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1 An exemplar is a [[text>>doc:stemmatology.Text.WebHome]] which has been transcribed in a [[copy>>doc:stemmatology.Copy.WebHome]] or [[apograph>>doc:stemmatology.Apograph.WebHome]]. The exemplar may have been copied by visual inspection by the [[copyist>>doc:stemmatology.Copyist.WebHome]] or by way of [[dictation>>doc:stemmatology.Dictation.WebHome]] of somebody else (cf. [[copying of texts - methods>>doc:stemmatology.Copying of texts.WebHome]]).
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3 In the process of manuscript copying, a copy would often become the exemplar of a new copy, which then might become the exemplar of yet another copy, and so on. This kind of copying chain can be described as a [[directed acyclic graph>>doc:stemmatology.Directed acyclic graph (DAG).WebHome]].
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5 In a stemma, an exemplar is always placed immediately above its copy. In fig. 1, the hyparchetype **B** was the exemplar for the fragments **β** and **γ**, which in turn were exemplars for the main manuscript (“hovedh[åndskriftet]”), which in turn was the exemplar for **Y**, which finally were copied in **e**, **n** and **hIII**. Note that due to the procedure of //[[eliminatio codicum descriptiorum>>doc:stemmatology.Eliminatio codicum descriptorum.WebHome]]//, many copies are simply removed from the stemma. The example here is a little unusual, and can be explained by the fact that the fragments **β** and **γ** are the modest remains of a once complete manuscript. If this had been preserved in a complete state, the copies below would have been removed in the elimination procedure, and this manuscript would have become the main manuscript.
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7 [[image:attach:HolmOlsen Kgs stemma detail.jpg]]
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9 (% style="line-height: 1.5;" %)Fig. 1. A stemma for the Old Norwegian //Konungs skuggsjá// (mid-13th century), from the edition by Ludvig Holm-Olsen (1983, p. xiv).
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11 (% style="line-height: 1.5;" %)Cf. also [[ancestor>>doc:stemmatology.Ancestor.WebHome]].
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13 ==== (% style="line-height: 1.5;" %)References(%%) ====
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15 – Holm-Olsen, Ludvig, ed. 1983. //Konungs skuggsiá.// 2nd ed. Norrøne tekster, vol. 1. Oslo: Kjeldeskriftfondet.
16 – West, Martin L. 1973. //Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique Applicable to Greek and Latin Texts. //Stuttgart: Teubner. || See p. 12.
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18 ==== In other languages ====
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20 DE: Vorlage, Exemplar
21 FR: exemplaire
22 IT: esemplare
23 \\[[OH>>doc:stemmatology.Parvum lexicon stemmatologicum.Contributors.WebHome]], [[GH>>doc:stemmatology.Parvum lexicon stemmatologicum.Contributors.WebHome]]