ICS02: 9. Digital palaeography
Thursday Mar 7, 16:00 UK = 18:00 EET
Convenors: Yasmine Amory (Ghent), Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello (Basel) & Simona Stoyanova (King's College London)
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/G-aVl7JZlGQ
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yQxSo8j89T7IaxK3ZdetM_z1AuqCOBDzJPlKak3X2vM/present
This session will introduce the use and development of digital methods in the study of palaeography. We will start with a short background of the discipline and a walkthrough the various methodologies employed in the study of scripts and scribal hands. We will discuss the approaches taken by specific projects - Genizah, Archetype and D-Scribes - and how they vary depending on the documents’ physical characteristics, textual content, state of preservation and the projects’ research questions.
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- Peter Stokes (2009). "Computer-Aided Palaeography, Present and Future." In M Rehbein, P Sahle & T Schassan (eds), Kodikologie und Paläographie im Digitalen Zeitalter: Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age. Books on Demand, Norderstedt. Pp. 309–338. Available: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/volltexte/2009/2978/pdf/KPDZ_I_Stokes.pdf; http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/2978/
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- Stokes, PA 2017, "Scribal Attribution Across Multiple Scripts: A Digitally Aided Approach." SPECULUM 92, no. S1. Pp. S65-S85. Available: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/693968
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- Tracy, S.V., The Lettering of an Athenian Mason (Hesperia, Supplement XV.), Princeton, 1975
- Grasby, R.D., Latin Inscriptions: Studies in Measurement and Making (Papers of the British School at Rome, Vol. 70 (2002), pp. 151-176)
- tba
- Open MultiPal (http://multipal.fr/en), pick a language of your choice, and try to decipher the text from the image. Try to transcribe following the quick guide.
- Look at at least two of the following tools, and compare the interface, usability and pedagogical value with Multipal's approach. Think about the different languages involved, the amount of knowledge needed to participate, support given, etc. when comparing the different sites.