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Title

The arts of editing medieval Greek and Latin : a casebook / edited by Elisabet Göransson, Gunilla Iversen, Barbara Crostini, Brian M. Jensen, Erika Kihlman, Eva Odelman and Denis Searby.

Publication

• Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, [2016]
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

• Antonopoulou, Theodora
• Bucossi, Alessandra, 1974-
• Crostini, Barbara
• Iversen, Gunilla
• Odelman, Eva
• Searby, Denis Michael
• Jensen, Brian Møller
• Kihlman, Erika
• Göransson, Elisabet
• Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies issuing body.

Description

xix, 452 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm

Summary

• With the triumph of the codex, medieval literature became more deeply hermeneutic in character. A vast range of texts, in various languages and genres, were not only copied with the commentaries and glosses of ancient tradition, but also underwent continuous reworking and transformation. Indeed, the very act of transcribing texts into a manuscript was often an incentive to rewrite them. This practice resulted in a bewildering number of textual versions that lived alongside their originals, and sometimes displaced them, but were nevertheless fundamental to their transmission and interpretation, often resulting in complex textual layers. All of them, from commentaries on biblical books, hymns, or sequences to texts for liturgical use with many local versions, from model sermon collections to florilegia and encyclopaedic works, came to encompass multiple paratextual and intermedial forms, be it in the guise of other texts or images or music, all with their own histories of transmission. Despite the importance in the development of medieval thought and culture their widespread dissemination evinces, these works have remained largely unedited, or unavailable in reliable modern editions. One reason for this has surely been that they were seen as merely functional texts and regarded as less important than the canonical texts. Yet the sheer number of different versions also makes them resistant to traditional and well-established editorial protocols.
• Issuing from Stockholm University's Ars edendi research programme (2008–2015), The Arts of Editing Medieval Greek and Latin draws together eighteen case studies covering typical medieval genres such as commentaries and glosses, liturgical texts, model sermons, and anthologies. Exploiting examples not typically discussed in manuals of textual criticism, these essays describe the challenges and opportunities in producing single-manuscript editions or editions involving large numbers of witnesses, editing different versions of the same author's text or anthologies containing the works of multiple authors, as well as in capturing stages of textual genesis and textual variability, relating text to image, and harnessing digital tools. A closing chapter seeks to trace common threads as well as differences, offering reflections on broader questions of editorial theory and practice.

Series Statement

Studies and texts ; 203

Uniform Title

Studies and texts (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies) 203.

Subject

• Classical literature > Criticism, Textual > Case studies
• Latin literature, Medieval and modern > Criticism, Textual > Case studies
• Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern) > Editing > Case studies
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > Editing > Case studies
• Paleography, Greek > Case studies
• Paleography, Latin > Cases studies

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format."--

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Editing the Gloss (later Glossa ordinaria) on the Gospel of John : a structural approach / Alexander Andrée -- The ancient passion of St Clement of Ancyra : preliminary remarks on the planned first edition / Theodora Antonopoulou -- The use of an apparatus Collationum Fontium in the critical edition of a patristic anthology / Alessandra Bucossi -- Editing a Greek Catena to the Psalter from a single illuminated manuscript : Vaticanus Graecus 752 / Barbara Crostini -- Editing Byzantine scholarly texts in authorized manuscripts : the case of Eustathios of Thessalonike's Parekbolai on the Odyssey / Eric Cullhed -- On the problem of editing versions : Peter Riga's Euangelium / Greti Dinkova-Bruun -- Original value : on diplomatics and editorial work / Claes Gejrot -- Editing medieval commentaries on Martianus Capella's De nuptiis hilologiae et Mercurii : a synopsis traditionis / Andrew Hicks --
• Liturgical lyrics in many local versions : text edition of Tropes and Prosulas to the Gloria chant in the Medieval mass / Gunilla Iversen -- A modified diplomatic edition of Lectionarium Placentinum / Brian M. Jensen -- The "representative text" : editing sequence commentaries / Erika Kihlman -- Rules and guidelines in book series and their impact on scholarly editions / Caroline Macé -- A "semi-critical" edition of the Model Sermon Collection Sermones moralissimi de tempore by Nicolaus de Aquaevilla / Eva Odelman -- Problems in editing glosses : a case study of Carolingian glosses on Martianus Capella / Sinéad O'Sullivan -- Thoughts on editing Greek scholia : the case of the exegesis to the Odyssey / Filippomaria Pontani -- The dicts and sayings of philosophers in the digital age / Denis Searby -- Insignificant errors of great importance : some notes on the editing of ancient and medieval Latin texts on logic / Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist -- Close to the author - but how close? Theodorus Metochites, Semeioseis gnomikai / Staffan Wahlgren -- Connecting the case studies : editorial methods and the editorial circle model / Elisabet Göransson.

ISBN

• 9780888442031
• 0888442033

OCLC

• 945583214
• SCSB-11075145

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library