Comments on: Digitizing Hippolytus’ Apostolic Tradition Update http://chronicon.net/blog/digitization/digitizing-hippolytus%e2%80%99-apostolic-tradition-update/ Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:06:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: admin http://chronicon.net/blog/digitization/digitizing-hippolytus%e2%80%99-apostolic-tradition-update/#comment-6 admin Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:55:05 +0000 http://chronicon.net/blog/?p=59#comment-6 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 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

]]> By: Roger Pearse http://chronicon.net/blog/digitization/digitizing-hippolytus%e2%80%99-apostolic-tradition-update/#comment-5 Roger Pearse Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:33:46 +0000 http://chronicon.net/blog/?p=59#comment-5 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. 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.

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