RT Journal Article
T1 Digital Editing of Early Modern English Medical Manuscripts: Scribal Errors and Corrections
A1 Esteban-Segura, María Laura
K1 Edición digital
K1 Medicina - Manuscritos
AB An important philological question is how to edit texts. An edition always entails interpretation of the text and also of the sociocultural context in which the manuscript was created and used. In new philological theory, and contrary to more traditional approaches, the individual manuscript versions, i.e., the textual witnesses, are regarded as valuable in their own right, as every textual witness tells us something about the culture of manuscripts (Carlquist, 2004: 112). This is the approach followed for the digital editing of Early Modern English scientific writing in The Malaga Corpus of Early Modern English Scientific Prose. In this paper, we discuss the challenges that producing such type of edition pose. We will particularly focus on the issue of scribal errors and corrections and how the editor can treat and capture them in the edition. MS Wellcome 213, one of the texts included in the above-mentioned corpus, will be analysed for the purpose. The corpus consists of manuscripts from the Hunterian Collection (Glasgow University Library), the Wellcome Collection (London Wellcome Library) and the Rylands Collection (University of Manchester Library). With regard to text types, these manuscripts hold specialized texts, surgical and anatomical treatises, as well as recipe collections and materia medica.
PB Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37015
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37015
LA eng
NO Esteban-Segura, María Laura. Digital Editing of Early Modern English Medical Manuscripts: Scribal Errors and Corrections. Onomázein: Revista de lingüística, filología y traducción de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, ISSN 0718-5758, ISSN-e 0717-1285, Nº. 50, 2020, págs. 149-161
NO Proyecto de Investigación del Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad “Corpus electrónico de manuscritos ingleses de índole científica: el período moderno temprano (1500-1700)” (FFI2014-57963-P) y Proyecto de Investigación de la Junta de Andalucía “Desarrollo del corpus electrónico de referencia de inglés científico-técnico: el período moderno temprano 1500-1700” (P11-HUM-7597).
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026