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| Importance of investigations of authorship—The extreme of distrust to be avoided—Criticism only a means to an end | 98 |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| CRITICAL CLASSIFICATION OF SOURCES | |
| Importance of classification—The first impulse wrong—The note-book system not the best—Nor the ledger-system—Nor the "system" of trusting the memory | 101 |
| The system of slips the best—Its drawbacks—Means of obviating them—The advantage of good "private librarianship" | 103 |
| Methods of work vary according to the object aimed at—The compiling of Regesta or of a Corpus —Classification by time, place, species, and form | 105 |
| Chronological arrangement to be used when possible—Geographical arrangement best for inscriptions—When these fail, alphabetical order of "incipit"—Logical order useful for some special purposes—Not for a Corpus or for Regesta | 107 |
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