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The eCAB project. A digital version of the Corpus des Astronomes Byzantins (CAB)

CIOL

ISSN 2983-8037

Presentation and aim

From 1983, The CAB produces critical editions of the major texts of Byzantine astronomy. It includes treatises by well-known authors (Georgios Gemistos Plethon, Gregorios Chionades, Nicephoros Gregoras, Theodoros Meliteniotes, Stephanos of Alexandria, etc.), but also anonymous texts and Astrolabica. It also takes into account some sources of Byzantine astronomy (e.g. Ptolemy's Tables Faciles), transmitted to Byzantium via Greek, Persian, Hebrew, Arabic, or Latin versions. To date, the CAB series totalizes eleven titles (1-11) and several volumes are in preparation.

The aim of the eCAB project is to provide scholars with a digital version of the CAB. Tagged corpus (texts and translations) will be progressively uploaded on the interfaces of the GREgORI Project.

Read more about the eCAB project.

Text processing is performed by using computer tools and linguistic resources developed by the GREgORI Project (UCLouvain, Belgium), in collaboration with the Association Calfa.

Read more about text processing by GREgORI and Calfa.

The first step of the project focuses on texts published in the volume 1-10 of the series, offering

  • A free access to the PDF versions of the volumes 1-10
  • A free access to the tagged corpus (texts and translations, with lemmatization and POS-tagging) of the uploaded volumes on the interfaces of the GREgORI project
  • A free access to the PDF versions of the cumulative index of texts and translations published in volumes 1-10

Members

Founding

This project has received fundings from

  • Association Byzantion
  • UCLouvain - CIOL Institut orientaliste  
  • UCLouvain - Institut des Civilisations, Arts et Lettres (INCAL) 
  • UCLouvain - Publications de l’Institut orientaliste de Louvain (PIOL)
  • Union Académique internationale (2024-2025)  

CAB 9

[Uploaded February 2024]

Georges Gémiste Pléthon, Manuel d'astronomie, ed. A. Tihon, R. Mercier (Corpus des Astronomes Byzantins, 9), Louvain-la-Neuve, 1998.

Wordcount (Greek) : 6.923 occurrences; 1.122 wordforms ; 512 lemmata

Wordcount (French) : 9.013 occurrences; 805 wordforms ; 532 lemmata

CAB 10

[Uploaded October 2023]

Une version byzantine du Traité sur l'astrolabe du Pseudo-Messahalla, ed. A. Tihon, R. Leurquin, Cl. Scheuren (Corpus des Astronomes Byzantins, 10), Louvain-la-Neuve, 2001.

Wordcount (Greek) : 3.367 occurrences; 916 wordforms ; 447 lemmata

Wordcount (French) : 4.075 occurrences; 702 wordforms ; 465 lemmata

CUMULATIVE INDEX

CAB 9-10

Wordcount (Greek) : 10.290 occurrences; 1.816 wordforms; 778 lemmata

Wordcount (French) : 13.087 occurrences; 1.226 wordforms; 761 lemmata

List of the volumes 1-10 of the CAB

  1. Nicéphore Grégoras. Calcul de l'éclipse de soleil du 16 juillet 1330, ed. J. Mogenet, A. Tihon, R. Royez, A. Berg (Corpus des Astronomes Byzantins, 1), Amsterdam, 1983 (221 p.).
  2. The astronomical works of Gregory Chioniades, volume 1. The Zij al-'ala'i, Part I : Text, translation, commentary, ed. D.E. Pingree (Corpus des Astronomes Byzantins, 2), Amsterdam, 1985 (412 p.).
  3. An eleventh-century manual of Arabo-Byzantine astronomy, ed. A. Jones (Corpus des Astronomes Byzantins, 3, Amsterdam, 1987 (199 p.).
  4. Théodore Méliténiote. Tribiblos astronomique. Livre I, ed. R. Leurquin, (Corpus des Astronomes Byzantins, 4), Amsterdam, 1990 (436 p.-[893 p.]).
  5. Théodore Méliténiote. Tribiblos astronomique. Livre II. Édition critique et traduction, ed. R. Leurquin (Corpus des Astronomes Byzantins, 5), Amsterdam, 1993 (604 p.-[893 p.]).
  6. Théodore Méliténiote. Tribiblos astronomique. Livre II. Commentaire, ed. R. Leurquin (Corpus des Astronomes Byzantins, 6), Amsterdam, 1993, (286 p. - [893 p.]).
  7. An almanac for Trebizond for the year 1336, ed. R. Mercier (Corpus des Astronomes Byzantins, 7), Louvain-la-Neuve, 1994, (196 p.).
  8. Preceptum Canonis Ptolomei, ed. D.E. Pingree (Corpus des Astronomes Byzantins, 8), Louvain-la-Neuve, 1997 (172 p.).
  9. Georges Gémiste Pléthon, Manuel d'astronomie, ed. A. Tihon, R. Mercier (Corpus des Astronomes Byzantins, 9), Louvain-la-Neuve, 1998 (322 p.).
  10. Une version byzantine du Traité sur l'astrolabe du Pseudo-Messahalla, ed. A. Tihon, R. Leurquin, Cl. Scheuren (Corpus des Astronomes Byzantins, 10), Louvain-la-Neuve, 2001 (96 p.).

[Uploaded February 2024]