There’s lots going on here at the EDIT project and it’s about time we gave you a little update. We have finished or almost finished all of the witnesses we are going to be transcribing. Aengus has been busily preparing the collation and Zeth has made a regularisation tool that Christian and I will be using to work towards the preparation of the critical version of the text. Zeth’s regularisation tool is a real thing of beauty, but then we never expected anything less. We all enjoyed listening to the three talks in yesterday’s research seminar, and of course looking at the images in the PowerPoints including manuscript T during its restoration, thanks to Ricardo’s amazing photos. What a treat to be able to see the manuscript we have been working on in such a way. Aengus has been to give a talk in the US and soon he and Enrique will be jetting off to Spain for lots of talks, meetings and visits for the project, including visiting schools. Enrique has been working really hard preparing materials for schools and for the exhibitions of the project which will be taking place in the near future. Christian and I have spent Easter creating a database of dates according to E1 and E2 which will allow users of the edition to search the content of the Estoria more easily, and which will eventually link to the database that Fiona is currently preparing, which will be an index of people and places in the Estoria. As well as this we are all working separately on papers, presentations, theses, and of course towards our final conference which will take place in December.
