I’ve been very busy lately so digitizing Hippolytus’ Apostolic Tradition has gone slowly. However I finished digitizing it and have corrected 30% of it. I am debating about how carefully to correct it and format it, at this point I’m so behind in my schedule I would rather simply post it online with only brief corrections and formatting. However I am plagued by the idea that I am simply repeating the sins of scribes who hastily made translations or copies with errors that left future generations wondering what the text actually said. Practically speaking I will probably not have much choice in the matter as my tight schedule will make it impossible for me to spend much time correcting and formatting it. I’ll post it for you all once I am finished with it.
Tags: Digitization
Ha! Yes, when the humanists in the 15th century printed the first thing that came to hand they often created a “textus receptus” which was to dog the transmission of the text for the next 3 centuries. Will our efforts to scan stuff have the same effect, I wonder? Will scholars pore over your transcription errors, or mine?
But we can only do what we can do. The best must not be the enemy of the good. Scan and be damned, I say.
I agree, I hope to finish up the corretions soon. Maybe some time later I can go back and polish it up (and leave later generations wondering if a “great redactor” came through and fixed it up, or if the author himself did!)
Tom