recension

noun

1. A critical revision of a text.

2. A text established by critical revision.

3. A family of manuscripts which share similar traits; the variety of a language which is used in such manuscripts.

- The existence of two major literary centres in the First Bulgarian Empire led to the emergence of two recensions of Old Church Slavonic: the Bulgarian Recension and the Macedonian Recension.

- The Russian recension of Old Church Slavonic emerged after the 10th century.