Workshop Textual Criticism of Oriental Manuscripts

Leuven, 25-26 October 2010

The COMSt Team Philology and Text Criticism organized its first workshop focusing on Textual Criticism of Oriental Manuscripts in Leuven, on 25 and 26 October 2010.

Here is the detailed workshop report (PDF).

Workshop programme

Monday, 25 October

Groot Begijnhof, Convent van Chièvres, zaal St. Barbara

08:30 Registration desk open
09:00 A Word of Welcome by Gerd Van Riel (K.U.Leuven), chair of LECTIO, Leuven Centre for the Study of Texts and Ideas in Antiquity, Middle Ages, and Renaissance"
09:10 Practical Information and Introduction by Caroline Macé & Johannes den Heijer

09:30 Session 1: Critical editions : general principles and methodological considerations

chair: Caroline Macé (Leuven)

1. Alessandro Mengozzi (Turin), Philological traditions - different approaches to editorial methods
2. Ph. Roelli (Zürich), To what extent can the Lachmannian method be formalized?

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Session 2: History of Manuscripts and Textual Criticism

chair: Alessandro Bausi (Hamburg)

1. Marie Cronier (Paris), Text History as a tool for philology
2. Zuzana Gazakova (Bratislava), Fluid traditions in popular literature
3. Wido van Peursen (Leiden), Dealing with sacred texts and their linguistic features
4. Ugo Zanetti (Chèvetogne), Cataloguing and editing liturgical manuscripts

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Session 3: Specificities of textual transmission and editorial responses

chair: Antonia Giannouli (Nicosia)

1. Hugo Lundhaug (Oslo), Dating and interpreting texts from a bilingual setting
2. Joshua A. Sabih (Copenhagen), Critical Editing of Bilingual Jewish Bible manuscripts
3. Sébastien Moureau (Nancy), Editing a translation of a lost treatise
4. Willy Clarysse (Leuven), Editing documentary papyri

16:00 Coffee break

16:30 Session 4: Round table - Presentation of research projects by junior scholars

chairs: Johannes den Heijer & Caroline Macé

17:30 Session 5: Lay out and presentation

chair: Alessandro Mengozzi (Bologna)

1. Paolo La Spisa (Louvain), Orthography. Linguistic particularities v/s normalization
2. Antonia Giannouli (Nicosia), Punctuation and other aspects of original formal aspects

18:30 General discussion

chair: Johannes den Heijer (Louvain-la-Neuve)

19:30 Dinner

Tuesday, 26 October

Groot Begijnhof, Faculty Club, zaal Bisschopskamer

09:00 Session 6: From traditional to electronic editions, I: Tools

chair: Jost Gippert (Frankfurt)

1. Tara Andrews & Caroline Macé (Leuven), Digital Tools for Scholarly Editions
2. Joris van Zundert (The Hague), The Interedition Project
3. Various participants: Short additional presentations on specific tools and methods
Ilse De Vos: automatic identification of citations; Sébastien Moureau: Classical Text Editor

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Session 7: From traditional to electronic editions, II: Project presentations

chair: Witold Witakowski (Uppsala)

1. Denis Searby (Stockholm), Digital solutions for the fluid textual tradition of Greek gnomologia
2. Aafke van Oppenraay (The Hague), Editing an Arabic-Latin text, present-day practice and wishes for the future

12:00 General conclusions

chair: Johannes den Heijer (Louvain)

13:00 Lunch

Workshop participants

1. Abdelsamie, Mohamed, Library of Alexandria, Egypt
2. Andrews, Tara, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
3. Aydin, Sami, Stockholm University, Sweden
4. Bausi, Alessandro , Universität Hamburg, Germany
5. Boodts, Shari, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
6. Brita, Antonella, Università di Napoli, Italy
7. Calzolari, Valentina, Université de Genève, Switzerland
8. Clarysse, Willy, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
9. Cronier, Marie, I.R.H.T., France
10. Cullhed, Eric, Stockholm University, Sweden
11. Cuppi, Lorenzo, Durham University, UK
12. De Ridder, Eva, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
13. De Vos, Ilse, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
14. den Heijer, Johannes , U.C.Louvain, Belgium
15. Dévière, Elisabeth, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
16. Dikken, Berend Jan, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
17. Franssen, Elise, Université de Liège, Belgium
18. Gazakova, Zuzana , Bratislava, Slovakia
19. Giannouli, Antonia , University of Cyprus, Cyprus
20. Gielen, Erika, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
21. Gippert, Jost , Universität Frankfurt, Germany
22. Gribomont, Aurélie, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
23. Gurtmann, Hadiya, Potsdam, Germany
24. Haga, Niklas, Stockholm University, Sweden
25. Janssens, Bart, Brepols, Belgium
26. Kenens, Ulrike, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
27. Khademalsharieh, Tolou, Potsdam, Germany
28. La Spisa, Paolo, U.C.Louvain, Belgium
29. Levrie, Katrien, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
30. Lindgren, Mirjam, Stockholm University, Sweden
31. Lundhaug, Hugo , University of Oslo, Norway
32. Macé, Caroline, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
33. Marx, Michael, Potsdam, Germany
34. Mengozzi, Alessandro , Università di Torino, Italy
35. Milikowsky, Chaim, Bar Ilan University, Israel
36. Moureau, Sébastien , Université de Nancy, France
37. Neirynck, Stefaan, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
38. Partoens, Gert, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
39. Pataridze, Tamara, U.C.Louvain, Belgium
40. Pilette, Perrine, U.C.Louvain, Belgium
41. Raggetti, Lucia, University of Naples, Italy
42. Roelli, Philip , Universität Zürich, Switzerland
43. Schmidt, Andrea, U.C.Louvain, Belgium
44. Searby, Denis , Stockholm University, Sweden
45. Sjörs, Ambjörn, Stockholm University, Sweden
46. Tedros, Abraha, Università di Roma, Italy
47. van Oppenraay, Aafke , Huygens Instituut, Netherlands
48. van Peursen, Wido, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
49. van Zundert, Joris, Huygens Instituut, Netherlands
50. Vande Veire, Christine, Brepols, Belgium
51. Witakowski, Witold, Uppsala University, Sweden
52. Zanetti, Ugo, Chèvetogne, Belgium