This document summarizes the digital work done on a 19th century Hungarian manuscript. The manuscript was an autobiographical work by József Varga that described his life and the history of the town of Ferenczszállás between 1813-1894. It included poetry, songs from 1848, and drawings. The digital project involved scanning, transcribing, translating and connecting the manuscript to other historical sources to create an online corpus. It aimed to preserve this example of cultural heritage and immaterial history through digital publication and analysis.

1. HISTORY IN POETRY
– THE 19TH CENTURY.
MULTILINGUAL
CORPUS AND
CONNECTION OF
ARCHIVE MATERIAL
Maria BOSTENARU DAN

2. Overview
 Family context of the manuscript in history
 The manuscript
 Digital work
 Discussion and conclusions

3. Family context of the manuscript
in history

4. Family context
 József Varga (1813-1894) – including 1848
 Research by János Fekete
 Redemptus
 Maria Theresia 1743 – Kiskunfélegyháza
 1526 Turks
 Ferenczszállás /Petofiszállás
 Dóczy commerciants
 Dóczy Pál – Ödön Lechner
 Town hall
 100 years
 Danube Swabians

7. The manuscript

8. The manuscript (1)
 Literary work of poetry (inst. of poetry)
 Autobiography
 Popular songs – incl. Kossuth nóták (inst. of music)
 Location of Petöfi
 Verses of autobiography longer
 Parts end with drawings (costumes, agriculture)

9. The manuscript (2)
 History work
 1848
 Cholera epidemic
 Division of Ferenczszállás (agrar orientation:
cereals > wine)
 Arrival of commerciants and end of feudal order
 redemption
 Kiskún Museum
 1870-1930 images
 Textual and visual material
 lecture

10. Parts
 1. Childhood,
 2. Poor youth,
 3. Life at the National Guard,
 4. Sheppard life,
 5. Life around 50 working the field,
 6. Widowship,
 7. Senile life

13. 1848

15. Digital work

16. Digital work (1, 2)
 Scanning the manuscript
 Transcription in MS word
 Transcription in today‘s language – corpus
(regionalism)
 Creation of speech (youtube)
 Translation – corpus
 Printed book and e-book

17. Digital work (3)
 Connection to historical ressources
 Kiskunfélegyháza manual (archives concerning
the city – hardcopy)
 Reference to historic events or figures
 the battle of Világos,
 the history of Ferenczszállás and (Külsö) Galambos,
 the figures of Görgei and Laszlo Teleki
 Linking as alternative to footnotes

18. Digital work (4)
 Immaterial heritage for corpus
 Popular songs
 Drawings of costumes
 Agricultural habits
 Concepts
 Dedication to achieve a national state
 Belief in God

19. Digital work (5)
 Historical network connections
 Family tree
 Relationship to people and places in a graph
 Ödön Lechner
 Fights in 1848

20. Discussion and conclusions

21. Discussion
 Duty to publish – own affirmation (guest book)
 Copy of the manuscript – different paper
 Different dates of the manscript (age of 50 and
continued . 9th part)

24. Statement of age

25. Conclusion
 Not architecture, but cultural heritage (cultural
landscape – immaterial heritage)
 Manuscript as such – material and subject of
conservation studies/analysis
 Digital publication – immaterial part
 2014 ICOMOS year of Commemoration
 Memory
 of the 19th century
 The grave / cemeteries as landscape and as
commemoration

26. NeDiMAH

27. Thank you!