Digital Editions Live

Launching the Oxford History of the Book Projects 2021

Weekly from 28th April 2021, 3-5pm
Online - Teams
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The series presents projects which have been developed by Master students in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages as part of their ‘Method Option’ Palaeography, History of the Book, Digital Humanities, https://historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.uk/.

Launches will feature new digital editions on https://editions.mml.ox.ac.uk/, the Taylor Editions website, and a live showing of manuscripts and books. The sessions take place every Wednesday during the Oxford Trinity Term, 28 April to 16 June 2021.

Everybody is welcome to attend the sessions which will be held via Teams and recorded. Join the meeting here
After term, there will be a workshop in conjunction with Dark Archives to reflect on the methodology of editing, presenting – and teaching History of the Book on 25 June.
For further information, contact Henrike Lähnemann <henrike.laehnemann@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk>

1) 28 April 2021 Introduction and Animals in French Manuscripts

  • Henrike Lähnemann, Emma Huber, Andrew Dunning: Introduction to Digital Editions Live
  • Sebastian Dows-Miller: Re-awakening Merton's Beasts (Merton College, MS. 249)

2) 5 May 2021 Travelling Manuscript

  • Javaria Abbasi: Pedro de Medina's Libro de cosmographia (1538), (MS. Canon. Ital. 243)
  • Eva Neufeind and Agnes Hilger: Arnold von Harff (MS. Bodley 972)

3) 12 May 2021 Early Printed Holdings in Taylorian and Bodleian

  • Agnes Hilger and Alyssa Steiner: Pfaffennarr (Taylor ARCH.8o.G.1521(27) & Tr.Luth. 16 (78))
  • Alexandra Hertlein & Dennis Pulina: Jacob Locher Panegyricus (Inc. e. G7.1497.2./Douce 73)
  • Sam Griffiths and Christian Tofte: Marginalia in Plutarch’s Vidas Paralelas (1491)

4) 19 May 2021 Indigenous Languages: Tupi and Welsh

  • Mary Newman: The oldest Tupi manuscript (MS. Bodley 617)
  • Lois Williams: Cân o Senn iw Hên Feistr TOBACCO (1718), NLW. North PRINT W.s. 156

5) 26 May 2021 Illustrated Italian Manuscripts

  • Katie Bastiman and Holly Abrahamson: Dante Ante-Purgatorio (MS. Canon.Ital. 108)
  • Giuseppe Nanfitò: Boccaccio, Filocolo (MS. Canon. Ital. 85)

6) 2 June 2021 Collective Editing and Linked Data

  • Josephine Bewerunge, Molly Ford, Sam Heywood, Caroline Lehnert, Molly Lewis, Marlene Schilling: A collective edition of a German devotional miscellany (MS. Germ. e. 5)
  • Danielle Apodaca: Le Roman de Flamenca DH project across editions and translations

7) 9 June 2021 Illuminated French Manuscript

  • Carrie Heusinkveld: Reconsidering the Metamorphoses by Clément Marot (MS. Douce 117)

8) 16 June 2021 Special Book Launch: 500 Years Passional Christi und Antichristi

Edmund Wareham presents the newest book in the Reformation Pamphlet series

Everybody is welcome to attend the sessions which will be held via Teams and recorded. Join the meeting here