 | Alfred John Horwood, Luke Owen Pike - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 548 pages
...accurate collation of the best MSS. To render the work more generally useful, the Master of the Kolls suggested that the editor should give an account of...necessary to establish the correctness of the text. a 2 The works to be published iu octavo, separately, as they were finished ; the whole responsibility... | |
 | American periodicals - 1886 - 860 pages
..."give an account of the MSS. employed by him, of their age and their peculiarities;" he was to add "a brief account of the life and times of the author,...necessary to establish the correctness of the text." The restriction was absolutely necessary if only for this, that when the " Rolls Series" was first commenced... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1886 - 620 pages
...give an account of the MSS. employed by him, of their age and their peculiarities ; ' he was to add ' a brief account of the life and times of the author,...necessary to establish the correctness of the text.' The restriction was absolutely necessary if only for this, that when the ' Rolls •Series ' was first... | |
 | Ramsey Abbey - Great Britain - 1886 - 886 pages
...account of the MSS. employed by him, of their age ana their peculiarities ; that he should add to tbc work a brief account of the life and times of the...necessary to establish the correctness of the text. Tue works to be published in octavo, separately, as they were finished ; the whole responsibility of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1886 - 606 pages
...account of the life and times of the author, and any remarks necessary to explain the chronology ; 1ml no other note or comment was to be allowed, except...necessary to establish the correctness of the text.' The restriction was absolutely necessary if only for this, that when the ' Rolls Series ' was first commenced... | |
 | Great Britain - 1887 - 460 pages
...document to be edited should be treated in the same way as if the editor were engaged on an Bditio Princeps; and for this purpose the most correct text...might be necessary to establish the correctness of the tezt. The works to be published in octavo, separately, as they were finished ; the whole responsibility... | |
 | Jehan de Wavrin (seigneur du Forestel) - Great Britain - 1887 - 460 pages
...employed by him, of their age and their peculiarities ; that he should add to the work a brief aceount of the life and times of the author, and any remarks...necessary to establish the correctness of the text. H 2 f The works to be published in octavo, separately, as they were finished ; the whole responsibility... | |
 | Luke Owen Pike - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 510 pages
...nil. AL'lUOIillV Ol' IlKK MAJIiSlv'S TKKASt Kl , LN1»FK 1HK DIHIX'TION 0? THK MA->THK OK FHK KOL1.S. ON the 26th of January 1857, the Master of the Rolls...necessary to establish the correctness of the text. a * The works to be published in octavo, separately, as they were finished ; the whole responsibility... | |
 | Geoffroy Gaimar - Anglo-Norman poetry - 1889 - 392 pages
...of the MSS. employed by him. of their age and their peculiarities ; that he should add to the Avrork a brief account of the life and times of the author,...necessary to establish the correctness of the text. a 2 The works to be published in octavo, separately, as they were finished ; the whole responsibility... | |
 | Roger (of Wendover) - Great Britain - 1889 - 320 pages
...AUTHORITY OF 1IE11 MAJKSTX'a I KEASDIIY, UNDEll THE DIRECTION OF THE HASTlill OF THE ROLLS. ON the 2Qth of January 1857, the Master of the Rolls submitted...necessary to establish the correctness of the text. a 2 The works to be published in octavo, separately, as they were finished ; the whole responsibility... | |
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He proposed that each chronicle or historical document to be edited should be treated in the same way as if the editor were engaged on an Editio Princeps ; and for this purpose the most correct text should be formed from an accurate collation of the best... 
