Noun
critical apparatus
The critical and primary source material that accompanies an edition of a text.
Authors and publishers vary, but the format is about the same: volumes detailing inscriptions with a critical apparatus stating the provenance and relevant information. Source: Internet
Childe, who was writing for the masses, did not make use of critical apparatus and offered no attributions in his texts. Source: Internet
It relies mainly on Vaticanus, Sinaiticus, and Alexandrinus, and presents a critical apparatus with variants from these and several other sources. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
The ongoing Münsteraner Josephus-Ausgabe of Münster University will provide a new critical apparatus. Source: Internet