apparatus criticus

American  

[ap-uh-rat-uhs krit-i-kuhs, -rey-tuhs, ahp-pah-rah-toos krit-i-koos] / ˌæp əˈræt əs ˈkrɪt ɪ kəs, -ˈreɪ təs, ˌɑp pɑˈrɑ tʊs ˈkrɪt ɪˌkʊs /

noun

1. supplementary information, as variant readings, added to a text to provide material for study or criticism.

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apparatus criticus British  

/ ˈkrɪtɪkəs /

noun

1. textual notes, list of variant readings, etc, relating to a document, esp in a scholarly edition of a text

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Etymology

Origin of apparatus criticus

1860–65; < New Latin: critical apparatus

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apparatus criticus

A glance at the apparatus criticus of a few editions of classics will show that often a fifteenth-century MS. ranks high among the authorities for the text.

From The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17. by James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)

Before beginning the work Grundtvig had every available version, whether in public or private hands, at his disposal, so that he had a magnificent apparatus criticus.

From Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes by Kershaw, Nora

Cited by Bishop Wordsworth as W, and incorporated by him into his apparatus criticus as furnishing a fair specimen of the current mediaeval text.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

It would be to their advantage to spare themselves this labour, and to dispense with all annotation which does not belong to the "apparatus criticus" proper.

From Introduction to the Study of History by Berry, George Godfrey

Thus the book became a valuable apparatus criticus for the Danish student.

From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Tinker, Chauncey Brewster