SD 2/17/09:
"Virtual Library Of Medieval Manuscripts Created"
Excerpt:
"Searching [with Google] for medieval manuscripts gets you millions of hits,
most of which have nothing to do with manuscripts, and when they do, they
usually feature only images of a single page rather than the entire book,'
said Matthew Fisher, an assistant professor of English at UCLA. 'Since
finding these great projects is so tough, they're functionally invisible.'
Fisher set out two years ago to remedy the situation. With the assistance of
two graduate students in English, a computer developer from UCLA's Center
for Digital Humanities and Christopher Baswell, a former UCLA professor of
English, Fisher decided to collect links to every manuscript from the eighth
to the 15th century that had been fully digitized by any library, archive,
institute or private owner anywhere in the world.
In December 2008, the group launched the initial results. The UCLA-based
Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts now links to nearly 1,000
manuscripts by 193 authors in 20 languages from 59 libraries around the
world, allowing users to flit from England to France to Switzerland to the
United States ‹ to name the locations of just a few of the featured
repositories ‹ with the click of a mouse."
More:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210161916.htm
JMM / LMC
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June Samaras
KALAMOS BOOKS
(For Books about Greece)
2020 Old Station Rd
Streetsville,Ontario
Canada L5M 2V1
Tel : 905-542-1877
E-mail : kalamosbooks(a)gmail.com
www.kalamosbooks.com