Linking manuscripts
The Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies, projects Beta maṣāḥǝft, TraCES and Landesforschungsförderung Hamburg, Transmission of Knowledge in the Red Sea Area, at Universität Hamburg, in co-sponsorhsip with the PAThs project of Sapienza Università di Roma, and in cooperation with the projects CMCL, Syriaca.org, IslHornAfr and Ethiopian Manuscripts Archives, convenes a two-day workshop in Hamburg the 23rd and 24th February 2018 at the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies on
Linking Manuscripts from the Coptic, Ethiopian and Syriac domain:
Present and Future Synergy Strategies.
Aim of the project is to have an informal exchange of practices and outcomes and to discuss among a group of interested parties the following points:
- interactions between projects of digitisation of catalogues of manuscripts from the Christian Orient
- alignment of authority lists practices for Clavis identifiers, ancient places and ancient people
- standards for the reuse of primary canonical texts
- exploitation of common metadata standards for further outputs
- future development perspectives for digital resources in the field
- further points of common interest emerging during the presentations.
A round of presentations of aspects of each project’s efforts wsill take place, with a specific focus on one point of common discussion, followed by a forum of open discussion in each of 3 sessions about (1) places, (2) literary works and (3) manuscripts. We would then like to produce a publication with the outputs of the sessions and of the discussion shortly after the workshop.
The papers shall be published in a special issue of the COMSt Bulletin.
Local organization: Pietro Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski
PROGRAMME (also available as PDF)
23 February 2018
Welcome Greetings
13:45-14:00 Alessandro Bausi
Session 1: Ancient Places
Discussant: Paola Buzi
14:00-14:15 Ancient Places in the Chronicle of Gälawdewos (Solomon Gebreyes Beyene)
14:15-14:30 Texts and contexts: an effort to link Coptic literary texts to their archaeological context (P. Buzi and J. Bogdani)
14:30-14:45 The Syriac Gazetteer (Syriaca.org) (David Allen Michelson )
14:45-15:00 Islam in the Horn of Africa: A New Approach to Islamic Manuscript Sources (Alessandro Gori)
15:00-15:30 Discussion
15:30-16:00 Break
Session 2: Literary Works
Discussant: Alessandro Bausi
16:30-16:45 New Handbook of Syriac Literature (Syriaca.org) (David Allen Michelson)
16:45-17:00 Coptic literature: authors, works, collections (P. Buzi and F. Berno)
17:00-17:15 Describing the complex: the multiple dimensions of a relational database (Sara
Fani)
17:15-17:30 Relation labeling: The Case of Islamic Manuscripts (Michele Petrone)
17:30-17:45 Multilayered digital annotation of Ethiopic texts (Susanne Hummel, Vitagrazia
Pisani, and Cristina Vertan)
17:45-18:00 The digital Dillmann and a corpus-based lexicon (Wolfgang Dickhut and Andreas Ellwardt)
18:00-19:00 Discussion
20:00 Social Dinner
24 February 2018
Session 3: Manuscripts
Discussant: Angela Bernardo
9:00-9:15 Identification of one manuscript (Tito Orlandi)
9:15-9:30 Encoding of Manuscripts in Beta Maṣāḥǝft (Dorothea Reule and Denis Nosnitsin)
9:30-9:45 Corpus, manuscript, document: the basic XML-TEI architecture of Ethiopian Manuscript Archives project and why manuscript matters (Anaïs Wion)
9:45-10:00 Dealing with Coptic codices stratigraphy: two case studies (N. Carlig)
10:00-10:15 Coptic colophons and their relationship with manuscripts: typology, function, and structure (A. Soldati)
10:15-10:30 The Islam in the Horn of Africa Database (Orhan Toy)
10:45-11:15 Break
Conclusions
11:15-13:00 Discussion (Moderator: Alessandro Bausi)
13:00 Lunch
