Data

• Texts: https://github.com/PatristicTextArchive/pta_data/commits/public
• Manuscripts: https://github.com/PatristicTextArchive/pta_manuscripts/commits/public

5 Jul 2022

• Personens, groups, places, biblical references, manuscripts, texte metadata formatted as LOD

Frontend

15 November 2024

• Bug fixes
• Enhancement of the Classical Language Dictionary (CLD) analytical pipeline

January – June 2024

• Dictionaries now via Classical Language Dictionary (CLD)
• New: Lemmatisation and dictionaries for Greek, Latin, and Syriac
• Bug fixes

21 July 2023

• New: Lemmatised full text search
• New: Timeline and map visualisation for manuscript database
• New: Display of non-biblical references, index of non-biblical references
• Improved search performance
• “Praefatio and Witnesses” widget: display errors corrected; new: schematic display (“Stemma”)
• “Options” widget and display of text-critical variants: Transcriptions and orthographic errors hidden by default (fade-in optional).
• Improved display on small screens
• Print function improved (plain text and text with annotations)

19 June 2023

• Bug fixes and improvements (Search, display of textual variants, text structure, praefatio, manuscripts databank)
• New: Display of manuscript digitisations in transcriptions and in the manuscripts database

5 Jul 2022

• New: Distance search (lemmatised)
• New: Versioned Permalinks
• New: Show two texts besides each other
• New: Added Bailly 2020 Hugo Chavez as dictionary
• New: Filter for texts (by PTA-ID and title) in manuscripts database
• New: Index of groups and organisations
• The user interface (and the backend) has been completely redesigned

28 Feb 2022

• Improved rendering of texts in the reader
• New: rendering of textual phenomena in the reader is added to documentation
• New: edition guidelines in English
• New: Selected place in index of places is shown on a map

9 Dec 2021

• New: Permalinks
• New: CTS-API
• New: Indices of biblical quotes, of persons, of places
• New: Added Translators Brief lexicon of Extended Strongs for Greek as dictionary

22 Oct 2021

• New: IIIF manifest and link to clavis where available in manuscript descriptions

29 Apr 2021

• New: Textcritical Apparatus as Footer in Reader instead of Mouseover Popups
• New: annotated groups of people in texts
• New: widget für witnesses
• minor bugfixes (sorting and table of contents)

3 Mar 2021

• New: Links to Voyant Tools for analysis of text
• New: Annotations to biblical persons
• Amended: Places annotations work in Firefox
• Documentation is updated
• More debugging

8 Feb 2021

• corrections in encoding
• in some texts persons and places were tagged
• few more texts added

2 Oct 2020

• Launch of public beta

Patristic Textarchive. An open access archive of ancient Christian texts

published by Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The Academy research project „The Late Antique Biblical Exegesis of Alexandria and Antioch“ is part of the Academies Programme, a research funding programme co-financed by the German federal government and individual federal states. Coordinated by the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, the Programme intends to retrieve and explore our cultural heritage, to make it accessible and highlight its relevance to the present, as well as to preserve it for future.