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John D. Wagg was a native of Ashe County, North Carolina and a Southern Methodist circuit minister active immediately before and during the Civil War. His surviving journal, sermons, and received letters allow us to employ him as a window into a particular time, place, and set of conditions. To facilitate this, selections from the Wagg documents have been transcribed, edited, and presented as a Web-based digital edition, the Digital John D. Wagg Papers. This edition is designed to work with many other editions of similarly narrow historical and geographical scope as one historical witness in a network of witnesses. We must draw from several varieties of documents in the John Wagg collection and from contextualizing historical scholarship to construct a history of Wagg as a product of and participant in his times. Born 8 July 1835, Wagg began keeping a journal in 1854 as he worked toward a degree in medicine at Jefferson, North Carolina, the Wagg family hometown. As a diarist he often explored the place of humanity in a God-made world, a theme that foreshadows his turn from medicine and entry into the itinerant ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in October 1858. Wagg spent the Civil War years preaching throughout western North Carolina and southwest Virginia, generally striving to keep his heavily Confederate-leaning politics from the pulpit. This lifestyle allows the Wagg Papers to bring an alternate point of view to any archive of Civil War documents consisting primarily of the letters of combatants. / Master of Arts

The Göttingen Virtual Manuscript Room (VMR); The Göttingen Virtual Manuscript Room (VMR) offers both an online based digital repository for Coptic Biblical manuscripts (ideally, high resolution images of every manuscript page, all metadata etc.) and a digital edition of their texts, finally even a critical edition of every biblical book of the Coptic Old Testament based on all available manuscripts. All text data will also be transferred into XML and linguistically annotated. In this way the VMR offers a full physical description of each manuscript and, at the same time, a full edition of its text and language data. Of course, the VMR can be used for manuscripts and texts other than Coptic too.

Dans la seconde moitié du XIXème siècle, comme dans les autres arts visuels, la France, et plus particulièrement Paris, a été une référence fondamentale quant à la réception des nouveautés provenant du domaine photographique des cercles artistiques italiens. La production photographique française et ses protagonistes ont offert aux communautés italiennes des modèles à suivre, des vecteurs pour la diffusion et l’accueil de leurs productions à l’étranger ainsi qu’un support fonctionnel aux dynamiques qui régulèrent le marché international de leurs œuvres. Cette recherche s’interroge tout d’abord sur le paradigme que la photographie française a pu représenter pour les artistes de la péninsule. Cependant, dans ces dynamiques d’échanges réciproques et profondes entre les deux pays, la photographie de provenance italienne a également joué un rôle décisif pour la maturation de certains mouvements artistiques européens. Ces réflexions mettent l’accent sur l’ampleur de la diffusion de la photographie tout au long du XIXème siècle qui lui permit de devenir une base commune pour des écoles artistiques profondément différentes entre elles. / During the second half of Nineteenth century, as in the other visual arts, France, and particularly Paris, was a fundamental reference point for the reception of the innovations of the photographic domain in the Italian artistic circles. French photography and its protagonists offered to the Italian communities eminent models and vectors for the circulation and the reception of their production abroad, as well as functional medium in the dynamics which regulated the international market of their works. The aim of this research is to investigate the influence of French photography on Italian artists. However, in these deep and mutual exchanges between the two countries, Italian photography also played a decisive role for the development of several European artistic movements. These considerations emphasize the large photography’s circulation throughout the Nineteenth century that allowed it to become a common basis for some deeply different artistic schools.

Originaire de Tūlā (Liban) le religieux maronite Buṭrus al-Tūlāwī (1657-1746) fut élève du Collège maronite de Rome où il suivit la totalité du cursus scolastique enseigné par les pères jésuites. Après son retour en Orient, il partit pour Alep pour servir son Église et y composa une importante œuvre philosophique et théologique. Il est certes bien connu des historiens pour son rôle dans l’histoire de l’Église maronite et pour la place que ses écrits occupèrent dans les sphères religieuse et intellectuelle au Proche-Orient. Toutefois, son œuvre philosophique n’a été que peu étudiée et n’a jamais fait l’objet d’une édition critique. Dans cette thèse, nous proposons une édition critique accompagnée d’une traduction française commentée des deux premiers examens (baḥṯ-s) du Livre de la Logique (al-Manṭiq), enseigné dès 1693. Cette partie est précédée par un inventaire détaillé des 153 témoins des textes philosophiques d’al-Tūlāwī, Logique y compris, inventaire dont les résultats servent de point de départ pour une réflexion sur la circulation de ce corpus. Nous consacrons le chapitre suivant à une analyse stemmatique des 24 témoins de la Logique, qui, sur les 29 répertoriés, nous sont accessibles pour mettre en évidence l’existence de trois versions distinctes dans lesquelles ce texte a circulé et qui jouent un rôle capital dans les principes de notre édition, qui est synoptique, et dans l’eliminatio codicum. Les références doctrinales employées par al-Tūlāwī dans ses traités sont variées et nombreuses. Nous présentons et référençons, au chapitre suivant, toutes les citations qui, dans la Logique, proviennent de deux grandes figures de la philosophie : Jean Damascène et Avicenne. / Born in Tūlā (Lebanon), the Maronite clergyman Buṭrus al-Tūlāwī (1657-1746) was a pupil at the Maronite College of Rome, where he followed the whole scholastic curriculum taught by Jesuit fathers. After his return to the East, he left for Aleppo to serve his Church and there he composed an important series of philosophical and theological works. To be sure, he is well known among historians for his role in the history of the Maronite Church and for the place his writings occupied in the religious and intellectual spheres in the Near-East. Nevertheless, his philosophical works have not been the object of much research so far and were never critically edited. In this dissertation, we offer a critical edition accompanied by a commented French translation of the two first examinations (baḥṯ-s) of the Book of Logic (al-Manṭiq), taught in 1693 onward. That part is preceded by a detailed inventory of the 153 witnesses of al-Tūlāwī’s philosophical texts, Logic included, the results of which constitute the starting point for a reflection on the circulation of this corpus. In the following chapter, we proceed to the stemmatic analysis of the 24 witnesses of the Logic to which we could have access out of the 29 listed, in order to underline the existence of three distinct versions in which this text circulated, and which are of paramount importance for the principles of our edition, which is synoptic, and for the eliminatio codicum. The doctrinal references used by al-Tūlāwī in his treatises are varied and numerous. We present and reference, in the following chapter, all the quotations which are, in the Logic, taken from two major figures of philosophy: John Damascene and Avicenna.

In starting the Demotic Palaeographical Database Project, we intend to build up an online database which pays special attention to the actual appearance of Demotic papyri and texts down to the level of the individual sign. Our idea is to analyse a papyrus with respect to its visual nature, inasmuch as it shall be possible to compare each Demotic sign to other representations of the same sign in other texts and to study its occurrences in different words. Words shall not only be analysed in their textual context but also by their orthography and it should be possible to study even the papyrus itself by means of its material features. Therefore, the Demotic Palaeographical Database Project aims for the creation of a modern and online accessible Demotic palaeography, glossary of word spellings and corpus of manuscripts, which will not only be a convenient tool for Egyptologists and researchers interested in the Demotic writing system or artefacts inscribed with Demotic script but also will serve the conservation of cultural heritage. In our paper, we will present our conceptual ideas and the preliminary version of the database in order to demonstrate its functionalities and possibilities.

Auf Basis der Praxis des Phonogrammarchivs der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften präsentiert der Beitrag neben einigen generellen Überlegungen zwei Workflows zu inhaltlichen und technischen Aspekten einer kommentierten Edition historischer Tonaufnahmen. Thematisiert werden u. a. die quellenkritische Aufbereitung und Kontextualisierung sowie Re-recording, Digitalisierung und Signalverbesserung. / Following the code of practice established by the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, this contribution – alongside some general reflections – presents two workflows on the content-related and technical aspects of an annotated edition of historical sound recordings. The topics include source-critical preparation and contextualisation as well as re-recording, digitisation, and signal processing.

Obwohl für uns die wissenschaftliche Bearbeitung der Universal- Briefe im Vordergrund steht, hat man immer wieder auch an eine Edition gedacht und darauf gehofft. Da das ganze Material bereits per Computer erfasst wurde, wenn auch in einer noch nicht überprüften ersten Fassung, ist die Möglichkeit einer CD-ROM-Ausgabe durchaus vorstellbar. Aber ich halte auch eine traditionelle Edition immer noch für wichtig. Ich möchte im Folgenden verschiedene Möglichkeiten einer Edition in Buchform skizzieren.

In den 90er-Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts empfanden tschechische Musikwissenschaftler die Wichtigkeit der historischkritischen Verarbeitung von Musikerbriefen wieder sehr intensiv. Es begann die Arbeit an der Bohuslav Martinů-Briefausgabe; daneben gibt es eine lebhafte Debatte über eine kritische Edition der Briefe Leoš Janáčeks. Eine ähnliche Diskussion begann auch im Umkreis der Vítězslav-Novák-Forscher.

Die Herausgabe von 62 Briefen der Universal Edition an soll also diesen vorbereitenden Prozess der Anerkennung Janáčeks in der Nachkriegszeit beleuchten sowie die Transformation von Janáčeks Werk. Diese Seite der Korrespondenz wird hier zum ersten Mal veröffentlicht.