http://hdl.handle.net/1811/51887 2013-06-19T21:57:49Z http://hdl.handle.net/1811/52082 Old Russian Texts and Computer-Controlled Lexicography Dietze, Joachim Dietze outlines the importance of computer encoding of Old Russian manuscripts for linguistic analysis. Joachim Dietze, Director, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Saale), DDR [East Germany]; This paper was presented at the "International Data Bases for Medieval Manuscript Studies" conference at Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, September 1987. 1987-12-01T00:00:00Z Dietze, Joachim http://hdl.handle.net/1811/51980 CIP und ISBN Codes zur Erfassung von Manuskripten? Miklas, Heinz The article discusses the possible assignment of ISBN or CIP* unique numbers to manuscripts in addition to the manuscript siglum, which is typically composed of the Fond + Ms. number. *(Cataloging in Publication record number issued by the Library of Congress for books that have not yet been published.) Heinz Miklas, Slavisches Seminar, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany; This paper was presented at the "International Data Bases for Medieval Manuscript Studies" conference at Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, September 1987. 1987-12-01T00:00:00Z Miklas, Heinz http://hdl.handle.net/1811/51979 The Old Norse Computer Tape Bank at Copenhagen van Arkel-de Leeuw van Weenen, Andrea The aim of the Old Norse Computer Tape Bank is to establish a collection of machine readable texts based directly on manuscripts, or on reliable diplomatic editions (of which, however, regrettably few exist). Through standardization of transcribing methods and methods of encoding transcriptions we hope in time to establish a database of Old Norse rather than a mere collection of texts. Polata 17-18: 88. Andrea van Arkel-de Leeuw van Weenen, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden; This paper was presented at the "International Data Bases for Medieval Manuscript Studies" conference at Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, September 1987. 1987-12-01T00:00:00Z van Arkel-de Leeuw van Weenen, Andrea http://hdl.handle.net/1811/51978 Data for Database as a General Manuscript Index Hamer, Richard There is an obvious place for a comprehensive "union catalogue" database available to all researchers and covering the main categories of manuscript study. Such a database should complement but in no way be a substitute for more specialised database projects, such as those already in existence or in process of creation, just as none of these should become a substitute for the conventional scholarly manuscript catalogue in book form. This paper contains some thoughts resulting from the author’s own attempt to devise a relational database for use as a general index, whose objects are to facilitate location or listing of manuscripts of various types using, if necessary, multiple criteria (such as "All MSS of works by Bede written in England in the 13th century"), and to direct researchers to other indexes, databases and printed catalogues. Such a database must contain enough basic information to achieve its aims, but should avoid the temptation to become too comprehensive. Other items can, after all, easily be added at a later stage, or the whole or parts of the database can be duplicated for use as the basis of other databases for more specialised purposes. Polata 17-18: 65. Richard Hamer, Christ Church, Oxford, England; This paper was presented at the "International Data Bases for Medieval Manuscript Studies" conference at Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, September 1987. 1987-12-01T00:00:00Z Hamer, Richard http://hdl.handle.net/1811/51976 Some Methodological Problems in Describing Old East Slavic Cyrillic Manuscripts and Printed Books Mathiesen, Robert Mathiesen emphasizes the importance of bibliographical description, particularly of Old Cyrillic manuscripts and printed books. He describes the "individual components of an ideal synchronic description of a codex-form book" into a "formal" part of the description and the "textual" part as a recommendation of the structure of manuscript and old printed book descriptions. Robert Mathiesen, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; This paper was presented at the "International Data Bases for Medieval Manuscript Studies" conference at Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, September 1987. 1987-12-01T00:00:00Z Mathiesen, Robert http://hdl.handle.net/1811/51975 How Much Description Does a Manuscript Need? Marti, Roland Marti poses the question in his title regarding the amount of description desirable for a manuscript. He compares manuscript descriptions to conventional bibliography, concluding that descriptions are problematic as they are neither "'user-oriented' nor computerised" (Polata 17-18: 76), and offers a solution in "the concept of 'structured expandable manuscript description on two levels' (SEM). The ultimate goal of SEM is to have a complete description of all mss., a description covering all aspects with equal thoroughness. The minimal requirement for the implementation of SEM is a description of the inventory type. The features of SEM allow the description to grow, to be updated and corrected, and they enable the users to retrieve only the information that is of interest to them. Furthermore SEM invites and sometimes depends upon the collaboration of scholars in order to achieve the ultimate goal. SEM implies that the description be stored in a database and that it preferably be accessible through information networks." Polata 17-18: 78. This paper was presented at the "International Data Bases for Medieval Manuscript Studies" conference at Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, September 1987.; Roland Marti, Universität Bamberg 1987-12-01T00:00:00Z Marti, Roland http://hdl.handle.net/1811/51974 Medium - Conception, réalisation et exploitation d'une base de données Guillaumont, Agnes; Minel, Jean-Luc In the face of the explosion of material available on millions of microfiche, microfilm, etc., this article briefly summarizes a project of the Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes in Paris to create a relational database to aid in the study and analysis of manuscripts. Agnes Guillaumont and Jean-Luc Minel, Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes, Paris; This paper was presented at the "International Data Bases for Medieval Manuscript Studies" conference at Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, September 1987. 1987-12-01T00:00:00Z Guillaumont, Agnes Minel, Jean-Luc http://hdl.handle.net/1811/51973 Definition of Textological Data for Coptic Texts Orlandi, Tito Orlandi discusses the problems and proposed solutions regarding the computer encoding of Coptic texts. A sample text is provided. Tito Orlandi, Corpus dei manoscritti copti letterari, Roma; This paper was presented at the "International Data Bases for Medieval Manuscript Studies" conference at Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, September 1987. 1987-12-01T00:00:00Z Orlandi, Tito http://hdl.handle.net/1811/51972 A propos de l'exégèse des manuscrits en Tchécoslovaquie Havlikova, Lubomira A brief list is given of the repositories in Czechoslovakia that contain manuscripts and any inventories or catalogs of these manuscripts are noted. A selected bibliography of print catalogs is included. Lubomira Havlikova, Kabinet pro studia řecká, řimská a latinská, ČSAV, Prague, Czechoslovakia; This paper was presented at the "International Data Bases for Medieval Manuscript Studies" conference at Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, September 1987. 1987-12-01T00:00:00Z Havlikova, Lubomira http://hdl.handle.net/1811/51970 Sharing Codicological Resources through Bibliographic Networks and Utilities McCrank, Lawrence J. The long established procedures for preparing a manuscript census and distributing information on holdings has been costly, labor intensive, and inefficient. Medievalist are now using computers increasingly to prepare inventories and even more complex descriptions, but they are mechanizing previous manual processes rather than taking full advantage of automation, the recent development of information systems, and of bibliographic utilities and networks. There have been some interesting applications in computer-generated conventional reference tools for access to manuscript resources, which point to the development of interactive data bases capable of access in machine-readable form through established library and archival information systems. The greatest barrier to humanistic research across cultural and international boundaries has been the lack of authority control, standard protocols, format guidelines, and facilities financing online searching outside of one's own institution. Mechanisms are now available for sharing such information via bibliographic networks using the international MARC standard (Machine-Readable Cataloging). Other technical developments allow for the transfer of visual images that are retrievable with textual data. If codicological data are captured in the MARC format on CD-ROM and WORM discs which follow standards for transportability across systems, then resource[s] can be shared off-line between institutions and mounted on locally searchable data bases. The relatively new MARC AMC (Archives and Manuscripts Cataloging) may provide adequate means for codicological description, because its linking capabilities allow for the subordination of descriptive fields including full-text and tabular descriptions such as manuscript collations in matrix form (the so-called Delaisse method). Experiments with such machine-readable codicological description in the U.S. date to 1980. These efforts are discussed along with the evolving standards within the Anglo-American descriptive tradition, to suggest ways in which descriptive practices by codicologists and related manuscript scholars might have reciprocal influence on the standards used in bibliographic networking for sharing manuscript information. The emergence of transportable standardized databases providing intellectual access to manuscript resources will certainly enhance medieval scholarship. Polata 17-18: 59. Lawrence J. McCrank, Auburn University, Montgomery, Alabama. Dean, AUM Library & Resource Center; This paper was presented at the "International Data Bases for Medieval Manuscript Studies" conference at Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, September 1987. 1987-12-01T00:00:00Z McCrank, Lawrence J. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/51969 Codicography and Computer Geurts, A. J.; Gruijs, A.; Veder, William R.; van Krieken, J. On 1 August 1980, a research team was formed at the Catholic University (Nijmegen) to create a system for description and cataloguing of manuscripts, the PCC (= Producing Codicological Catalogues with the Aid of Computers) project under the direction of professors Albert Gruijs (Ancillary Historical Disciplines) and Cees Koster (Informatics); at the end of 1981, they were joined by professor William Veder (Slavic Philology). They reviewed all extant methods of manuscript description and cataloguing including all experiences in electronic recording and processing of the relevant data, and decided to create a comprehensive system that would satisfy certain requirements.... At the end of 1983, a Dutch version of the SDDR recording software was produced for use on Philips P 2000 and the portable Osborne M 1 PC's under the CP/M operating system; also, a Dutch user's manual for this part of the system was produced. At the same time, an extensive description of the codicological side of the system was published, the book "Codicografie en computer" (= Nijmeegse codicologische cahiers 1) Nijmegen (AI fa) 1983, the essentials of which are rendered here in parallel English and Russian text, the examples from Latin and Low German manuscripts being replaced simultaneously by examples from Slavic manuscripts. This paper was presented at the "International Data Bases for Medieval Manuscript Studies" conference at Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, September 1987.; Albert Gruijs, professor of Ancillary Historical Disciplines, Katholieke Universiteit (Catholic University), Nijmegen; William R. Veder, professor of Slavic Philology, Katholieke Universiteit (Catholic University), Nijmegen; A. Gruijs and J. van Krieken - Katholieke Universiteit (Catholic University), Nijmegen 1987-12-01T00:00:00Z Geurts, A. J. Gruijs, A. Veder, William R. van Krieken, J. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/51967 A Message from Your Editors Veder, William R.; Capaldo, Mario This "Message from Your Editors" explains that the contents of Polata Knigopisnaia 17-18 are papers presented at a conference "International Data Bases for Medieval Manuscript Studies" at the Catholic University (Katholieke Universiteit), Nijmegen, September 1987. It is also noted that the Catholic University, previously the publishing site of Polata knigopisnaia, "decided in 1987 to end all formal activities in the field of palaeography, codicology and textology, except within the realm of Dutch studies." Revisions to the journal are also discussed. Editors of Polata knigopisnaia include Mario Capaldo, Via Malpighi 12A, Rome, Italy, and William R. Veder, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Holland. This issue is edited by William R. Veder. 1987-12-01T00:00:00Z Veder, William R. Capaldo, Mario http://hdl.handle.net/1811/51966 Cover and Table of Contents Veder, William R.; Capaldo, Mario Editors of Polata knigopisnaia include Mario Capaldo, Via Malpighi 12A, Rome, Italy, and William R. Veder, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Holland. This issue is edited by William R. Veder. 1987-12-01T00:00:00Z Veder, William R. Capaldo, Mario http://hdl.handle.net/1811/51965 The Mount Athos Manuscripts and their Cataloguing Litsas, Efthymios K. The libraries within the monastic republic of Mount Athos contain about 14,500 Greek manuscripts at the present day. Taken as a whole they constitute the largest single collection of Greek manuscripts in the world. This enormous body of material, amassed during the course of ten centuries, cannot be properly studied until it is fully and satisfactorily catalogued. Yet, as anybody can see, the cataloguing of so many thousands of codices is a very difficult undertaking. This problem of cataloguing the manuscripts of Mount Athos is in fact a question that merits discussion. The possibility of solving the problem by new methods also deserves consideration. Litsas attempts to present the material concerned, and to describe some of the difficulties which arise in cataloguing it. He begins with a brief historical survey of the libraries of the Holy Mountain, followed by a short description of them, of the manuscripts they contain, and of the quality of the catalogues that already exist. Efthymios K. Litsas, Patriarchal Institute of Patristic Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece; This paper was presented at the "International Data Bases for Medieval Manuscript Studies" conference at Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, September 1987. 1987-12-01T00:00:00Z Litsas, Efthymios K.