Editing as a Discovery Process: Accessing Centuries of Scholarship in One 10th Century Manuscript of the Iliad

FAIN: RQ-50629-12

University Of Houston (Houston, TX 77204-3067)
Casey Dué Hackney (Project Director: December 2011 to September 2016)

The preparation for online publication of a scholarly edition of a 10th-century manuscript of Homer's Iliad known as the Venetus A. (36 months)

Our proposed edition will publish in its entirety for the first time the tenth-century manuscript of the Iliad known as the Venetus A. The oldest complete text of the Iliad in existence, it contains abundant writings in its margins that preserve otherwise lost ancient scholarship from the library of Alexandria. The VA is an unparalleled resource for the study of the Iliad, but its contents and our methods for creating the edition will also contribute to larger questions in the humanities about the nature of authorship, the interaction between orality and literacy, modes of textual transmission, and scholarly editing. Using high-resolution digital images that we acquired in 2007, we will provide complete transcriptions of every item on the page, spatially linked to the published images. The transcriptions will be encoded in TEI-XML and made freely available via the Homer Multitext (http://www.homermultitext.org). Various tools will allow users to view and search the text in multiple ways.

Associated Products

Iliad 12 as Oral Traditional Poetry (Blog Post)
Title: Iliad 12 as Oral Traditional Poetry
Author: Casey Dué Hackney
Abstract: A description of the 2014 Homer Multitext summer seminar, at which new researchers for the project are trained.
Date: 6/29/2014
Primary URL: http://homermultitext.blogspot.com/2014/06/iliad-12-as-oral-traditional-poetry.html
Blog Title: The Homer Multitext

Publishing the HMT archive (Blog Post)
Title: Publishing the HMT archive
Author: Neel Smith
Abstract: Information about how Homer Multitext data (including the data for our edition of the Venetus A manuscript of the Iliad, funded by this grant) is published and how to access it.
Date: 2/27/2014
Primary URL: http://homermultitext.blogspot.com/2014/02/publishing-hmt-archive.html
Blog Title: The Homer Multitext

The Homer Multitext project on github: Archival data and software for working with editions of Homeric manuscripts (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: The Homer Multitext project on github: Archival data and software for working with editions of Homeric manuscripts
Author: Neel Smith
Author: Casey Dué
Author: Mary Ebbott
Author: Christopher Blackwell
Author: Stephanie Lindeborg
Abstract: Access to openly-licensed data and software produced by the Homer Multitext
Year: 2014
Primary URL: http://homermultitext.github.io
Access Model: open access

Achilles and the captive woman's lament in Iliad 19 (Blog Post)
Title: Achilles and the captive woman's lament in Iliad 19
Author: Casey Dué Hackney
Abstract: Information about the 2015 Homer Multitext Summer Seminar at the Center for Hellenic Studies, where new faculty-student teams are trained to contribute to the project.
Date: 6/26/2015
Primary URL: http://homermultitext.blogspot.com/2015/06/achilles-and-captive-womans-lament-in.html
Website: http://www.homermultitext.blogspot.com

Good men are always exceedingly prone to tears (Blog Post)
Title: Good men are always exceedingly prone to tears
Author: Casey Dué Hackney
Abstract: More findings from the 2015 Homer Multitext Summer Seminar at the Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 6/29/2015
Primary URL: http://homermultitext.blogspot.com/2015/06/good-men-are-always-exceedingly-prone.html
Website: http://www.homermultitext.blogspot.com

Homer Multitext Project Documentation (Web Resource)
Title: Homer Multitext Project Documentation
Author: Neel Smith
Author: Stephanie Lindeborg
Abstract: Project Documentation
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://homermultitext.github.io/hmt-docs/

An introduction to the Homer Multitext edition of the Venetus A manuscript of the Iliad (Web Resource)
Title: An introduction to the Homer Multitext edition of the Venetus A manuscript of the Iliad
Author: Mary Ebbott
Author: Casey Dué Hackney
Abstract: An introduction to the edition of the Venetus A manuscript of the Iliad funded by this project
Year: 2014
Primary URL: http://www.homermultitext.org/manuscripts-papyri/VenA-Introduction-2014.html

“Designing Digital Projects: Foundational Principles and Practical Solutions from the Homer Multitext project and Holy Cross Manuscripts Club” (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: “Designing Digital Projects: Foundational Principles and Practical Solutions from the Homer Multitext project and Holy Cross Manuscripts Club”
Author: Neel Smith
Author: Stephanie Lindeborg
Abstract: Project manager of the Homer Multitext edition of the Venetus A and Homer Multitext project architect gave a talk about the infrastructure of the Homer Multitext and the use of student-faculty teams.
Date: 5/15/2015
Conference Name: Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada

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