Exploring the Historical Context of Graphic Symbols: the NOTAE Knowledge Graph and its Visual Interface

Graphic symbols i.e. graphic entities drawn as a visual unit in a written text and representing something other or something more than a word of that text are the research object of the NOTAE project, which investigates them in the documentary practice of the late Roman State and Post-Roman Kingdoms (400-800 AD). While research results from the project are stored by filling forms resulting from the analysis of ancient documents, we argue that the availability of a navigable knowledge graph can ease the work of researchers at finding non trivial implications in data. In this paper, we propose a first version of the NOTAE Knowledge Graph, and we outline future works and possible synergies

Conference Report: Neo-Paleography: Analysing Ancient Handwritings in the Digital Age, Basel, 27–29 January 2020

Conference Report: Neo-Paleography: Analysing Ancient Handwritings in the Digital Age, Basel, 27–29 January 202

Niceforo Gregora e la Theotokos: osservazioni sulla tradizione manoscritta dell’In nativitatem et praesentationem Deiparae (BHG 1079)

This paper focuses on a new witness of the In nativitatem et praesentationem Deiparae, a pamphlet written by Nikephoros Gregoras. The work, now preserved in the manuscript Venezia, Biblioteca Marciana, gr. Z. 142, was copied by some collaborators of the author and was reviewed by him. Thanks to this discovery, a new analysis of the manuscript tradition of the pamphlet was carried out, a tradition that consists of four other manuscripts, A (Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1086), B (Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1085), J (Jerusalem, Patriarchichē Bibliothēkē, Monē Abraham, 51) and K (Wien, Österreichischen National-Bibliothek, Hist. gr. 104). The material investigation and the collation of the text led to the reconstruction of two ‘editions’, both dating back to the author