July 15, 2014 Journal article Open Access

Giannouli, Antonia

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{"DOI":"10.25592/uhhfdm.605","abstract":"<p>The tendencies of Byzantine authors and scribes with regard to punctuation, orthography or accentuation, based on such trustworthy witnesses as an autograph, a copy corrected or dictated by the author himself, have been the subject of individual analyses or integrated into editions. Yet, modern editors still waver between their normalization and their adoption.&nbsp;On the one hand, this diversity in editorial principles points to the need for a systematic study of authorial and scribal habits and their evolution throughout the Byzantine period. On the other, an ever more urgent issue is how the results of such a study would affect textual criticism and editing techniques. The observations outlined below apply to literary texts, written in prose and in learned language.</p>","author":[{"family":"Giannouli, Antonia"}],"container_title":"Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Newsletter","id":"605","issue":"July","issued":{"date-parts":[[2014,7,15]]},"page":"18-22","title":"Byzantine punctuation and orthography. Between normalisation and respect of the manuscripts. Introductory remarks","type":"article-journal","volume":"8"}