MÉδÉE
Manuscripts and Editions
of
Euclid's Elements

Scientific Presentation

Bernard Vitrac & Alain Herreman

To report any correction, suggestion, or request, please contact:
alain.herreman@univ-rennes.fr

MEδEE records, in the form of a graph, the main manuscripts and printed editions of Euclid’s Elements, without chronological or geographical limitations, indicating their known dependencies and the publications related to them. MÉδÉE is a text without sentences on the transmission of Euclid’s Elements, consisting only of footnotes.

MEδEE makes knowledge about manuscripts, editions of Euclid’s Elements, their relationships, and the various publications related to them more visible and accessible. Judgments and analyses scattered in numerous publications, sometimes reduced to a paragraph or a footnote, are thus made accessible from the nodes or links to which they refer, without separating them from the text that contains them.

The links provided only reflect the state of our knowledge. The graph is both a means to preserve and transmit it. We hope that it will also be a means to expand it by benefiting from the additions and corrections communicated to us.

MEδEE is based on the work carried out by one of the two authors for the creation of a critical edition of Euclid’s Elements to be published by Les Belles Lettres and for an analysis of the relationships between the early printed editions of Euclid’s Elements and the Greek sources carried out jointly by the two authors.

MEδEE uses the Thamous database and for certain analyses, the corpusanalysis program developed by one of the two authors.

The graphe uses sigma.js.

By its content and features, MEδEE is both a catalog and a tool for collecting, presenting, discovering, exploring, and studying the manuscripts and printed editions of Euclid, their filiations, the works dedicated to them, and their historiographical traditions.