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Recension is the practice of editing or revising a text based on critical analysis.^[1] When referring to manuscripts, this may be a revision by another author. The term is derived from the Latin recensio ("review, analysis").

In textual criticism (as is the case with Biblical scholarship), the count noun recension is a family of manuscripts sharing similar traits;^[2] for example, the Alexandrian text-type may be referred to as the "Alexandrian recension". The term recension may also refer to the process of collecting and analyzing source texts in order to establish a tree structure leading backward to a hypothetical original text.

"All the Greek texts of the Elements before Peyrard's (1814—18) were based on MSS containing Theon's recension (fourth century)."^[3]

See also

• Biblical manuscript
• Categories of New Testament manuscripts
• Critical apparatus

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