OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 16043

recension

/ɹɪˈsɛnʃən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
recensión
A critical revision of a text.
Of Theon of Alexandria, there remain a recension of Euclid's Elements, Scholia on Aratus, and a Commentary on the Syntaxis of Ptolemy.
That this text is evidently a more antient recension of the same Syriac Gospel of St. Matthew, which, so far as we have the means of tracing it, appears to have been always in use…
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