The DARMAB project aims at the study and digital enhancement of the Tabula Chorographica Armenica in a broadly interdisciplinary context. The Tabula, now on display in the Marsili Museum of the Library of the University of Bologna, is an enormous map made in Constantinople in 1691 on commission of the Bolognese Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsili. Over three and a half metres long, it depicts hundreds of monasteries and shrines of the Armenian Church through colourful drawings and captions in Armenian. In a digital environment, the Armenian map can become a collector of an immense amount of heterogeneous multimedia information, associated with the individual elements of the Tabula and freely explorable by the visitor in an immediate and direct way.
Francesco Citti, Bologna University Library - BUB
Gabriele Bitelli, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering - DICAM
Anna Sirinian, Departiment of History and Cultures - DISCI
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna