edition (variorum)

Variorum edition. Edition in which the locations of all extant copies of each document are cited and variants among the versions noted; also, an edition that summarizes all available commentary on a given text.

(Kline 1998, 274)

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There are subgenres of critical editing, such as the variorum, which displays all textual variants of a work on the reading page.

(Bryant 2002, 20-21)

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Some TEI documents (variorum editions) are transcriptions of several different editions of a single text. In these documents, a given section of transcripts could be aligned with multiple images, taken from the different editions.

(Wittern et al. 2009, 281)

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