Week 1 - Introduction to digital scholarly editions and medieval manuscript studies
Reading: McGann, J. "The Rationale of Hypertext," in Radiant Textuality, pp. 53-74
Burghardt, "Structure and Layout" in Digital Editing of Medieval Texts [pdf]
Week 2 - Making the Medieval Manuscript
Visit to Preservation Unit, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Reading: Clemens, R. pp. 3-67
Cummings, J. "Manuscript Description, " in Digital Editing of Medieval Texts [pdf]
McGann, J., "Editing as a Theoretical Pursuit" in Radiant Textuality, pp. 75-97 [pdf]
Week 3 - Reading the Medieval Manuscript
Reading: Ferrara, S. La grande invenzione. Storia del mondo in nove scritture misteriose (Feltrinelli, 2019) pp. 13-46 [pdf]
Clemens, R. pp. 71-135
Week 4 - Paleography
Reading: Signorini, M. "Scripts and the Vernacular in Medieval and Renaissance Italy," https://italian-paleography.library.utoronto.ca/handbook
Zamponi, S. "Quattro secoli di littera textualis in Italia," in Le ragioni della scrittura, eds. Teresa De Robertis and Nicoletta Giovè Marchioli [pdf]
Burghardt, M. "Transcription or Diplomatic Edition" in Digital Editing of Medieval Texts [pdf]
Clemens, R. pp. 136-180
Week 5 - Paleography
Reading: Zamponi, S. "La scrittura del libro nel Duecento" in Le ragioni della scrittura, eds. Teresa De Robertis and Nicoletta Giovè Marchioli [pdf]
---, "La scrittura umanistica" in Le ragioni della scrittura, eds. Teresa De Robertis and Nicoletta Giovè Marchioli [pdf]
Pierazzo, E. "Facsimile and Document-centric Editing" [pdf]
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