accidental

others, such in general as spelling, punctuation, word-division, and the like, affecting mainly its formal presentation, which may be regarded as the accidents, or as I shall call them ‘accidentals’, of the text.

(Greg 1950, 21)

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Accidentals. Elements of verbal text such as spelling or marks of punctuation which affect primarily the text’s formal presentation.

(Kline 1998, 269)

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