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Best-manuscript edition  

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  • A best-manuscript edition is an edition based on a single witness of the tradition, chosen by the editor on the basis of the outcome of the recensio, or typically because it is the earliest and/or best preserved. The term refers to Joseph Bédier, who relied on a single “good” manuscript to produce the edition of the Old French Lai de l’Ombre.

Source

  • "Edition, best-manuscript" in Roelli, Philipp, and Caroline Macé. ‘Parvum Lexicon Stemmatologicum. A Brief Lexicon of Stemmatology’. Edited by Odd Einar Haugen, Marina Buzzoni, and Aidan Conti, November 2015. https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-121539

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