Recent Developments and the Future of Scholarship and Teaching Ancient Scribal Heritage
Featured Presentations
University of Notre Dame
The Transmission and Reception of the Book of Jubilees
New York University
Palimpsests, Remembering, and Forgetting
St. Mary’s University
The Next Generation of Digital Tools for the Study of Manuscripts
Additional Workshops and Meetings
Workshop on Mirador and WebRTI: tools for the study of spectrally enhanced images, texture, and annotations for scholarly collaboration
Latin Moses (Jubilees and the Testament of Moses): digital tools and what we are learning from them
Additional palimpsests at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana: sample pages imaged in 2017 and prospectus for future work
All meetings are free and open to the public. This event is made possible through the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
For more information contact Todd Hanneken, [email protected]
Schedule
Tuesday, May 15
1:00 pm, Opening Session, 207 DeBartolo Hall
Todd R. Hanneken, St. Mary’s University, The Next Generation of Digital Tools for the Study of Manuscripts
3:00 pm, Workshop, 232 DeBartolo Hall
Web-based tools for spectral enhancement, collaborative annotation, and texture visualization
A hands-on tour of Mirador and WebRTI, including how to use and interpret spectrally-enhanced images, how to view and add annotations such as transcriptions, and how to visualize texture using interactive relighting
Wednesday, May 16
9:00 am, Workshop, 232 DeBartolo Hall
Digital tools for the study of Latin Moses (Jubilees and the Testament of Moses)
A.M. Ceriani’s 1861 edition in photographic reproduction and TEI XML, Dillmann’s translation which influenced Ceriani, annotations of manuscript images, paleography chart, other translations
1:00 pm, Featured Presentation, 207 DeBartolo Hall
James C. VanderKam, University of Notre Dame, The Transmission and Reception of the Book of Jubilees
3:00 pm, Workshop, 232 DeBartolo Hall
The Arian Commentary on Luke and pages from Origen’s Hexapla, Wulfila’s Gothic Bible, and as-of-yet unidentified palimpsests
Thursday, May 17
9:00 am, Workshop, 232 DeBartolo Hall
Prospects for imaging additional manuscripts at the Ambrosiana and elsewhere
1:00 pm, Featured Presentation, 207 DeBartolo Hall
Annette Y. Reed, New York University, Palimpsests, Remembering, and Forgetting
3:00 pm, Closing Discussion, 232 DeBartolo Hall
Goals and desiderata for the role of digital tools for manuscript studies in scholarship and teaching ancient literature
4:00 pm, Additional Advanced Workshop, 232 DeBartolo Hall
Creating advanced images from raw multispectral capture data
ImageJ, the SpectralRTI_Toolkit, and principles of multispectral image processing