For inclusion in the TEI Application Page
Description: Earliest known copy of Archimedes Work with digital
images and transcriptions of the only copies of Archimedes treatises The Method and
Stomachion; the only copy in Greek of On Floating Bodies; and copies of the
Equilibrium of Planes, Spiral Lines, The Measurement of the Circle, and Sphere and
Cylinder. The program also made further discoveries, including tenpages of unique
text by the fourth century B.C. Attic Greek orator Hyperides; six folios from a
still unidentified unique Neo-Platonic philosophical text that may be commentaries
on Aristotle; four folios from a liturgical book; and twelve pages from two other
books, the text of which has yet to be deciphered.
Implementation description: The Digital Palimpsest purposes are
threefold:
The Digital Palimpsest incorporates registered images for each leaf, TEI P5
scholarly transcriptions that scholars initially created in various nonstandard
formats, and associated standardized metadata. It includes 4,000 digital images in
12 spectral bands and 400 pages of transcriptions of the original writings in Greek
of Archimedes and others.
Other Related Resources: Scholars produced XML transcriptions of
the Greek text from digital images using common tools and standards that conform to
the Text Encoding Initiative P5 guidelines.
Access : The Archimedes Palimpsest data is released with license
for use under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Access Rights. It is
requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this
data set be sent to The Curator of Manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North
Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.
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