The “Handbook Text encoding” describes the workflow from manuscript to the digital form of the text. It explains how the data is transferred into a table structure, which is the temporary means of processing data. This includes the indication of text structure, transliteration & transcription as well as special encodings (e.g. of diacritics or typos).
The “Handbook Morphology” describes the annotation of part-of-speech and grammatical features following the Standard of Universal Dependencies (UD) . Sorted by part-of-speech, the handbook gives a detailed overview of Middle Persian word forms and their corresponding tags.
The “Handbook Syntax” explains the basic principles of the Dependencies Standard (UD) for syntactic annotation. It lists various syntactic structures and exemplifies the adaptation of UD to Middle Persian.
To facilitate our lexicographical work, we began with the digitization of the more important available Middle Persian dictionaries and glossaries already before the start of the project. To make this material machine-readable, it was subsequently transformed into a simple XML format. The use of Kosh, a framework developed by CCeH, allows the user to search through several dictionaries and glossaries in one combined query.
As is well-known to anyone engaged in the philology of Pahlavi, the past century has seen the use of several conflicting systems of transcribing the Pahlavi script. The dictionaries and glossaries digitized for MPCD have therefore been supplied with a transcription according to the MPCD standard, which essentially follows MacKenzie’s Concise Pahlavi Dictionary (London 1971). Thanks to this, the users may now search through all of the digitized dictionaries without having to take into account the diverging transcription systems used by the respective authors.
The digitized materials coupled with Kosh constitute an important tool for our work. In order to allow a broader public to benefit from this tool, we have made some of the dictionaries and glossaries accessible to the scholarly community (https://dicts.uni-koeln.de/). The following digitized works have so far been added to the publicly accessible section of Kosh. We seek to expand this list in the future:
AWN | Glossary of the Ardā wirāz nāmag by Fereydun Vahman (1986) |
DMX | Glossary of the Dādestān ī mēnōy ī xrad by Ahmad Tafazzoli (1348) |
GBd | Glossary of the Great Bundahišn by Mehrdād Bahār (1345) |
GPV | Glossary of the Pahlavi Wīdēwdād by Dinshah D. Kapadia (1953) |
LFV | List of Finite Verbs Compiled by Jügel (2015) and Cemile Çelebi and Narges Eskandarnia (2019-2021) |
PYV | Glossary of the Pahlavi Yasna & Visparad by Ervad Bamanji Nasarvanji Dhabhar (1949) |
ŠnŠ | Glossary of the Šāyest nē-šāyest by Maḥmūd Ṭāvūsī (1365) |
WZ | Glossary of the Wizīdagīhā ī Zādspram by Philippe Gignoux and Ahmad Tafazzoli (1993) |
We are compiling an extensive bibliography on publications related to MPCD in a Zotero database.
Sigle | Title |
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AAM | Andarz ī anōšag ruwan ādurbād māraspandān |
AOD | Andarz ī ōšnar ī dānāg |
Aog. | Aogǝmadaecā |
ASS | Abdīhā ud sahīgīhā ī sīstān |
AWM | Ayadgār ī wuzurg-mihr |
AWN | Ardā wirāz nāmag |
AZ | Ayādgār ī zarērān |
ČHP | Čīdag handarz ī pōryōtkēšān |
DA | Draxt ī āsūrīg |
Dd. | Dādestān ī dēnīg |
Dk3 | Dēnkard 3 |
Dk4 | Dēnkard 4 |
Dk5 | Dēnkard 5 |
Dk6 | Dēnkard 6 |
Dk7 | Dēnkard 7 |
Dk8 | Dēnkard 8 |
Dk9 | Dēnkard 9 |
DkC | Dēnkard Colophon |
DMX | Dādestān ī mēnōy ī xrad |
ENN | Ēwēnag nāmag nibēsišnīh |
GA | Mādīgān ī gizistag abālīš |
GBd. | Great Bundahišn |
Hēr. | Hērbedestān |
HKR | Husraw ī kawādān ud rēdag-ēw |
HN | Hādōxt Nask |
IndBd. | Indian Bundahišn |
KAP | Kārnāmag ī ardašīr ī pābagān |
MFRH | Māh frawardīn rōz hordād |
MHD | Mādayān ī hazār dādestān |
MK-Andarz | Didactic texts from ms. MK |
MYF | Mādayān ī yōšt ī friyān |
N. | Nērangestān |
NM | Nāmagīhā ī manuščihr |
OHD | Ohrmazd ī harwisp-dānāg |
P. | Pursišnīhā |
PahlRivDd. | Pahlavi rivāyat ī dādestān ī dēnīg |
PV | Pahlavi Wīdēwdād |
PY | Pahlavi Yasna |
RAF | Pahlavi Rivāyat of Ādurfarrbay and Farrbay-srōš |
RĒA | Rivāyat ī ēmēd ašawahištān |
ŠGW | Škand gumānīg wizār |
ŠiĒ | Šahrestānīhā ī ērān |
ŠnŠ | Šāyest nē šāyest |
PVr. | Pahlavi Visparad |
Vyt. | Vištāsp Yašt |
WČNA | Wizārišn ī čatrang ud nēw-ardaxšīr |
WD | Wizirgerd ī dēnīg |
WDWM | Wizīrīhā ī dēn ī weh ī mazdēsnān |
WZ | Wizīdagīhā ī zādspram |
XD | Xēšm ud dēwān |
XAv. | Ḫorde Avestā |
ZFJ | Zand ī fragard ī jud-dēwdād |
ZWY | Zand ī wahman yasn |