[Mediaevistik] [Fwd: Images of Medieval Manuscripts from Leeds University Library]

[Torsten Schassan]

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Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

zur Kenntnis, die Resultate eines weiteren kleinen
Digitalisierungsprojektes.

Beste Grüße,
Torsten Schaßan


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Subject: Images of Medieval Manuscripts from Leeds University Library
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:10:30 +0100
From: Katja Airaksinen <k.s.airaksinen at LEEDS.AC.UK>
Reply-To: Mailing list for rare books and Special Collections librarians
             <LIS-RAREBOOKS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
To: LIS-RAREBOOKS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Images of Medieval Manuscripts from Leeds University Library

Some 685 digital images from our medieval illuminated manuscripts are now
available online: http://ludos.leeds.ac.uk/collection/medmss. Twenty-seven
different manuscripts have been drawn on for the project, including four
from
Ripon Cathedral Library (held at Leeds University Library). Apart from
the Hours
associated with the Bedford Master Workshop (Brotherton Collection MS 1),
the Genealogical History Roll (Brotherton Collection MS 100) and one small
fragment, which have been photographed in full, the manuscripts are
represented selectively, but all miniatures and all significant
illuminated borders
and initials have been included.

The images are described in detail, with iconographic subjects and textual
contexts identified, and can be searched for by keyword or phrase (e.g.
dragon, music, peacock, Eve, St. Sebastian, Compline, Salue sancta facies).
The images can also be browsed, either all of them from the homepage or by
subject terms, illuminators, or types of illumination in the form of
hyperlinks in
the image descriptions (e.g. Saints, Master of the Adair Hours, Historiated
border). The manuscripts themselves can also be browsed, and full
descriptions of them are available via “View parent object”.

Future plans include the digitisation in full of the Library’s three
Middle English
manuscripts. Two texts from Brotherton Collection MS 501, ‘The Seven Works
of Mercy’ and ‘The Finding of the Cross’, are already available via the URL
above.

We hope you enjoy the resource!

Katja Airaksinen and Oliver Pickering
Brotherton Library
University of Leeds

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Torsten Schassan
Herzog August Bibliothek, Postfach 1364, D-38299 Wolfenbuettel
Tel.: +49-5331-808-130, schassan {at} hab.de
http://www.hab.de; http://www.hab.de/forschung/projekte/weiss64.htm
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