Greek Variants in the Old Latin
Today I started assessing what Greek variants should be included in our edition of the Old Latin for the Vetus Latina Institut. The edition will, like all the others, contain a line of Greek text with...
View Article18.5 and a movable Jesus
At 18.5, the subject of the second sentence, Jesus, causes a few problems. Most MSS read απεκριθηϲαν αυτω ιν̅ τον ναζωραιον λεγει αυτοιϲ ο ιϲ̅ εγω ειμι ειϲτηκει δε. But P60, P66 (possibly) and 05 omit...
View ArticleMore Greek variants for the Latin
I working through Jn 18, selecting Greek variants to include in our edition of Old Latin John. Yesterday we (Rosalind, Philip Hugh and I) sat down and reviewed my work so far and discussed guidelines...
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A duplication
I noticed an interesting thing in 47 (St Gall 60, an Irish MS written in about 800. It is on page 60, and consists of a repeated section of text: lines 1-13 are repeated on lines 13-26. The scribe got...
View ArticleGreek and Latin witness interplay
We received a large grant from the AHRC which keeps our editorial team going to the end of John. Mostly I have been engaged in work on the Latin text. I made a list of all the readings in Greek MSS...
View ArticleNicetas
I have been enjoying myself this week exploring the Johannine text of the manuscripts containing the catena by Nicetas of Heraclea. Apart from the frustation of not being able to find my photocopy of...
View ArticleDocs works texts and the canon
When I was writing the Lyell Lectures for Oxford I realised fully for the first time how useful the hierarchy of Documents Texts Works is for thinking clearly about textual editing. We can use it for...
View ArticleThoughts about desk tops, OCR and triples
Desk topsWe were just talking about touch tables. a typical computer claims to have a desk top. but it's a 14" screen. something six feet by three is a desk top. as a scholar I want to be able to work...
View ArticleDocsWorksText and FRBR - further thoughts on resource description
In a JISC meeting in Manchester of linked data projects held on July 11th and 12th, various projects had looked into FRBR, but none of them actually used it. However, would FRBR be suitable for our...
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