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Manuscripts with Few Significant Introduced Variants
Barbara Bordalejo;
Peter M. W. Robinson
The literature of stemmatics is rich in discussions of two phenomena which, it is commonly held, render the orderly assignation of manuscripts into families problematic, even impossible. These two phenomena are coincident agreement (where unrelated manuscripts share the same reading, apparently by simple coincidence) and contamination (where a manuscript combines readings from two or more manuscripts). In this article, we suggest that there is a third area of difficulty which causes considerable problems to the stemmatic project. This third area is the phenomenon of multiple manuscripts within a tradition which cannot be assigned to any family because there is no consistent pattern of agreement in introduced variants between them and other manuscripts.
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- Publication date:
- March 29, 2019
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- Keyword(s):
- Textual Criticism Textual Scholarship Stemmatics Scholarly Editing Geoffrey Chaucer Manuscript Studies Textual Variation Greek New Testament Canterbury Tales Divine Comedy Dante The Canterbury Tales
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