts are always indicated, along with the critical editors, when they support the readings of the King James version against Estienne 1550:

Vul Clementine Vulgate, third edition (Clement 1592)
CComplutensian Polyglot (Stunica 1522)
ErErasmus 1527
BBeza 1598
EElzevir 1624

Translations:

TynTyndale 1535
GenGeneva Bible (1560)
BishBishops' Bible (1568)
KJVKing James version (1611)
ERVEnglish Revised Version (1881)
JNDDarby Version (1890)
ASVAmerican Standard Version (1901)
RSVRevised Standard Version (1946)
NASB New American Standard Bible (1963)

Other Signs:

is subjoined to the abbreviation for a critical text or translation when the reading is given as a likely alternative either in the margin or by means of brackets in the text.
mm is subjoined to the abbreviations WH and NA when the reading is doubly bracketed in those texts, by which the editors indicate their opinion that the reading is extraneous, but of evident antiquity.
is subjoined to the abbreviation for a critical text or translation when the reading is given in the text, while the reading of the King James version is given as a likely alternative either in the margin or by means of brackets in the text.
AV indicates the reading of the Greek text presumed to underlie the King James version (also known as the "Authorized Version").
AV1611 indicates the edition of 1611 when a distinction must be made between it and later editions. See Changes in the KJV, for further information.
AV1769 indicates the Oxford edition of 1769, followed by all modern reprints of the KJV.
 
NCollation in progress of Nestle 1927 as revised in 1941 (17th).