Textual Scholarship

Choose one primary mode by the requested deliverable. Read only that workflow; add another mode only for a distinct stage or artifact the task needs.

Resolve each link relative to the file containing it. Workflow links to ../artifacts/ refer to this package’s references/artifacts/ directory.

Mode	Use when	Workflow
witness-description	Describe the supplied witnesses of a text and their provenance, extent, relations, and inspection limits before transcription or editorial comparison.	Textual Witness Description
documentary-transcription	Produce a traceable transcription of supplied textual sources with an explicit policy for layout, spelling, abbreviations, corrections, and uncertainty.	Documentary Transcription
variant-collation	Align supplied witnesses and produce an inspectable record of textual variation under a declared comparison policy.	Variant Collation
critical-edition-preparation	Prepare an edited text, apparatus, and editorial account from documented witnesses and explicit editorial choices.	Critical Edition Preparation

Keep source evidence, representations, editorial choices, and conjectures distinct. Preserve original readings and stable locations. Report inspected coverage and uncertainty; do not infer an original text, provenance, or encoding conformance without evidence.