Image-based Edition of notated manuscripts belonging to the Carmina Cantabrigiensia tradition

Abstract

The aim of my work is the creation of an image-based digital edition of notated manuscripts belonging to the collection of the Carmina Cantabrigiensia by means of a software called Image Markup Tool (IMT), which allows the connection between image and text. The first section is devoted to the description of the anthology of the Carmina Cantabrigiensia, along with the role of the neumatic notation during the Middle Ages, and the analysis of the 36 notated manuscripts, recovered in several Italian and European libraries, and actual part of the project. The second section deals with the theoretical aspect of the digital humanities, considering the role of the New Philology, several European and Italian projects, and the description of the markup languages from the born of SGML until the release of XML and the TEI used to codify the metadata: core of a digital edition. The last part of the work is dedicated to the description of the tool used for the realization of the digital edition, along with all the features of this project. The user is provided not only with the diplomatic and the critical edition of each text, but also with the description of the single neumes located on its line and with a philological commentary, in order to better understand the Carmen from both a linguistic and historical point of view. Advantages, along with possible drawbacks of my project are considered, connecting it with other works realized with the same tool.