Miscell

A miscella (from Latin miscella 'mixed') is generally a short text of any content. In today's parlance, the term miscell usually refers to a short article in a humanities journal that does not reach the size of an essay and often contains current information about a research project.

However, the miscella can also make a single piece of information known, which on the one hand concerns a detail that would not be worth a separate article, but on the other hand is so important that it should be published. This can e.g. B. be a newly discovered work of an artist or an archival document that contains information about a person.

See also

• Goettingen miscells
• Analects

literature

• Roman B. Kremer: Miscellings. In: Gert Ueding (Hrsg.): Historical dictionary of rhetoric . Volume 10, de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023424-4 , Sp. 711-716 (offers definition of terms and an overall historical overview).