digital editions course

Building digital tools for Philology

Manuscripts are a fascinating part of the material culture that we, as philologists, rely on to reconstruct texts and understand the cultures and communities that produced them. Textual scholarship has come a long way, opening up new ways to engage with these texts and draw fresh insights from the cultures that transmitted them. But manuscripts are tricky things to work with: scripts, scribal conventions, and letter forms, not to mention damage or erasure, all leave the scholar making editorial decisions at every step in the work. When a text survives in ...