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CATMuS, common rules for the transcription of medieval roman sources

This site presents the standards commonly built by the CATMuS community (for Consistent Approaches to Transcribing ManuScripts). It lists a number of recommendations concerning the transcription of medieval documents and does not not concerned with earlier phases (segmentation into zones or lines¹) or later phases (text normalization, development of abbreviations²).

Site structure

This site is organized into two main sections:

1. A section that consists of a manual that documents CATMuS transcription practices, here.

2. A section containing the character table and describing the main characters used by the CATMuS group. A search functions allow you to perform queries on the guidelines.

CATMuS members

The members of the CATMuS project are: Ariane Pinche, Thibault Clérice, Alix Chagué, Jean-Baptiste Camps, Malamatenia Vlachou-Efstathiou, Matthias Gille Levenson, Olivier Brisville-Fertin, Federico Boschetti, Franz Fischer, Michael Gervers, Agnès Boutreux, Avery Manton, Simon Gabay, Wouter Haverals, Mike Kestemont, Caroline Vandyck and Patricia O'Connor.

Cite CATMuS

Ariane Pinche, Thibault Clérice, Alix Chagué, Jean-Baptiste Camps, Malamatenia Vlachou- Efstathiou, et al., CATMuS-Medieval: Consistent Approaches to Transcribing ManuScripts: A generalized set of guidelines and models for Latin scripts from Middle Ages (8th–16th century). 2023. hal-04346939