| wit | (witness or witnesses) contains a list of one or more pointers indicating the witnesses
which attest to a given reading. | Zustand | Optional |  | Datentyp | 1–∞ Vorkommen von Durch Leerzeichen getrennt |  | Werte | A space-delimited series of sigla; each sigil should correspond
to a witness or witness group and occur as the value of the
xml:id attribute on a witness element elsewhere in the
document. | 
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    | type | classifies the reading according to some useful typology. | Zustand | Optional |  | Datentyp |  |  | Beispielwerte sind etwa: | substantivethe reading offers a substantive variant.orthographicthe reading differs only orthographically, not in substance,
from other readings.
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    | cause | classifies the cause for the variant reading, according to
any appropriate typology of possible origins. | Zustand | Optional |  | Datentyp |  |  | Beispielwerte sind etwa: | homeoteleutonhomeoarchypaleographicConfusionhaplographydittographyfalseEmendation
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    | varSeq | (variant sequence) provides a number indicating the position of this reading in a
sequence, when there is reason to presume a sequence to the variants
on any one lemma. | Zustand | Optional |  | Datentyp |  |  | Werte | a positive integer | 
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    | hand | signifies the hand responsible for a particular reading in the
witness. | Zustand | Optional |  | Datentyp |  |  | Werte | must be one of the hand identifiers declared in the document
header (see section 11.3.2.1 Document Hands). | 
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