Biblissima Resources

Cataloguing and digitisation of the library of the nomadic capital of Emir Abd el-Kader and Sheikh al-Ḥaddād, head of one of the largest Sufi brotherhoods in Algeria. Numerous archival items inserted into the books shed light on the place of the written word in the Islam of rural Algerian communities.

Calames

XML-TEI editing project for annalistic texts produced in medieval Normandy, and eventually in the whole of the medieval Norman world: design of an XML-TEI schema adapted to the editing and scientific annotation of these sources, and reflection on ways of displaying them.

The digital library of the IRHT (formerly BVMM) and index of manuscripts shelfmarks, incunabula and early printed books held in libraries throughout the world, particularly in France (formerly Medium). The digital library has been enriched by numerous digitisation campaigns funded by Biblissima, which has also contributed to the cleaning and enrichment of its index of shelfmarks. 

Archetype (formerly known as 'The DigiPal Framework') is freely-available generalised software for the online presentation of images with structured annotations and data. Designed primarily for the palaeographical analysis of handwriting, it allows users to search for, view, and organise detailed characteristics of handwriting or other material in both verbal and visual form.

A complete document processing platform developed by Teklia. It offers optical character recognition software (printed or handwritten) to extract text, analyze the content, then classify and index data according to your own setup.

Base de données consacrée aux décors héraldiques exposés dans les monuments français du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance. Responsables : Laurent Hablot (SAPRAT-EPHE) et Matteo Ferrari.

The Renaissance Typography Database brings together information on the history of printing materials (typefaces, engraved plates) used in Europe from the 15th to the 17th century. It enables the description and indexing of materials appearing in numerous digital libraries, thanks to the IIIF image exchange protocol.

Bibale describes the history of the transmission of manuscripts and printed books and the texts they contain through the study of ancient and modern collections and their owners.

Online collaborative platform for the construction of an exhaustive index of biblical quotations and allusions in the Christian literature of Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Index of catalogues, inventories and various lists of medieval manuscripts (8th-18th centuries).

ThecaeLab

The Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes programme provides access to cultural heritage documents and brings together several types of digital resources: facsimiles of works from the Renaissance digitised in the Région Centre or at partner institutions, the textual database Epistemon which offers digital editions in XML-TEI, as well as digital editions of literary manuscripts and archival documents from the 16th century.

Collaborative platform for managing and publishing the Biblissima+ authority files, powered by Wikibase software. Its primary aim is to create a hub of identifiers and structured, accessible, interoperable and reusable data. It plays a central role in ensuring the interoperability of the resources processed as part of Biblissima+, while enabling other projects to benefit from the data reconciliation and harmonisation work carried out in this area.

The Biblissima Iconographic Thesaurus, published on data.biblissima, is based on the partner databases Mandragore (BnF) and Initiale (IRHT), and enables them to be queried jointly. It is used by the iconographic search engine in the IIIF digitisations of the Biblissima portal. Interoperability with TIMEL (EHESS) is currently being implemented.

data.biblissima | Zenodo

Point d'entrée unique sur le patrimoine des cultures écrites anciennes de l’Antiquité à la Renaissance. Il agrège des ressources électroniques hétérogènes produites par les partenaires du consortium Biblissima (2012-2021) puis Biblissima+ (2021-2029). Il a pour but de mettre en interopérabilité collections patrimoniales, archives de la recherche et littérature scientifique.

Documentation

The BnF archives et manuscrits catalogue contains descriptions of manuscripts, drawings and archive collections on various support held by several departments of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). It has benefited from several Biblissima projects, such as the reconstitution of the libraries of Charles V and Charles VI.

Authority file for persons, organisations, works, common names and geographical names in the BnF General Catalogue. Biblissima has contributed to the correction and enrichment of records within its scientific perimeter. A reciprocal link has been set up between the authority files of data.biblissima and the Data BnF platform.

Data BnF

This database lists fragments of Hebrew manuscripts. Jewish libraries — private collections which suffered destruction more than any other — are only partially preserved today. Traces can be found of the remains of these collections in the fragments that were reused in Christian books. Through the identification, digitisation and study of these fragments it will be possible to reconstruct a virtual European Jewish library.

The BUDÉ database gathers information on the transmission of ancient and medieval works through manuscripts and ancient printed books for a period covering the end of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, understood in a broad sense (up to the middle of the 17th century) and varying according to the country. Much of this information comes from the manual files of the Humanism section at the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes.

The BSM project is establishing a reasoned corpus of written traces on all media (excluding coins) produced in the High Middle Ages by and for the territory that constitutes Merovingian Burgundy, in order to be able to relate the different types of media and the texts copied onto them.

Plaquette

The CCFr locates some 40 million documents held in French libraries by simultaneous interrogation of several catalogues, in particular the Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France (CGM), and Calames. Biblissima made it possible to enrich several collections, such as Besançon, Chartres, Saint-Omer and Boulogne-sur-Mer, Toulouse...

In order to publish Jerome's De situ et nominibus locorum Hebraicorum, setting up a digital processing chain for semi-automatic alignment of witnesses, from which a study of possible interpolations with other medieval glossaries and extraction of named entities will be carried out.

Reconstruction of the libraries of Charles V and Charles VI: digitisation and editing of medieval inventories and collection of data on manuscripts and transmitted texts. Digitisations in particular on Gallica, descriptions of manuscripts in BAM, electronic edition of inventories planned in the Thecae collection.

Gallica | BnF Archives et manuscrits | CCFr

Digitisation and cataloguing in the CCFr of medieval manuscripts held by the Médiathèque de Chartres, with the aim of reconstituting the medieval libraries of Saint-Père and the cathedral. Electronic edition of ancient inventories on ThecaeLab.

ARCA | CCFr | ThecaeLab

Open online geographic information system, aiming at free access to interoperable archaeological and epigraphical data, allowing their mapping at small, medium and large scales.

Search for biblical references in ancient Christian literature.

This lemmatisation and morphological analysis tool for Latin texts is available for Windows, Mac OS and GNU/Linux. Lemmatise a single word or a whole text in Latin, translate the lemmas using the bundled Latin translation dictionaries, and display the corresponding syllable quantities and flexion.

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Online version of Collatinus, a lemmatiser and morphological analyser for Latin texts. Use it to look up a word in 6 Latin dictionaries, to inflect a lemma, or to scan, lemmatise or analyse the morphology of a Latin text.

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Collecta aims at virtually reconstructing the collection of François-Roger de Gaignières (1642-1715), which was dispersed between different repositories (Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Bodleian Library in Oxford). It is based on the complete inventory of 5,569 items (manuscripts, portfolios of drawings and engravings, prints, paintings and objects) drawn up in 1711, during the antiquarian's lifetime.

Corpus of data on the collections built up in France and Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries: material description of the manuscripts belonging to the selected collections, bibliography and history of the books, comparison with the data provided by the Bibliotheca bibliothecarum of Montfaucon. The results have not been communicated.

Comparatio focusses on the liturgical chants found in medieval Latin manuscripts. It includes not only the text of the liturgical chants, but also the music, transcribed from manuscripts of diverse origins (France, Germany, Italy and Central Europe). This musical database aims to aid in identifying the origin of liturgical manuscripts through the study and comparison both of different versions of antiphons and responsories as well as of their textual variants.

The centre (ENC-PSL), funded by Biblissima+, will focus on the automatic processing of historical languages with a high degree of graphic variation, providing tools (web interfaces, APIs, algorithms) and models (mainly for Gallo-Romance languages and Latin). Eventually, dialectometric and stylometric services are envisaged.

CR2I aims to bring together all the data from the Catalogues régionaux des incunables (CRI) and to enrich them with links to other online catalogues or facsimiles of incunabula.

Correspondences between the texts of aligned multilingual Bibles (Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Syriac, French, English).

This correspondence brings to light a great deal of information about the exchange of books between scholars and book collectors. The corpus will be expanded through the study of the most important collections of correspondence, starting with Pellicier, Peiresc, Pierre Daniel, Les Chifflet, Jacques Auguste de Thou, Charles de l’Écluse, Jacques Dalechamps, Pinelli.

Data Management Plan (DMP) of the Biblissima+ digital infrastructure.

The Bibale database has been adapted so that French libraries can publish their provenance data, which can also be searched via dedicated interfaces.

DeNotEM est un projet de reconnaissance automatique de la notation musicale ancienne dans les sources manuscrites du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance.

Base de données consacrée aux emblèmes du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance en Europe
Responsable : Laurent Hablot (SAPRAT-EPHE)

Programme Python conçu pour générer des manifestes IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) à partir des données de l’API de la base de données DIAMM (Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music) et des serveurs de plusieurs bibliothèques telles que la BnF et la Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

DiANet (Dies_ Intelligence Artificial _Numismatic _European network) aims to integrate AI into regular working practices by creating a user interface that uses surface microtopographies of each coin to analyse their similarities and differences and classify them. It is developing a simplified web interface.

The Virtual Library of Mont Saint-Michel allows the consultation of the descriptive records of manuscripts and printed books coming from the Mont Saint-Michel, and it provides access to the digital facsimiles of the books.

ARCA | CCFr | ThecaeLab

Technical documentation of the Biblissima+ digital infrastructure published under an open licence by the Biblissima+ Portal team. It includes a vademecum describing the requirements and procedures for integrating and updating data in the infrastructure, general documentation about IIIF standards, and a series of pages on the various APIs provided by Biblissima+.

This digital edition will be based on the handwritten notes that were compiled for the collected inventories of manuscript libraries published in 1739. These notes, which are written in different hands, are part of the collections formerly held by the Maurists and contain a great deal of information that is not included in the original printed edition.

DoTS is an XQuery implementation of the DTS (Distributed Text Services) API specification, backed up by the BaseX XML database software. This tool, entirely funded by Biblissima+, makes it easy to publish sources in XML/TEI according to FAIR principles.

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E-ktobe is a database on Syriac manuscripts which provides information on their physical characteristics, colophons and text, as well as manuscript annotations. It contains a great deal of information on people, places and dates concerning the making of Syriac manuscripts.

The Edit_Dunhuang project, focused on the Chinese Pelliot collection at the BnF, aims to improve the automatic transcription of Chinese historical documents by developing tools to transform the OCR product into structured and richly annotated texts, in order to create vast textual corpora that can be exploited for both qualitative and quantitative research.

EpiVoc, built with OpenTheso, is a first step towards the general GenEpiTheso thesaurus for epigraphy currently being developed as part of the work of Cluster 5a ‘TEI and Epigraphy’ of Biblissima+.

Platform for automated transcription of handwritten sources using machine learning techniques

This joint catalogue lists the sales catalogues of books prior to the 19th century held in French libraries. They are an essential source for the study of private libraries, despite being little known. The site is no longer online, but the data is available on the Biblissima portal.

Online lemmatiser of Ancient Greek texts: use it to look up terms in Ancient Greek dictionaries, check the flexion of a lemma, and lemmatise a Greek text. Eulexis is developed by Philippe Verkerk, with support from the Biblissima team.

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Web version of the lemmatization software for ancient Greek texts. It allows you to search for a term in Greek dictionaries, to inflect a lemma and to lemmatise a text. Eulexis-web was developed by Philippe Verkerk with the help of the Biblissima portal team.

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Enrichment and enhancement of the European Latin Lexical Corpus by the Du Cange Committee, which also offers innovative tools for historical lexicography.

Europeana Regia aims to reconstruct important collections of European royal manuscripts, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, in the form of a virtual library. The project focuses on three groups of manuscripts which are currently dispersed throughout Europe: Carolingian manuscripts, manuscripts from the Library of the Louvre during the reign of Charles V and Charles VI of France, and the library of the Aragonese kings of Naples.

Project for a tool to isolate all the decorative elements in a given manuscript and then compare these elements from one manuscript to another.

Digital corpus of medieval French fabliaux published in the Base de Français Médiéval (BFM).

Gitlab | Github | Nakala

FabuLab is looking at ways of finely indexing the texts and images of Isopet 1-Avionnet, a collection of esopic fables dating from the late 13th - early 14th centuries, and at the reading paths that they will enable to be developed, by bringing the corpus's data and metadata into dialogue with the entities and repositories of Biblissima+.

Research project on watermarks on paper in the medieval and modern West and on the processes of their optical shape recognition. The goal is to create a smartphone application that allows you to take a photo of a watermark, download it and obtain its description, through an image-identification system.

The Library and the University of Besançon have studied the culture of humanists of the Franche-Comté region, in particular the Granvelle and the Chifflet, using the manuscripts they have preserved. The results can be consulted in the CCFr.

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Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and its partners and has been online since 1997. It contains digitised manuscripts and printed books, maps, periodicals, photos and a collection of illuminations.

Glossae Scripturae Sacrae-electronicae, a portal dedicated to the study of biblical gloss and commentary in the Middle Ages. The core component of the project is a digital edition of the Glossa ordinaria based on the Editio Princeps, an incunable printed in Strasbourg between 1480 and 1481.

This guide to cataloguing medieval and early modern bookbindings includes TEI schemas for describing the bindings, developed by the Réserve des livres rares at the BnF in cooperation with the École nationale des chartes. Available for anyone to use, this tool will be particularly useful for cultural heritage institutions whose collections include old books.

Zenodo

A project on the origins and provenance of books of hours from Poitou, studied in text and image. The project focuses on the metadata of digitised images and their dissemination using interoperable protocols and formats (IIIF, XML-TEI, JP2).

HORAE (Heurist)

HTRogène produces generic automatic transcription models for handwritten texts (HTR) of medieval and early modern documents in Romance languages. The training data and transcription models are resistant to changes of language and hand. This sampling is based on specific criteria of language, script, genre or dating.

This corpus of humanist autograph manuscripts will be digitised, with a particular emphasis on Libri amicorum (books of friends) that contain numerous handwriting samples. They will then be used in the development and configuration of an image comparison tool to identify the scribes and annotators of old books.

Open platform for promoting collections of Greek inscription prints. The digitised views of the stamps (2D IIIF and manipulable 3D) associated with rich metadata will be linked to other documentary sources in a viewing space providing an optimised editorial workbench for epigraphists.

IIIF Collections of Manuscripts and Rare Books is a cross-collections search and discovery environment for IIIF-compliant digitized manuscripts and rare books dated before 1800. It provides a single point of access to digitized documents from dozens of digital libraries worldwide.

Website that presents the implementations and services developed by Biblissima+ around the IIIF standards for the interoperability of images, in particular the actions carried out for French archives within the framework of Biblissima+ cluster 1.

Documentation sur IIIF

The Greek section of the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes lists the inventories of Greek libraries dating from before the fall of Constantinople, an area that is much less well known than Latin. The data is published in the Bibale database.

Maintained by the "Section des manuscrits enluminés" at the IRHT since 1990, this online catalogue lists the illuminated manuscripts held in French public collections (except those of the Bibliothèque nationale de France).

Description and digitization of inventories and catalogues of ecclesiastical libraries (1789-1797) in the Virtual Inventory Room of the Archives nationales (shelfmarks : F/17/1168-F/17/1179/B).

Repertory of over 31,000 Italian liturgical manuscripts, compiled by Giacomo Baroffio, published and enriched by the IRHT.

Digital edition under development of Jerome's treatise on Noms Hébreux.

This online database was launched in 2002 and aims to build up an index of medieval texts and manuscripts in Occitan and the langues d’oïl, in addition to providing a tool for the in-depth study of hagiographical manuscripts.

Reverse engineering reconstruction of 30 manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible based on Benjamin Kennicott's edition of the Vetus testamentum hebraicum (1776-1780): alignment of the text with 30 HTRised manuscripts; application of the HTR pipeline to other manuscripts; automatic stemmatology experiment; finalisation of the BSB's Mirador plugin for viewing texts in RTL.

Kraken is a turn-key OCR and layout analysis system optimized for historical and non-Latin script materials.

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Inventory and digitisation of the "library" of Montaigne and La Boétie preserved in Bordeaux and in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region (municipal libraries of Bordeaux, Périgueux and Libourne, BU of Bordeaux III).

The "Bibliotheques françoises" project offers the online digital edition and database of the first two printed dictionaries of French authors. These libraries were published respectively in 1584 in Paris by François Grudé, sieur de La Croix du Maine and in 1585 in Lyon by Antoine Du Verdier, sieur de Vauprivas.

Electronic edition of acts, letters and other types of texts concerning the former University of Paris, published between the 17th and 20th centuries, in particular in the Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis by H. Denifle and E. Châtelain.

The purpose of the Légendiers latins database is to list all medieval and modern manuscripts witnesses of Latin hagiographic texts identified by the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina (BHL) and its Supplement.

Laying the foundations for a virtual reconstruction of the Farnese Library, the most important library in sixteenth-century Rome, the project includes the electronic publication of sixteenth and seventeenth-century inventories and prepares the digital cataloguing of 154 manuscripts of Latin classics held by the National Library of Naples.

This iconography database contains images and descriptions of illuminated manuscripts held at the BnF (département des Manuscrits and Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal). More than 180,000 records describe approximately 6,100 manuscripts, the earliest from Ancient Egypt and the most recent of which include modern manuscripts. Each record provides extensive information on the decor, including the textual context, as well as information about the place and date of illumination, and the name of the artist or workshop when available.

This database, originally designed to describe the medical manuscripts held at the BnF (over 500), has been expanded to include Latin medical manuscripts that are held at other French libraries. The resulting data is compared to those found in other major European libraries with particular attention given to translations of Greek and Arabic medical texts into Latin in the 11th to 14th centuries.

Matriculae is an IRHT prosopographical database containing thousands of biographical and bibliographical details of members of religious congregations or societies who may have played a role in the cultural and intellectual life of their time (mainly from the 16th to the 18th century). It is hosted by the Bibale database.

XML Display Engine that relies on BaseX as the XML database engine, and RESTXQ and XSLT technologies. MaX is a generic and extensible tool capable of producing reading interfaces for all XML standards, and coming with a number of modules to support TEI.

Gitlab

Electronic edition of the after-death inventory of Cardinal Mazarin's library, published as part of the Thecae collection at the Presses universitaires de Caen (PUC).

The Order of the Minims and the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri each built up impressive libraries. The systematic analysis of the Minims' archives aids in understanding the evolution of their libraries and the circulation of texts in their historical context. As regards the Oratorians, a teaching congregation, research will focus on their libraries in Paris and elsewhere in France.

Source code of the Mirador instance used on the Biblissima portal, including adaptations to the viewer parameters and a number of plugins to extend Mirador's core functionality.

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This index, begun in 2005, lists the French and Occitan translations of classic Latin and Greek texts. All the different translations and any reworkings of a given text are listed under the original title of the source text. For each translation, there are descriptions of the manuscripts and early printed books in which it can be found.

Interactive tutorial in palaeography to learn how to decipher original manuscripts, documents and inscriptions in the full range of ancient and medieval scripts and languages.

Recommendations for French and international institutions wishing to set up a multispectral imaging process for their collections, in order to make the results interoperable and reusable: shooting protocols, computer post-processing, digital conservation and dissemination.

NAHAN (North African Heritage Archives Network) is a project led by AOROC, which has created an international, multilingual (French, English, German, Spanish, Arabic), interoperable platform for an integrated approach to epigraphic corpora, including their archaeological and archival environment, with a georeferencing system. The EpiHorrea project is part of it.

Authority data of all the persons in the IRHT databases, as well as some other databases with which the IRHT collaborates. Hosted by the Bibale database, it is intended to feed the common tool data.biblissima.

This database provides information on the manuscript tradition of pre-sixteenth century Greek texts. The project began in 1971 at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto; in 1993 the Greek section at the IRHT took over its management and continues to enrich it with new data to this day.

PluCo is a plugin for the XMLmind XML Editor software developed by CERTIC and the Digital Document Centre in Caen, enabling collaborative editing of remote XML resources. PluCo can be used to query an XML database, retrieve information from it or modify the XML.

Corpus of inventories and catalogues of ecclesiastical libraries of the Ancien Régime (14th-18th centuries) digitised and described in the Archives nationales' online catalogue.

Post-correction lemmatisation application for Greek, Classical Latin and Old French.

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Digital edition of the Qitsur shorashim, an anonymous dictionary of Biblical Hebrew roots that circulated in humanist circles, in order to assess its role in the teaching of Hebrew within Jewish and Christian communities.

The FOnds Rabelais et ses Sources En ligne project (Rabelais's Collection and its Sources Online) has several aims: reconstructing Rabelais's library, editing a small corpus of his correspondence, and digitising books that Rabelais once owned and annotated. The manuscript of his Cinquième livre will also be made available online.

The RegeCart database gives access to onomastic indexes drawn from 571 cartularies, chronicle-cartularies and bullaries (primarily from the provinces of Rheims and Sens) that were studied by the IRHT's Diplomatic section between 1942 and 1970. It also includes reproductions of the analyses of the individual acts in each cartulary and codicological descriptions of the cartularies.

Relicantus is a database describing the fragments of notated liturgical books in the archives and libraries of France, developed at the IRHT. It is linked to the Wala project for indexing, comparing and mapping variants in the manuscript evidence of Gregorian chant. The data is not yet public.

The Reliures database developed by the IRHT aims to catalogue all medieval and sixteenth-century bindings, as well as modern armorial bindings, held in French public libraries (excluding the BnF and the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève). It is hosted by the Bibale database.

Database of digitised bindings at the BnF, presenting a selection of bindings that are representative of the history of bookbinding in France. When launched in April 2013, it listed approximately 200 bindings, including many emblematic "treasures" from the collections of the Réserve des livres rares at the BnF (16th to 18th centuries).

Digitisation and study of the manuscript L.II.14 from the BNU in Turin, dated 1311, severely damaged by fire in 1904: image processing (restoration of damaged parts), HTR, lemmatisation, stylometry, scriptometry.

Github (HTR) | Portail Biblissima

Edition électronique des inventaires anciens des livres du cardinal de Richelieu dans la collection Thecae (édition-test sur ThecaeLab) pour une reconstitution de sa riche bibliothèque de manuscrits et d’imprimés.

Digitisation of medieval manuscripts from the Valenciennes library, in particular from the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Amand. Electronic edition of the large 12th century inventory on ThecaeLab.

ThecaeLab | ARCA

Edition, analysis and digitization of the catalogs of the abbey of Saint-Bertin, as well as 577 medieval and 16th century manuscripts coming from its library, and today held at the libraries of Saint-Omer and Boulogne-sur-Mer. The digitized manuscripts and printed books are accessible on the digital library of the Communauté d'Agglomération du Pays de Saint-Omer" (CAPSO).

Bibliothèque numérique de Saint-Omer | ARCA | CCFr (Saint-Omer) | CCFr (Boulogne-sur-Mer)

Identification, digitisation, cataloguing and promotion of the medieval manuscripts of Saint-Martin de Sées; electronic edition on ThecaeLab of the library's ancient inventories.

ThecaeLab

Electronic edition of the Bibliotheca belgica manuscripta, a collection of early inventories of Belgium and France published by A. Sanders in 1641-1644; to be published in the Thecae collection, edition currently on ThecaeLab.

Corpus of digital editions of sermons. The CIHAM has developed its expertise in oral traditions that have later been set down in writing through the digital edition of Jacobus de Voragine's sermons.

Base de données consacrée aux collections de sceaux conservées dans les fonds français. 
Responsables : Laurent Hablot (SAPRAT-EPHE), Catherine Kasteleiner, Thomas Brunner.

SION-Digit-Sfarim, in partnership with the Gironde and Venice archives, aims to locate, catalogue, digitise, transcribe and make use of a representative corpus of notarial deeds from the period 1500-1700 relating to the lives, possessions, transfers and transactions of Jews between Venice, Amsterdam and Bordeaux.

Based on the case of the edition of the Hebrew text of Ben Sira, development of innovative tools for critical edition (collaborative transcription, translation, annotation, visualisation) and analysis of textual data (morphological and stylistic analysis, automatic selection of variants), incorporating the latest innovations in AI and NLP.

Github (fichiers XML) | Github (code source)

The SourcEncyMe project (Sources des Encyclopédies Médiévales) focusses on the history and transmission of Greek, Arabic and Latin texts on philosophy, science, theology and history, which were included in Latin encyclopaedic compilations from the 13th century onwards.

http://atelier-vincent-de-beauvais.irht.cnrs.fr/encyclopedisme-medieval/program…

SubtiliorEditor est un programme Python qui améliore l'encodage MEI et la sortie Verovio pour les notations atypiques caractéristiques de l'ars subtilior (fin du 14ème siècle).

Stylometry tool.

The Ricercar programme of the Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance (Tours) and the Ente Olivieri of Pesaro (Italy) have formed a partnership to promote the digitisation of an exceptional collection of several hundred works for lute from the 16th and 17th centuries, brought together in 26 manuscripts rediscovered in 2018.

Telma (Traitement électronique des manuscrits et des archives) provides the scientific community with access to corpora of primary sources and the finding aids necessary to manipulate and study them. It contains two kinds of corpora: resource indexes and critical editions of manuscript sources, which may or may not be linked to digital images of the documents.

Records of illustrations of Lyon prints accessible in the iconographic database of the Warburg Institute.

Digitisation and promotion of medieval manuscripts preserved at Sainte-Geneviève Abbey before the French Revolution.

Calames

The data gathered from this corpus of old inventories and preserved manuscripts makes it possible to reconstruct the different collections that were once held at the Library of the Sorbonne College and trace their history. The data will be added to the Bibale database and the inventories will be published online as a digital critical edition.

Digital collection of critical editions of early inventories of manuscripts and printed books, published by the Presses universitaires de Caen (PUC). Editions are published in Thecae only when they are stable and can be cited permanently.

Collection published by the Presses universitaires de Caen (PUC), currently offering hundreds of evolving electronic editions of early manuscripts and printed book inventories, organised into 11 corpora. For the moment, ThecaeLab can be accessed by creating an account, but it is intended to be opened up.

Techniques pour l’Historien en Ligne : Etudes, Manuels, Exercices. This portal provides access to a number of educational tools (studies, manuals, exercises) designed to be an introduction for students and a wider audience to the different scientific methods and techniques used in historical research.

Bases d’autorités et de connaissances partagées pour permettre de réaliser les index des éditions de sources, dévelopée par lepôle Document numérique de la Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines et le Centre Michel de Boüard de l'Université de Caen Normandie.

The Thesaurus of Medieval Images Online (TIMEL) is a tool designed by the Historical Anthropology of the Long Middle Ages group at EHESS (AHLoMA, formerly GAHOM) and the CESCM in Poitiers. TIMEL is currently being made interoperable with the Biblissima iconographic thesaurus.

Digital medieval epigraphy project developed by the Corpus des inscriptions de la France médiévale (CIFM) team. Its goal is to publish digitally all of the epigraphic sources from the 8th to the 15th century.

Project to digitise and catalogue all the medieval manuscripts and incunabula from the ancient library of the Dominicans of Toulouse, and to publish the archives describing the library. The data is accessible in Rosalis, the digital library of Toulouse.

Bibale

Identification of all manuscripts and printed documents of Augustinian provenance, updating of the scientific notes for the manuscripts concerned in the CCFr, publication of the two old inventories with identifications, digitisation of 25 manuscripts and one inventory that are not yet digitised.

Transcription and digital publication in XML-TEI of the archival manuscripts relating to the municipal deliberations of the city of Tours for the 15th and 16th centuries (6000 leaves), in order to highlight the major developments in municipal writing.

VeLA is based on a collaborative database of all the graffiti in Venice's Palazzo Ducale dating back to the Middle Ages. Text editing compatible with EpiDoc encoding, alignment with personal reference systems for the most famous figures, georeferencing (QGIS), survey, historical mapping of the city, 3D image, reading system using QR code recognition of graffiti in places of conservation.

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The Clairvaux Virtual Library allows to consult the surviving manuscripts of the Clairvaux library as it was in 1472, fully digitised in colour. It also offers self-study articles and dossiers. Electronic edition of old inventories on ThecaeLab.

BnF Archives et manuscrits et Gallica | ThecaeLab

XML editing tools and environments (EAD and TEI) to work on ancient sources, developed by the Pôle Document numérique of the MRSH (University of Caen-Normandie).