I'll try to explain better my needs. I'd like to have a kind of reference for the description of the morphology (meaning palaeographical shapes) of letters, ligatures and so on. I probably could build my own structure and try to express it using XML, but, before doing that, I wanted to look around and see if some more ambitious international project has already faced the problem.
So, when you say "where each glyph used in the manuscript including ligatures or junctures (sorted by hand and script) can be described, linked to a typical image or more and a transcription and transliteration"
what do you mean for "can be described"?
Do you have a set of possible terms to use in the description?
Cheers,
Arianna On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:39:37 -0600 Murray McGillivray mmcgilli@ucalgary.ca wrote:
Arianna Ciula wrote:
Is there any sort of DTD designed with the purpose of describing a medieval manuscript, not just in its physical features as a global object, but in its palaeographical features?
I mean any kind of XML grill and hierarchy able to encounter description and comments on the shape of letters, of ligatures and so on, even related just to one period and one handwritten style.
I've been working on/with a DTD for manuscript transcription for some time that takes physical features (quires, pages, text areas etc.) as primary and that has a section (based to some extent on the TEI P3 Writing System Declaration) where each glyph used in the manuscript including ligatures or junctures (sorted by hand and script) can be described, linked to a typical image or more and a transcription and transliteration, and assigned Unicode or other code points. Is that the sort of thing you're asking about? (If you want instead to annotate paleographic events or oddities in the course of running transcription, like a four-minim letter "m", the current TEI note provisions may well be adequate.) This transcription DTD of mine is not really ready for prime time, but if it seems to be the kind of thing you're looking for, I'm happy to share. (This is not the DTD on the Web site I referred to a few days ago, though that simplified one is composed of elements extracted from it.)
Murray McGillivray
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