From Chswiki

Editing Iliads with scholia

We want to represent fully the MSS of the Iliad that include scholia we are gathering from Erbse's publication. This means principally MSS A,B,C,T, E3 and E4.

1. A The equivalent of A is being entered at CHS by working from the Villoison text.
2. C We could in similar fashion get the equivalent of C by entering the editio princeps. Harvard has a copy of an Aldine reprinting of the ed.princ. from 1504 that could serve for this purpose.
3. B,T,E3,E4 For B,T, E3 and E4, we have begun working from the notes in Allen's apparatus in his full 3-volume edition. Jack Mitchell has compared the printed apparatus with a few pages he has photos of (for T), and the apparatus seems adequate to give us what we need. In any case, we should be clear to note that this would be a digital version of "Allen's T" -- T as it appears in Allen's recension. It would of course always be possible (and desirable) to read this against T directly at some later date.
4. Anita Nikkanen has volunteered to help us double-check the authority of Allen's apparatus as it concerns A, C, B, T, E3, and E4. She is currently attempting to ILL microfilm of these codices, and will select some pages at random so as to verify the degree of accuracy. It will be helpful if we can provide her with our generated texts once we have some ready.

Process for editing from Allen's ap.crit.

We have now begun work with teams of students at Furman, and at Holy Cross. Furman teams are beginning with scrolls 1 and 2, Holy Cross teams with scrolls 3 and 4.

See the guide to how to work from Allen's ap. crit., and the notes on questions and answers arising in the course of working from Allen's ap. crit.

Each team will begin by marking against a printed copy of Allen's text all variants noted for each of the four MSS, with the base text for each MS printed on a distinct color of paper. Team members are inventoring the readings for B,T E3 and E4 in a single pass through the text. We will have to experiment to see how long this takes, but we hope that each team could work through a scroll of the Iliad in 30 hours or so.

The marked up printout will then be keyboarded, and the digital file submitted to the project supervisor for that campus (Chris Blackwell at Furman, Jack Mitchell and Neel Smith at Holy Cross). The text will be spell checked using Morpheus, and once the document passes a spell check completely, it will be forwarded to a team at the other campus. There, the second team will proof the digital text by reading aloud the variants from the apparatus, and submit the corrected digital text to their local supervisor. Once this corrected text passes a Morpheus spell check, the supervisor will add it to the project Subversion archive.