Scribal hands or textual niatters are not to be considered in any detail. Conventional or agreed-upon dates and places of production of a particular manuscript will be mentioned, but new determinations are not the aim of the descriptions. Ideally, a collation will show how many pages the original codex had, their order, and what has been added, lost, and rearranged. Where published collations exist, describers will check the collation against the manuscript and incorporate recent findings. In all cases, the collations must be checked against the original manuscript.
Customary titles are to be given in quotation marks.
At base, the system adopted for indicated items follows that used by Ker in his Catalogue. In the first two samples above, an item number precedes the folio numbers. The incipit is set in single quotation marks. If an explicit is to be included, an ellipsis should separate it from the incipit. A parenthetic note can be used to indicate any unusual aspect, such as, for example, a heading added in a different hand.