Friday, May 22, 2015

Catalog of Scholarly Digital Editions







http://digitale-edition.de/


 As the title suggest, the site offers various manuscripts from a variety of disciplines.

Here's the ten offerings from the "antiquities" category:


A

InsAph - Inscriptions of Aphrodisias Project
Betreut von Gabriel Bodard et al., London, King's College London / Centre for Computing in the Humanities, 2005-. Projekt zur verteilten Internet-Edition der Inschriften von Aphrodisias auf der Grundlage eines community-spezifischen XML-Dialekts für epigraphische Texte (Epidoc) und in Verbindung mit archäologischen Informationen. Die teilweise bereits im Druck edierten Inschriften werden in das Projekt eingebunden und elektronisch neu herausgegeben (Beispiel).
The Confessions of Augustine: An Electronic Edition
Text and commentary by James J. O'Donnell, o.O., 1992. SGML encoding and HTML conversion by Anne Mahoney for the Stoa Consortium, 1999. "Each book of the text has a link to introductory commentary on that book, and each section of the text has a link to detailed comments on the section. Links within the commentary connect not only to the section of text directly being annotated, but also to other parts of the text and commentary. Footnotes in the commentary appear at the end of each book; the footnote numbers are links from the commentary text to the footnote and from the footnote text back to the commentary. Where possible, links have been provided to the texts of classical works and Biblical passages cited in the commentary." [from resource]
Augustinus
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Bible
Bible, Oldest Manuscript
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Codex Sinaiticus
Corpus Augustinianum Gissense a Cornelio Mayer editum
Hg. von Cornelius Mayer, Basel, Schwabe, 1996. ISBN 978-3796509894. Die CD-ROM-Ausgabe beruht auf einer neuen Zusammenstellung der jeweils besten verfügbaren Ausgabe. Zusätzlich sind "sämtliche Zitate" nach ihrer Herkunft ausgewiesen, das Gesamtœuvre "linguistisch aufbereitet" (lemmatisiert) und um eine bibliographische Datenbank der Forschungsliteratur erweitert. Der Link zielt auf eine Informationsseite zum immer noch laufenden Projekt.
Eine Fassung der älteren Website (http://www.augustiner.de/html/texte/tx_cag.htm) ist noch über die Wayback-Machine erreichbar.
Corpus Medicorum Graecorum / Latinorum
Hg. von Christian Brockmann, Berlin, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2005-2008. Das Langzeitunternehmen versucht neue Wege zu gehen. Zu Galen, Kommentar zu Hippokrates, Über die Gelenke ist 2005 eine "Probeedition" erschienen, die wahlfreie Zusammenstellungen von Handschriftenfaksimiles, neu erstelltem kritischen Text, Editions-Apparat, verschiedenen kanonischen Zählungen und Übersetzung erlaubt.
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Hyperdonat - Une édition électronique des commentaires de Donat aux comédies de Térence
Bruno Bureau, Maud Ingarao, Christian Nicolas, Emmanuelle Raymond (éds), Lyon, Université Lyon III / ENS de Lyon, 2007-2011. "Hyperdonat est originellement un projet d’édition hypertexte du commentaire attribué à Aelius Donat aux comédies de Térence. Le projet s’inscrit dans une réflexion plus vaste sur l’édition hypertexte de commentaires de nature variée. Ce site présente au fur et à mesure les résultats - corpus et fonctionnalités - produits au sein du projet." [from resource]
For a documentation of the project see the blog hyperdonat.hypotheses.org
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Euripides Scholia
Beta version 1 Created by Donald J. Mastronarde, Berkeley (CA), University of California Berkeley, 2010. The "site is the home of a new open-access digital edition of the scholia on the plays of the ancient Athenian tragedian Euripides (born ca. 485-480, died winter 407/406 BCE).
There are [via filters] currently three levels of detail offered: full view shows each scholion followed by all public elements that have been provided in the edition (not all elements appear for every scholion); expert view shows the same but also adds two optional elements intended for the author and collaborators; the view with trans. and app. shows only the scholion and a translation (if available) and the apparatus criticus (if there are variants).
The content can be filtered to include everything (prefatory material or arguments and scholia of all kinds); only the old scholia (scholia vetera); all scholia except those tagged as glosses ..." [from resource]
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Greek New Testament
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Digital Mishnah
Developed by Hayim Lapin, with Travis Brown and Trevor Muñoz. College Park (MD): MITH (Maryland Institute for Technology and the Humanities) 2012-2013. "The Digital Mishnah Project will provide users with a database of digitized manuscripts of the Mishnah from around the world, along with tools for collation, comparison, and analysis. This demo provides fully marked up transcriptions of twenty-two witnesses to a sample chapter, Bava Metsia ch 2, and illustrates basic functionalities. In a number of cases, the witnesses available for browse expand beyond the sample chapter to include all of Bava Qamma, Bava Metsi'a, and Bava Batra." [from resource]
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Digital Nestle-Aland Prototype (Greek New Testament)
Published by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research of University of Münster in collaboration with Scholarly Digital Editions and the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Münster / Birmingham / Stuttgart, 2003-2005. (offline since 08/06) "The Digital Nestle-Aland is the forthcoming electronic version of the standard scholarly edition of the Greek New Testament. It offers two major features not available in the printed book: (1) Transcripts of important Greek manuscripts of the New Testament, (2) New complete apparatus based on these transcripts." [from resource]
New Testament
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recommended Codex Sinaiticus
Directed by Ronald Milne and John Tuck, London, British Library, 2007. "Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world. Handwritten well over 1600 years ago, the manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament." [from resource] The edition contains high-quality images, physical descriptions, transcriptions, critical annotations and translations.
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Vindolanda Tablets Online
Directed by Alan Bowman, Charles Crowther and John Pearce, Oxford, Oxford University, 2001-2003. Digitale Ausgabe der Vindolanda-Fragmente: römische Wachstafeln (und Holztafeln) des 1./2. Jahrhunderts aus einer archäologischen Grabung am Hadrianswall.
"The website includes texts, translations, notes and new high-resolution 'zoomable' digital images of all the published tablets. A virtual exhibition draws on the texts and archaeological evidence from Vindolanda and other sites on Britain's northern frontier to introduce the content and context of the tablets to a non-specialist audience. Other resources within the website include a reference guide to specialised aspects of Roman life encountered in these documents, such as currency and military terminology, the scholarly introductions to the tablets and an account of the creation of digital texts and images." [from resource]

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

new material from the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period

The following material has been added to the RINAP site:

1. As part of the RINAP Project's continued commitment to providing reliable, open access web content, I am pleased to announce that most of the content of the four published volumes (RINAP 1, RINAP 3/1, RINAP 3/2, and RINAP 4) is now freely available online, in searchable, web friendly versions.  The front matter, the detailed volume introductions, the individual text introductions, catalogues, commentaries, and bibliographies, as well as most of the back matter of RINAP's publications can be accessed from the following three links:

The Royal Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 BC) and Shalmaneser V (726-722 BC), Kings of Assyria by HAYIM TADMOR and SHIGEO YAMADA
 
The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704-681 BC), Parts 1 and 2 by A. KIRK GRAYSON and JAMIE NOVOTNY


The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (680-669BC) by ERLE LEICHT

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2. I am pleased to announce the presence of two new RINAP sub-projects: RINAP Sources and RINAP Scores.

The former includes individual object transliterations of approximately 1,200 inscribed objects from the reigns of Tiglath-pileser III, Shalmaneser V, Sennacherib, and Esarhaddon. The latter contains one score of Tiglath-pileser III, twenty-nine scores of Sennacherib and twenty-five scores of Esarhaddon (including the newly added score of text no. 59, which was not previously published).

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3. I am also pleased to announce that the RINAP Project will also expand its print and web content and will now include the inscriptions of Ashurbanipal and his successors.

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The RINAP Project is under the direction of G. Frame (University of
Pennsylvania) and is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Pennsylvania. The books are published by Eisenbrauns. The fully searchable and lemmatized online corpus is a sub-project of the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (Oracc).


Links:

Explore the newly expanded RINAP 1
sub-project
Explore the newly expanded RINAP 3 sub-project

Explore the newly expanded RINAP 4 sub-project


Explore the newly expanded RINAP Scores sub-project

Browse the numerous individual object transliterations
 
RINAP homepage

List of Publications

Browse Online Corpus (RINAP 1, RINAP 3, RINAP 4)

Names Index (RIMA 1-3, RIMB 2, RIME
1-4): http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/namesindex/

Monday, May 18, 2015

Ancient World Digital Library: Library of Oriental Texts series

Same deal as the previous post: Brill publications that one can view online, but not download. Here are two titles:

Katz, Gilgamesh and Akka, 1993.
http://dlib.nyu.edu/ancientworld/books/brill_awdl000052 

Veldhuis, A Cow of Sin, 1991.
http://dlib.nyu.edu/ancientworld/books/brill_awdl000001

For an overview of the subjects in AWDL, see:
http://dlib.nyu.edu/ancientworld/collectionsoverview/

Friday, May 15, 2015

10 volumes from the Brill's Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East series

10 titles from Brill's Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East series are now open access. The are not downloadable (the publisher is Brill, afterall), but may viewed online. The titles are:

Origins, Hallo, 1996
http://dlib.nyu.edu/ancientworld/books/brill_awdl000093

Family Religion in Babylonia, Syria, and Israel, van der Toorn, 1996
http://dlib.nyu.edu/ancientworld/books/brill_awdl000061

The Philistines in Transition: A History from ca. 1000-730 B.C.E, Ehrlich, 1996

The Age of Solomon: Scholarship at the Turn of the Millennium, Hardy, 1997

Mari and the Bible, Malamat, 1998

The Care of the Elderly in the Ancient Near East, Stol and Vleeming, 1998

Carthage et les Grecs c. 580-480 av. J.-C: Textes et histoire: Krings, 1998

Die Liebe in der altorientalischen Dichtung, Brigitte, 1999

History and Historical Writing in Ancient Israel: Studies in Biblical Historiography, Tomoo, 1999

Ancient Ammon, MacDonald and Younker, eds., 1999

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

The Pyramid Texts online

http://pyramidtextsonline.com/

Besides texts and translations, the site has photographs, charts, flashcards, dictionaries, fonts, and software.

photo of Unas pyramid inside

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Assyrian Collection at the British Museum

http://www.cyark.org/projects/assyrian-collection-of-the-british-museum

Besides being informative this site is just plain fun. You can, for example, spin the high-def photo of the Lamasu 360 degrees (offering a view of the inside that I was unable to see when I've visited the BM in person).

The site also covers the assault of Lachish by Sennacherib.

Monday, May 4, 2015

Electronic Editions of the Gospel according to John in Greek, Latin, Syriac, and Coptic

http://www.iohannes.com/

A great resource for folks want to do text-critical work on the Fourth Gospel.

Vetus Latina Iohannes
An edition of the manuscripts with Old Latin versions of John
Biblia Coptica
Facsimiles and transcriptions of Sahidic Coptic manuscripts of John
IGNTP Transcripts
Transcriptions of Greek Papyri, Majuscules and Minuscules (work in progress)
Transcriptions of the Minor Coptic Versions