Issue 14: Scholarly Editions

Editors: Torsten Roeder, Martina Scholger
Managing Editors: Ulrike Henny-Krahmer, Frederike Neuber
Published: November 2021 – December 2021

Reviewing the bread and butter of CoReMa, Cooking Recipes of the Middle Ages

Reviewing the bread and butter of CoReMa, Cooking Recipes of the Middle Ages

CoReMA: Cooking Recipes of the Middle Ages , Helmut W. Klug (ed.), 2020-2022. http://gams.uni-graz.at/corema (Last Accessed: 31.04.2021). Reviewed by Helena Bermúdez Sabel (Université de Neuchâtel), helena.bermudez@unine.ch. || Abstract: CoReMa, Cooking Recipes of the Middle Ages is an ongoing project whose method involves a semantically annotated, conservative edition of medieval manuscripts containing cooking recipes. With a rigorous philological approach and the aid of semantic web technologies, CoReMa’s method aims at teasing out the textual relations between different recipe collections, even enabling the comparison between manuscripts in different languages. Its semantic mode...
Review of Galileo Galilei’s Notes on Motion

Review of Galileo Galilei’s Notes on Motion

Galileo Galilei’s Notes on Motion , Paolo Galluzzi, Jürgen Renn, Isabella Truci (ed.), 1998. http://www.imss.fi.it/ms72/INDEX.HTM (Last Accessed: 17.01.2021). Reviewed by Anna Sofia Lippolis (University of Bologna), annasofia.lippolis@studio.unibo.it. || Abstract: Galileo Galilei’s Notes on Motion is a diplomatic digital edition most recently updated in 1999 that results from a joint collaboration between the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale and the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, both in Florence, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. It provides the digital edition of Galilei’s Codex Ms. Gal. 72, displaying folios 33 to 196, along with r...
Digitale Edition der Augsburger Baumeisterbücher

Digitale Edition der Augsburger Baumeisterbücher

Die Augsburger Baumeisterbücher. Digitale Edition der mittelalterlichen Stadtrechnungen von 1320 bis 1466 , Jörg Rogge, Forschungsschwerpunkt Historische Kulturwissenschaften der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (ed.), 2014-2019. https://www.augsburger-baumeisterbuecher.de (Last Accessed: 13.08.2021). Reviewed by Franziska Klemstein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), franziska.klemstein@uni-weimar.de. || Abstract: This review focuses on the digital edition of the ‘Augsburger Baumeisterbücher’. The primary objective of the project is to make the sources from the period 1320 to 1644 accessible and usable and to provide a comprehensive index. In the following, the review describe...
Decameron Web

Decameron Web

Decameron Web , Michael Papio, Massimo Riva (ed.), 1995. https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/ (Last Accessed: 15.06.2021). Reviewed by Eleonora Peruch (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna), eleonoraperuch@gmail.com. || Abstract: Decameron Web (DW) offers an online digital edition of Boccaccio’s Decameron both in Italian and English language. It is a comprehensive information portal about the Decameron and the cultural, historical context of the time in which it was written. Thanks to its high usability and consolidated sustainability, DW has reached sufficient maturity and consistency to be a valuable resource for research. Nonetheless, the technological me...
A comparative review of The Carlyle Letters Online and The Jane Addams Digital Edition

A comparative review of The Carlyle Letters Online and The Jane Addams Digital Edition

The Carlyle Letters Online , Brent E. Kinser (ed.), 2007–2016. https://carlyleletters.dukeupress.edu/home (Last Accessed: 14.12.2021). The Jane Addams Digital Edition , Cathy Moran Hajo (ed.), 2015–. https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/ (Last Accessed: 14.12.2021). Reviewed by Elisa Beshero-Bondar (Penn State Erie, The Behrend College), eeb4@psu.edu. || Abstract: The Carlyle Letters Online (CLO ) and The Jane Addams Digital Edition (JADE ) represent digital scholarly edition projects comparable in their scale (7 – 8,000 documents), their relationships with print editions projects, and their self-definition as a database. They differ remarkably in their methods of document curat...