Archivum Gothicum: Edition of the Gothic Sources. Volume 1
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edited by
- Carla Falluomini - Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italia - email orcid profile
- Pierandrea Gottardi - Università degli Studi di Parma, Italia - email orcid profile
Abstract
This editorial project, undertaken within the framework of the PRIN 2022 project The Textual Legacy of the Ostrogoths in Italy: The Gothic Bible and Other Texts, aims to produce new digital scholarly editions of the Gothic texts preserved in the following manuscripts: Codex Argenteus (Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, DG 1 + Speyer, Historisches Museum der Pfalz; a portion of the Gospels), Codex Carolinus (Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Guelf. 64 Weiss., ff. 255, 256, 277, 280; a portion of the Epistle to the Romans, 11-15), Codex Gissensis (Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek, 651/20, fragment of the central part of a bifolium; a portion of the Gospel of Luke, 23-24), Codex Ambrosianus C (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, I 61 sup., ff. 90, 91; a portion of the Gospel of Matthew, 25-27), and Codex Ambrosianus D (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, G 82 sup., ff. 209/210, 451/452, 461/462; a portion of the Book of Nehemiah, 5-7). The project proceeds in two phases. The first is devoted to producing a new diplomatic-interpretative digital edition of each manuscript in its entirety, based on a fresh reading presented alongside photographic reproductions and high-resolution multispectral digital images. The palaeographical, codicological, and paratextual features of each witness are carefully considered, so as to represent as faithfully as possible the graphic complexity of the artefacts. The second phase will produce a new critical edition integrated with the diplomatic-interpretative ones, together with tools for advanced philological and linguistic analysis and supporting material (indices, glossaries, and tools for textual queries), thereby providing a new scholarly platform for research on the Gothic texts and their historical and cultural context.
Keywords Codex Gissensis • Codex Ambrosianus D • Gothic Bible • Digital Scholarly Editions • Codex Argenteus • Codex Carolinus • Codex Ambrosianus C
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/979-12-5742-031-4 | e-ISBN 979-12-5742-031-4 | Published Feb. 27, 2026 | Language it
Edizione digitale a cura di Carla Falluomini e Pierandrea Gottardi.
Codifica nel formato XML/TEI (https://tei-c.org/) a cura di Pierandrea Gottardi. Il modello e la pipeline di codifica sono stati preparati da Pierandrea Gottardi, con il prezioso apporto di Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (Università degli Studi di Torino).
Visualizzazione con EVT a cura di Pierandrea Gottardi. EVT – Edition Visualization Technology (https://github.com/evt-project/evt-viewer-angular/) è un software open source per la navigazione e consultazione di edizioni scientifiche digitali creato da Roberto Rosselli Del Turco e sviluppato da un team di esperti in Digital Humanities..
Credits Progetto PRIN 2022, dal titolo The Textual Legacy of the Ostrogoths in Italy: The Gothic Bible and Other Texts (acronimo: LegOst) - codice progetto: 2022S5LET5; CUP J53D23013530006 - Missione 4 “Istruzione e Ricerca” del Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza; componente C2; investimento 1.1; finanziato dall’Unione Europea NextGeneration-EU e dal Programma Nazionale di Ricerca e Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale.
Project EXC 2176 - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Cluster of Excellence “Understanding Written Artefacts”); and Project n. 101019006 - European Research Council (Advanced Grant “The Development of Literacy in the Caucasian Territories”, “DeLiCaTe”).
Image credits and copyright Images of the Ambrosian manuscripts derive from multispectral scans produced by the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), University of Hamburg (Ivan Shevchuk, Kyle Ann Huskin, Jost Gippert), in collaboration with the Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Images of the Codex Argenteus are sourced from the Alvin - Platform for Digital Collections and Digitized Cultural Heritage (Uppsala University Library), used in accordance with the platform’s copyright and reuse policies. Images of the Speyer fragment are sourced from the Historisches Museum der Pfalz - Speyer. Images of the Codex Carolinus are sourced from the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel manuscript database. All images remain subject to the copyright and reuse regulations of the respective holding institutions.
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