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Facsimile (edition)  

Definition

  • A facsimile edition is an edition that aims at reproducing all of the visual (and sometimes even material) details of the source text. This may be in the form of a duplicate image (photographic, microform, or digitally scanned), or, rarely, a typographic facsimile.

Source

  • "Edition, types of" and "Facsimile" 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.
  • Kline, Mary-Jo. 1998. 'A Guide to Documentary Editing'. Second Edition. Baltimore,: Johns Hopkins University Press. http://gde.upress.virginia.edu/00C-gde.html.

Example

  • Facsimile edition of the incunable of Giovanni Boccaccio's Ninfale fiesolano, published in Biblioteca Italiana http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it/testo/ib00758500

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