Project Details
Projekt
Material and Digital Advances in the Study of Manuscripts: Codex Vercellensis (VL3) and Codex Sangallensis 1395 (Σ)
Subject Area
Protestant Theology
Term
since 2024
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 541175833
Within the project “Materiality and Digitality in Manuscriptology: the Codices Vercellensis and Sangallensis,” a comprehensive (1) paleographic and codicological, (2) philological and theological, (3) genealogical, (4) liturgical and (5) art historical analysis of the oldest Latin manuscripts of the Vetus Latina and the Vulgate (6) will be digitally recorded, processed, and analyzed for the first time. For this purpose, a package of robust methods from the fields of image processing and machine learning will be adapted to centrally examine the entire context of the documents in form of annotated image data, including metadata. Therefore, the two manuscripts have an exemplary function for further projects that include the materiality of documents. As an object of analysis, the manuscripts will be examined in their broad cultural-historical contexts and made available digitally in the virtual manuscript room in Münster. This project is also featured as part of the ‘Scriptures and Digital Humanities’ exhibition at the Museum of the Bible, Washington D.C. in 2025. Furthermore, the publication and long-term archiving of the data under an open license at RADAR4Culture as part of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) is planned. Within its research approach, the project is thus placed in the broader context of manuscriptology and eHumanities, tying together the specialized knowledge and methodology of the natural science parts of the project, applied computer science, classical philology, and theology in one digital space.
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