From Manuscripts to Books Vom Codex zur Edition: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Textual Criticism and Editiorial Practice for Byzantine Texts (Vienna, 10 - 11 December 2009)

Usus scribendi or vitia codicis byzantini? Is transmitted punctuation relevant to the reception of the text? It is only in the last few decades that studies on Byzantine texts based on their manuscript tradition have addressed specific tendencies of Byzantine scribes with regard to punctuation, orthography, accentuation and enclisis, as well as the joining of words. Tendencies previously regarded as vitia codicis are today recognised as part of the oral delivery of the text and important fo...