Studies in stemmatology II / edited by Pieter van Reenen, August den Hollander, Margot van Mulken.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reenen, Pieter Th. van.

Hollander, August den.

Mulken, Margot van.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Transmission of texts.

Physical Description:

xii, 312 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2004.

Summary:

Stemmatology is the discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts. The object of this volume is the evaluation of the most recent methods and techniques in the field of stemmatology, as well as the development of new ones. The book is largely interdisciplinary in character: it contains contributions from scholars from classical, historical, biblical, medieval and modern language studies, as well as from mathematical and computer scientists and biologists. The contributions in the book have been divided into two sections. The first section deals with various stemmatological methods and techniques. The second section focuses more specifically on the various problems concerning textual variation.An earlier volume on Studies in Stemmatology was published in 1996 and opened the most actual state of the art in stemmatology to a broad audience. That first volume was very well received by stemmatologists and also gave an impulse to new research, as several articles in the current volume clearly illustrate. Both volumes are of interest to scholars in (historical) linguistics, literary studies, Bible studies, classical studies, medieval studies, and history.

Contents:

Studies in Stemmatology II

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Prologue

Part I. Stemmatologicalmethods and techniques

Parallels between stemmatology and phylogenetics

Acknowledgements

References

Problems of a highly contaminated tradition: the New Testament

Notes

Kinds of variants in the manuscript traditionof the Greek New Testament

How shock waves revealed successive contamination

Appendix A

The manuscript tradition of the Cligés of Chrétien de Troyes

Editions

Part II. Textual variation

Genealogy by chance!

Constructing initial binary trees in stemmatology

Trouble in the trees!

Scribal variations

The effects of weighting kinds of variants

Cluster analysis and the Three LevelMethod in the study of the Gospels in Slavonic

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

Different kinds of tradition in Targum Jonathan to Isaiah

Acknowledgments

Valentin and Namelos discover their parentage

Text editions

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612254369

9789027295156

9027295158

9781282254367

1282254367

9781423766438

1423766431

OCLC:

70773165