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SIGNS, SPECIAL USAGES,
ABBREVIATIONS
[ ] Square brackets enclose editorial insertions or substitutions in the original text, or (with a query) doubtful readings.
An ellipsis indicates a passage omitted by the preparer of the original source—for this purpose Wesley generally employed a dash.
[...] An ellipsis within square brackets indicates a passage omitted silently by Wesley from a text he was quoting, to which the present editor is drawing attention.
/ A solidus or slant line marks the division between two lines of text in the original manuscript. a,b,c Small superscript letters indicate footnotes supplied by Wesley.
1,2,3 Small superscript numbers indicate footnotes supplied by the editor.
Cf. Before a scriptural or other citation by Wesley, indicates that he was quoting with more than minimal inexactness, yet nevertheless displaying the passage as a quotation.
See Before a scriptural citation indicates an undoubted allusion or a quotation that was not displayed as such by Wesley, and that is more than minimally inexact.
Wesley's publications. Where a work by Wesley was first published separately, its title is italicised; where it first appeared within a different work such as a collected volume, the title appears within quotation marks.
Book-titles in Wesley's text are italicised if accurate, and given in roman type with capitals if inaccurate. If a title consists of only one generic word that forms a major part of the original title, it is italicised; but if it is inaccurate (such as 'Sermons' for a volume entitled
Discourses), it is printed in lower case roman. xm
XIV Signs, Special Usages, Abbreviations Abbreviations. In addition to common abbreviations like c[irca], ed[itio]n, n[ote], original], and st[anza], the footnotes in this volume utilise the following abbreviated forms for items referred to repeatedly:
Arminian Magazine (London, 1778-97).
The Book of Common Prayer, London, 1662.
Forthcoming bibliography in this edition (vols. 33-34), which has a different numbering system from Richard Green's Wesley
Bibliography.
CW JW AM BCP Bibliography Charles Wesley.
John Wesley.
Methodist Archives and Research Centre, The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester, Manchester, England.
NT Notes John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the MARC New Testament, 3rd corrected edition, Bristol: Graham and Pine, 1760-62.
ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2003).
OED( 1989)
The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Tyerman, John Wesley Luke Tyerman, Life and Times of the Rev.
John Wesley, 3 vols. (2nd edn.; New York:
Harper and Brothers, 1872).
The Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society (England, 1898ff).
WHS