1. From the beginning of the modern critical era in the nineteenth century the Byzantine Textform has had a questionable reputation. Associated as it was with the faulty Textus Receptus editions which stemmed from Erasmus' or Ximenes' uncritical selection of a small number of late manuscripts (hereafter MSS), scholars in general have tended to label the Byzantine form of text "late and secondar...

This paper presents a joint work between artificial intelligence and literary studies. As part of the humanities, textual genetic criticism deals with writers’ rewriting processes. By studying drafts and manuscripts issued from these processes, the genesis of the text is discovered. When draft comparison is done manually, it requires a huge amount of work. The introduction of the machine provid...

this article reviews the commentary tradition around the metaphysics of avicenna’s shifā’ as it evolved in the lands that belonged to avicenna’s own cultural horizon, most of all in iran. from this overview it emerges that this tradition is characterized by a keen interest  in textual criticism and a solid philosophical grasp of avicenna’s metaphysical doctrines. this interest is reflected in t...