Berlincourt, Valéry

2020, Berlincourt, Valéry

The countless miscellaneous volumes of critical and exegetical remarks on ancient Greek and Latin authors that were produced since Calderini, Beroaldo and Poliziano are accompanied by several kinds of paratexts relating to their contents : title-summaries of individual sections (nearly always), indexes, and marginalia. The potential effects of title-summaries on how a given volume of philological miscellanies may be used and how its scholarly discourse may be perceived differ from those of indexes and marginalia due to their specific properties. However, as shown in this article, their actual effects also vary depending on the “paratextual constellation” of the volume in question, that is to say, depending on how title-summaries combine and interact with other indications of contents.