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The isolated letters are standard siglums designating particularly significant manuscripts:
- א [aleph] = Codex Sinaiticus
- A = Codex Alexandrinus
- B = Codex Vaticanus
- Q = Codex Marchalianus
In addition, the standard abbreviations:
- MT = Masoretic Text
- LXX = Septuagint - in this diagram, this refers to the original version of the Septuagint (as opposed to Lucian, Heysicius, Hexaplar, A, B, X [aleph], etc., the Old Testaments/Hebrew Bibles of which are commonly also called Septuagint)