Material philology and Syriac excerpting practices: A computational-quantitative study of the digitized catalog of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Library

Noam Maeir

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0320265

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Material philology and Syriac excerpting practices: A computational-quantitative study of the digitized catalog of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Library

Noam Maeir

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: noam.maeir@mail.huji.ac.il

Affiliation The Digital Humanities Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7756-8401

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Material philology and Syriac excerpting practices: A computational-quantitative study of the digitized catalog of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Library

Noam Maeir

Published: March 31, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0320265

About the Authors

Noam Maeir

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: noam.maeir@mail.huji.ac.il

Affiliation The Digital Humanities Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7756-8401

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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