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So, I’m about to start work on a critical edition. I have been a fully-certified professional medievalist, licensed to commit scholarship, for a decade or more, but this is my first edition. I have located the notebook from the seminar in textual criticism I took in grad school, which has a page on which I copied down “What To Do When You Begin”. It’s reassuring, in that it reminds me of what I once knew about how collation is supposed to work, but it also more or less predates the invention of the internet and therefore its practical instructions are all about sheets of notebook paper. I’m not ruling out that approach a priori, but I would like to hear from tech-savvy readers: If you have done an edition from more than one manuscript – I have about twenty – how did you organize the work of collation?
