Ivana Dobcheva

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Recent Commons Activity

joined the group Medieval Studies
joined the group Early Medieval

About

I am a research assistant at the Centre of Image and Material Analysis in Cultural Heritage (CIMA) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. My work is part of the project “Digital Transformation of the Austrian Humanities” (DiTAH).

Previously I worked as research assistant at the Manuscript centre in Leipzig within the Fragmentarium project (2016-2017), being responsible for the digital descriptions of over 250 manuscript fragments. In May 2017, I began to work on the two-year project Fragmentarium at the Austrian National Library (ÖNB), focusing on the medieval fragments from the Benedictine monastery Mondsee. In 2020, I continued my work at the Manuscript Department, preparing the codicological descriptions of the ÖNB manuscripts belonging once to Matthias Corvinus.

Education

After finishing BA in Classical Philology (Sofia University) and MA in Medieval Studies (CEU, Budapest), I specialized in manuscript studies. As a research assistant at the Herzog August Bibliothek. In 2015, I also gained hands-on experience in DH (specifically TEI-XML and basic XQuery) working at the Herzog August Bibliothek.

Blog Posts

Publications

Dobcheva, Ivana, and Veronika Wöber. ‘Reconstructing the Fragmented Library of Mondsee Abbey’. In 23rd International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies. Vienna, Austra, 2020.

‘Contextualising the Manuscripts of the Aratea’. In The Stars in the Classical and Medieval Traditions, edited by Alena Hadravová, Petr Hadrava, and Kristen Lippincott, 221–36. Prague: Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 2019.

‘Reading Monastic History in Bookbinding Waste: Collecting, Digitizing and Interpreting Fragments from Mondsee Abbey’. Fragmentology 2 (2019): 35–63.

Dobcheva, Ivana, and Christoph Mackert. ‘Manuscript Fragments in the University Library, Leipzig: Types and Cataloguing Patterns’. Fragmentology 1 (2018): 83–110.

‘The Umbrella of Carolingian Computus’. In La Compilación Del Saber En La Edad Media, edited by Maria Jose Muñoz, 211–29. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013.

‘Patterns of Interdependence: Author and Audience in the History of Leo the Deacon’. Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU 16 (2010): 62–76.

Projects

Digital Transformation of the Austrian Humanities (2021-)

Erschließung der Handschriften aus der Bibliothek des Matthias Corvinus in Österreich (2020)

Modellfall Fragmentendigitalisierung – Die mittelalterlichen Fragmente des Klosters Mondsee (2017-2019)

Cataloguing and Digitization of Manuscript Fragments of the Leipzig University Library (2016-2017)

Aratea Digital is a database collecting information about astronomy in the Early Middle Ages. The main focus of the project is the Latin transmission of the so-called Aratea texts including the Latin translations and the derivative texts based on Aratus’ didactic poem Phaenomena. The website presents descriptions of their (pre-13th-century) manuscripts, references to the latest editions and relevant literature.

Research Assistant

Centre of Image and Material Analysis in Cultural Heritage