The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 17, April 24, 2005, Article 14

VOCABULARY WORD: VARIORIUM

(From A.Word.A.Day for Thursday, April 21, 2005)
variorum (var-ee-OR-um) adjective

1. Containing various versions (from manuscripts,
earlier editions, etc.) of a text.

2. Containing notes and commentaries by various
editors and commentators.

noun Such a book.

[From Latin editio cum notis variorum (edition with
notes of various).]

"A variorum edition would also show us how these elegiac
poems, purportedly written on the anniversaries of the
birthday of [Ted] Hughes's first wife, Sylvia Plath, were
constructed." John Kinsella; Beguiled by the Wild; The
Observer (London, UK); Nov 2, 2003.

[The recent Orosz-Herkowitz article on the origins of
the 1792 half dismes includes a virtual variorium of a
numismatic document; a set of an author's draft manuscripts
would also constitute a variorium, but these seem to be
rare in numismatic literature. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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