SMC228H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Typesetting
11 Nov 2016
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Started with biblical and classical texts: goal: recover the lost original (archetype) to create the ideal text. Textual criticism: follows threads of transmission back from an existing document to try to restore its text as closely as possible to the form it originally took in the author"s manuscript. Critical: attempts to establish a text based upon research. Non-critical: simply reproduces a text already Text can serve as focus for critical commentary which is not available in the original edition. The transition in classical scholarship, where line-by-line Apparatus: the notes, tables and other items that describe the texts and explain what editors . Editions are set from a pre-existing text. This chosen original text is called the (cid:862)copy text(cid:863) Photographic facsimile: reproduces that text in photographs. Type facsimile: attempts to reproduce the actual physical appearance of the original in different type-setting, by observing such features as the original lineation, type-size and type-face in the reprint.
