Manuscript: British Library, Burney 86

Information on the organization and structure of the manuscript British Library, Burney 86 (the "Townley Homer").

In-progress guide to paleography of Burney 86

• on line here, built from source file in paleography-guide/source.md

To update the paleography guide:

1. edit paleography-guide/source.md
2. from a terminal, run julia paleoguide.jl

Quick reference

URNs used in tables here:

• Iliad text of Burney 86: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.burney86:
• pages of the manuscript: urn:cite2:citebl:burney86pages.v1:
• images of the manuscript: urn:cite2:citebl:burney86imgs.v1:

Links

• HMT codex browser

Here's the app this project will feed into:

• HMT index of Iliad lines to MSS

Background information on the manuscript:

• description (with bibliography) from the British Library

Paleographic guide

See the project wiki.

Using git in the St. Isidore lab

We can't save user names and emais on our lab machines, so before you try to commit and push, be sure to configure git for your session:

1. In VS Code, choose New Terminal from the Terminal menu
2. Enter these two commands:

• git config user.name "YOUR REAL-WORLD NAME"
• git config user.email "YOUR EMAIL"

Visualizing progress so far

The dashboard directory includes an interactive dashboard where you can see our progress so far. One easy way to run the dashboard:

• in VS Code, open the file progress.jl
• with your mouse anywhere in the open file, hold the option key down and enter or return. (If you don't like the keyboard you're using, you can also use the VS Code command palette to run Julia: Execute Code in REPL)

It will looking something like this.