colophonscriptural
Colophonscriptural is a neologism used in manuscript studies and digital editing to describe a category of texts in which the colophon functions as an integral part of the scriptural content rather than as a peripheral bibliographic note. A colophon is traditionally a concluding statement that records information about the production of a manuscript—scribe, date, place, printer, ownership marks. Colophonscriptural extends this concept to literature that treats such metadata as part of the authoritative text; in practice, the colophon may be placed before or after the spirit of the scriptural text, or embedded within a system of marginalia and apparatus.
In colophonscriptural works, metadata and scriptural content are often interwoven, and the colophon may crystallize the
Origins and usage of the term are found in discussions within textual criticism, palaeography, and digital
See also: colophon, scriptural manuscript, textual criticism, palaeography, manuscript studies.