Courses & Workshops/Aug 20, 2019

Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript

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Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript, Harvard University, October 19–20, 2019

A two-day, graduate student-led workshop addressing the codicological challenges posed by medieval manuscripts and the fundamentals of digital editing.

The workshop will cover topics in

  • Paleography and Cataloging of Medieval Manuscripts
  • Manuscript Transcription and Scholarly Editing
  • Introduction to the Digital Edition: Challenges and Best Practices
  • Collaborative Editing
  • XML, Text Encoding Fundamentals and the TEI Schema

Practical sessions inform collective editorial decision-making: participants will undertake the work of transcription and commentary, and encode (according to TEI P5 protocols) the text and images of a medieval manuscript. The workshop will result in a collaborative digital edition. The manuscript selected for this workshop is Houghton Lat. 159, a late medieval Book of Hours written in Latin; we will focus on a selection of suffrages.

No language proficiencies are required for participation in this course. No prior paleography or encoding experience is required.

The workshop will run from Saturday, October 19th to Sunday, October 20th, 2019, from 9.30am to 4.30pm. This graduate-run workshop is free of charge, and lunch will be provided for participants. A limited number of small need-based travel bursaries are available for participants traveling to Cambridge. The workshop will be limited to twelve places – preference will be given to graduate students with a demonstrated need for training in manuscript study and text encoding.