In this way, a mixed record of printed editions and manuscripts is generated, with the latter type of evidence being underlined through the adoption of the
siglum [summation] ("all editions") in opposition to readings of PS or VA (pp.
The critical edition is indicated in Anglo-American sources with the siglutn MW (Mahler's works), as found in Grove Music Online (http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com): and in German-language references with the
siglum GA (Gestaintausgabe), as found in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG), 2d ed.
In each case, variants from other editions supervised by Erasmus and from the later Opera omnia editions printed in Basel (
siglum BAS) and Leiden (
siglum LB) are recorded in the apparatus criticus, which also reproduces those printed marginal notes that are of some significance for the text.
Section 5, "The Discovery of the Leipzig Fragment (2006)," reprints, with slight modifications, the first published edition and textual evaluation of the newly discovered Heliand fragment (known as
siglum L).
References to the Dramatists Play Service edition (New York, 1961) appear intratextually, using the
siglum DPS.
Page references are incorporated into the main body of the text after the
siglum LIO.
in his apparatus criticus sometimes subsumes readings of A (and/or u, E, S; [alpha]; the latter
siglum indicates agreement of all or most of the codices A-ES) under [zeta], which strictly speaking is a collective
siglum indicating the readings of 'codices deteriores' and of early printed editions.
In his preface, Griggio provides a census of the nearly 250 codices that contain letters to or from Barbaro, each with its own
siglum denoting city and library where the manuscript is housed.