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PAR.		PAGES
B. 15—18.	Transmission by printed editions	11—16
15.	Disadvantages of Erasmus, the first editor: his text substantially perpetuated in the 'Received Text'	11
16.	Preparatory criticism of Cent. (xvii) xviii, ending with Griesbach	12
17.	Lachmann's text of 1831, inspired by Bentley's principles, the first founded directly on documentary authority. Texts of Tischendorf and Tregelles	13
18.	Table showing the late date at which primary MSS have become available	14
19.	Recapitulation	15
C. 20—22.	History of present edition	16—18
20.	Origin and history of the present edition	16
21.	Nature of its double authorship	17
22.	Notice of the provisional private issue	18
	PART II
	THE METHODS OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM	19–72
23.	Successive emergence of the different classes of textual facts	19
Section I. Internal Evidence of Readings (24—37)		19–30
24.	The rudimentary criticism founded on Internal Evidence of Readings, which is of two kinds, Intrinsic and Transcriptional	19
A. 25—27.	Intrinsic Probability	20—22
25.	First step, instinctive decision between readings by the apparently best sense:	20
26.	its untrustworthiness as leading in different hands to different conclusions,	21
27.	and as liable to be vitiated by imperfect perception of sense	21
B. 28 — 37.	Transcriptional Probability	22—30
28.	Second step, reliance on the presumption against readings likely to have approved themselves to scribes	22
29.	Relative fitness of readings for accounting for each other, not relative excellence, the subject of Transcriptional Probability;	22
30.	which rests on generalisations from observed proclivities of copyists ('canons of criticism')	23
31.	Its uncertainty in many individual variations owing to conflicts of proclivities	24
32.	and its prima facie antagonism to Intrinsic Probability	26
33.	Apparent superiority and latent inferiority the normal marks of scribes' corrections	26