Burckhardtsource: The European Correspondence to Jacob Burckhardt

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Presentation given by Susanne Muller during the workshop "Open platforms for digital humanities". See http://openplatformsforhumanities.org/

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BurckhardtsourceThe European Correspondence to Jacob Burckhardt

Susanne Müller

http://burckhardtsource.org/

Jacob (Christoph) Burckhardt

(May 25, 1818 – August 8,

1897)

was a historian of art and culture

Burckhardt, Jacob, Briefe, vollständig und kritisch bearbeitete Ausgabe mit Benützung des handschriftlichen Nachlasses hergestellt von Max Burckhardt, 11 Bde., Basel 1949–1994.

Critical editions — meaning accurate and reliable versions of a text with an apparatus that

presents and analyzes the evidence and source material to reconstruct and explain the original — have been a central part of the humanities for

centuries.

transcription of the manuscript   checking of the electronic text against the original

   collation of the text     creation of the critical apparatus

• People

• Places

• Dates

• Quotations

• Bibliographic References

• Works of art

OPERE D‘ARTE

Vecellio, Cesare, Habiti antichi, et moderni di tutto il mondo. Di nuovo accresciuto di molte figure. Vestitus

antiquorum, recentiorumque totius orbis, Venetia 1598.

 Bonnard, Camille, Costumes des XIIIe, XIVe et XVe siècles, extraits des monumens les plus authentiques de peinture et

de sculpture, avec un texte descriptif et historique, 2 voll., Paris 1829-30.