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Title page from a 1739 volume of the Opera Omnia of Bernardino Ramazzini

The complete works of an artist, writer, musician, group, etc., is a collection of all of their cultural works. For example, Complete Works of Shakespeare is an edition containing all the plays and poems of William Shakespeare. A Complete Works published edition of a text corpus is normally accompanied with additional information and critical apparatus. It may include notes, introduction, a biographical sketch, and may pay attention to textual variants.

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Similarly, the term body of work may be used to describe the entirety of the creative or academic output produced by a particular individual or unit.

Terminology

Complete works may be titled by a single word, "Works". [1] "Collected works" is often treated as a synonym. A distinction began to be seen clearly in the second half of the 18th century. [2]

The Latin language equivalent Opera Omnia is still used in English, for example, to refer to the works of Galen or Leonhard Euler. [3] [4] German usage distinguishes de:Gesamtwerk as a complete corpus, de:Gesamtausgabe for a published edition of the works, and Gesammelte Werke or collected works that may be selective in some way. A contrasting term is "selected works", which is a collection of works chosen according to some criterion, e.g., by prominence, or as a representative selection.

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References

  1. ↑ "Using Uniform Titles: Collective Titles". University of Nebraska's Comprehensive Research Library. Archived from the original on 2010-05-28.
  2. 1 2 Braber, Dr H. van den; Delft, Dr M. van; Dijk, Dr N. van; Glas, Dr F. de; Keblusek, Dr M. (2006). New Perspectives in Book History: Contributions from the Low Country. Uitgeversmaatschappij Walburg Pers. pp. 67–68. ISBN   9789057304316.
  3. ↑ Galen, Claudius (1828). Opera Omnia. Leipzig: Carl Cnobloch.
  4. 1 2 "The works". Bernoulli-Euler Society. Archived from the original on 11 September 2022. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  5. ↑ Apel, Willi (2003). The Harvard Dictionary of Music. Harvard University Press. p. 281. ISBN   9780674011632.
  6. ↑ Dunham, William (1999). Euler: The Master of Us All. Mathematical Association of America. p. 175. ISBN   9780883853283.
  7. ↑ Buckley, Sandra (2009). The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture. Taylor & Francis. p. 223. ISBN   9780415481526.
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