Detailed Information on Publication Record
2022
Who Should Prepare a Catalogue of Manuscripts and for Whom? The Importance of Combining Codicological and Textual Approach in Manuscript Studies
DIVIZIA, PaoloBasic information
Original name
Who Should Prepare a Catalogue of Manuscripts and for Whom? The Importance of Combining Codicological and Textual Approach in Manuscript Studies
Authors
Edition
Editing Reconsidered. Editors, Users and Curators of Medieval Sources in the 21st Century, 2022
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Prezentace na konferencích
Field of Study
60206 Specific literatures
Country of publisher
Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English
manuscripts; textual criticism
Tags
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 19/1/2023 09:14, doc. Mgr. Ivo Buzek, Ph.D.
Abstract
V originále
A manuscript, and even more a multi-text manuscript, is a complex entity consisting of a physical component (the manuscript as a codex or a compound of more codices or codicological units) and an intangible one (the manuscript as a witness to one ore more texts), which intertwine a history (the object, produced to bear one or more texts, might have not always been like we know it today) and a tradition (the texts come from one or more models which were physical, in turn). Whatever the main focus and purpose, codicological or textual, of studying one or more manuscripts, the other approach cannot be overlooked, if not at risk of terrible blunders. Thus the textual scholar will have to consider his witness as a structural object with its own history, change and damage over time; while the codicologist will have to consider his codex as a text-bearing cultural artefact which, unless it is an authograph, has one or more models behind. A catalogue of manuscript cannot linger on details of textual transmission, however, as an access tool to book collections, it must provide useful information to all those scholars who deal with manuscripts studies. Through a few case studies, the talk will deal with concepts like the need of identifying texts in manuscripts or at least helping other scholars to identify them, perspective mistakes in describing the completeness or structure of a text, bibliographic deficiencies, codicological material evidence vs. diachronic approach in textual criticism, textual units of transmission and, most of all, the need of a multidisciplinary approach in manuscript studies.
Links
MUNI/FF-DEAN/1672/2021, interní kód MU |
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