Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. # Dom Froger Ontology Dummy ontology based on Dom J. Froger, _La critique des textes et son automatisation_, Dunon, Paris, 1968. - **original work** = the work as the author composed it, this concept is not absolutely clear-cut - internal discourse - fixed on text <== we consider this the original work, LRMoo manifestation - from the hand of the author (autograph) - from another hand - revised by the author - not revised by the author Work can be: * finished * unfinished * **locus** = a passage or place of the text * **lectio** = the form and tenor of a locus (what we read there) * **authentic lectio** = lectio of the original * **inauthentic lectio** = deformation due to a defective transmission of the text * **good lectio** = lectio that is correct syntactically, grammatically, ecc. in relation to the _usus scribendi_ * **bad lectio** = lectio that is not correct syntactically, grammatically, ecc. in relation to the _usus scribendi_ * authenticity vs quality: an authentic lectio can be good or bad (author's error). Also: inauthentic lectio usually bad, but could be good if it corrects the author's error * **manuscript** = collection or set of lectiones, as elements of text on different levels (chapter, paragraph, sentence, word, syllable, letter, sign of punctuation and accents) - Genesis - birth => original - survival => transmission => copies * text transmission by copy as human genealogy: * model = father * copy = son * family of a given work and sub-families * relations between mss represented with a schema in the form of a genealogical tree = **stemma** Text transmission history => alterations = transmission's errors (by hypothesis, inauthentic lectiones) - **internal** : concern the form of a text => events: addition omission, substitution or alteration, inversion (words, passages), one or more inauthentic lectiones - **external**: not concerning the form of the text => events affecting the ms as object, its material characteristics Alterations that do not change the meaning, but improve style: * substitution with synonym (from a banal to a niche term) * omission of small words not indispensable * addition of explanatory words * inversions * Correct evident errors (blunders, gaffes) Saut du même au même * backward = dittography * forward = omission * Occasion of errors: paleographical errors due to incorrect deciphering of script Agents: * copyst * corrector/revisor * chance => the first two are functions, not persons and each is a cause or agent of errors * Different genealogical relations of mss: normal vs anormal * Normal genealogy = only agent is copyst (no revisor or chance) - each copy contains the errors of its model and adds its own - collaterals (independent copies) have different errors => diverging branches * common errors in mss => branch * own errors in a ms => oppose either the ms to its model or the branch to its collaterals Anomaly: - ms lacks its model's errors => remove ms from its branch - collaterals have common errors => converge different branches - anomalies are due to either the correctors or chance, but they can end in absolutely normal effects => the more anomalies, the worst Corrections: * ex libro (an exemplar) * the same model * another exemplar => contamination, but not necessarily anomaly * on coypsts errors => ok * on model errors => anomaly * fake common error from collateral * ex ingenio * on authentic lectio => normal * on inauthentic lectio (real error) * on copysts error => ok * on model error => anomaly [cascade de fautes] * Chance sometimes as normal sometimes as anomaly * It is possible that collaterals make different errors in the same places => parallel errors => ok (if different) * When substituing an inhauthentic lectio with another inauthentic lectio => fautes en cascade => anomaly if the remplaced lectio was in an ancestor (copy lack an error it should have) * It is possible that 2 copysts make the same error independently => anomaly, since collaterals have common errors (seems a contamination, but is only chance) * The same for 2 revisors * A ms with correction is like a second exemplar => there are as many examplars as corrections layers [a.c. and p.c.] and each can start a new branch => contamination source and mixted texts Last modified: 2026/06/04 07:00by roberta