Historia Scholastica

Historia Scholastica was written by Peter Comestor in the early 1170s. It was copied and reissued multiple times becoming a primary text used in university study in the Middle Ages. We have digitized the edition of the book printed as incunabula at the end of the 1400s and owned by Boise State University.

It is written in an old Latin script with heavy use of scribal abbreviations. We are developing OCR techniques to apply to the text that can operate with the old script and the scribal abbreviations. This will assist in the ongoing effort to translate the text to English. This will be followed by textual historical and context analysis, and comparisons with other editions of the book.

Participants:

Dr. Elisa Barney Smith (LTU), Karen Wadley (BSU)