Digital Editing of Early Modern English Handwritten Texts: Handling Scribal Errors and Corrections

DigitalEditingofEarlyModernEnglishHandwrittenTexts: HandlingScribalErrorsandCorrections  LauraEstebanSegura,UniversidaddeMálaga [email protected]  Animportantphilologicalquestionishowtoedittexts.Aneditionalwaysentails interpretationofthetextandalsoofthesocio‐culturalcontextinwhichthemanuscript wascreatedandused.Innewphilologicaltheory,andcontrarytomoretraditional approaches,theindividualmanuscriptversions,i.e.,thetextualwitnesses,areregarded asvaluableintheirownright,aseverytextualwitnesstellsussomethingaboutthe cultureofmanuscripts(Carlquist2004:112).Thisistheapproachfollowedforthedigital editingofEarlyModernEnglishscientificwritinginTheMalagaCorpusofEarlyModern EnglishScientificProse.Inthispaper,wediscussthechallengesthatproducingsuchtype ofeditionpose.Wewillparticularlyfocusontheissueofscribalerrorsandcorrections andhowtheeditorcantreatandcapturethemintheedition.Thetextsincludedinthe above‐mentionedcorpuswillbeanalyzedforthepurpose.Thecorpusincludes manuscriptsfromtheHunterianCollection(GlasgowUniversityLibrary),theWellcome Collection(LondonWellcomeLibrary)andtheRylandsCollection(Universityof ManchesterLibrary).Withregardtotexttypes,thesemanuscriptsholdspecializedtexts, surgicalandanatomicaltreatises,aswellasrecipecollectionsandmateriamedica.  References Calle‐Martín,Javieretal.2017.TheMalagaCorpusofEarlyModernEnglishScientific Prose(MCEMESP).Málaga:UniversityofMálaga.Availablefromhttp:// modernmss.uma.es/. Carlquist,Jonas.2004.MedievalManuscripts,HypertextandReading.VisionsofDigital Editions.LiteraryandLinguisticComputing19/1:105‐118.  