In the first post in this series, I presented the challenge of modelling the codicological structure of a manuscript: not just the page, or the text, but rather how the different pages fit together as bifolia, singletons and so on. I have since developed this further, through a partial ...
One interesting complication of some medieval manuscripts such as Liber Wigornensis and the Exon Domesday book is that we do not know the original order of the gatherings. In fact, one of the few things that we know for sure for Exon Domesday is that the order as ...
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Chinese, Tibetan and Devanagari are all scripts that I have wanted for some time to test on the DigiPal model for describing handwriting, and the recent meeting of Le Groupe de recherches transversales ...
After some time since the last instalment in the 'Describing Handwriting' series, we have now implemented the model and started putting it into practice. Unfortunately this is not publicly available yet but is only 'behind the scenes' in a password-protected site, mainly ...
I am wrestling these days with the problem of how to refer clearly and unambiguously to scribal hands in publications. A core principle of the DigiPal project is that we should be able to compare large numbers of scribal hands, and refer to them in printed books and journal articles ...