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Documentary edition  

Definition

  • A documentary edition is an edition based on a single document of particular historical, literary or linguistic value. This type of edition can take different formats, presenting the textual content of the document as semi-diplomatic, diplomatic, ultra-diplomatic, or even facsimile edition, which differ in the level of editorial intervention, ranging from major to minor concession to the reading habits of the target audience.

Source

  • "Edition, documentary" 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
  • Pierazzo, Elena. 2014. ‘Digital Documentary Editions and the Others’. Scholarly Editing 35, 1–23.

Example

  • Salvatori, Enrica et al. 2020. Codice Pelavicino. Edizione digitale, 2a ed. https://doi.org/10.13131/978-88-944430-2-8.

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https://w3id.org/dh-atlas-vocabularies/etv/DocumentaryEdition

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