Codex and Code

This page brings together the materials participants need before, during and after Codex and Code. Resources will be added progressively and may include preparatory readings, workshop files, technical instructions, reference links and selected presentations.

• Final programme
• Practical Information & General Instructions
• Connection details for the online sessions
• Introductory bibliography
• Software and account setup instructions

• Palaeographical and papyrological transcription exercises
• Codicological description templates
• TEI/XML sample files and encoding exercises
• HTR and Transkribus workshop materials
• Metadata comparison worksheets
• Computational palaeography and digital stemmatics datasets
• Portfolio instructions and submission guidance

The programme introduces or discusses digital tools and infrastructures relevant to manuscript research, including Transkribus, TEI/XML, IIIF, e-codices, Pinakes and Recogito. Direct links and access instructions will be provided here where appropriate.

Some resources may be publicly available, while workshop files containing restricted teaching material or manuscript images may be accessible only to registered participants. Participants must observe the copyright, licensing and reuse conditions attached to each resource.

A fuller bibliography will be supplied with the teaching materials. The following works provide a general point of entry into Greek palaeography, codicology and manuscript transmission:

Barbour, R. (1981). Greek literary hands A.D. 400–1600. Clarendon Press.

Canart, P. (1980). Lezioni di paleografia e di codicologia greca. Scuola Vaticana di Paleografia, Diplomatica e Archivistica. http://pyle.it/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Canart_Lezioni_L.pdf

Canart, P. (1991). Paleografia e codicologia greca: Una rassegna bibliografica. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.

Castro Correa, A. (2014). Palaeography, Computer-aided Palaeography and Digital Palaeography: Digital Tools Applied to the Study of Visigothic Script. In Analysis of Ancient and Medieval Texts and Manuscripts: Digital Approaches (pp. 247–272). Brepols Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1484/m.lectio-eb.5.102574

Ciula, A. (2017). Digital palaeography: What is digital about it? Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 32(suppl_2), ii89—ii105. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqx042

Crisci, E., & Degni, P. (2011). La scrittura greca dall’antichità all’epoca della stampa: Una introduzione. Carocci.

Dain, A. (1949). Les manuscrits. Les Belles Lettres.

Devreesse, R. (1954). Introduction à l’étude des manuscrits grecs. Klincksieck.

Easterling, P. E., & Handley, C. W. (Eds.). (2001). Greek scripts: An illustrated introduction. Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.

Harlfinger, D. (1980). Griechische Kodikologie und Textüberlieferung. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.

Harrauer, H. (2010). Handbuch der griechischen Paläographie: Textband–Tafelband. Anton Hiersemann.

Hunger, H. (1961). Griechische Paläographie. In H. Hunger, O. Stegmüller, H. Erbse, M. Imhof, K. Büchner, H. Rüdiger, & F. W. Wentzlaff-Eggebert (Eds.), Geschichte der Textüberlieferung der antiken und mittelalterlichen Literatur (Vol. 1, pp. 72–107). Atlantis Verlag.

Hunger, H. (1997). Handschriftliche Überlieferung in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit: Paläographie. In H.-G. Nesselrath (Ed.), Einleitung in die griechische Philologie (pp. 17–44). B. G. Teubner.

Liang, Y., Fairhurst, M. C., Guest, R. M., & Erbilek, M. (2016). Automatic Handwriting Feature Extraction, Analysis and Visualization in the Context of Digital Palaeography. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 30(04), 1653001. https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218001416530013

Magni, I. (2020). Stokes, Peter A., project dir. DigiPal: Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Diplomatic. Renaissance and Reformation, 43(2), 338–342. https://doi.org/10.33137/rr.v43i2.34827

Merkelbach, R., & van Thiel, H. (1965). Griechisches Leseheft zur Einführung in Paläographie und Textkritik. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Metzger, B. M. (1981). Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An introduction to Greek palaeography. Oxford University Press.

Mioni, E. (1973). Introduzione alla paleografia greca. Liviana.

Perria, L. (2011). Γραφίς: Per una storia della scrittura greca libraria, secoli IV a.C.–XVI d.C. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.

Rehbein, M., & Brookes, S. (2019). Digital Palaeography. Taylor & Francis Group.

Stokes, P. A. (2011). Digital Resource and Database for Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatie. Gazette du livre médiéval, 56(1), 141–142. https://doi.org/10.3406/galim.2011.1991

Thompson, E. M. (1912). An introduction to Greek and Latin palaeography. Clarendon Press.

Touwaide, A. (2012). Codicology and paleography. In A. Classen (Ed.), Handbook of medieval studies: Terms, methods, trends (Vol. 1, pp. 266–329). De Gruyter.

Van Groningen, B. A. (1963). Short manual of Greek palaeography. A. W. Sijthoff.

Wilson, N. G. (1973). Mediaeval Greek bookhands: Examples selected from Greek manuscripts in Oxford libraries. Medieval Academy of America.

Wilson, N. G. (2008). Palaeography. In E. Jeffreys, J. Haldon, & R. Cormack (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of Byzantine studies (pp. 101–114). Oxford University Press.