Chet Adam Van Duzer
Unaffiliated independent scholar
Participating institutions:
Early Manuscripts Electronic Library (Rolling Hills Estates, CA) - Participating Institution
FA-252070-17
Fellowships for University Teachers
Research Programs
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$42,000 (approved)
$42,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
2/1/2017 – 11/30/2017
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Annotation for Education in the Princeton/Brussels Copy of the 1525 Edition of Ptolemy’s Geography
Preparation of a digital edition of the annotations on a 1527 copy of Ptolemy's Geography that illuminate the understanding and teaching of geography in the early 16th century.
I seek a ten-month Mellon Fellowship for Digital
Publication to fund the completion of my transcription, English translation,
and study of the annotations in a copy of the 1525 edition of Ptolemy’s Geography that is currently divided
between Princeton and a private collection in Brussels. The annotations,
written in Latin in about 1527, are extremely profuse, were made for a student,
and contain original geographical thought. They are valuable for studies of the
reception of Ptolemy’s Geography, of
sixteenth-century geographical education, and of European intellectual
networks. The only good format in which to publish them is in a digital edition
that shows images of the pages and thus the context of each annotation, with a
full transcription and English translation, all searchable. Princeton has
agreed to host the digital edition on its server in an instantiation of the
open-source Mellon-funded Archaeology of Reading platform for digital editions
of annotated early modern books.
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