# Readings to confirm with Sammay

`\unsure{...}` marks a doubtful reading (logged to `unsure.log`). `\erratum{corrected}{as printed}`
corrects one of the original's own slips and lists it in the edition's Errata section.
`\qslip{as printed}` marks a suspected slip **inside quoted matter**: it is never corrected, because the
slip may belong to the quoted source rather than to Ross — it is logged to `qslips.log` and listed below so
it can be checked against the original source.

## Open
Nothing outstanding. The quotation-slip table below is for checking against the quoted
sources when convenient — it does not block anything.

## Suspected slips inside quotations — left exactly as printed, for checking against the source
Never corrected: the slip may belong to the quoted source rather than to Ross. Checking one means reading
the cited page, so the table records how far the source can be got at. **Five of them cannot be checked by
anybody outside the archives that hold them** — they are unpublished letters and trade documents, and for
those the entry here is the permanent record, not a task. (Attempted remotely 2026-09-14 and abandoned: the
full text of the early printed sources could not be reached reliably, and an unverified guess is worse than
an open row.)

### Published sources — checkable in a library
| Orig. page | As printed | Quoted source |
|---|---|---|
| 116 | *idolotrous* | Carey, *An Enquiry* (1792), p. 2 |
| 116 | *proponderance* | Potts, *British Baptist Missionaries*, p. 83 |
| 116 | *intially* | Potts, *British Baptist Missionaries*, p. 83 |
| 130 | *continous* | *First Report \ldots\ Native Schools* (1818), pp. 21-22 |
| 169 | *egregriously* | Halhed, *Grammar*, p. xxiii |
| 172 | *faithfull* | Ouseley, *Oriental Collections*, I (1797), advertisement |
| 208 | *tounge* | Gilbert & Rivington, *Lord's Prayer in Three Hundred Languages* (1891), Preface |
| 244 | *aquainted* | Rāma Kamala Sena, *A Dictionary in English and Bengalee* (Serampore, 1834), I, Preface |
| 246 | *professsional* | Pandey, *Indian Palaeography* (Benares, 1952), p. 93 |
| 308 | *Newpaper* | Vijayapaliah, *Introduction of Kannada on the … Linotype* (Bangalore, 1954), p. 3 |

### Unpublished — in the archives Ross consulted, and nowhere else
| Orig. page | As printed | Quoted source |
|---|---|---|
| 276 | *Pharamaceutical* | Majumdar to May, 14 Sept 1933, Mergenthaler Correspondence file no. 918 |
| 297 | *imposssible* | MC 918: King to Griffith, 4 Nov 1937 |
| 305 | *seperate* | LC 17A: Tracy to Martin, 3 Sept 1964 |
| 335 | *here* (for *there*) | Letter from David Saunders, 16 Dec 1986 |
| 353 | *compatability* | Stempel, *Information; Photocomp Type Faces* (January, 1980), Design Sizes |

(The page numbers in `qslips.log` can be one out — the mark it reads is the edition page's last one — so this
table is the authoritative record.)

## Resolved
- **p.295 *compliments* and p.348's dropped *to* join the Errata** (Sammay, 2026-09-14). This overturns the
  p.84 precedent for these two: a word-choice slip and a dropped word are corrected and listed like a
  misspelling. p.84's own agreement slip is left bare — it was ruled on separately and the
  reading there is the author's grammar, not a slip of the typewriter.
- **Errata boundary: slips inside quotations stay as printed** and are listed above for verification against
  the source (Sammay, 2026-09-13). Ross's own slips continue to be corrected and listed in the Errata section.
- **p.84 (PDF 86), note 149** — the agreement slip (“the characters \ldots\ shows greater skill”) stands
  **as printed and unmarked** (Sammay, 2026-09-14). An editorial `[sic]` was added on 2026-09-13 and has been
  removed: the edition sets it in the author's own notation (italic *sic* in upright brackets), so a reader
  could not have told the one editorial interpolation from her seven. Those seven — orig. pp. 47, 105, 106,
  107, 169, 203, 307 (PDF 49, 107, 108, 109, 171, 205, 309), all inside quoted matter — were each checked
  against the page image and are the author's. **The edition now interpolates nothing into the text.**
- **p.50 (PDF 52), note 67** — the handwritten square brackets round the typed parenthesis are ignored; the note
  is set exactly as typed (Sammay, 2026-09-13).
- **Bengali: modern type is text, historical specimens are images** (Sammay, 2026-09-13). Bengali that shows the
  modern script — the Scheme of Transliteration on p.13 — is set in Tiro Bangla. Bengali that shows a historical
  typeface is cut from the scan and set with `\ig`: that now includes the two CW1 sorts in the List of Plates
  (p.5, item 18) and in plate 18's caption (p.55), which were previously typed as Tiro text.
- **p.5 item 18 / p.55 plate 18** — the two glyphs are জ and ত (Sammay, 2026-09-13); both are now set as cut images.
- **Errata policy** — the author's own slips are corrected and listed in the Errata section; PLAN.md's Editorial
  row records it. Thirteen entries: p.10 *Navarnārī*, p.20 *Orientalisch und*, p.25 *distiguish*, p.32 *Gento*,
  p.36 the unclosed parenthesis, p.39 `n.d.),p. 2.`, p.49 *Advertisments*, p.113 *twelth*, p.115 *Charaters*,
  p.117 *intitiate*, p.123 *possibilites*, p.127 *accomodates*, p.132 *newpaper*.
- **Inline type specimens are images** — cut by `tools/crop_inline.py`, set with `\ig` at native size.
- **p.10, item 113** — *Navarnārī* → *Navanārī*.
- **p.5, item 5 / p.7, item 62 / p.12, item 173** — handwritten carets adopted (*Dissertationes Selectae*,
  *Dharmaniyama*, *Granthanavibhāga*).
- **p.7, item 49** — “(Serampore, 1832)” italic in the original; kept as printed.
- **p.136 (PDF 138), plate 52 caption** — the imprint date is printed `(Calcutta, 182 )`, final digit missing in
  the original; left exactly as printed.
- **Handwritten corrections adopted** (rule 3 — silently, not errata): p.19 *skillfully* → *skilfully*; p.17 n.16
  inserted “x” giving *Reflexions*; p.26 *difficuties* → *difficulties*; p.47 n.53 “a contemporary of”;
  p.58 n.94 marginal addition; p.65 *homogenous* → *homogeneous*; p.70 “from” inserted; p.104 *activites* →
  *activities*; p.105 “favour of”; p.108 struck *e* giving *Mātiura* (twice) and “complete” inserted;
  p.132 “Junior” inserted; p.211 “Figgins's” inserted before ‘Pica Bengalee’; p.217 cedilla giving
  *poinçons*; p.219 n.27 an “l” giving *appellations*; p.224 a struck letter giving *preceding*, a letter
  completing *principal*, and a cedilla giving *Poinçons*; p.226 cedillas giving *Poinçons* (three times)
  and accents on *gravés* and *Hénaffe*; p.232 “the” inserted before *whole*; p.233 an umlaut giving
  *erbländischen*; p.238 an “e” giving *abgenommene*; p.248 *susceptible* inserted; p.271 *metal*
  inserted and an “m” giving *accommodated*; p.283 and p.284 an “m” giving *accommodate*; p.286 an “r”
  giving *occurred* and “on” completing *phenomenon*; p.318 n.27 “and see above, p. 267” added; p.323 an
  “h” giving *rhythm*; p.331 *from* inserted; p.336 an “n” giving *manufacturers*; p.340 *same* inserted at
  the page head; p.347 and p.349 an “m”/“n” giving *accommodate* and *implemented*; p.352 an “m” and an
  “r” giving *accommodate* and *repertoire*; p.359 an “i” giving *compatibility* and a struck letter giving
  *benefited*; p.362 a struck letter giving *benefited*; p.366 an “n” giving *fonts* and an “i” giving
  *facilities* (n.13); p.389 an “s” giving *newspaper* and an “r” giving *occurring*.
- **p.42 (PDF 44), n.39** — the mark before “acquired” is ink blotting, not a caret.
- **Library ownership stamps are not reproduced** (Sammay, 2026-09-14): they record that the *physical copy*
  belonged to a library, which is not true of this edition. That covers the University of London stamp below
  the notes on p.49 (PDF 51), the `BIBL. LONDIN. UNIV.` stamp under the last page of the Bibliography
  (p.429, PDF 431), and the accession stamp 20618054 on the scan's blank leaf 3. Graphic elements that belong
  to the *document* — the ProQuest logo on the provenance leaf — are kept. Corrected 2026-09-14: the mark on
  the title page, carried in `src/pages/p0001.tex` as `plates/seal-p0001.png`, is not the School's seal but a
  fourth `BIBL. LONDIN. UNIV.` stamp. It is dropped with the rest, and the claim in `src/colophon.tex` that a
  seal was kept is gone with it.
- **Text face**: TeX Gyre ScholaX, added to the Dockerfile and in use since 2026-09-14. (This closes the old
  open question about a more readable face.)
- **p.141 (PDF 143), plate 57** — the label is **VF1** (a Vincent Figgins fount), settled by the author's own
  note 132 on p.143.