The transcription of a medieval manuscript is inconceivable without a certain “fidelity”… Certainly, but fidelity to what? Should a “faithful” transcriber today be obliged to reproduce in every detail the spatial arrangement of the source he is working on? Once considered, such a program now seems problematic. Our transcriptions are computer files in text form that need to be writable by humans and readable by machines. If we wanted to mimic the two-dimensional space of the folio as accurately as possible, we would have to overload its transcription with a myriad of annotations about the specific shape of the graphic elements, their size, their spacing, their absolute or relative position, and so on.