Table of Contents - 6 Part I. Context of this Study - 12 1. Introduction - 14 2. An Introduction to Emblem Studies - 20 3. Annotating the Digital Edition - 32 Part II. Emblem Digitisation and the Emblem Project Utrecht - 50 4. A Model for Digital Emblem Editions - 52 5. Digital Editing and Text Modelling: The Case of the Emblem Project Utrecht - 66 Part III. Digital Annotation Tools - 74 6. Digital Edition Annotation using EDITOR - 76 7. A Sane Approach to Annotation in the Digital Edition - 98 8. Decoding Emblem Semantics - 116 9. Creating a Metaphor Index - 132 10. Towards a TEI-Based Encoding Scheme for the Annotation of Parallel Texts - 150 Part IV. Emblem Studies - 170 11. A Mirror to the Eyes of the Mind. Metaphor in Otto van Veen’s Amoris Divini Emblemata (Antwerp1615) - 172 12. Playing and Displaying Love. Theatricality in Otto van Veen’s Amoris Divini Emblemata (Antwerp1615) - 186 Part V. Reflections - 202 13. Mesotext. Framing and Exploring Annotations - 204 14. Conclusion - 218 Appendices - 228 Samenvatting - 250 Glossary – List of Abbreviations - 258 Literature - 262 Acknowledgements - 286 Curriculum Vitae - 288

About the Author

Peter Boot is a researcher in Humanities Computing in the e-Research department of the Huygens Institute (The Hague) and wrote a PhD thesis at Utrecht University.