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Corpus works are a genre of cultural-historical scientific literature : the mostly multi-volume, large-format and continuously illustrated catalogs of real objects from a historically and regionally narrowly defined subject. They are designed to be complete and deal with a historically closed, mostly distant subject area. Their creation is based on years, mostly even decades, of collecting and research work, usually institutionally supported. The work on the sarcophagus corpus ( The ancient sarcophagus reliefs ), for example, has been going on for 150 years, and that on the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum even longer.

For example, there are (archaeological) corpus works for megalithic graves, cuneiform tablets, prehistoric finds, Egyptian papyri, ancient vase paintings , Latin inscriptions , (more often) for certain types of coins, seals or orders, medieval bronze works, glass paintings , panel paintings and sculptures, geographical abbreviations and astronomy individual picture motifs and the paintings of individual artists (e.g. Rembrandt or Picasso ), baroque ceiling and wall paintings, picture and other manuscripts as well as architectural monuments.

Collections of old literary, theological (for example the text editions of the Patristicians or the set of sentences by Petrus Lombardus ) or legal texts (for example those of Roman civil law ) often have the term corpus in the title. The preferred technical term for this genre, however, is text corpus .

The elaboration and publication of corpus works is basic research and today it is often organized in the Academies of Sciences .

Because of the enormous amount of data collected, some projects - such as the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum - are now supplemented by online databases . Newly conceived projects such as the corpus of baroque ceiling painting in Germany include computer-aided methods in the sense of digital humanities from the outset . The basic idea that has always determined the corpus works, that the most comprehensive or complete availability and knowledge of the (written or real) sources is the basic requirement for further research, remains valid. Rather, this approach is given even greater weight by the new options for displaying the content, for dealing with large amounts of data and for researching them (for example full-text search or linked database queries).

literature

  • Kerstin P. Hofmann: thing identities and object transformations. Some thoughts on the edition of archaeological finds. In: Object Epistemologies. To measure a transdisciplinary research area (= Berlin Studies of the Ancient World. Volume 59). Edited by Markus Hilgert , Kerstin P. Hofmann, Henrike Simon. Edition Topoi / Cluster of Excellence Topoi of the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-9818369-9-8 , doi : 10.17171 / 3-59 (currently unavailable) ( hu-berlin.de [ PDF; 3.4 MB; accessed January 15, 2020]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the chapter Editions - Corpora - Corpus Works , Kerstin P. Hofmann defines: “Editions in the sense of interest here are a specific genre of scientific literature. They are sometimes - especially when it comes to illustrated catalogs of realities - also referred to as corpora or corpus works. ” Thing identities and object transformations. Berlin 2018, p. 182 (see literature ).
  2. ↑ Occasionally, however, the claim to completeness is given up, for example from 1956 with the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum .
  3. ↑ a b For the research and edition project of the prehistoric bronze finds (1965–2015) see Kerstin P. Hofmann: Dingidentitäten und Objekttransformationen. Berlin 2018, pp. 184–188 (see literature ).
  4. ↑ See basically for an example Kerstin P. Hofmann: Dingidentitäten und Objekttransformationen. Berlin 2018, p. 180 (see literature ): Hofmann quotes Joachim-Friedrich Quack - “A 100-year-old edition can often still be used without further ado (in cases where the original is in poor condition today it can even be irreplaceable), while a 100-year-old edition can still be used without further ado Years-old literary classification of a text today often seems antiquated. "- and states:" This statement made by the German Egyptologist Joachim-Friedrich Quack for text editions also applies in a modified form to corpus works of archeology. "
  5. ^ Joachim Krüger : Between the Empire and Sweden. The sovereign coinage in the Duchy of Pomerania and in Swedish Pomerania in the early modern period (approx. 1580–1715) (= Nordic history. Volume 3). LIT Verlag, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9768-0 , p. 21 (also dissertation, Greifswald 2004): " Unfortunately, there is no corpus work for the Upper Saxon District that is comparable to the 'Lower Saxony Coin Archive' published by Max von Bahrfeldt ." ( Preview in Google Book Search).
  6. ↑ Colloquium: Atlases of Knowledge. Adolph Goldschmidt's Corpus Works 1914–2014. In: kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de, Institute for Art and Visual History (IKB) at the Humboldt University in Berlin . 2014, accessed January 15, 2020.
  7. ↑ See edition desiderata for the early modern period. Contributions to the meeting of the Commission for the Editing of Early Modern Texts. Volume 2 (= Chloe. Supplements to Daphnis . Volume 24-25). Edited by Hans-Gert Roloff . Rodopi, Amsterdam / Atlanta, GA 1997, ISBN 90-420-0312-X , p. 807: “The book Vom Firmament represents a relatively closed corpus work about the visible heavenly bodies. a. composed of German translations of four Latin texts from the 13th century. ”( preview in Google book search).
  8. ↑ See the summary on Henrik Karge : Romanesque Architecture in Spain. Processes of change in church building in northern Spain in a European context (= lectures in the European Romanesque Center. Volume 8). 1st edition. Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, 2019, ISBN 978-3-86977-212-7 (“His contribution flanks the award work by Juan Antonio Olañeta Molina, which depicts an extensive body work on the well-known motif ' Daniel in the lion 's den ' and at the same time its hitherto unknown iconographic Shows diversity and change for the Romanesque period in Spain and Western Europe. ").
  9. ↑ Alexander Gavrilow: Exemplary and rousing. Laudation for Isidor Levin . In: Yearbook 2004. Edited by the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt. Wallstein Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-89244-875-2 , pp. 51–64, here p. 60: “[…] also appointed by the Academy of Armenia to systematically record the rich evidence of material and spiritual culture there and make around one to make half a million texts ready for printing as corpus works. ”( ISSN  0070-3923 ; preview in the Google book search).
  10. ↑ Reinhard Pohanka : The rulers and figures of the Middle Ages. 3. Edition. marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-8438-0210-9 , p. 239, urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-201208017814 : “His work is purely compilatory [...] he wanted to write a corpus work and all theological questions List them with their pros and cons. ”( preview in Google book search).
  11. ↑ From a self-presentation by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences : “The approximately 450 employees of the Academy conduct basic research in the humanities and natural sciences. The focus is on long-term projects that provide the basis for further research and secure cultural transmission (...) ”- At a glance . In: Akademie Aktuell. Journal of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . No. 01 , 2018, ISSN  1436-753X , p. 70 ( ceiling painting.badw.de [PDF; 5.9 MB ]).
  12. ↑ "(...) as basic research in the humanities, the traditional corpus idea suddenly gains relevance in the age of digital humanities." - Hubert Locher : ceiling painting and photography . In: Akademie Aktuell. Journal of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . No. 02 , 2016, ISSN  1436-753X , p. 28–32 , here p. 28 ( habenmalerei.badw.de [PDF; 10.6 MB ]).
  13. ↑ “ Basic research on the early baroque is necessary (...) With an analysis combining all these findings (...) a completely new image of the early baroque ceiling painting will have to be developed in the future. Only on the basis of this necessary basic research and the (...) significantly expanded knowledge of objects will in-depth research questions be asked, traditional narratives shelved and completely new contexts developed. ”- Herbert Karner, Werner Telesko , Martin Mádl, Barbara Murovec: Ceiling painting cross-border . In: Akademie Aktuell. Journal of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . No. 02 , 2016, ISSN  1436-753X , p. 84–95 , here p. 87 (Herbert Karner, Werner Telesko) ( ckenmalerei.badw.de [PDF; 10.6 MB ]).
  14. ↑ “From the new research project Corpus of Baroque Ceiling Painting in Germany , supervised by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, we can expect that basic research, which has long been viewed with a certain bias, will receive new impulses through the inclusion of digital art history.” - Herbert Karner, Werner Telesko , Martin Mádl, Barbara Murovec: Ceiling painting across borders . In: Akademie Aktuell. Journal of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . No. 02 , 2016, ISSN  1436-753X , p. 84–95 , here p. 94 (Barbara Murovec) ( ceiling painting.badw.de [PDF; 10.6 MB ]).