Lost manuscripts

[GusRiva]

Should we create an attribute for lost manuscripts? Considering them to be hypothetical nodes would be very misleading, I think. Would it be useful to add a special attribute for them? Or should we just consider them like any extant manuscript?

[Jean-Baptiste-Camps]

I agree, but the difficulty is it might sometimes be hard to draw a line between:

• hypothetic lost node, but identified from an ancient mention (like a scribe glossing something like «copied from the exemplar in the library of Fulda Abbey» ;
• «recently lost» manuscript.

Perhaps a chronological criteria ? In any case, it is possible also to add a note to the wit in the witlist.

[GusRiva]

Good point. Probably each liminal case needs to be evaluated individually. In the example from Tristan, probably it needs to be treated as a regular witness and just mention that it was lost in the witlist.

[Jean-Baptiste-Camps]

Closing as this was merged !