The Tenth-Century Cyrillic Manuscript Codex Suprasliensis: the creation of an electronic corpus. UNESCO project (2010-2011)

This paper presents an overview of principles and problems connected with the preparation of an electronic edition of the largest Old Church Slavonic manuscript, the Codex Suprasliensis, in the context of a project funded by UNESCO. Specifications of the manuscript, its history, and previous paper-based and electronic editions are discussed, together with a strategy for the preparation of a complete digital edition, including newly acquired digital images, electronic text, analysis and commentaries, parallel Greek text, and updated bibliography. In particular, our paper sheds light on automating the morphosyntactic annotation of the text and the difficulties that had to be resolved in this part of the project.