This document discusses the Codice Pelavicino, a 13th century manuscript containing administrative documents from 900-1289. It proposes creating a digital critical edition of the manuscript using the Edition Visualization Technology (EVT) platform. A team of experts from various fields will transcribe, encode in XML-TEI, and develop new features for presenting the text and related images on the EVT software. This will allow local historians and the public to study the manuscript online without physical access. The digital edition will extract notary signatures and include them with information on the website to facilitate research.

1. Codice Pelavicino:
between Digital Edition and
Public History
Enrica Salvatori
Roberto Rosselli Del Turco
Chiara Alzetta

2. Codice Pelavicino
• A manuscript of the XIII°
century;
• 426 folios;
• Copies of administrative
documents from the 900 to the
1289;
• Language: medieval Latin;
• 4 parts: inventory of the
Episcopal archive, Liber
Magister, Liber Iurium, later
edition of the Liber Magister.

4. A new printed Critical Edition?
• Previews attempts:
• Lupo Gentile (1912): mistakes, not complete, not scientific;
• Geo Pistarino (1940-2006): never completed;
• In 2014, Enrica Salvatori, than collaborator and now project
manager, suggested a Digital Critical Edition;
• Reasons:
• Less expensiveness;
• In progress Image Based Edition;
• Collaboration with local historians;
• Searchable and open content;
• ....

5. Edition Visualisation Technology - EVT
https://visualizationtechnology.wordpress.com/

6. Edition Visualisation Technology
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7. Edition Visualisation Technology
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8. Edition Visualisation Technology
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9. • Large équipe of experts in different fields and different phases:
1. Transcription of the documents and creation of the new critical edition
2. Text Encoding in XML TEI
3. Development of new features on the software EVT
4. Design the Web Site
Codice Pelavicino Digital
http://pelavicino.labcd.unipi.it/
An heterogeneous team in line with the
philosophy of the Digital Humanities!
Afterthesoftware,the peopleware!

10. The Web Site

11. • Users are mostly historians interested in the local history;
• People can read and study the manuscript from home
without the need of a physical consultation;
• Fortunate and active collaboration between the team and
the community of users through the Web Site:
• Contribute section for feedback, suggestion, opinions...
Codice Pelavicino Digital
Aprojectof PublicHistory

12. XML and the Standard TEI
Example of encoded text:
• Structural elements;
• Semantic elements: name entities, dates, roles (jobs or others).
EVT takes the encoded text and creates a nice visualisation to
support the reading and the exploration of the content.

13. List of persons, list of places
on EVT

14. Signa tabellionis
• Symbols used, like modern stamps, to
validate documents from notary
• There are many in the Codice Pelavicino
• Source of study for Medieval palaeography
• Extracted from the pages to create a section
in the web site
• Connected in line with the text through the
element <facsimile> and IMT (Image Markup
Tool)

15. Signa tabellionis
on the website
General Infos about
the notary
Every istance of
his signa in the
Codex

16. Conclusions
Thanks to the DH, the Codice now is a living and
interactive piece of history, sustained and
supported by a large community of enthusiastic
local historians and the accademia.

17. Thanks for your attention!
Questions?