Lacuna

:For the Italian band, see Lacuna Coil.

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A lacuna is a gap in a manuscript, inscription or text.

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The word is Latin for hole or pit. The plural is lacunae. (The word lagoon referring to an empty space of water is cognate.)

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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. 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.

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Italian: Italian may refer to:...

Lacuna Coil: Lacuna Coil is an Italian goth metal band formed in Milan, Italy, in 1996. They were formerly known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal....

Manuscript: A manuscript (Latin manu scriptus, "written by hand"), strictly speaking, is any written document that is put down by hand, in contrast to being printed or reproduced some other way. Information may be hand-recorded in other ways than in manuscripts, as inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard ma...

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Lacuna Coil

Lacuna Coil