TY - BOOK
T1 - A Lexicon of Abbreviations & Ligatures in Greek Minuscule Hands
T2 - ca. 8th century to ca. 1600
AU - Gatos, Basilis
A2 - Chrysostomides, +Julian
A2 - Dendrinos, Charalambos
A2 - Easterling, Pat E.
A2 - Taylor, Philip
A2 - Palaiologos, Konstantinos
A2 - McLaughlin, Brian
A2 - Wright, Christopher
PY - 2029
Y1 - 2029
N2 - The Project involves the compilation of an electronic dictionary of ligatures, abbreviations and symbols encountered in Greek medieval manuscripts (equivalent to Cappelli’s famous Dizionario for Latin), offering students and scholars who lack specialised palaeographical skills access to the content of thousands of manuscripts dated or datable between ca. 8th century to ca. 1600, including early Greek printed books (incunabula). Making use of the latest digital techniques and Artificial Intelligence technology (AI), and building on previously unpublished research of our team we are working to produce a comprehensive database of handwritten letterforms and symbols. Users will provide a digital photograph that an AI process will compare with entries in the database. Matching results will be presented in order of decreasing similarity, taking into consideration idiosyncrasies of actual scribal hands. Each match will be displayed with supporting information, such as provenance, date and scribe. The material will be digitally scanned from facsimiles of manuscripts and stored in the freely accessible database. This will offer an indispensable educational tool and facilitate new research into the evolution of Greek minuscule script and the variations between scribes. The method adopted will be designed to be easily adaptable for use with other, less widely studied, scripts and languages.
AB - The Project involves the compilation of an electronic dictionary of ligatures, abbreviations and symbols encountered in Greek medieval manuscripts (equivalent to Cappelli’s famous Dizionario for Latin), offering students and scholars who lack specialised palaeographical skills access to the content of thousands of manuscripts dated or datable between ca. 8th century to ca. 1600, including early Greek printed books (incunabula). Making use of the latest digital techniques and Artificial Intelligence technology (AI), and building on previously unpublished research of our team we are working to produce a comprehensive database of handwritten letterforms and symbols. Users will provide a digital photograph that an AI process will compare with entries in the database. Matching results will be presented in order of decreasing similarity, taking into consideration idiosyncrasies of actual scribal hands. Each match will be displayed with supporting information, such as provenance, date and scribe. The material will be digitally scanned from facsimiles of manuscripts and stored in the freely accessible database. This will offer an indispensable educational tool and facilitate new research into the evolution of Greek minuscule script and the variations between scribes. The method adopted will be designed to be easily adaptable for use with other, less widely studied, scripts and languages.
KW - Greel Palaeography
KW - Greek manuscripts
KW - Abbreviations
KW - Ligatures
M3 - Scholarly edition
BT - A Lexicon of Abbreviations & Ligatures in Greek Minuscule Hands
PB - Porphyrogenitus
CY - Camberley
ER -