Observations on the history of textual criticism in the Medieval and Renaissance
From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of the ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - A good and clean copy. - From the text: Any scholar interested in problems of textual criticism will certainly remember the verses where Martial tells the reader not to blame the poet for passages that are obscure or ungrammatical, but to blame the copyist whose haste caused the mistake. By expressly criticizing the hurried work of the transcriber, Martial shows us one of the likely causes of the corruption of a text in ancient times. To restore such texts as much as possible to the original, there was created in the last century a discipline called textual criticism, which may be considered the most important branch of philology.
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