Inconsistencies and Stable Clusters Sample Clauses

Inconsistencies and Stable Clusters. Subsequent to the highly stable unit of largely twelve individual pericopes, the striking analogy of the two texts breaks away—as already noted above. Nonetheless, throughout the second half of the manuscripts, we can still describe two stable clusters of pericopes that appear in both texts. These are—following the organization of the Guōdiàn One manuscript—pericopes 13 through 15 (that is, pericopes 19 through 21 in the Shànghǎi “Xìng qíng lùn”), and pericopes 17 through 20 (that is, 85 It can be assumed that a scribe, when producing a new copy of a text, of which he had a written Vorlage at hand, dictated the text he saw to himself. The scribe would not go for the graph he sees, but for the sound, which he dictates to himself, as many scholars have shown convincingly for early medieval Europe (or earlier periods). On the early custom of dictating the text one sees to oneself and thus going for the sound, not for the graph, see for instance Xxxx Xxxxxx 1991 (in particular chapter 4). X. Xxxxxxxx (1961, pp. 18 f.) has described the process of reading in the middle ages and in antiquity as a primarily “oral reading”. That means that the voice of the word had to be reestablished so as to catch the meaning thereof. He calls this “hearing the voices of the pages”. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx (1979, p. 218) points to the same observation in his description of medieval writing, in which the 11th century clerk Xxxxxx of Canterbury thought of composing in writing as “dictating to himself”. pericopes 15 through 18 in the Shànghǎi “Xìng qíng lùn”). In the Guōdiàn One manuscript, the former cluster of pericopes (pericopes 13 through 15), which can be considered a sub-canto, is directly connected to canto one. In the Shànghǎi “Xìng qíng lùn” this unit appears at the very end of the text, thus closing the discussion of human nature. Except for some minor dissimilarities, the phraseology of this sub-canto is, again, largely stable in both texts. In most cases, the different graphs in the two texts fulfill the criteria for phonetic similarity in Old Chinese for loan characters and phonetic components.86 By implication, just as concluded for canto one, the present sub-canto can be considered as verbally coherent, yet not fully stable in writing. Only here and there is a character missing, which loss has to be explained differently than by blaming it on the bad preservation of the bamboo strips of the Shànghǎi “Xìng qíng lùn”.87 The present sub-canto further contains a few peculiariti...