101011 manuscripts: Perl and the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa
101011 manuscripts: Perl and the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa
By Tara Andrews (aurum) from London.pm, Zurich.pm
Date: Friday, 15 August 2008 11:20
Duration: 30 minutes
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Tags: armenian edessa manuscripts matthew perl phylogenetics
The Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa is a twelfth-century Armenian
history that survives in 43 manuscripts, held in ten libraries in
eight countries. My task is to create a definitive text that is based
on all of them. I will talk about the problems of medieval text
editing, the ways in which Perl and phylogenetics have come to my
rescue, and show a few pretty pictures of manuscripts
Attended by: osfameron, Anton Berezin (Grrrr), Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker (ilmari), Lars Thegler (tagg), Thomas Klausner (domm), Leon Brocard (acme), Erik Johansen (uniejo), Jesse Vincent, Dmitry Karasik (McFist), Mark Keating (mdk), Adam Sjøgren (asjo), Karen Pauley, Henrik Tougaard (htoug), Nicholas Clark, Damian Conway (damian), Christian Borup (borup), Michael Kröll (pepl), Wendy Van Dijk (woolfy), Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni (maddingue), Kaare Rasmussen, R Geoffrey Avery (rGeoffrey), Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar), Allison Randal, Edmund von der Burg (evdb), Alberto Simões (ambs), Herbert Breunung (lichtkind),
