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	A '''lacuna''' (plural '''lacunae''') is a gap in a [[manuscript]], [[inscription]], text, painting, or a musical work.		A '''lacuna''' (plural '''lacunae''') is a gap in a [[manuscript]], [[inscription]], text, painting, or a musical work.

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	* A famous [[Old English]] example of a lacuna is in the manuscript [[British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A. xv]], the poem [[Beowulf]]:		* A famous [[Old English]] example of a lacuna is in the manuscript [[British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A. xv]], the poem [[Beowulf]]:
	::hyrde ich thaet [... ...On]elan cwen. '''(Fitt 1, line 62)'''		::hyrde ich thaet [... ...On]elan cwen. '''(Fitt 1, line 62)'''
	:This particular lacuna is always reproduced in editions of the text, but many people have attempted to fill it, notably editors Wyatt-Chambers and Dobbie, among others, who accept the verb "waes" (''was''). Malone (1929) proposed the name [[Yrse]] for the unnamed queen, as it would then alliterate with [[Onela]]. This is still hotly debated amongst editors though.<~~ref~~>~~G. Jack, "Beowulf — A Student Edition", OUP, Oxford:1994. Pp.31-32, footnote 62.~~</~~ref~~>		:This particular lacuna is always reproduced in editions of the text, but many people have attempted to fill it, notably editors Wyatt-Chambers and Dobbie, among others, who accept the verb "waes" (''was''). Malone (1929) proposed the name [[Yrse]] for the unnamed queen, as it would then alliterate with [[Onela]]. This is still hotly debated amongst editors though.<sup>[1]</sup>

	* Another notable lacuna is the eight-leaves-long [[Great Lacuna]] in the ''[[Codex Regius]]'', the most prominent source for [[Norse mythology]] and early Germanic heroic legends. Luckily parts of it survived in independent manuscripts and in prose form in the ''[[Völsunga saga]]''.		* Another notable lacuna is the eight-leaves-long [[Great Lacuna]] in the ''[[Codex Regius]]'', the most prominent source for [[Norse mythology]] and early Germanic heroic legends. Luckily parts of it survived in independent manuscripts and in prose form in the ''[[Völsunga saga]]''.

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{{otheruses|lacuna}}

A '''lacuna''' (plural '''lacunae''') is a gap in a [[manuscript]], [[inscription]], text, painting, or a musical work.

The state of old manuscripts or inscriptions which have weathered or been damaged sometimes gives rise to lacunae — passages consisting of a word or words that are missing or illegible. [[Palimpsests]] are particularly subject to lacunae. In order to reconstruct the original text, the context is to be considered. In [[archaeology]] and [[literary criticism]] this may sometimes lead to competing reconstructions and consequent interpretations. Published texts containing lacunae often mark the section where the missing text is with a ''[…]''. For example, "This sentence contains 20 words, and […] nouns." Another example is "one kilogram equals one […] grams" where the word 'thousand' is lost in a lacuna in the manuscript.

==Famous examples==

* A famous [[Old English]] example of a lacuna is in the manuscript [[British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A. xv]], the poem [[Beowulf]]:
::hyrde ich thaet [... ...On]elan cwen. '''(Fitt 1, line 62)'''
:This particular lacuna is always reproduced in editions of the text, but many people have attempted to fill it, notably editors Wyatt-Chambers and Dobbie, among others, who accept the verb "waes" (''was''). Malone (1929) proposed the name [[Yrse]] for the unnamed queen, as it would then alliterate with [[Onela]]. This is still hotly debated amongst editors though.<ref>G. Jack, "Beowulf — A Student Edition", OUP, Oxford:1994. Pp.31-32, footnote 62.</ref>

* Another notable lacuna is the eight-leaves-long [[Great Lacuna]] in the ''[[Codex Regius]]'', the most prominent source for [[Norse mythology]] and early Germanic heroic legends. Luckily parts of it survived in independent manuscripts and in prose form in the ''[[Völsunga saga]]''.

* In [[Minuscule 69|Codex Leicester]] the text skips from [[Acts of the Apostles|Acts]] 10:45 to 14:17 without a break; possibly a scribe rewrote it from a defective manuscript.

==Notes==
1. G. Jack, "Beowulf — A Student Edition", OUP, Oxford:1994. Pp.31-32, footnote 62.

==See also==
*[[Unfinished work]]

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