Medieval and Early Modern Accounts in the Digital Age

Medieval and Early Modern Accounts in the Digital Age

Between Digital Edition and Excel Charts

Monuments or Documents? Accounts: Sources for the History of Social Control (13th-18th centuries), Brussels 13.-15.12.2012

Ed. Bizjak 2005, S. 1 BayHStA KL Freising 69, fol. 10'

„number orientied“ EditionThe Alcalá account book: Royal Irish college of Saint George the Martyr (1649-1785)

<http://archives.forasfeasa.ie/>

Why there are so few number oriented digital edition of accounts?

1. Digital edition has been developed as solution for complex textual tradition.

2. The paradigm of source oriented edition hinders numeric interpretation.

"De-facto standard" TEI:

• TEI (Text Encoding Initiative)– Provides only tei:measure(@commodity, @unit,

@value, @type)• Enhancements?– Transaction (Syd Bauman, Kathryn Tomasek)– „bookkeeping“ (bk:entry, bk:amount(quantity,

unit), bk:i/bk:d, bk:account); bk:price(tei:measure[1], tei:measure[2])

Test case

• BayHStA Staatsverwaltung 1378:Rechnung des Vitztums von Straubing Peter von Eck, 1335(ed. Vogeler 1999)

<bk:tuple xml:id="E.VI."><bk:entry bk:id="26."> <bk:account>bk:Gerichtseinnahmen</bk:account> <bk:amount bk:as="bk:i"> <bk:num value="1680"/> <bk:unit name="d."/> <bk:date>1335-04-02 – 1335-05-02</bk:date> </bk:amount> </bk:entry>… <bk:entry bk:id="29."> <bk:account>bk:Gerichtseinnahmen</bk:account> <bk:amount bk:as="bk:i"> <bk:num value="1440"/> <bk:unit name="d."/> </bk:amount> </bk:entry><bk:entry bk:id="30."> <bk:account>bk:Gerichtseinnahmen</bk:account> <bk:amount bk:as="bk:i"> <bk:num value="2160"/> <bk:unit name="d."/> </bk:amount> </bk:entry>…<bk:total bk:scope="E.VI." bk:id="summa"> <bk:account>bk:Gerichtseinnahmen</bk:account> <bk:amount bk:as="bk:i"> <bk:num value="12000"/> <bk:unit name="d."/> </bk:amount></bk:total></bk:tuple>

<list xml:id="E.VI."><head>In iudicio Chamb</head><item n="26.">De eodem iudicio ea hora, qua

caruit iudice de<lb />putato, a <date when="1335-04-02">dominica

Iudica</date> usque in <date when="1335-05-02">vigiliam invencionis<lb />

sancte crucis</date> per <numvalue="5">v</num> ebdomadas de conductu et de

omnibus<lb />conquisitis ultra expensis <measure type="currency" unit="lib.d."><num value="7">vii</num> lib.</measure><lb /></item>

…<item n="29.">Lävtwein de Ryedorn <measure

type="currency" unit="lib.d."><num value="6">vi</num> lib.</measure><lb /></item><item><del>de hutariis in Chamb et Ätzlärn

<measure type="currency" unit="lib.d."><num value="18">xviii</num> lib.</measure></del>

<lb /></item><item n="30.">Schaffer de Guotendorf <measure

type="currency" unit="lib.d."><num value="9">viiii<seg rend="superscript">or</seg></num>

lib.</measure><lb /></item>…

<item n="summa">Summa iudicii Chamb <measure type="currency" unit="lib.d."><num value="50">l</num> lib.</measure><lb />

</item></list>

Example

http://gams.uni-graz.at/rem



Conclusion

We need a (simple) common modell describing historical accounting facts digitally,that can be inscribed into TEI files and used as image annotation.

Georg [email protected]

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Medieval and Early Modern Accounts in the Digital Age