# Modelling the Archipelago: Corfu as a Case Study for a Digital Edition of Cristoforo Buondelmonti’s Liber Insularum  

## TL;DR

This paper discusses using a digital tool to create a digital edition of a 15th-century guide to Greek islands, focusing on Corfu.

## Contribution

The paper introduces the use of the Cadmus tool for digitally reconstructing and presenting historical texts and maps.

## Key findings

- The Cadmus tool was successfully applied to the text and map of Corfu from Buondelmonti’s work.
- The frontend output demonstrates how historical texts and maps can be digitally preserved and presented.
- The project provides insights into the potential of digital tools for historical literary and cartographic editions.

## Abstract

The
Liber Insularum by Cristoforo Buondelmonti can be considered the first guide to the Greek islands, each of them described by a textual paragraph and illustrated by color maps, in a format which gave rise to the new literary genre of
Isolaria.” Mapping the Aegean: Cristoforo Buondelmonti’s
Liber Insularum” is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie project aimed at the study of this book. This paper illustrates the application of Cadmus, a structured content management tool, to the creation of a digital edition of the
Liber and to do this, we focus on the text and map of Corfu as a case study. After a historical introduction on the author and his work and the presentation of the project, we explain why we chose to use this tool and its main characteristics, and we offer a concrete example of its application to the material pertaining to the description of Corfu by showing its frontend output.