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Welcome to The Compendium moralium notabilium Project
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The purpose of this digital humanities project is to provide open access research materials from Geremia da Montagnone's Compendium moralium notabilium, an early humanist florilegium compiled at Padua in the early 14th century (c.1310) which survives in about 50 manuscripts but was printed only once, two centuries after it was created. This website provides two types of resources derived from the 1505 Venice edition, which is entitled "Epytoma Sapientie":
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The Author/Source Index is the portal for accessing editions of the quotations attributed to particular authors and sources. At present nearly 1700 quotations ascribed to seven classical authors have been edited and provided through this portal. Each transcribed quotation is accompanied by the version of that passage from a modern edition of the original source text and variants are indicated by breaks in the underscoring in the latter version. Much of the transcriptional and editorial work for this aspect of the project was done during the Spring and Summer of 2013 by Veronica Parkes, an undergraduate co-op student majoring in Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Medieval Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. The development of this portion of the project is expected to resume in Summer 2023. The Subject Index is the portal for accessing transcriptions of the quotations under particular topics. At present it provides digital transcriptions of all of Pars 1 and Pars 2, and also Pars 3, Libri 1 & 2 and Pars 5, Liber 4. It is expected that the full transcription will be completed by December 2023.
Once this edition is complete, the text of the 1505 edition will be added to the database for the Janus intertextuality search engine, developed in 2007-8 for the The Electronic Manipulus florum Project. Janus users will then be able to conduct intertextuality searches of the Manipulus florum, and/or the Liber pharetrae, and/or the Viridarium consolationis, and/or the Compendium, in a single search query.
While this website will provide a critical edition of the 1505 Venice edition, a critical edition based on multiple manuscript witnesses is currently being developed for the Scholastic Commentaries and Texts Archive, directed by Dr. Jeffrey Witt at Loyola University Maryland, who was the primary collaborator on the major grant application that is funding this work. One of the manuscripts to be collated for this project is Toronto, Fisher Rare Book Library, MS 09264, which was produced in or near Padua about a century after Montagnone completed this text in that city.
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The editor gratefully acknowledges that seed funding for this project was provided through a 2013 Undergraduate Research Assistant Grant that was partly funded by WLU operating funds and partly by a General Research Grant awarded to WLU by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The completion of this project is being financed by a 2021 SSHRC Insight Grant for the Digital Auctores Project.
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