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Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts (mss) or of printed books. Such texts may range in dates from the earliest writing in cuneiform, impressed on clay, for example, to multiple unpublished…
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| Textual criticism | is a | branch of textual scholarship | 0.90 | text |
| Textual criticism | is a | relatively new branch of textual criticism working with digital tools to establish a critical edition | 0.90 | text |
| Petrarch | instance of | scholars | 0.80 | text |
| Poggio Bracciolini collected | instance of | scholars | 0.80 | text |
| edited many Latin manuscripts | instance of | scholars | 0.80 | text |
| while a new spirit of critical enquiry was boosted by the attention to textual states | instance of | scholars | 0.80 | text |
| for example in the work of Lorenzo Valla on the purported Donation of Constantine | instance of | scholars | 0.80 | text |
| Greek plays presumably had one original | instance of | Although texts | 0.80 | text |
| the question of whether some biblical books | instance of | Although texts | 0.80 | text |
| like the Gospels | instance of | Although texts | 0.80 | text |
| ever had just one original has been discussed | instance of | Although texts | 0.80 | text |
| Textual criticism | related to Bibliography | Aland | 0.60 | section |
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