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Vincent Broman wrote:

> Could anyone tell me what "in ras" means in a MS collation?
> I could not dig anything appropriate out of my latin dictionary,
> but context and etymological atmosphere suggest something about erasures.

"In ras" is an abbreviation for "in rasura".  It indicates that the 
reading was written over an erasure.

Best wishes,
Richard Weis
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