Encoding the Ethiopic Miracles of Mary
By Dorothea Reule
December 31, 2022
In one of the very few digital humanities articles on Täˀammərä Maryam, Dr. Reule addresses the encoding of such manuscripts for the project “Beta maṣāḥəft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea."
Dr. Reule states in her abstract that "This article will illustrate the challenges of digitizing of historical manuscript catalogues, taking as an example the widespread and complex work of the “Miracles of Mary.” This work is typically composed of framing texts and miracle texts proper, often accompanied by miniatures, and it circulates in collections of varying standardization. A flexible encoding system with different identifiers for textual units and art themes has been developed, answering the most common challenges of encoding the Ethiopic literary tradition, improving the cataloguing."
Read the full article in the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative.
