COMPARATIVE ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPT STUDIES (COMSt)

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1 RESEARCH NETWORKING PROGRAMME COMPARATIVE ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPT STUDIES (COMSt) Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH)

2 The European Science Foundation (ESF) is an independent, non-governmental organisation, the members of which are 80 national funding agencies, researchperforming agencies, academies and learned societies from 30 countries. The strength of ESF lies in the influential membership and in its ability to bring together the different domains of European science in order to meet the challenges of the future. Since its establishment in 1974, ESF, which has its headquarters in Strasbourg with offices in Brussels and Ostend, has assembled a host of organisations that span all disciplines of science, to create a common platform for cross-border cooperation in Europe. ESF is dedicated to promote collaboration in scientific research, funding of research and science policy across Europe. Through its activities and instruments ESF has made major contributions to science in a global context. The ESF covers the following scientific domains: Micrographic carpet page of masoretic notes in a manuscript of The Prophets, s Cover page: ( (

3 Introduction Aims and Objectives - also issues of manuscript preservation and restoration. The most progressive trends in approach and meth- - tices in different regional sub-branches. The application as the application of computational tools to the philo- The benefits so far have affected those fields that have - its initial phase. parative Oriental Manuscript Studies (COMSt) brings together scholars from different disciplines across Europe to compare experiences and research results in the - - using the achievements of non-oriental disciplines. The aim of the COMSt programme is to enable aca- sub-discipline of manuscript studies applied to another cation. It is expected to consolidate European research to facilitate cross-cultural academic dialogue and active areas. The first ever attempt at European-level coordi- It is also expected to make scholars more sensitive to and thematic levels. - - fields of specialisation on a common methodological - digital images of the relevant manuscript sources). In the COMSt 3

4 Teams and Topics contribute to the creation of a joint digital resource and - also invite scholars from outside the programme to join in the virtual discussion. Team 1: Material aspects: codicology, palaeography research in different regional fields to material carri- - and the social role of scribes and calligraphers. Since the issues of manuscript illumination tech- Team leader: m.maniaci@unicas.it Every Person Shall Say th or 11 th Team 2: Manuscripts as text witnesses: philology as text criticism - main goal of text criticism is to establish the original - plines of team 1 can help to establish criteria for dating lishing the correct form of a text at a given stage of its 4 COMSt

5 lih th establishing cross-cultural standards for critical text cataloguing incorporating the description of texts. Team leader: Team 3: Digital philology: text recognition, encoding, editing - plored. Since the practical outcome of team 3 s activities source manuscript databases and on-line catalogues Team leader: gippert@em.uni-frankfurt.de Team 4: Manuscript cataloguing - mation available to a broad circle of users and scholars - recent catalogues reveals large discrepancies in the of manuscripts. The cataloguers as specialists in the language and culture of the texts of the manuscripts seldom have training in standard codicological catalogu- documents are described according to a unified standard and provide the maximum of information in brief on COMSt 5

6 Teams and Topics - description and contribute to the creation of electronic catalogues. Team leader: Team 5: Manuscript preservation: conservation, restoration, preservation, digitisation - - respect to the exchange of information and experience regarding activities in the field. Team leader: 6 COMSt

7 Activities Funding Workshops and conferences at different levels. programme. to visit each others facilities on a short-term basis for better understanding of possible infrastructures and procedures. Specialists from outside the programme external expertise is needed. Publications flect on the state of research and stipulate the standards in print and in electronic form to enhance access and - as about ongoing research in all fields involved. an à la carte Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium Ίδρυμα Προώθησης Έρευνας Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, Denmark National Centre for Scientific Research, France German Research Foundation, University of Hamburg, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Research Council of Norway, Slovak Research and Development Agency, Slovak Swedish Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation, COMSt 7

8 COMSt Steering Committee Professor Alessandro Bausi Universität Hamburg Asien-Afrika-Institut Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 Tel: albausi@unior.it Professor Ewa Balicka-Witakowska Uppsala Universitet Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi Box 635 Tel: lingfil.uu.se Professor Malachi Beit-Arié Tel: beitarie@vms.huji.ac.il Professor Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet Orient Universität et Méditerranée, Hamburg Laboratoire des études Asien-Afrika-Institut sémitiques anciennes, CNRS UMR 8167, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 52 rue du cardinal Lemoine Paris cedex 05 France Tel: , francoise. briquel-chatonnet@ivry.cnrs.fr uhlig@uni-hamburg.de Professor Zuzana Gazakova gazakova@fphil.uniba.sk Professor Charles Genequand Uni-Bastions h Professor Antonia Giannouili Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies University of Cyprus P.O.Box CY-Nicosia 1674 Cyprus Tel agiannou@ucy.ac.cy (Chair) Professor Ingvild Gilhus Tel: o Professor Caroline Macé Blijde-Inkomstraat 21 Tel: caroline.mace@arts.kuleuven.be Professor Zisis Melissakis Insitute for Byzantine Research National Hellenic Research Foundation 48, Vassileos Constantinou Av Athens Greece zmelis@eie.gr Professor Stig Rasmussen Specialsamlinger Orientalsk og Judaistisk Afdeling Tel: str@kb.dk Professor Jan Just Witkam Talen en culturen van het Midden Oosten Tel: Programme Coordinator Ms. Evgenia Sokolinskaia Universität Hamburg Asien-Afrika Institut Forschungsstelle Äthiopistik Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 Tel: eae@uni-hamburg.de 1 quai Lezay-Marnésia BP Strasbourg cedex France Tel: +33 (0) Fax: +33 (0) ESF Liaison Dr. Arianna Ciula Science Ms. Marie-Laure Madelise Blumenroeder Schneider Administration Humanities Unit European Science Foundation Tel: +33 (0) Fax: +33 (0) mblumenroeder@esf.org mlschneider@esf.org For the latest information on this Print run: September 2009