STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

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An ERC-funded project led by Prof. Erin McCarthy and based at the University of Galway. We are building the first large-scale computational model of the circulation of early modern verse in manuscript from 1475-1700. https://stemma.universityofgalway.ie

Screenshot from the STEMMA database TEXT Data source: folger Work: 47459: 1 god one Bap - and one faith Manuscript: MS Add. B. 108 Page or folio: p.317
Screenshot from the STEMMA database TEXT folger 79766: For Bacon I long, whom long I have sought Sloane MS 1873
Photo of text TEXT This rouing humour... I haue euer had, and like a ranging Spaniel that barked at euery bird he sees, leauing his game, I haue followed all sauing that which I should, and iustly complaine, and truly... that I haue read many books but to little purpose, for want of good method, I haue confusedly tumbled outer many Authors in our Libraries, with small profit, for want of art, order, memory, iudgement
Photo of an excerpt from the summary catalogue TEXT Many of the poems are mutilated by mice having gnawed the outer lower margin
'Of a fly flying into his mistress's eye'
Screenshot of STEMMA database TEXT Work: 7020: Even as the waves of brainless buttered fish Manuscript: MS Add. 7196 Page or folio: f.[25v rev] Author John Hoskins
Screenshot of STEMMA database TEXT Manuscript Item Details: Vpon a gnatt burnt in a candle ID: 20836 Has merge history: X New item: - Data source: celm Work: 4784: Silly buzzing wanton elf Manuscript: MS Add. 8684 Page or folio: f.11r-v Author: Richard Crashaw
Screen shot of STEMMA database entry TEXT Title 'An elegy of the countess of Londonderry supposing her to be dead by her long silence' Heading: Lady Anne Southwell 'An elegy of the countess of Londonderry supposing her to be dead by her long silence' First line: Since thou fair soul art warbling to a sphere
Quote on a wall in The Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia: "After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all" - A.S.W. Rosenbach
Screenshot of bibliographical meadata for a poem that apparently begins, "Buckingham Buckingham Buckingham," and ends, "Buckingham."
Powerpoint presentation of vector embeddings in a 2D space for comparing and grouping words or sets of words
(Right) Prof Erin McCarthy speaking at RSA conference 2025 (left) powerpoint presentation for talk 'AI and Early Modern Poetry'
Page of poems in English and Latin, headed “Of Cheese”
Portrait of John Donne painted by Isaac Oliver
Poster for a Centre for Antique, Medieval, and Pre-Modern Studies Research Lab, led by Millie Randall, titled 'Flirting and Predicting the Future in Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies'. Held at the Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, 31st January 2025 at 12pm