Transmission of Texts and Criticism
In the process of copying the codices, scrolls, and papyri on which ancient writers wrote, scribes added mistakes, which supplemented by various losses, make the job of interpreting the best reading of many ancient passages a challenge.
Ancient Writing
From your Guide. Introduction to and resources on epigraphy and papyrology.
From your Guide. Introduction to and resources on epigraphy and papyrology.
Building an Image Bank of Inscriptions
Details of a project from Oxford to make legible and widely available the content of a squeeze collection.
Details of a project from Oxford to make legible and widely available the content of a squeeze collection.
Glossary of Technical Terms
Glossary of terms pertaining to textual criticism and transmission of texts: bios, catena, chapter , colon, colophon , comma, cursive , gloss , hypothesis, lectionary note, minuscule , nomina sacra , opisthograph, ornamentation, pagination, palimpsest, paragraphus , punctuation, scholium, scriptio continua, title, and uncial.
Glossary of terms pertaining to textual criticism and transmission of texts: bios, catena, chapter , colon, colophon , comma, cursive , gloss , hypothesis, lectionary note, minuscule , nomina sacra , opisthograph, ornamentation, pagination, palimpsest, paragraphus , punctuation, scholium, scriptio continua, title, and uncial.
Imaging Roman Stilus Tablets
Explanation of the procedure used to get the clearest picture of what the writing with ink and a stylus (from a collection from Vindolando) actually said.
Explanation of the procedure used to get the clearest picture of what the writing with ink and a stylus (from a collection from Vindolando) actually said.
Manuscript Transmission
When scribes copy manuscripts, there are often replication errors caused by any number of things, including improper hearing or seeing the same ending (homoeoteleuton) on the wrong line and jumping down (haplography). There may also be what are called transmission errors which are mistakes common to a set of manuscripts all deriving from a single copy.
When scribes copy manuscripts, there are often replication errors caused by any number of things, including improper hearing or seeing the same ending (homoeoteleuton) on the wrong line and jumping down (haplography). There may also be what are called transmission errors which are mistakes common to a set of manuscripts all deriving from a single copy.
Textual Criticism
A brief history of the process which has as a basic principle that identity of reading implies identity of origin.
A brief history of the process which has as a basic principle that identity of reading implies identity of origin.