Dittography

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Dittography is the accidental, erroneous act of repeating a word, phrase or combination of letters by a scribe or copyist.

[edit] Example

in Acts, a book of the Bible, verse 19:34, the phrase "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians" appears twice in codex Vaticanus while it only appears once in other manuscripts.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Dittography—earlham.edu/~seidti

[edit] See also

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