Alberto Varvaro (2010, 191; cf. Trovato 2014, 132) introduced a distinction between simultaneous and successive contamination, or contamination of readings and exemplars respectively. The former is an instance of contamination that happens when a scribe uses more than one exemplar to copy his text from and chooses between variants. Cf. successive contamination.
References
– Trovato, Paolo. 2014. Everything you always wanted to know about Lachmann’s method: a non-standard handbook of genealogical textual criticism in the age of post-structuralism, cladistics, and copy-text; foreword by Michael D. Reeve. Firenze: Libreriauniversitaria.it edizioni.
– Varvaro, Alberto. 2010. “Considerazioni sulla contaminazione, sulle varianti adiafore e sullo stemma codicum.” In Storia della lingua italiana e filologia, Atti del VII Convegno ASLI, Associazione per la Storia della Lingua Italiana (Pisa–Firenze, 18–20 dicembre 2008), edited by Claudio Ciociola, 191–196. Firenze: Cesati.
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DE: simultane Kontamination
FR: contamination simultanée
IT: contaminazione di lezioni
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