Digital Alfonsine Corpus

The DAC (Digital Alfonsine Corpus) is a survey of more than 1000 primary sources (952 manuscripts and 130 early printed editions), identifying the precise locus of 335 works by 134 different authors.  It is the result of a sustained research effort by most ALFA team members during the entire duration of the project. It considerably extends the scope and accuracy of our knowledge of Alfonsine astronomy by introducing new manuscripts, new works and new authors and allowing scholars to conduct quantitative analysis of a new kind on the corpus..

The current public state of the DAC  can be consulted under this link

Mathematical Astronomy in Paris (late 13th c. early 14th c.)

The  MAP (Mathematical Astronomy in Paris) is survey dedicated to manuscripts, works and authors witnessing the intense astronomical activities in Paris during the late 13th and the early 14th centuries (not listing the Parisian manuscript of the Toledan Table). It was prepared and curated by Sophie Serra and is yet a work in progress.

The current public state of the DAC  can be consulted under this link

Medieval Skies

Mediaeval skies is a digital exhibition which presents 14 manuscripts from the Alfonsine corpus (more will be included shortly, in particular from Alfonso scriptorium) as ‘stories’, designed to attract the interest of users to more than 500 ‘attention points’. These ‘stories’ are intertwined so that the users can explore transversal topics of codicological, historiographical or astronomical nature. Mediaeval skies will soon be interfaced with a series of newly created wikipedia pages, allowing users to go deeper in the topic, connect to relevant literature, including that produced by ALFA.

The current public state of Medieval Skies  can be consulted under this link

DISHAS

DISHAS is a major digital project initiated by ALFA in collaboration with the partner projects Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus (https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/start) and HAMSI (http://www.hamsi.org.nz/). It aims at providing digital tools, some rely in AI, to critically edit and analyse sources in the history of astronomy beginning with astronomical tables.

The current public state of DISHAS can be consulted under this link

EIDA

EIDA is another major digital project initiated by ALFA in collaboration with partner projects in 2021 (LIGM, Paris; VHS, Paris; Sphaera project MPIG Berlin; HAMSI, NZ). It aims at providing digital tools, some rely on AI, to critically edit and analyse astronomical diagrams in astronomical sources.

The current public state of DISHAS can be consulted under this link

ALFA Bibliography

This is a working set of bibliographical references connected to the study of Alfonsine astronomy. Imbedded in Zotero the bibliography can be consulted under this link