Digital Approaches to Manuscript Abbreviations: Where Are We at the Beginning of the 2020s?

Digital Approaches to Manuscript Abbreviations: Where Are We at the Beginning of the 2020s?

Abbreviations have been an important qualitative means for dating and localising manuscripts. In digital scholarship, however, they have received less attention. Reasons for this range from digital resources inheriting editorial traditions from print to normalisation being a prerequisite for many re...

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Main Author: Alpo Honkapohja
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2021-07-01
Series:Digital Medievalist
Subjects:
manuscript abbreviations
digital palaeography
quantitative palaeography
manuscript studies
Online Access:https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/articles/88
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spelling doaj-2a89bbae196f43418ca5b85780cddc472021-08-11T07:57:59ZengOpen Library of HumanitiesDigital Medievalist1715-07362021-07-0114110.16995/dm.8878Digital Approaches to Manuscript Abbreviations: Where Are We at the Beginning of the 2020s?Alpo Honkapohja0University of EdinburghAbbreviations have been an important qualitative means for dating and localising manuscripts. In digital scholarship, however, they have received less attention. Reasons for this range from digital resources inheriting editorial traditions from print to normalisation being a prerequisite for many research questions. The aim of this paper is to build bridges by giving an overview of scholarship into digital and quantitative approaches – taking into account English, French, Old Norse and, to a lesser extent, Dutch, German and Celtic scholarship. It also makes a theoretical contribution by placing abbreviations into a typology of writing systems and proposing that the terms conditioned and unconditioned variation in analogy with phonology could be useful for studying abbreviation.https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/articles/88manuscript abbreviationsdigital palaeographyquantitative palaeographymanuscript studies
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Digital Approaches to Manuscript Abbreviations: Where Are We at the Beginning of the 2020s?
Digital Medievalist
manuscript abbreviations
digital palaeography
quantitative palaeography
manuscript studies
author_facet Alpo Honkapohja
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title Digital Approaches to Manuscript Abbreviations: Where Are We at the Beginning of the 2020s?
title_short Digital Approaches to Manuscript Abbreviations: Where Are We at the Beginning of the 2020s?
title_full Digital Approaches to Manuscript Abbreviations: Where Are We at the Beginning of the 2020s?
title_fullStr Digital Approaches to Manuscript Abbreviations: Where Are We at the Beginning of the 2020s?
title_full_unstemmed Digital Approaches to Manuscript Abbreviations: Where Are We at the Beginning of the 2020s?
title_sort digital approaches to manuscript abbreviations: where are we at the beginning of the 2020s?
publisher Open Library of Humanities
series Digital Medievalist
issn 1715-0736
publishDate 2021-07-01
description Abbreviations have been an important qualitative means for dating and localising manuscripts. In digital scholarship, however, they have received less attention. Reasons for this range from digital resources inheriting editorial traditions from print to normalisation being a prerequisite for many research questions. The aim of this paper is to build bridges by giving an overview of scholarship into digital and quantitative approaches – taking into account English, French, Old Norse and, to a lesser extent, Dutch, German and Celtic scholarship. It also makes a theoretical contribution by placing abbreviations into a typology of writing systems and proposing that the terms conditioned and unconditioned variation in analogy with phonology could be useful for studying abbreviation.
topic manuscript abbreviations
digital palaeography
quantitative palaeography
manuscript studies
url https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/articles/88
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