Types of Manuscript Errors1) Haplography – Writing of a letter, syllable, or word once, when it
should have been written more then once.
2) Dittography – Writing twice of that which should only be written once.
3) Metathesis – Reversing the proper position of letters or words.
4) Fusion – The combining of two separate words into one.
5) Fission – Dividing up of a single word into two words.
6) Homophony – The substitution of one homonym for another.
7) Misreading of similar appearing letters. 8) Homoeoteleuton – The omission of an intervening passage because the copyist’s eye had skipped between similar endings 9) Misreading vowel letters as consonants.
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