Leiden Conventions

The Leiden Conventions are an established set of rules, symbols, and brackets used to indicate the condition of an epigraphic or papyrological text in a modern edition. In previous centuries of classical scholarship, scholars who published texts from inscriptions, papyri, or manuscripts used divergent conventions to indicate the condition of the text and editorial corrections or restorations. The Leiden meeting was designed to help to redress this confusion.

The earliest form of the Conventions were agreed at a meeting of classical scholars at the University of Leiden in 1931, and published in an article shortly thereafter. [See Groningen (1932) and cf. Hunt (1932); these articles are part of the proceedings of the XVIIIe Congrès International des Orientalistes. Leyde, du 7 au 1 septembre 1931, Section Autonome des Papyrologues.] There are minor variations in the use of the Conventions between epigraphy and papyrology (and even between Greek and Latin epigraphy). More recently, scholars have published improvements and adjustments to the system. [See e.g. Dow (1969) and Krummrey-Panciera (1980). Cf. Robert (1983), 9-11 who seemingly rejects Leiden.]

Most important "sigla"

References

Bibliography

* Dohnicht, Marcus, 'Zusammenstellung der diakritischen Zeichen zur Wiedergabe der lateinischen Inschrifttexte der Antike für den Unicode' (Entwurft Juli 2000), available: http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/varia/unicode/Dohnicht.pdf.
* Dow, Sterling, "Conventions in editing: a suggested reformulation of the Leiden System", Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies Scholarly Aids 2 , Durham, 1969.
* Elliott, Tom, et al. (2000-2008), 'Tagging the Inscribed Text' in "EpiDoc Guidelines", available: http://www.stoa.org/projects/epidoc/stable/guidelines/taggingtext.html
* Gagos, Traianos (1996), ' [http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/tools/bibliography/bib_all.html#Conventions Conventions] ', in "A Select Bibliography of Papyrology", available: http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/tools/bibliography/bib_all.html
* B. A. van Groningen, 'De signis criticis in edendo adhibendis', "Menemosyne" 59 (1932), pp. 362-365.
* B. A. van Groningen, 'Projet d'unification des systèmes de signes critiques', "Chronique d'Égypte" 7 (1932), pp. 262-269.
* J. J. E. Hondius, 'Praefatio', "Suplementum Epigraphicum Graecum" 7 (1934), p. i.
* A.S. Hunt, 'A note on the transliteration of papyri', "Chronique d'Égypte" 7 (1932), pp. 272-274.
* Hans Krummrey, Silvio Panciera, 'Criteri di edizione e segni diacritici', "Tituli" 2 (1980), pp. 205-215.
* Silvio Panciera, 'Struttura dei supplementi e segni diacritici dieci anni dopo' in "SupIt" 8 (1991), pp. 9-21.
* Louis Robert, with Jeanne Robert, "Fouilles d'Amyzon en Carie", Paris: De Boccard, 1983, pp. 9-11 on 'Signes critiques du corpus et édition'.
* van Nijf, Onno, 'Critical Signs: Leiden system plus additions', available: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~vannijf/epigraphy1.htm#_Toc492186643
* Ulrich Wilcken, 'Das Leydener Klammersystem', "Archiv für Papyrusforschung" 10 (1932), pp. 211-212.

Leiden usage in corpora

* "L'Année Épigraphique", CNRS Editions, Presses Universitaires de France, ("Revue Archaeologique" supplement 1888-1964; autonomous 1965-). (see front matter)
* "Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum", Berlin: de Gruyter, 1853-. (conventions at front)
* "Oxyrhynchus Papyri", Egypt Exploration Society, 1898-. (see preface)
* "Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum", Lugduni Batavorum : Sijthoff, 1923-. (see front matter)

ee also

* Epigraphy
* Papyrology
* EpiDoc
* Primary source
* Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum
* Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum