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