2/18/2023 0 Comments Irish medieval manuscripts figures![]() ![]() ![]() Prose tales in Irish, Icelandic and German have had a survival rate of 80pc, according to the study, while only around half of those written in Dutch, English and French literature are still known. “We suspected ecologists’ statistical methods to predict numbers of rare species could also be used to estimate numbers of lost literary works and we were right,” commented Prof Mike Kestemont, who teaches computational humanities at the University of Antwerp. It found notable differences in the number of losses between manuscripts in six different European languages. The study, carried out by European and Taiwanese scholars, borrowed statistical methods used in the field of ecology in which researchers estimate how many rare species are missing based on the number of surviving species. Published yesterday (17 February) in the journal Science, an international study combined humanities with science to find a new way of estimating just how many manuscripts from European medieval literature have been lost over time based on the number that survived.Ī third of tales of medieval heroism and chivalry, more than 90pc of European manuscripts from the Middle Ages and more than 3,000 medieval Irish-language manuscripts – which rarely feature in international science journals – have been lost according to the study. Now, a new study has found a way to quantify what may have been lost over time – estimating that more than 3,000 medieval Irish-language manuscripts have been lost in the mists of antiquity. Long before things could be digitally immortalised in the form of NFTs, manuscripts were written on paper and other ephemeral materials prone to damage or theft. A team of international researchers found a new way to estimate manuscript loss numbers by fusing science with humanities. ![]()
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