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Noun: textual scholarship
  1. An umbrella term for disciplines that deal with describing, transcribing, editing or annotating texts and physical documents.
    "The historical roots of textual scholarship date back to the 3rd century BCE, when the scholarly activities of copying, comparing, describing and archiving texts became professionalized in the Library of Alexandria."

Type of: arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts

Encyclopedia: Textual scholarship