Georgian Medieval Manuscripts and the Digital Edition of the Typicon of the Georgian Monastery of the Holy Cross near Jerusalem

The main reason of this poster is to show the results of the project  implemented within the framework of the Joint Research Programme of the University of Oxford and SRNSFG in Georgian Studies [Grant # OUGSP-2018-057 ‘Wardrops’ Collection Online’] and dedicated to the compilation of the Wardrops’ Collection Online (WCO) available at http://manuscript.iliauni.edu.ge/. The work aims to underline the significance of digital representation of Georgian medieval manuscripts focusing on special technical issues and making content available worldwide and to describe for instance the digital edition of the Typicon of the Georgian Monastery of the Holy Cross near Jerusalem (MS. Georg. d. 2) preserved at the Wardrop Collection of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, and prepared as a digital publication in 2019. The manuscript belongs to the Sabaite Typica, liturgical texts encompassing rules for the celebration of the Divine Liturgies along the church year. The studies of Georgian versions of the Typicon started at the beginning of the XX century, but in spite of that, the text of this manuscript was neither published nor described in a global context.

Comprising facsimiles aligned against Old Georgian text and its translation into Modern Georgian with critical apparatus, lists of named entities and geographical names mentioned in the manuscript, the digital edition of the Typicon was created without the development of any new software, but by using the existing resources like IIIF technology (2014-2020), eXist-db  (Seigal et al. 2014) and TEI Publisher (Meier et al. 2015-2020) with purpose to produce a digital outcome in accordance with TEI:P5 Manuscript Description (TEI:P5 2019) including the referencing of text data to critical apparatus and of named entities to Wikidata (Erxleben et al. 2014).