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An innovative web application of hypertext writing, specifically designed in close collaboration with and developed by eLabor sc, is proposed for the diplomatic transcription with interactive representation of logical and functional infrastructures underlying the text/paratext relationship in the manuscript tradition.

The RHT is intended as a set of hypertext transcriptions of a wide group of records, consisting in samples from (ideally) about 60 Greek manuscripts – papyri and medieval codices ranging from the late Hellenistic age to the Palaeologan era –, provided with general bibliological information, English translation, commentary, bibliography.

Each record will eventually include:

  1. METADATA, with information on: material; book format; size of the fragment or page; hands and dating; provenance; owner institution; existing text editions; available printed images; available digital reproductions; literary work transmitted; paratext type; kind of text/paratext relationship; specialized repertoires of handwritten documentation (DCLP, LDAB, MP3, Pinakes); bibliography. Metadata elements will be linked to external websites and databases.
  2. HYPERTEXT TRANSCRIPTION of text and related paratext of one page, reproducing the layout and mise en page of the original; highlighting of the structural, formal and content components and of reciprocal relationships; dynamic representation of scribes’ use of the page, through the graphic rendering of the subsequent steps in the process of writing, the coexistence and interaction of different hands, the degree of progressive filling up of spaces in the page; indexing of the technical lexicon of exegesis, with links to our Lexicon of Ancient Greek Exegesis.
  3. ENGLISH TRANSLATION of text and exegetical paratext, mirroring, when possible, the mise en page of the original.
  4. COMMENTARY on the text/paratext relationship from a material, content, functional, and typological point of view and with hypertext linkage to internal and external items.
  5. BIBLIOGRAPHY: full recording of the bibliography quoted in Metadata and Commentary.