Glossary Of Some Important Terms Used In Textual Criticism

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92 : . INDIAN TEXTUAL, CRITICISM 93 1: Contamination blending or crossing of two independent versions, sub recensions or recensions or of two manuscripts belonging to different versions or recensions. .. Corrector the person who goes over a transcript and corrects the scribal errors by comparison with its exemplar. He may be the scribe himself oftentimes. Synonym: Reviser. Corruption spoiling by mistakes, defacement, deterioration, debased or erroneous form of a word or passage in a text. Critical Recension restoratica of a text, so far as possible, to its original form, if by 'original form' we understand the form intended by its author. Critique a set piece of criticism, pointing out of a fault, judgment, in quiring into. Crux literally, a cross; hence a desperate reading, often shown with a dagger or cross in printed editions, whence the name. Plural cruces. Daninim damage, injury, loss; cf. defectio, omissio. Defectio defection, loss, disappearance. Cf. damnum, omissio. Applied for lacunae caused by defacement of text. Diaskeuesis revision (of a literary work), recension. Differentia diversity of readings, discrepant readings, characterizing the independence of versions or manuscripts. Another word would be discrepentia. Diorthotes a corrector or l'eviser. Dittography accidental writing twice over a letter, word or phrase. Divinatio divination, conjecture, prophetic inspiration, correct anti cipation on insufficient evidence. Documental Probability the probability that one set of words can be derived from another graphically, by the resemblance between the individual syllables of one and of the other. Eclectic taking everything into account, choosing from various sources. Eclectic fusion a fusion between yaricus sources. :"" Editio princeps the first or foremost edition. Pl. editiones principes. Eliminatio elimination, throwing out of consideration, not taking into account for the purpose in hand. Eliminatio codicum descriptorum the elimination of manuscripts which have no independent value, such as transcripts of an extant codex. APPENDIX I Eliminatio lectionum singularium the elimination of singular or peculiar readings (of a single manuscript or group of manuscripts whose evidence is not trustworthy). Elision omission in pronunciation. Emendatio emendation, the third stage in Classical Philology of textual criticism whereby the 'transmitted text is restored as far as possible to the original form as it was written by its author. Examinatio examination, the continuous study of the manuscript before arriving at a judgment regarding its trustworthiness and noticing its peculiarities. :, Exegesis interpretation of the material presented by the evidence of the manuscripts without getting behind such evidence by Emendatio. Exemplar a codex which forms a 'copy' for further transcription, a model or original source from which transcripts are directly made. Cf. Sk. adarsapustalam. . Extant existing, surviving, applied to codex, manuscript, etc. Extrinsic Probability external probability, unconnected with contex tual or intrinsic probability but referring to conditions external to the sense of the passage. Cf. documental probability. Fluid cf. Amorphous. Genealogical Method the method by means of which the manuscripts allow themselves to be filiated to one another leading to a pedigree showing the descent of various manuscripts from common sources and the relations between them." Gloss word inserted in margin or between the lines to explain word in text. Gnome thought, judgment, opinion; maxim, aphorism. Graphical probability cf. documental probability. lland person who transcribes by hand manuscripts or corrects them after coniparing them with their exemplars or other copies of the texts represented therein. Hapax legomeinon word for which only one use is recorded. Haplography omission of words or syllables with the same beginning or ending. Hermeneia interpretation. .. ... Lermeneutic Exegetical, interpretative. . Heuristics assembling of the material (manuscripts, testimonia, etc.) and fixing their interrelationship. Hiatus break between two vowels which do not coalesce. :'