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Features of the reader
Options
- Show/hide markers for annotations (of places, persons, groups, biblical references; variants; witnesses; pagebreaks) in text
- Output formats (print or download): annotated text, plaintext; XML; link to analysis of text by Voyant-Tools
- Version history (it's possible to display earlier versions in the reader and to see the differences between versions)
- Show/hide manuscript scans (in case of manuscript transcriptions only; zoom and magnifier are accessible via right-click in the image viewer)
Document
- Bibliographical Data: Source, type and status of edition
- Identifier: PTA, TLG, CPG/CPL/BHG/BHL, Pinakes-Oeuvre
- Reuse: Permalink (with option for copy to clipboard), Canonical Text Services URN (CTS URN) link for citation of text passages (currently experimental and for one word only), License, How to cite (with option for copy to clipboard)
Praefatio, Witnesses
only available, if a critical edition is displayed, that provides the respective information!
- Praefatio
- used earlier editions
- manuscript witnesses (also in schematic representation)
- conjectors
Texts
- all available editions of a work
- all available manuscript trascriptions of a work
- all available translations of a work
- Option to show a second text in an additional column (without its own functions) or in an additional window (with all functions on its own) or to replace the current text by an other. S. Parallel display of a second text in the reader.
TOC
- Navigable table of contents of the text, in case of manuscript tanscriptions also of the folia/pages.
Dictionary
- At the moment only implemented for Greek texts.
- Please note that the lemmatisation was done automatically and is prone to errors!
Biblical Quotations
- Biblical quotations referenced in the text
- Status of annotation is provided: not / partially / fully annotated and not / partially / fully identified
Other quotations
- Non-biblical quotations referenced in the text
- Status of annotation is provided: not / partially / fully annotated and not / partially / fully identified
Places
- Places referenced in the text
- Status of annotation is provided: not / partially / fully annotated and not / partially / fully identified
Persons
- Persons referenced in the text
- Status of annotation is provided: not / partially / fully annotated and not / partially / fully identified
Groups
- Groups and organisations referenced in the text
- Status of annotation is provided: not / partially / fully annotated and not / partially / fully identified
Parallel display of a second text in the reader
The feature can be accessed via the “Texts”-Widget at the side.
If you click on one of the editions, transcriptions or translations listed, a window “Manage layout” opens:
- If you select “Display as fullscreen”, the current texts is replaced by the selected.
- If you select “Display as additional column”, the selected text is displayed to the right of the current text and is navigated together with the current text.
- If you select “Display as additional window”, the selected text is displayed to the right of the current text, it is navigated on its own and has its own widgets on the right margin.
On the bottom of the widget the link “Select a text from the whole PTA repository” provides a extended function: If you select the link, a two-column window opens:
- In the left column, you can select other works (and versions of works) from the current author.
- In the right column, you can select works by other authors.
All entries are sorted alphabetically.
The selected text is displayed to the right of the current text, it is navigated on its own and has its own widgets on the right margin.
Rendering of textual phenomena in the reader
Transcriptions
| Rendering | Meaning |
|---|---|
| new line | new line |
| [1r/v] | new folio/page with number 1 (recto/verso) (if available linked to digital facsimile) |
| [col.] | new column |
| [note: place] text (hand) | marginal note with text in place (by hand, if available) |
| text | rubricated text |
| text | line above text (often: nomen sacrum) |
| text | text underlined |
| Text | ekthesis |
| Text | initial |
| ⸢deleted added (hand)⸣ | substitution of deleted with added text (by hand, if available) |
| textdel. (Hand) | deleted text (without any marking; by hand, if available) |
| text* (hand) | deleted text (marked with a sign; by hand, if available) |
| text (hand) | deleted text (strikethrough; by hand, if available) |
| text (hand) | deleted text (expunged; by hand, if available) |
| text (hand) | deleted text (overwritten; by hand, if available) |
| text (hand) | deleted text (erased; by hand, if available) |
| ⟨text (hand)⟩ | added text (in line; by hand, if available) |
| text⟨text (hand)⟩ | text added to text (over the line; by hand, if available) |
| ⟨hand in mg. text⟩ | text added in the margin (by hand, if available) |
| {text} | suppletion of lost text |
| text | unclear reading |
| > | diple |
| >> | double diple |
| ⸏ | paragraphos |
| * | asteriskos |
| [[illegible (1 line)]] | illegible text (of length, if available) |
| [[damage (1 character)]] | physical damage (of length, if available) |
| [[fenestra (1 character)]] | fenestra (of length, if available) |
| (1.1 edition) | reference to division of text in edition |
Editions
| Rendering | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Text | quoted lemma |
| »text_, insertion,_ text« | quote (with inserted text) |
| ›text‹ | pseudo-quote (or quote in quote or quote in direct speech) |
| „text ‚text‘ text“ | direct speech |
| text | alluion |
| ⟨text⟩ | text added |
| [text] | text to be deleted |
| †text† | crux interpretum |
| [[lacunam (1 line) ind. editor/source]] | Lacuna, of estimated lenght (if available), by editor/source (if available) |
| [1 (edition/manuscript)] | new page with number 1 (in edition/manuscript) |
| ↧ Sigle | Witness starts here |
| ↥ Sigle | Witness ends here |
| ⇣ Sigle | Lacuna in witness starts here |
| ⇡ Sigle | Lacuna in witness ends here |
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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.