The Avestan Digital Archive (ADA)
http://www.avesta-archive.com/
05 Aug 2010
Dpto. de Filologia Clasica e Indoeuropeo, University of Salamanca, Spain.
Self-description:
"The Avestan Digital Archive (ADA) seeks to be a digital archive containing all Avestan manuscripts spread all over the world. The Avesta, the holy book of the Zoroastrian religion, was last edited at the end of the 90s of the 19th century by the German scholar K. F. Geldner. We claim that presently a new edition is needed. [...] But a new edition of the Avesta is a huge task: probably more than two hundred manuscripts scattered all over the world have to be checked. [...] In order to solve this problem we have conceived the ADA project. This project seeks, on the one side, to find, to collect and to digitalize all the extant Avestan manuscripts. On the other hand, the ADA Project is developing a tool to provide all these manuscripts with indexes of the passages and to make them thus available on the web for researchers and for the general public. The electronic tool will allow an easy checking of all the manuscripts containing a concrete passage. This research tool can be useful not only for the Old Iranian studies, but also for the textual criticism based on manuscripts in other languages and fields of research."
Site contents:
* Scientific committee;
* Team (Director, Researchers, Collaborators);
* About ADA;
* Manuscripts view (By Passage, By Library) [a section under construction];
* Libraries ([details of the Avestan manuscripts in:] # India (Meherji-rana, Cama, University of Bombay, Bhandarkar, Kotwal's private collection), # Iran (Tehran University, Majles Library, Astan-e Qods), # Denmark (Kongelige Bibliotek), # United Kingdom (British Library, Bodleian Library), # France (Bibliotheque Nationale), # Germany (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek), # Russia (National Library Saint Petersburg);
* Avestan written transmission (Videvdad, Yasna, Xwardag Abastag, Genaologies of scribes, Big misplacements);
* Search [it is not clear if this section was fully operational in Aug 2010];
* ADA-Newsletter [method of subscription to LISTSERV--at--LISTSERV.REDIRIS.ES];
* Conference [details of a Sep 2009 conference in Salamanca: "Poets, priests, scribes and (e-)librarians. The transmission of holy wisdom in Zoroastrianism");
* Tools for Avestan Text Criticism [a section under construction].
URL http://www.avesta-archive.com/ [the same site as http://ada.usal.es/]
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.avesta-archive.com/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study/ Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V. Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 300
Please note that the above details were correct on the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com
05 Aug 2010
Dpto. de Filologia Clasica e Indoeuropeo, University of Salamanca, Spain.
Self-description:
"The Avestan Digital Archive (ADA) seeks to be a digital archive containing all Avestan manuscripts spread all over the world. The Avesta, the holy book of the Zoroastrian religion, was last edited at the end of the 90s of the 19th century by the German scholar K. F. Geldner. We claim that presently a new edition is needed. [...] But a new edition of the Avesta is a huge task: probably more than two hundred manuscripts scattered all over the world have to be checked. [...] In order to solve this problem we have conceived the ADA project. This project seeks, on the one side, to find, to collect and to digitalize all the extant Avestan manuscripts. On the other hand, the ADA Project is developing a tool to provide all these manuscripts with indexes of the passages and to make them thus available on the web for researchers and for the general public. The electronic tool will allow an easy checking of all the manuscripts containing a concrete passage. This research tool can be useful not only for the Old Iranian studies, but also for the textual criticism based on manuscripts in other languages and fields of research."
Site contents:
* Scientific committee;
* Team (Director, Researchers, Collaborators);
* About ADA;
* Manuscripts view (By Passage, By Library) [a section under construction];
* Libraries ([details of the Avestan manuscripts in:] # India (Meherji-rana, Cama, University of Bombay, Bhandarkar, Kotwal's private collection), # Iran (Tehran University, Majles Library, Astan-e Qods), # Denmark (Kongelige Bibliotek), # United Kingdom (British Library, Bodleian Library), # France (Bibliotheque Nationale), # Germany (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek), # Russia (National Library Saint Petersburg);
* Avestan written transmission (Videvdad, Yasna, Xwardag Abastag, Genaologies of scribes, Big misplacements);
* Search [it is not clear if this section was fully operational in Aug 2010];
* ADA-Newsletter [method of subscription to LISTSERV--at--LISTSERV.REDIRIS.ES];
* Conference [details of a Sep 2009 conference in Salamanca: "Poets, priests, scribes and (e-)librarians. The transmission of holy wisdom in Zoroastrianism");
* Tools for Avestan Text Criticism [a section under construction].
URL http://www.avesta-archive.com/ [the same site as http://ada.usal.es/]
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.avesta-archive.com/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study/ Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V. Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 300
Please note that the above details were correct on the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com
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