Resources

Handbooks

Handbook Text encoding

The “Handbook Text encoding” describes the workflow from manuscript to the digital form of the text. It explains how the data is transferred into a table structure, which is the temporary means of processing data. This includes the indication of text structure, transliteration & transcription as well as special encodings (e.g. of diacritics or typos).

Handbook Morphology

The “Handbook Morphology” describes the annotation of part-of-speech and grammatical features following the Standard of Universal Dependencies (UD) . Sorted by part-of-speech, the handbook gives a detailed overview of Middle Persian word forms and their corresponding tags.

Handbook Syntax

The “Handbook Syntax” explains the basic principles of the Dependencies Standard (UD) for syntactic annotation. It lists various syntactic structures and exemplifies the adaptation of UD to Middle Persian.

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Kosh

To facilitate our lexicographical work, we began with the digitization of the more important available Middle Persian dictionaries and glossaries already before the start of the project. To make this material machine-readable, it was subsequently transformed into a simple XML format. The use of Kosh, a framework developed by CCeH, allows the user to search through several dictionaries and glossaries in one combined query.

As is well-known to anyone engaged in the philology of Pahlavi, the past century has seen the use of several conflicting systems of transcribing the Pahlavi script. The dictionaries and glossaries digitized for MPCD have therefore been supplied with a transcription according to the MPCD standard, which essentially follows MacKenzie’s Concise Pahlavi Dictionary (London 1971). Thanks to this, the users may now search through all of the digitized dictionaries without having to take into account the diverging transcription systems used by the respective authors.

The digitized materials coupled with Kosh constitute an important tool for our work. In order to allow a broader public to benefit from this tool, we have made some of the dictionaries and glossaries accessible to the scholarly community (https://dicts.uni-koeln.de/). The following digitized works have so far been added to the publicly accessible section of Kosh. We seek to expand this list in the future:

Bibliography

Using Kosh

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Zotero

We are compiling an extensive bibliography on publications related to MPCD in a Zotero database.

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Manuscripts

Timeline of Manuscripts

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Texts