Corpus of Latin Rhythmical Texts 4th-9th Century
The Corpus of Latin Rhythmical Texts 4th-9th Century, promoted by CISLAB (Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi sui Beni Librari e Archivistici, Università di Siena-Arezzo) and SISMEL and coordinated by Francesco Stella, aims at the publication on book and on CD-ROM of the ca. 700 texts of rhythmical Latin poetry from the origins to the Carolingian age.
It will be a critical edition (based on the collation of the manuscripts: more than 160, in addition to the hymnaries), with transcriptions of the musical notations, records of musical performances, images of manuscripts, philological apparatus and statistical indexes about linguistic, musical and metrical issues. The critical text will offer every different manuscript version of each poem.
For this objective the GDC Informatica of Prato elaborated a specific software (DBR, data-base of rhythms) who will allow the implementation of data and analysis about the texts and their different versions, language, metrics, music (fac-simile, transcription, experimental recording), manuscripts of rhythmical poetry. All the data will be consultable through a cross-consultation system in progress. Information and assistance will be supplied by 
Giacomo Desideri
At SISMEL and CISLAB is available the List of rhythmical texts IV-IX Century (by B.K. Vollmann and M. Nardelli) as well as the manuscript-list from the repertorium In principio and from the "Nachträge" to the Incipitarium of Schaller-Könsgen (Mittellateinisches Seminar in Bonn) compiled by F. Stella and the data-bank of digital images of the first 50 rhythms-manuscripts (see enclosed list) scanned by A. Terracini. You may ask stella@unisi.it.
A guide-line of the project has been presented to the Conference of Paderborn 1998 (24-26 october, Tagung der Karolingermusik) and will be at Helsinki 2000 (28/8-2 september, Late and Vulgar Latin, VI Colloquium).
The scientific committee includes:
Michel Banniard (Univ. de Toulouse);
Giacomo Baroffio (Univ. di Pavia);
Pascale Bourgain (Paris, Ecole des Chartes);
I Deug Su (Univ. di Siena);
Peter Dronke (Univ. of Cambridge);
Claudio Leonardi (Univ. di Firenze-SISMEL);
Giovanni Orlandi (Univ. di Milano);
Barbara Spaggiari (Univ. di Perugia);
Gabriel Silagi (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, München);
Peter Stotz (Univ. Zürich);
Caterina Tristano (Univ. di Siena-CISLAB);
Benedikt Konrad Vollmann (Univ. München).
Other Collaborators:
Susan Boynton, Cornell University of New York (Hymnology)
Corinna Bottiglieri, SISMEL-Univ. di Salerno (Mss. from Verona and Berlin)
Sam Barrett, Clare College, Cambridge (Musical rhythms)
Edoardo D'Angelo, Univ. di Napoli "Federico II" (metrics, mss. of Naples)
Flavia De Rubeis, Univ. di Venezia (Inscriptions)
Silvia Mattiacci, Univ. di Siena-Arezzo (Late Latin Texts)
Jesús Luque Moreno, Univ. de Granada (Metrics, ed. Agostino)
Carlos Pérez González , Univ. de Burgos (Mss. from Spain)
Angelo Rusconi, Univ. di Bologna (Music and records)
Francesco Stella, Univ. di Siena-Arezzo (Coordination)
Alessandra Terracina, Asti (Digitalization of mss. images)
David Vitali, Mittellateinisches Seminar der Univ. Zürich (Swiss mss.)
The Corpus organize every year, through the funding of the TMR Programme of the European Commission, a meeting of the scholars who take part in the project and of young researchers who apply for the TMR grants: on the occasion of the third euroconference in Munich (November 2000) the Proceedings of the first two meetings (Arezzo 1998 and Ravello 1999) will be presented.
