Textual criticism
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Why a scribe's marginal note sometimes drifts into the text
What a critical apparatus records and what it quietly drops
How a cancel leaf exposes a publisher's late correction
Why a stemma is built from shared errors rather than shared readings
Why two scribes copying one text leave different letter shapes at line ends
How digital collation changed the pace of comparing witnesses
Why a critical edition can be copyrighted when its author died centuries ago
How palaeographers separate a ninth-century hand from a twelfth-century imitation
How scribes marked a correction with expunction and subpunction
What an editor gives up by trusting a single best manuscript
Originalism and living constitutionalism are theories of reading before they are politics
How lectio difficilior stops scribes from smoothing hard readings away
Why dating a manuscript by its script is an argument from probability
How contamination ruins a clean stemma
Reconstruction and conjecture differ mainly in how much of the work they show
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