The place of enactment, receipt, or posting is recorded in Latin in the nominative, but Constantinopolis is shortened to Const. A similar procedure is followed as regards addressees of laws and the names of plaes of enactment, receipt, or publication, the preferred addressee or place being given first, followed by alternatives. Reliable information not found in any manuscript or editor's reading, for example the location of a praetorian prefecture known to have been held by the addressee, is given in angle brackets. The Latin spelling is as in the Oxford Latin Dictionary, so that for example adtrectare is preferred to attrectare but applicare to adplicare. H denotes a rough breathing.
Iota subscript is omitted.
Variant readings . Most texts come from CTh, in which case the main variant readings noted by Mommsen are incorporated in the text in round brackets along with a reference to the manuscript or scholar on which or on whom the variant rests. The variant readings are in roman and the reference to the manuscript or scholar in italic type. Manuscripts are referred to as in Mommsen's edition of CTh, but where Meyer used Greek capitals to refer to manuscripts I have converted the Greek manuscripts to lower-case roman letters, so that for example capital gamma becomes g and sigma s. In the variant readings omissions are indicated by omit or delete, additions by add or insert, the opinion of alii by others and that of plerique by most.