On the Tower of Babel: Text and Manuscripts
Go to the Shem and Descendants group, the Visual edition.
Image excerpts from the manuscripts (as grouped by main graph versions) are the result of tool-based image annotation (via Cadmus) or manual extraction. For each manuscript version only these visually annotated manuscripts are listed here. For the grouping of all manuscripts we provide a separate list (Manuscript groups). Transcriptions are semi-diplomatic following project specific rules.
Version
Tempore huius
phalech
facta est linguarum di
uisio. in edificatione turris babel
in
agro sennaar
.
in cuius familia quia reman
sit hebrea lingua omnium antiquissima
dictus est ipse phalech idest ab alijs diuisus.
Version 1
Manuscript group AT1
Tempore huius phalet
facta est linguarum diuisio in
edificatione turris babel.
in agro sennaar.
in cuius familia quia remansit lingua hebrea
omnium
antiquissima dictus est ipse
phalet idest ab aliis diuisus.
Manuscript group BE1
Manuscript group FR1
Manuscript group FR2
Tempore huius phalec facta est linguarum diuisio.
in edificatione
turris babel in agro sennaar.
in cuius familia quia reman
sit hebrea lingua
omnium antiquissima. dictus est ipse
phalec
idest ab aliis diuisus.
Manuscript group GB6
Tempore huius phalech facta est linguarum diuisio in
edificatione
turris babel in agro sennaar. in
cuius familia. quia remansit
hebrea lingua omnium
antiquissima. dictus est ipse phalec.
idest ab
aliis diuisus.
Version 2
Manuscript group AT3
Manuscript group FR3
Version 3
Manuscript group GB2
Version 4
Version 6
Manuscript group NL1
Citation recommendation
On the Tower of Babel: Text and Manuscripts. In: Peter of Poitiers' Compendium historiae: a research platform and edition, ed. by Andrea Worm, et al., Graz: 2026. https://gams.uni-graz.at/query:chigc.thirdlayer?params=$1|t-phalec.
Credits
- Data modeling, data curation and web design: Jakob Sonnberger
- Project principal investigators: Andrea Worm, Roman Bleier and Patrick Sahle
- Mercator Fellows: Laura Cleaver and Franz Fischer





