sentences:  It was practiced for the improvement and glorification of a text, and though it followed a set of rules, they were not so strict as to stifle emendation.This was a transition from older works with large numbers of lists and regulations that mandated every action a scribe could take in correction, and had been widely ignored in medieval print culture.Oswald rejected a system in which one must simply pick a single exemplar and correct according to it, or reproduce portions of texts which the scribe knew to be in error due to a proper exemplar not being attainable.