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Document Details : Title: A Slip of the Pen, the Eye or the Mind? Subtitle: Accidental Scribal Mistakes in Greek Documentary Papyri Author(s): STOLK, Joanne Vera Journal: Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists Volume: 61 Date: 2024 Pages: 241-265 DOI: 10.2143/BASP.61.0.3293799 Abstract : Both corrected and uncorrected accidental scribal mistakes in Greek documentary papyri are collected and analyzed in this article in order to observe and to examine the cognitive processes during their production, such as perseveration, anticipation and reversal. A categorization is proposed that also allows one to analyze performance errors in documents that have not been copied visually. Based on close observation of both scribal and editorial practices involved in the correction of accidental mistakes, some general principles are formulated with regard to the editorial notation of these mistakes. |
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