furman

Editing HMT material at Furman University

Work for Fall, 2016

Basic infrastructure for working with digital representations of manuscripts:

• creating a model of the page sequences of Escorialensis 509 (Ω.i.12)
• creating a navigational index of Iliad lines in Ω.i.12

Advanced editing work:

• Teams and current tasks:

  • 2016A (Jackson, James and Hannah): Paleo 208r next: Hard copy editing Iliad text
  • 2016B (Brandon and Chrissy): Interior scholia of 208r next: intermarginal scholia
  • 2016C (Bryan and Mary): main scholia 206r next: intermarginal scholia
  • Previous members (Janey Capers, Emmett, and Gunner)- continue last year's folio

• First half of Iliad 16 in the Venetus A: folios 206 recto - 213 verso (inclusive)

Useful Links

General

• Paleography Reference here
  • Also, here and here
• Basic manuscript browser here
• Advanced look up material by urn here
• Links to guides for editors here
• Specific guides on each step of the total editing process here
• Notes on hardcopy editing with example here
• Hard to type (so just copy them) symbols/characters here

XML Editing Specific

• List of personal names here
• List of place names here
• Submit new named entities here. Select 'new issue'. Reference closed issues for proper format. You will receive a notification when your issue has been processed.
• 2013 Editors guide here

Writing

• Handy dandy markdown cheatsheet here
• Good markdown editor for Macs here

Setting Up the Computer

• Greek Keyboard here
• XML editing Atom here or Oxygen here
• Virtual machine guide here