Resources

This page could include any number of things. At this stage, Gallery of Glosses wishes to highlight some online resources and digital humanities projects associated with or led by those scholars who served as consultants during the grant period. All of these projects are considered partners of Gallery of Glosses.

Projects

Of greatest relevance to glosses is the Network for the Study of Glossing, of which Pádraic Moran is a lead organizer and contributor. The website includes links to many online editions of glosses, mostly from particular manuscripts on particular works.

Dr. Moran is also currently directing a project called GLOSSAM (Global and Local Scholarship on Annotated Manuscripts). This project has many of the same aims as Gallery of Glosses but works from a different data structure. The data structure of Gallery of Glosses prioritizes the individual gloss, to which there may be one or many witnesses, which makes it apt for the recording of data on individual glosses or small groups of glosses as well glosses that exist in multiple manuscript witnesses. The data structure of GLOSSAM prioritizes the manuscript witness, making it apt for the transcription of all glosses in a particular manuscript. Scholars interested in publishing gloss transcriptions in a digital platform can decide which program best suits their scholarly goals.

The Carolingian Canon Law Project, created by Abigail Firey, is a searchable, electronic rendition of works of canon law used by Carolingian readers. Individual manuscript copies of these works may be glossed. Meanwhile, the Scholastic Commentaries and Texts Archive and the SCTA Reading Room, the creation of Jeffrey C. Witt, include all manner of texts in the scholastic tradition in innovative digital editions. Gallery of Glosses can accommodate references to such digital sites to identify the texts that are being glossed and enable users to pull up an edition of the text being glossed in tandem with the gloss on that text.

The Digital Decretals is a project of Edward Reno. It renders into electronic form Bernard of Parma’s gloss commentary on the Liber extra, the first official and exclusive collection of canon law for the Catholic Church, which is recognized as the Glossa ordinaria on that text. The version reproduced is that of the Editio romana of the Corpus iuris canonici (1582). The site provides Word and PDF versions of the glosses, with standardized citations to the Roman law and canon law texts referenced therein. Gallery of Glosses is partnering with the Digital Decretals and incorporating all these glosses into our database.