Variorum
WordNet
noun
(1) An edition containing various versions of a text or notes by various scholars or editors
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From Latin variorum, genitive plural masculine of varius ‘various’, in the phrase editio cum notis variorum ‘edition with various notes’.
Noun
- An edition of a written work (especially the complete works of a classical writer) showing the notes and readings of a variety of different editors or commentators.
- 2007: Johnson set out to produce a variorum, compiling and summarising the history of Shakespearean emendation and annotation — Michael Dobson, ‘For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen’, London Review of Books 29:9, p. 5