<regestum>

[Patrick Sahle]

If everybody sees <regestum> as a common and easily understandable term for
what we are talking about (all the header-information of an edited
charter), then there is no more resistance to this point from my side.

patrick

At 16:18 12.11.04 +0100, Georg Vogeler wrote:
>Hello from Munich,
>
>> 6.) I'm somewhat unhappy with <regestum>. As far as I have understood
>> this would contain ALL the information on a given charter except the
>> text? Then we would have an extremely wide notion of "regestum" since
>> this would include all bibliographic reference, description of
>> physical phenomena, discussion of authenticity, discussion of the
>> content of a charter and so on. Is this really the common use of the
>> word "regestum"? I have some doubts. Maybe we can find a more generic
>> word? And the restrict <regestum> to what it really means: the short
>> summary of the main information of a given charter. And for this, the
>> word has a perfectly clear and specific notion and should be an
>> element rather than an attribute  of another already established
>> element.
>
>We have two elements in our list which could easily be confused in 
>German as both are called "Regest": One is the "Kopfregest" heading 
>an scholarly edition and the other is the "Vollregest" like that they 
>are collecting for the Regesta imperii, giving the content of the 
>document, extensive description and some historical and diplomatic 
>analysis.
>
>If we see the "Kopfregest" together with the following parts (textual 
>tradition, bibliographic informationes, diplomatic analysis) and 
>compare that kind of text with the "Vollregest" of the Regesta 
>imperii then I find them very similar. Thus we could do it with the 
>term "<regestum>" for the "Vollregest" (including information on 
>textual tradition etc.) and "<abstract>" for the "Kopfregest" (or 
>"summary" or "analyse" in french). 
>And finally I think the archival description is similar to the 
>"Vollregest" and also called "Regest". But Karsten Uhde can correct 
>me.
>
>Thus I would stick to 
>
><regestum>
>	<abstract> ...</abstract>
>	<witList> ... </witlist>
>	...
></regestum>
><tenor>
>	...
></tenor>
>
>Best wishes
>
>Georg
>
>
>
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