The Pinnacle of the Medieval Welsh Bardic Tradition? The Poetry of Guto'r Glyn.
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Grant Holder:
Dr Ann Parry Owen
From the fifteenth century to the present day, Guto'r Glyn (c.1435/c.1493) has been acknowledged as the greatest exponent of the Welsh praise-poetry tradition, a cultural succession which stretches back to the sixth century. We aim to reconstruct, as far as is possible, the original text of the poems of Guto'r Glyn based on the manuscripts now available: 6,500 lines of verse, in c.160 poems, preserved in c.2300 manuscript copies. (The final number of poems edited will depend on their authenticity, and some will be rejected.) We shall produce an authoritative electronic edition on a bilingual website, with full manuscript testimony, digital images and notes, web concordance and English translations of the poetry. We shall subsequently produce a two-volume printed edition in Welsh to succeed the 1939 edition. A volume in Welsh and English, comprising of essays written by distinguished scholars, will critically assess the light which the poetry sheds on the history, culture, literature and politics of the fifteenth century.
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| Project start date: 2008-01 | Project end date: 2012-12 |
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| Methods used | Category |
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| 2d Scanning and photography | Data capture |
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Desktop publishing and pre-press | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Text encoding - presentational | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Textual interaction (asynchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| General website development | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Use of existing digital data | Data capture |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), University of Wales
Content types created:
Sound, Still Image/Graphics, Text
Software tools used:
Adobe Photoshop, Anastasia, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office 2007 (Word), Oxygen XML Editor 11.1, FileLocator Pro, PFE, Oxford Concordance Programme
Source material used:
Our editorial work is manuscript based - the manuscripts dating from the end of the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century, but the majority written in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Most of the manuscripts are housed in the National Library of Wales (NLW), and some of these are now available digitally (some are online); many are also in the BL Add collection, and we have access to these in NLW on microfilm (as we do to manuscripts from collections in Oxford). We also make of historical documents (transfer of land, &c.) to date and ascertain the provenance of the patrons.
Digital resource created:
An authoritative electronic edition on a bilingual website, with full manuscript testimony, digital images and notes, web concordance and English translations of the poetry of the fifteenth-century Welsh poet, Guto'r Glyn. This will be available at the end of the project - end of 2012.
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Data Formats created:
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), JPEG File Interchange Format (JPG), Microsoft Word Document (DOC), TEI P5 XML
Metadata standards employed:
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Dr Ann Parry Owen |
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| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s), Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
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| Author(s) of record | Ann Parry Owen |
| Title | The Pinnacle of the Medieval Welsh Bardic Tradition? The Poetry of Guto'r Glyn. |
| Record created | 2010-06-14 |
| Record updated | 2010-09-03 16:07 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3689 |
| Citation of record | Ann Parry Owen: The Pinnacle of the Medieval Welsh Bardic Tradition? The Poetry of Guto'r Glyn.. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3689> created: 2010-06-14, last updated 2010-09-03 16:07 |