You’re Collating Just Fine and Other Lies You’ve Been Telling Yourself
Authors: Ananya Vajpeyi
DOI: 10.87349/ahuri/170108
Page No: 181-220
Abstract
Although most theorists and textual scholars refer to collation in one way or another, they do so in passing, as if anyone coming upon their texts would understand unequivocally their meaning, and no one should ever require further explanations. In this article, we briefly examine the concepts behind the word collation, with a focus on textual collation, stressing the fundamental considerations for the optimization of computer-assisted collation. Because our research interest resides in the investigation of textual filiation, this article emphasizes the stemmatological purposes of our collations, describing and questioning some procedures. To conclude, we restate that editions depend on a limited number of variants and that how researchers identify and select the variants through collation affects their understanding of textual relationships and their perception of the text.
