10 POLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIFFICILIOR LECTIO POTIOR»
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difficilior lectio potior in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
difficilior lectio potior and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Polish literature.
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The Historical-Critical Method: A Guide for the Perplexed - Strona 105
(2). Lectio. difficilior. lectio. potior. That is, the more difficult reading is the more probable reading. The more problematic reading is held to be the older and more authentic reading on the grounds that a scribe is more likely to simplify a passage ...
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Visible Song: Transitional Literacy in Old English Verse - Strona 65
While geondmengeS is a hapax, geond- is a highly popular affix.56 Can the principle of difficilior lectio potior give any guidance?57 Clearly fyrngestreona is the rarer reading, but just as clearly compounding with fyrn- is common.
Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, 1990
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Textual Criticism: Recovering the Text of the Hebrew Bible - Strona 21
It is usually expressed in one of two ways, both formulated by the great New Testament critics of the eighteenth century and still followed by textual critics in all fields. These are (a) Difficilior lectio potior, "The more difficult reading is preferable," ...
Peter Kyle McCarter, 1986
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Priests, Prophets and Scribes: Essays on the Formation and ...
As Albrektson has powerfully argued, the idea 'difficilior lectio potior' is not an adequate general principle or a valid heuristic device.17 It merely means that in those cases where the more difficult reading has been original, the more difficult ...
Joseph Blenkinsopp, Eugene Ulrich, 1992
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Isaiah Berlin: Volume 1: Letters, 1928-1946 - Strona 448
You may think this all too ingenious, but I go on the principles of the 'difficilior lectio', 'lucus a non lucendo',3 etc., and argue ... 3 'Difficilior lectio potior' ('the more difficult reading is preferable') is a principle of textual criticism according to which ...
Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, 2004
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Adam Usk's Secret - Strona 141
(Textual criticism gives neat instances. You say, “Difficilior lectio potior. So solider Aristotle and not soldier Aristotle, receiving naughts and not receiving naught.”8 But you know that the principle of difficilior lectio is no more than a rule of thumb.
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The Story of the New Testament Text: Movers, Materials, ... - Strona 48
The canon is often expressed today as difficilior lectio potior. West (1971, 51) attributes the similar praestat difficilior lectio, “prefer the difficult reading,” to Clericus in Ars critica (Amsterdam, 1696), 2:293. Eldon Jay Epp points out that Mill had ...
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The Annals of Tacitus: Volume 1, Annals 1.1-54 - Strona 189
34 accuratissime (L: curatissime H) Miiller is probably right to prefer accuratissime, since curatissime is too unusual a nicety to be at home in Petronius' narrative style, and, if so, 'difficilior lectio potior' does not here apply. i. i4. i multa. . .adulatio ...
Cornelius Tacitus, Tacitus, F. R. D. Goodyear, 1972
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Martial: Liber Spectaculorum - Strona 8
This instance perfectly exemplifies the case of difficilior lectio potior, where the lectio difficilior is corrupt and the lectio facilior an interpolation: cf. Manil. 1. 422-3 'turn di quoque magnos | quaesiuere deos; eguit Ioue (Housman 1903, esurcione ...
Martial, Kathleen M. Coleman, 2006
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Jaded Hearts: Poetry - Strona 253
18. lectio difficilior 1901, from L., lit. “harder reading,” from phrase maxim difficilior lectio potior. In textual reconstruction (of the Bible, etc.) the idea that, of two alternative manuscript readings, the one whose meaning is less obvious is less likely ...
