textual criticism

Table of Contents

Introduction
The materials of the investigation
- Books transmitted in print
- Books transmitted in manuscript
- Books transmitted orally
Critical methods
- Recension
- Examination
- Emendation
- Editorial technique
History of textual criticism
- From antiquity to the Renaissance
- From Politian to Cobet
- From Bentley to Lachmann
- Related developments in the late 19th century
- Reaction against the genealogical method
- Mechanical methods

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Domenico Ghirlandaio

Poliziano

Italian poet and humanist

Richard Bentley, detail of an oil painting by James Thornhill, 1710; in Trinity College, Cambridge.

Richard Bentley

British scholar

Konstantin von Tischendorf

German scholar

Justus Lipsius, oil painting by an unknown artist, 1585; in the Musee Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp

Justus Lipsius

Belgian scholar

Johann Salomo Semler

German theologian

Yan Ruoqu

Chinese scholar

Furnivall, pencil sketch by Charles Haslewood Shannon, c. 1911; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Frederick James Furnivall

British scholar

Marc-Antoine de Muret

French author

Karl Lachmann

Karl Lachmann

German philologist

Madvig, drawing by Emilius-Ditlev Baerentzen, c. 1845; in Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen

Johan Nicolai Madvig

Danish scholar