Marginal or interlinear changes may indicate simply that the copyist has looked again at his exemplar. However, if such additions are frequent, it may become likely that the MS has been corrected against some other MS. (A copyist careful to correct against his exemplar would probably copy carefully in the first place; frequent correction therefore suggests that he consulted another MS as well). Also, if the main text shows a reading found in several MSS and there is a change to a reading found in other MSS, it seems likely that the MS has been compared with some MS other than its exemplar. For one or other of these reasons, the marginal or interlinear corrections listed below may be significant.
In Mw:
variant 25
variant 55
variant 169
variant 213
variant 243
variant 491
variant 581
variant 615
variant 649
variant 673
variant 781
variant 1040
variant 1106
variant 1158
variant 1195
variant 1374
variant 1573
variant 1755
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