critical apparatus
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critical apparatus
The critical and primary source material that accompanies an edition of a text.
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Authors and publishers vary, but the format is about the same: volumes detailing inscriptions with a critical apparatus stating the provenance and relevant information.
Childe, who was writing for the masses, did not make use of critical apparatus and offered no attributions in his texts.
It relies mainly on Vaticanus, Sinaiticus, and Alexandrinus, and presents a critical apparatus with variants from these and several other sources.
Origen also kept a column for the Old Greek (the Septuagint) and next to it was a critical apparatus combining readings from all the Greek versions with diacritical marks indicating to which version each line (Gr.
The ongoing Münsteraner Josephus-Ausgabe of Münster University will provide a new critical apparatus.