The Chronicle of John of Nikiu: Text-Critical Edition and Digital Research Platform

该项目的主要目标是根据所有现有的文本证人，在应用现代方法的情况下，编写新的文本关键版本《尼丘约翰纪事》。该文本代表了一种世界编年史，它是在7世纪阿拉伯征服时期的埃及撰写的，只保存在埃塞俄比亚的节录中。《纪事》是一部独特的晚古史史料。拟议的版本应该满足现有的学者对这一重要历史来源的渴望，因为这一文本的唯一版本在1883年由赫尔曼佐滕贝格出版，证明了相当大的局限性。我计划出版一个新版本，包括印刷版和电子版，并配以英文翻译。印刷形式应成为标准的参考作品，并包含广泛的评论和一套仪器系统。为了准备数字版，我选择了可持续的TEI XML格式。数字版应在Beta maṣāḥǝft项目的网络应用程序上公开访问，并作为一个灵活和可编辑的数字研究平台。该项目还旨在研究《尼丘约翰纪事》与其他文本(特别是与《约翰·马拉拉斯纪事》)的关系，它对埃塞俄比亚文学传统的影响，以及它的文本传播史。

The main goal of the project is the preparation of a new text-critical edition of the Chronicle of John of Nikiu based on all available text witnesses and under application of modern methodologies. The text represents a universal chronicle composed in seventh-century Egypt during the Arab conquest and preserved only in its Ethiopic redaction. The Chronicle is a unique historical document for the history of Late Antiquity. The proposed edition is supposed to fulfill an existing scholarly desideratum for this important historical source since the only edition of this text published by Hermann Zotenberg in 1883 attests considerable limitations. I plan to publish a new edition both in printed and digital forms and to accompany it with an English translation. The printed form shall become a standard work of reference and contain an extensive commentary and a system of apparatuses. For the preparation of the digital edition, I have chosen the sustainable TEI XML format. The digital edition shall be openly accessible on the web application of the project Beta maṣāḥǝft and serve as a flexible and editable digital research platform. The project aims as well at studying the relations of the Chronicle of John of Nikiu with other texts (especially with the Chronicle of John Malalas), its impact on the literary tradition in Ethiopia, and the history of its textual transmission.