Tools for Editing and Textual Criticism

Here you will be able to:

• Compare contents of different manuscript transcriptions
• Use powerful Search Tools
• Display all Variants
• Create Test Recensions
• Create base text for a canon law collection not yet in CCL
• Collect materials in your Individual Editing Environment, "My Canons"

September 2009: We continue to develop the capabilities of the search engine to display variant readings of "identical" canons across different manuscripts. During this development period, we recommend running multiple searches in order to secure a good harvest.
We are also experimenting with different configurations for the results. At present (4 September 2009), searches yield all cases and conjugations, regardless of the specific form of the search term. Expect refinement in the near future.

CCL Search Engine!(trial version). Try it!
Searchable transcriptions being added incrementally.
Available now: The Collectio Dacheriana (d'Achery edition)
Councils from the Dionysio-Hadriana (Cochlaeus edition): Canons of the Apostles, Nicea, Ancyra, Neocaesarea, Gangra, Antioch, Laodicea, Constantinople, Chalcedon, and Sardica.
Soon to appear:
Transcriptions of three manuscripts of the Collectio Dacheriana; please consult the list of shelfmarks on this page and the CCL Wiki, section four for details;
A transcription of the councils of the Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana from Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 42 (transcribed by Michael Elliot)
Additional transcriptions of the remaining councils and decretals of the Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana (Cochlaeus edition)

Please consider contributing a transcription of one or more canons! To learn more, please visit the Invitation to Contribute page.
Guidelines and Online Forms (Guidelines for manuscript transcriptions, Guidelines for encoding transcriptions, schema, .odd file for generating schema)

Link to CCL Wiki, section four: report on manuscripts; offer corrections to CCL transcriptions

List of manuscripts containing canonistic materials and available to Carolingian jurists
(i.e., mss of the early tenth century or earlier), Version 1.1 (28 November 2008)

If you have a transcription of material from these manuscripts and would like to donate it to the CCL, please let us know, either via the CCLawWiki (if you would like your notice to be public) or in a private email to afire2@uky.edu. We also will happily accept donations of microfilms.

Shelfmarks displayed in bold are transcriptions in progress. Those shelfmarks will become live links as the transcription is published on the website.

Information regarding particular manuscripts may be contributed to the CCLawWiki as a public notice, or emailed privately to afire2@uky.edu.