Link: https://db.innovatingknowledge.nl/
Project Status: Ongoing
The Innovating Knowledge database contains structured information on all surviving and identified early medieval manuscripts transmitting the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville (d. 636), the most important medieval Latin encyclopaedia. Released in 2021, it currently consists of almost 500 detailed descriptions of manuscripts, more than 350 manuscript images, and provides direct access to more than 250 digitized manuscripts via an integrated Mirador viewer. The data in the database can be filtered and downloaded for further reuse and visualized on a map. The database is interconnected with several additional resources including a digital edition of the glosses to book I of the Etymologiae and an EtymoWiki containing descriptions about some of the most important innovative features of the early medieval manuscript transmission of the Etymologiae.
Resource details:
Resource Type: Catalog, Digital Edition, Searchable Database
License: Must provide credit, No Fee
Medieval content details:
Dates: 600 - 1100
The dates represent the range of manuscripts currently found within the database.
Subject: Church Fathers, Codicology, Latin, Linguisitcs, Linguistics, Literature, Manuscript Decoration/Illumination, Manuscript Studies, Material Culture, Paleography, Philology
Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Commentary, Gloss, Exegesis, Dictionary, Glossary, Grammar, Manuscripts, Material Evidence, Textual Evidence
Geopolitical Region: Europe
Original Language: Latin