Here's where I'm at so far: The digital reconstruction is a manifestation of something that once was and can no longer be. Doubly removed from the once-whole codex, it is the ghost of what was already a decayed object, an echo of the remanent.
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Replying to @lisafdavis
A critical edition of a text is something that is but never was, so we really should be used to this sort of thing :)
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Replying to @lisafdavis @mapper_mundi
Why are we so interested in ideas of "faithful to the original" and some idea of "ur-text" medieval object? Aren't we always discussing how even the objects have mediated histories through time and the scholarship etc. definitely does.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @mapper_mundi
That's my point! All of this work is re-mediation
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Replying to @lisafdavis @mapper_mundi
This digitized MS is part of a history of the facsimile edition. That started in at least the 16th c.
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