apparatus criticus

apparatus criticus

(ˈkrɪtɪkəs)
n
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) textual notes, list of variant readings, etc, relating to a document, esp in a scholarly edition of a text
[Latin: critical apparatus]
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This is an exemplary edition with an excellent introduction, clear devanagari typeface with apparatus criticus, a translation that allows the reader to read the original with competence, along with copious notes and appendices of extracts from other texts relevant to understanding the first three sutras.
This apparatus criticus leads up to the entry proper, where in the present instance the piece is set within the context of related Paduan bronze perfume burners, and the reasons why the author believes it should be associated with Desiderio are lucidly expounded.
The apparatus criticus is accompanied by a second apparatus that lists parallels to classical texts; this is especially interesting because it shows Vida writing not only through his expected Virgilian model but also fashioning enough echoes of De rerum natura to make the Christias a sort of anti-Lucretius.
Enhanced with an 'Apparatus Criticus', as well as indexes by titles, first lines, and names in the Apparatus Criticus, "The Complete Poems of James Dickey" is a true cultural legacy from a truly gifted poet and highly recommended for personal, academic, and community library 20th Century American Poetry reference collections and supplemental reading lists.
The procedure of the Samtliche Schriften is painstaking and highly scholarly; and the production and presentation of each volume is to a similar standard with a substantial apparatus criticus. (Their price reflects this.) As a German edition it translates original French texts into German, and prints the translation opposite the original on facing pages.
For example, where Klaeber speaks of the apparatus of variant readings, the new edition has (in italics) apparatus criticus. Klaeber's note to the student advising them to 'go carefully through' the explanatory notes when reading the text has been deleted.
The apparatus criticus is particularly rich; it mentions not only the variant readings recorded in the various families of manuscripts, but also the readings of the most recent manuscripts.
In line 26 the manuscript has autoi d' auth' hormosin aneu kakou allos ep'alla; unlike some other editors, Thom prefers Ursinus' slight and elegant intervention of changing a single letter in one word, kalou for kakou to produce, 'But they on the contrary rush without regard to the good, each after different things.' In addition to an apparatus criticus the hymn is accompanied by a list of passages from other authors which bear some resemblance in phrasing to Cleanthes' text.