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Critical edition  

Definition

  • A critical edition is an edition in which the text has been constituted on the basis of more than one witness applying a genealogical methodology (to reconstruct an archetypical version) or some other critical assessment of variant readings. Significant variants are usually recorded in a critical apparatus.

Source

  • "Edition, critical" 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.

Example

  • Guarnaccio, Luca (ed.). 2020. Manfredi Potentini Vita Gerardi (BHL 3429) sive Laudatio sancti Gerardi episcopi Potenti, DOI: 10.6093/978-88-31309-04-2.
  • Shaw, Prue (ed.) 2019. Monarchia. https://www.danteonline.it/monarchia/

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