An ''editio typica'' (
Latin
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) or typical edition is a form of text used in the
Catholic Church
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as an official
source text
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Description
In historiography, distinctions are commonly m ...
of a particular document—typically in
Eccelesiastical Latin—and used as the basis for all subsequent
translations
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into
vernacular
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languages.
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