35 frågor och svar inför en edering av Jesper Swedbergs Swensk Ordabok
Lars Holm · LexicoNordica · 2000
In this paper, the author accounts for his work on editing an early 18th centurydictionary manuscript, bishop Jesper Swedberg’s Swensk Ordabok. A similar project– i.e. editing an old, hitherto unpublished dictionary manuscript – has beenperformed in Sweden only once before. This means that there is no tradition onwhich the solution of many problems concerning the edition of Swedberg'sdictionary could be based. For instance, there are no less than five manuscriptversions. Which of them should be selected as the basis manuscript of the edition,and to what extent should the differences between the manuscripts be accounted forin the edition? As argued by the author, none of the manuscripts written bySwedberg himself can serve as the basis manuscript, since they are all incomplete.Also, a relatively restricted account of the differences between the manuscripts issuggested; otherwise, the readability of the edition would be too low.