Open Access Digital Text Editions: St Gall Priscian glosses

St Gall Priscian glosses
Rijcklof Hofman (transcription), Pádraic Moran (digital edition)

The St Gall Priscian

St Gall, Stiftsbibliothek, ms 904 is a copy, written in ad 850–1, of Priscian’s Institutiones Grammaticae (Foundations of Grammar), a monumental treatise on Latin grammar completed c. 526/7, in which the author aimed to synthesize much of the Greek and Latin grammatical traditions. The text was edited by Martin Hertz for Heinrich Keil (ed.), Grammatici Latini (6 vols, Leipzig, 1855–80) [vols 2–3].

The manuscript was written in Irish script, probably in Ireland, and contains over 9,400 interlinear and marginal glosses, in addition to c. 4,000 construe marks (symbols to aid reading). More than one-third of these glosses were written in Old Irish, and as such constitute one of our most important corpora for that phase of the Irish language.

About the digital edition

The Old Irish glosses were published in Whitley Stokes and John Strachan (eds), Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (2 vols, London, 1901–1910), vol. 2, pp. 49–224. More recently, Rijcklof Hofman published roughly the first half of all of the glosses (Irish, Latin and symbols) in The Sankt Gall Priscian Commentary. Part 1 (2 vols, Münster, 1996). The present digital edition presents the first complete transcription of all of the glosses, juxtaposed with the text of Priscian, and with links to images of the manuscript and other resources.

The transcription was very generously supplied by Rijcklof Hofman and the digital edition created by Pádraic Moran. The text of Priscian was made available thanks to the kindness of the Corpus Grammaticorum Latinorum project. The manuscript images are available at the Codices Electronici Sangallenses (CESG) Virtual Library.

The work forms part of a two-year postdoctoral research project (2009– ) by Pádraic Moran, investigating the cultural contexts of the Priscian glosses. It is funded by the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences and based in Classics (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures) at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

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CORPUS OF ATTIC VASE INSCRIPTIONS

Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions
Immerwahr, Henry R.
January 2009

This corpus is based on notes taken over the years from publications and illustrations, with some autopsy where possible. I am aware of the fact that a real corpus should be based mainly on direct examination of the documents, but in the case of pottery, scattered as it is over the globe, this is not attainable. The corpus is not complete, nor is it a finished product, and the information has to be used with caution. It has been made available by circulating hard copy in a few places and by CD's distributed individually. The Beazley Archive in Oxford has made extensive use of it, but without giving the corpus numbers. Since these have been quoted in a number of articles, I thought it only fair to make it generally available as a website. This issue is a second partial revision from that included about a year ago. Rudolf Wachter is preparing a more thoroughly revised version. See his website, http://pages.unibas.ch/avi/ .

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The University of Birmingham's Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing is developing the Virtual Manuscript Room

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Two other groups of content, amounting to over 50,000 digital images of manuscripts, 500 manuscript descriptions and around 1000 pages of transcripts, will be included in the VMR: materials relating to the New Testament and to medieval vernacular texts (Dante, Chaucer, and others).

The Birmingham VMR will integrate with a parallel VMR already under construction at the University of Münster, Germany, with the aim that users may access material seamlessly from either VMR, as if the two were one.This integration will be built on agreed naming systems for resources, and agreed Web 2.0 service protocols for requesting and supplying resources from each server, thus permitting users to draw together (‘mash-up') materials seamlessly as required. The VMR will also be linked through to the online archive catalogue and to the Birmingham University Institutional Repository.

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