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- Title
THE BEGINNINGS OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM IN OLD ROMANIAN WRITING.
- Authors
PAVEL, EUGEN
- Abstract
Without becoming a mainstream operation during the 17th-18th centuries, textual criticism underwent several attempts to become imposed in editorial and printing practices. The efforts of the scholars in Alba Iulia (Bălgrad) or of the "teachers of the place" in Wallachia to revise biblical texts represented the first manifestations of competent critical editing. One of the first to scrupulously edit a book was the Greek scholar John Komnenos Molyvdos in Iaşi. The next attempts recorded were made at the Court of Nicholas Mavrocordatos. Most remarkable among these were the undertakings of the Transylvanian Hellenist Stephan Bergler, who critically edited a few medieval manuscripts. His endeavours were followed by the strenuous efforts of several book recensors, such as the Greek monk Mitrofan Gregoras, or Rafail, Anatolie and Lavrentie, from Hurezi Monastery, Mihalcea Litterati and Cozma Vlahul, who demonstrated their incipient skills as editors. The Moldovan Metropolitan Leon Gheuca also encouraged editorial practices. During this period, the peak of maturity in the field of text editing was reached by the Bible of Blaj, published by Samuel Micu Klein in 1795. The new biblical version stood out through the accuracy of its editing process: the book was provided with several complementary texts, including two prefaces, introductions to groups of books and to each individual book, as well as summaries of the chapters. To these were added infra-page glosses on the sources, with several translation versions. All these formed a negative critical apparatus, close to the modern structure of a rigorous edition.
- Subjects
MANUSCRIPTS; EDITING; TEXTUAL criticism; BIBLICAL criticism; ROMANIAN literature
- Publication
Dacoromania, 2016, Vol 21, Issue 1, p17
- ISSN
1582-4438
- Publication type
Article