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Witnessing Middle Dutch Textual Traditions. Diplomatic Transcriptions of Dietsche Catoen, Scolastica, and Karel ende Elegast

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: We present a dataset of transcriptions of manuscripts and printed witnesses of the Middle Dutch texts Dietsche Catoen, Rhymed Bible or Scolastica (samples) and Karel ende Elegast. This open access dataset contains diplomatic transcriptions of these witnesses, amounting to a total of almost 29,000 verses. The data abides by the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable), is licensed under a CC-BY-SA license, and is available in multiple file formats. Due to its strictly diplomatic nature, this corpus is particularly suitable for research concerning textual stability, stemmatology and scribal profiling.

Source: Journal of Open Humanities Data

DOI: 10.5334/johd.328

Authors: Sofie Moors, Nicky Voorneveld, Karina van Dalen-Oskam

Institutions: University of Antwerp, Research Foundation - Flanders, Huygens Institute for History and Culture of the Netherlands, University of Amsterdam

Language: English

Topic: Digital Humanities and Scholarship

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $367

Funders: European Commission, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, Vlaamse regering