Browsing Tips
Searching
At this stage of development, users may “Browse All Glosses,” “Browse by Witness,” and “Browse by Tag.” In all cases, the search function allows for fuzzy searches.
The following pairs have been implemented to allow for searching irrespective of the most common orthographical variations:
- v <> u
- i <> j
- i <> y
- e <> ae, oe
- c<>t
- exp <> exsp
When you Browse All Glosses, you can type any word, and the system will search all text within both the incipit and the gloss text. You can then click on the incipit to see full details about that gloss, including its full text, language, tags, and witnesses.
When you Browse by Witness, you are searching for or selecting a particular witness to glosses contained in Gallery of Glosses. You can then click on the witness (a shelfmark or short bibliographical citation) to move to a page where all glosses contained within that witness, with the gloss text of that witness, can be seen. Clicking on an individual gloss incipit will take you back to the details page for that gloss (which may have multiple witnesses).
Tags
When you Browse by Tag, you will be searching for or wading through keywords or features of glosses.
The team at Saint Louis University applied the following tags:
- OT citation
- i.e., the gloss text includes a quotation or clear paraphrase from an Old Testament passage
- NT citation
- i.e., the gloss text includes a quotation or clear paraphrase from a New Testament passage
- Linguistic observation i.e., the gloss includes an observation about a term in Greek, about a Latin translation of a Greek or Hebrew term, about the origins of a name in Hebrew, etc.
- Explicit spiritual interpretation
- i.e., when the gloss specifies that the interpretation to follow reads the meaning of passage spiritualiter or mistice
- Key terms
- e.g. iustitia, lex, ius, fides, gehenna, natura, penitentia. These appear in Latin in the nominative case, no matter the declension of the noun in the gloss text.
- Key names and persons of the Trinity
- e.g. Moses, Abraham, David, God the Father, Holy Spirit. These appear in English. Standardized references are applied so that “Simonus Petrus” appears as “Peter” and Spiritus as “Holy Spirit.”
Other creators of gloss entries in glossing.rerum.io may apply other tags that are appropriate to their glosses and research interests.