Apparatus_Criticus · Manuscript Studes/Textual Criticism

"Apparatus Criticus is an academic email list which focuses on the study of manuscripts and textual criticism. This includes the study of manuscript traditions, critical apparatuses, palaeography (paleography), epigraphy, the restoration of fragmentary texts, emendation proposals, and text-critical methods and applications. Other topics include major thinkers and innovators in the fields, such as A. E. Housman, Karl Lachmann, L. D. Reynolds, or relevant literature like Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics or Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek Latin Literature.The material should be limited to ancient literature of the Western World, the Graeco-Roman classics, Jewish or Christian works, the Qur''an, ancient papyri, etc... all before the invention of the printing press."