Scholars want to decipher a Virgil commentary and develop a digital transcription tool
A digital tool is planned to assist in deciphering stenographic notes in historical documents. Developing such a tool, which would enable the transcription and editing of ancient and early medieval stenography on the basis of pattern recognition, is the aim of an interdisciplinary research project at the Department of History of Heidelberg University. It will be derived from a commentary on the Roman poet Virgil handed down from the 9th century. The manuscript, written in a form of shorthand, is largely unexplored and is now to be deciphered. For this purpose, the project, headed by Heidelberg’s Medieval Latinist Tino Licht, has received approx. ...
