Codice Pelavicino:

between Digital Edition and Public History

Enrica Salvatori Roberto Rosselli Del Turco

Chiara Alzetta

Codice Pelavicino

• A manuscript of the XIII°

century;

• 426 folios;

• Copies of administrative

documents from the 900 to the

1289;

• Language: medieval Latin;

• 4 parts: inventory of the

Episcopal archive, Liber

Magister, Liber Iurium, later

edition of the Liber Magister.

A new printed Critical Edition?

• Previews attempts:

• Lupo Gentile (1912): mistakes, not complete, not scientific;

• Geo Pistarino (1940-2006): never completed;

• In 2014, Enrica Salvatori, than collaborator and now project manager, suggested a Digital Critical Edition;

• Reasons:

• Less expensiveness;

• In progress Image Based Edition;

• Collaboration with local historians;

• Searchable and open content;

• ....

Edition Visualisation Technology - EVT https://visualizationtechnology.wordpress.com/

Edition Visualisation Technology Codice Pelavicino meets EVT

Edition Visualisation Technology Codice Pelavicino meets EVT

Edition Visualisation Technology Codice Pelavicino meets EVT

• Large équipe of experts in different fields and different phases:

1. Transcription of the documents and creation of the new critical edition

2. Text Encoding in XML TEI

3. Development of new features on the software EVT

4. Design the Web Site

Codice Pelavicino Digital

http://pelavicino.labcd.unipi.it/

An heterogeneous team in line with the philosophy of the Digital Humanities!

After the software, the peopleware!

The Web Site

• Users are mostly historians interested in the local history;

• People can read and study the manuscript from home without the need of a physical consultation;

• Fortunate and active collaboration between the team and the community of users through the Web Site:

• Contribute section for feedback, suggestion, opinions...

Codice Pelavicino Digital A project of Public History

XML and the Standard TEI

Example of encoded text:

• Structural elements;

• Semantic elements: name entities, dates, roles (jobs or others).

EVT takes the encoded text and creates a nice visualisation to support the reading and the exploration of the content.

List of persons, list of places on EVT

Signa tabellionis

• Symbols used, like modern stamps, to validate documents from notary

• There are many in the Codice Pelavicino

• Source of study for Medieval palaeography

• Extracted from the pages to create a section in the web site

• Connected in line with the text through the element <facsimile> and IMT (Image Markup Tool)

Signa tabellionis

on the web site

General Infos about the notary

Every istance of his signa in the Codex

Conclusions

Thanks to the DH, the Codice now is a living and interactive piece of history, sustained and supported by a large community of enthusiastic local historians and the accademia.

Thanks for your attention! Questions?