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  "source": "The_Architect_of_Theory_V297_EN_156x234(1).docx",
  "section": "Praefatio editoris · Editorial principles",
  "paragraph_numbering": "One-based paragraph positions in the DOCX body",
  "paragraphs": [
    {
      "paragraph": 1413,
      "text": "Praefatio editoris · Editorial principles"
    },
    {
      "paragraph": 1414,
      "text": "This section sets out, for the benefit of the scholarly reader, the nature of the present edition, the text that underlies it, the scope of its critical apparatus, and the orthographic and translational conventions adopted throughout."
    },
    {
      "paragraph": 1415,
      "text": "Nature and base text"
    },
    {
      "paragraph": 1416,
      "text": "This is a bilingual reading edition with a selective critical apparatus. The authorial Spanish translation by Diego Kurilo is the source of the English translation. Its Latin base is Fritz Krohn’s edition (Leipzig: Teubner, 1912), checked against Valentin Rose (Leipzig: Teubner, 1899); the Budé volumes provide further critical and architectural reference by book. A printed or electronic edition is distinguished from a direct reading of an individual manuscript. Where the text departs from the adopted edition, or where a reading remains disputed, the difference must be identified in the apparatus."
    },
    {
      "paragraph": 1417,
      "text": "Scope of the apparatus"
    },
    {
      "paragraph": 1418,
      "text": "The critical apparatus of this edition is selective and illustrative rather than exhaustive. It does not record every variant of every witness lemma by lemma, as the great systematic editions (Teubner, Budé) do; instead it concentrates on the passages of decisive importance for the constitution, the dating or the interpretation of the text, which are treated in the Apparatus criticus (Appendix M) and in the analytical restitution of the Greek vocabulary (Appendix N). The reader who requires a full positive apparatus is referred to the editions of Rose, Krohn and the Collection Budé. This limitation is stated openly so that the edition may be judged for what it is: a critical reading edition addressed to the architect and the historian of architecture, uniting the philological apparatus with the technical and architectural analysis."
    },
    {
      "paragraph": 1419,
      "text": "Orthographic conventions"
    },
    {
      "paragraph": 1420,
      "text": "In the running Latin text the consonantal u/v is normalized in the modern manner (utilitas, Vitruvius), the classical majuscule V being retained only in display titles and rubrics that reproduce the epigraphic and manuscript usage (DE ARCHITECTVRA). The diphthong ae is written in full; consonantal i is not distinguished as j. Greek words are given in their restored polytonic form, with the correct breathings and accents, accompanied where useful by a Latin transliteration; the principles of restitution are set out in Appendix N."
    },
    {
      "paragraph": 1421,
      "text": "Translation"
    },
    {
      "paragraph": 1422,
      "text": "The English translation derives from Diego Kurilo’s original Spanish translation, itself made directly from Latin. Its governing aim is fidelity to that authorial interpretation, with Latin used to check doubtful technical terms, concepts and numbers. Granger and Rowland–Howe are comparative references rather than replacement source translations. Technical terms without exact modern equivalents—firmitas, utilitas, venustas, symmetria, ordinatio and dispositio—are retained in Latin where necessary and defined in the Glossary (Appendix A)."
    }
  ]
}