Who Bears the Burden of Proof? Discovering Codices Descripti in Mediaeval Latin Text Transmission
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This paper addresses one of the central issues in Paul Maas’s Textual Criticism: the problem of determining the dependence of one textual witness on another. It begins by examining the three definitions of descriptus – material evidence, the exclusion of independent tradition, and latent evidence –, and then illustrates each definition with specific examples drawn from the manuscript traditions of John the Deacon’s Vita Gregorii, and Anselm of Laon’s Glosae super Iohannem.
Source: Studi Slavistici
Author: Lucia Castaldi
Institution: University of Udine
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7115059986
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