medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Yves MORICE <[log in to unmask]>
> If you are looking for online editions of medieval cartularies, you might be
interested to know that the Bibliothèque Nationale de France is progressively
digitalizing its resources, and among numerous things, you'll find quite a few
cartularies... just go there
>
> http://gallica.bnf.fr/
>
> and do a search for "cartulaire" or "chartes"... and browse happily
yes.
an extremely useful site (for all its many faults), and one which will
increase in usefulness as more books are added over time.
> they also have put online on pdf format almost all of the volumes of the
Acta Sanctorum!!
and some of the Gallica Christiana.
and almost all of DuCange's Glossarium.
and Duchesne's _Fasti_.
etc.
>of course, the main turn down is that the text is not searchable....
yes.
however, i have had some limited sucess in downloading the files in .tiff
format (instead of .pdf) and running them through an OCR software program
(ABBY "FineReader" is the best i've found).
the result is an ASCII text, though the error rate is quite large and it takes
a bit of work to clean it up.
this is why i remarked about the ENdeC site's .pdf files
http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/cartulaires/
they *are* searchable.
and i don't understand how they made them so without OCRing them and cleaning
up the thousands of errors --a monumental task, it seems to me.
perhaps they just had someone go through them manually and make up an index.
still a *huge* task.
http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/cartulaires/
c
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