Scholarly Editions

Towards a digital model to edit the different paratextuality levels within a textual tradition

by Paolo Monella

Paper published in an electronic research journal.

In the textual tradition of a literary work, our sources (manuscripts, printed books etc.) commonly bear, together... more In the textual tradition of a literary work, our sources (manuscripts, printed books etc.) commonly bear, together with the "main text", different kinds of "paratexts" commenting on it (including interlinear annotations, glosses, scholia, footnotes, modern scholarly introductions and commentaries, and many others). This article proposes a unified model for a document-based digital critical edition including both the main texts and the paratexts as they appear in different single sources. The problematic aspects of such an "enlarged" digital edition are discussed, including the relations between the different paratexts and the main text they refer to within each single textual source, as well as the "alignment" of different main texts and paratexts in different sources.

O TE DEUM CPM 92 DE JOSÉ MAURÍCIO NUNES GARCIA: PROCESSO DE TRANSCRIÇÃO/EDIÇÃO

by Jetro Meira de Oliveira

Co-authored with: Elton Machado and Gabriel Martins

Славянский перевод слова Иоанна Златоуста De sancto hieromartyre Phoca. (The Slavonic Translation of John Chrysostom's Homily De sancto hieromartyre Phoca)

by Yavor Miltenov

Byzantinoslavica, 59/1–2, 2011, 311–368.
The paper is published in Russian, I attach here its draft version in Bulgarian, thus have in mind that some errors with the fonts after converting the file and some old data may be preserved in it.

The Slavonic version of St. John Chrysostom’s homily De sancto hieromartyre Phoca (BHG 1537, CPG 4364) emerged in the... more The Slavonic version of St. John Chrysostom’s homily De sancto hieromartyre Phoca (BHG 1537, CPG 4364) emerged in the beginning of the 10th c. in Bulgaria and came to us in the longer redaction of the Zlatostruy (Chrysorrhoas) collection. The present study is devoted to a comparison of the witnesses, building a stemma codicum and identifying the characteristics of the Slavonic archetype. Attached, an edition of the Slavonic version (according to seven copies) and parallel Greek text is being included.


Славянская версия слова Иоанна Златоуста De sancto hieromartyre Phoca (BHG 1537, CPG 4364) возникла в нач. Х в. и дошла до нас в составе полной редакции сборника Златоструй. Настоящее исследование включает в себя текстологическое сопоставление свидетелях, создание stemma codicum и выявление характеристик славянского архетипа. Анализ сопровождается публикацией славянской версии по семи копий с параллельным греческим текстом.

Апокрифният Апокалипсис на Йоан Богослов (коментар и критическо издание на текста). (The Apocryphal Apocalypse of John the Theologian (Commentary and Critical Edition of the Text))

by Yavor Miltenov

Годишник на Софийския университет “Св. Климент Охридски”. Факултет по славянски филологии. Т. 96–97. София, 2007, 91–167.

I'm uploading my own copy, not a scan from the Annual of the Sofia University. Some errors due to fonts conversion are possible.

The Apocryphal Apocalypse of John the Theologian is an eschatological work which emerged on Greek soil in the 5th-6th... more The Apocryphal Apocalypse of John the Theologian is an eschatological work which emerged on Greek soil in the 5th-6th century and had a strong influence on both literary traditions – initially on the Byzantine and, later and in particular, on the Slavonic tradition in which it became especially popular.
The language of the Slavonic witnesses of the text indicates that the apocryphon was probably translated in Bulgaria in the 10th century. This thesis is supported by the numerous archaic syntactic, morphological and lexical features. The quotes from the Bible in the Apocryphal Apocalypse are identical with the earliest Slavonic translation of liturgical texts.
A comparison of ten Slavonic copies of the Apocryphal Apocalypse, which reflect the presence of this work in the Bulgarian, Serbian, Russian and Ukrainian manuscript traditions, suggests that there was a single Slavonic translation. The Slavonic copies are relatively consistent in conveying the content of the apocryphon, which is almost fully preserved in the copies under consideration.
The Apocryphal Apocalypse has a specific internal structure, which synthesizes features typical of two mediaeval literary genres – Apocalypse and erotapocriseis. This dual model, the theme and unclear (apocryphal or canonical) status of the text, were prerequisites for its dissemination in different types of miscellanies and for the establishment of intertextual relations with literary works that differ by genre, theme and status.
The Apocryphal Apocalypse did not only become very popular in the Middle Ages, but also served as a productive model, inspiring formulas, motifs, themes and ideas in a series of other works. It became a basic text in apocryphal and eschatological literature in the Orthodox world.
This publication includes a summary of the results of a comparative study of the apocryphon in the Byzantine and Slavonic manuscript traditions, and a critical edition of the Old Bulgarian translation. The chosen main manuscript is the text of Grech. 70 in the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg, part of Manuscript No. 34 from the St. Ekaterina Monastery on Mt. Sinai (12th-13th century), supplemented with readings based on another nine Slavonic copies. The Greek text of the Apocryphal Apocalypse from the edition of K. Tischendorf is also included.

Leading a Whore to Father: Confronting <title>Celestina</title>

by Linde M. Brocato

Considers the role of editions as boundary objects in the discipline of literary studies, alternating a critique of... more Considers the role of editions as boundary objects in the discipline of literary studies, alternating a critique of <title>Celestina</title> the book in the Castalia edition with a feminist reading of the film <title>My Fair Lady</title>.

NILA VÁZQUEZ, ed. The “Tale of Gamelyn” of “The Canterbury Tales”: An Annotated Edition. Lampeter, Wales: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.

by Jordi Sanchez-Marti

The Tagzettel and Diaries of Cardinal Ernst Adalbert von Harrach.A source for Central European history of the seventeenth century

by Marion Romberg

Co-authored with Katrin Keller: The Tagzettel and diaries of Cardinal Ernst Adalbert von Harrach: A source for Central European history of the seventeenth century, in: The Medieval History Journal, Vol. 13, 2/2010, S. 287–314.

Between 1630 and 1667 Cardinal Ernst Adalbert von Harrach wrote down—in Italian and German—various events of his life... more Between 1630 and 1667 Cardinal Ernst Adalbert von Harrach wrote down—in Italian and German—various events of his life and thus documented the political and cultural development of his time. The result was a personal testimonial which is a singular specimen of historical writing in German speaking areas during this period, owing to its size, the diverse range of its contents and the specific circumstances of its origin. Over the last years, an interdisciplinary team at the University of Vienna comprising historians and a philologist have worked on making this comprehensive source accessible to the scientific community. This article, based on the findings of the project team, aims to introduce the author of these documents, to portray their historical context and to draw attention to the potential of this source. - http://mhj.sagepub.com/content/13/2/287.abstract

Susan M. Felch (Ed.), Elizabeth Tyrwhits Morning and Evening Prayers.

by Carrie Griffin

Virtus est via ad gloriam. John of Wales and Michele da Massa in disagreement

by Albrecht Diem

in: Franciscan Studies 63 (2005), pp. 219-273.

Vita, Regula, Sermo: Eine unbekannte lateinische Vita Pacomii als Lehrtext für ungebildete Mönche und als Traktat über das Sprechen (with an edition produced in cooperation with Hildegund Müller (Univ. of Notre Dame)

by Albrecht Diem

in: Richard Corradini, Max Diesenberger and Meta Niederkorn-Bruck (eds), Zwischen Niederschrift und Wiederschrift. Frühmittelalterliche Hagiographie und Historiographie im Spannungsfeld von Kompendienüberlieferung und Editionstechnik, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2010 (Forschungen zur Geschichte des Mittelalters, vol. 18), pp. 223-272.

Critical Editions of Films in Digital Formats. In: Cinéma & Cie 2006, no. 8, 203-214.

by Natascha Drubek

Written together with Nikolai Izvolov

Translations and revised re-editions:

- Kommentirovannoe izdanie fil’mov na DVD: neobchodimost’ naučnych... more Translations and revised re-editions:

- Kommentirovannoe izdanie fil’mov na DVD: neobchodimost’ naučnych standartov. In: Kinovedčeskie zapiski 72, 2005, 372-383.
- Kritická vydání filmů v digitálních formátech. In: Iluminace 2005/3; Themenheft "archiv-databaze-edice filmu na dvd", 127-137.

- Textkritische Editionen von Filmen auf DVD. Ein Diskussionsbeitrag. In:  montage a/v. Zeitschrift für Theorie & Geschichte audiovisueller Kommunikation, 16/1/2007, 183-199. (revised version)
- Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, Volume 2, 2008, Issue 2, 205-216. (revised version)