Challenge Archives

La Sfera Challenge I took place between May 22 and June 5, 2020, to transcribe three different copies of one text, Goro Dati’s fifteenth-century geographic treatise, La Sfera.

La Sfera Challenge II took place among five teams, scheduled between July 17 and 31, 2020, and was a reprise of La Sfera I.

Please see the catalogued version of the challenge for more complete and citable information.

Transcribing the Pelerinage de Damoiselle Sapience was part of the 13th Annual (Virtual) Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. Over the course of the three-day conference, participants created a scholarly micro-edition of Le Pelerinage de Damoiselle Sapience, a previously unedited French-language text that survives in f. 86r-95v of UPenn MS Codex 660.

Please see the catalogued version of the challenge for more complete and citable information.

The Image du Monde I took place among five teams between  from September 25-October 9, 2020.

The Image du Monde II was a reprise of the same competition and took place among the same five teams from January 8-22, 2021.

Please see the catalogued version of the challenge for Project documents (including the full transcriptions of all five manuscripts) for more complete and citable information.