On our GitHub space (linked below) you can find an open access transcription of the commentary on Hermogenes's On Invention as preserved by the manuscript, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana gr. 2228, diktyon 68859. The transcription is  transcription is the collaborative work of Aglae Pizzone, Nicklas Sindlev Andersen, Ugo Valory and Byron MacDougall. It has been obtained through a hybrid approach by combining handwritten text recognition (using the model developed to this end with Transkribus and linked under resources) and expert validation by the researchers involved. The transcription covers 239 pages, corresponding to folios 194-313 of the manuscript. The last 6 folios are still in progress. There is a change of hand and before finalizing the transcription, we would like to experiment more with our model. The transcription reproduces the manuscript text as it is, with the original diacritics (including dialytika) and punctuation. Where dialytika coexist with breathings, breathings have been prioritized. The rare instances of abbreviations have been resolved.

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Vat. gr. 2228 has been chosen because it offers a consistent corpus of Doxapatres's work. The codex was not used by Walz (Ch. Walz, Rhetores graeci, vol. 2, Stuttgartiae et Tubingae 1835, pp. 81-144) for his edition of Doxapatres' commentary on Aphthonius, but was leveraged by Rabe (H. Rabe, Prolegomenon Sylloge [Rhetores graeci XIV], Lipsiae 1931, pp. 80,8–154,14). However, if compared with the edition printed in Walz (who had used Laurent. plut. 57. 5, diktyon 16374, ff. 3-72 and Vindob. phil. gr. 16, diktyon 71130, ff. 109-359), the text transmitted by Vat. gr. 2228 appears to be more coherent and qualitatively superior. The regular ruling pattern (20D1 Leroy), moreover, as well as the consistency of the hands at work on Doxapatres' commentary, made the manuscript an excellent candidate for HTR-assisted work.

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In the next months we plan to produce in the same way the transcription of the section on On types of style. 

 

The transcription is  licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). Under this license, you may: share and redistribute the material in any medium or format; adapt, remix, translate, and build upon the material; provided that: the use is non-commercial; appropriate attribution is given to the project and its contributors; a link to this repository is provided; the **CC BY-NC 4.0** license is identified; and any modifications to the material are clearly indicated. The full license is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. When using material from this repository, please provide appropriate credit to the project and its contributors

Our goal is to provide a stepping stone publicly accessible for future critical editorial work on the text of Doxapatres.

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Find the text here.

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