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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)  

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.).

eCAB (full corpus)

  • Wordcount (Greek) : 70.690 occurrences; 5.272 wordforms ; 2.452 lemmata
  • Wordcount (French) : 33.800 occurrences; 2.513 wordforms ; 1.741 lemmata

 

CAB 1

[Uploaded August 2024]

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.

  • Wordcount (Greek) : 4.887 occurrences; 700 wordforms ; 429 lemmata
  • Wordcount (French) : 6.060 occurrences; 618 wordforms ; 512 lemmata

CAB 2

[Uploaded August 2024]

The astronomical works of Gregory Chioniades, volume 1. The Zīj al-ʿAlāʾī, Part I : Text, translation, commentary, ed. D.E. Pingree (Corpus des Astronomes Byzantins, 2), Amsterdam, 1985.

  • Wordcount (Greek) : 44.524 occurrences; 2.370 wordforms ; 1.235 lemmata
  • Wordcount (English) : Forthcoming

CAB 9

[Uploaded August 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; 1.208 wordforms ; 510 lemmata
  • Wordcount (French) : 9.025 occurrences; 772 wordforms ; 534 lemmata

CAB 10

[Uploaded August 2024]

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.

Dowload PDF version of this edition (document from the ResearchGate portal)

  • Wordcount (Greek) : 3.367 occurrences; 901 wordforms ; 444 lemmata
  • Wordcount (French) : 4.083 occurrences; 642 wordforms ; 485 lemmata

Anonymous Byzantine Cosmological Treatise (from ms. harleianus 5624)

[Uploaded August 2024]

C. Baudry, Un traité cosmologique byzantin inédit: Harleianus 5624, ff. 283r-284v, in Byzantion, 84 (2014), p. 1-32.

  • Wordcount (Greek) : 890 occurrences; 338 wordforms ; 221 lemmata
  • Wordcount (French) : 1.115 occurrences; 290 wordforms ; 237 lemmata

Barlaam of Seminara, Treatise on the Easter Date

[Uploaded August 2024]

A. Tihon, Barlaam de Séminara, Traité sur la date de Pâques, in Byzantion 81 (2011), p. 362-411.

  • Wordcount (Greek) : 2.017 occurrences; 738 wordforms ; 405 lemmata
  • Wordcount (French) : 2.629 occurrences; 606 wordforms ; 445 lemmata

Barlaam of Seminara, Treatises on Solar Eclipses of 1333 and 1337

[Uploaded August 2024]

Barlaam de Séminara, Traités sur les éclipses de soleil de 1333 et 1337. Histoire des textes, éditions critiques, traductions et commentaires par J. Mogenet et A. Tihon, avec la collaboration de D. Donnet, Louvain, 1977.

  • Wordcount (Greek) : 5.138 occurrences; 794 wordforms ; 519 lemmata
  • Wordcount (French) : 6.244 occurrences; 775 wordforms ; 624 lemmata

Peter the Philosopher, Astronomical Treatise

[Uploaded August 2024]

A.-L. Caudano, « Le ciel a la forme d'un cube ou a été dressé comme une peau »: Pierre le Philosophe et l'orthodoxie du savoir astronomique sous Manuel Ier Comnène in Byzantion, 81 (2011), p. 19-73.

  • Wordcount (Greek) : 3.543 occurrences; 1.229 wordforms ; 741 lemmata
  • Wordcount (French) : 4.644 occurrences; 961 wordforms ; 734 lemmata