Analyzing Historical Set Data: the Case of Medieval Biblical Prologues

In the Middle Ages, Bible manuscripts do not all have the same textual content: they contain a varying number of supplementary texts of different kinds. In particular, copyists insert short texts (called “prologues”) at the beginning of most of the biblical Books. Our first objective is to search forcoherent groups of prologues, either on the basis of geographical origin or other criteria. Our second objective is to profile the biblical Books.