Stemmatology

Parablepsis

Parablepsis, from Gr παράβλεψις, ‘looking askance’, related to the verb for ‘look aside’, ‘overlook’, describes eye-skip in the reading practice of a copyist. As such, parablepsis is not an error in itself, but posits the precipitator in a process that leads to an omission or (less likely) an addition.

Cf. types of errors.

In other languages

DE: Parablepse (hardly in use)
FR: Greek used
IT: Greek used

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