Cambridge University Library
Cambridge University Library
Sandars Lectures 2018-19: Lecture Onewww.youtube.com ‘The medieval manuscript and its digital image’, with Dr William Noel, Director of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, and Director of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscripts Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. These lectures explore the relationship between manuscript pages and digital images, and between physical collections and digital ones. They examine the importance of interfaces in shaping audience and inquiry, and the potential of tools to aid in the archaeology of the medieval book. Lecture One: Collections Digital Images are so good at revealing information about medieval manuscripts that scholars use them all the time. And yet scholars know nothing about most digital images. It is very difficult for to find information about a digital image of a medieval manuscript, other than the shelfmark of manuscript that it represents. This is remarkable for a discipline that prides itself on the careful examination of sources, and it threatens the integrity of scholarship on the medieval book. The personal and institutional presentation of digital images affects not only what scholars can know about the digital images that they use, but also the types of scholarship that they can undertake with them. Through examples such as the Archimedes Palimpsest and the medieval manuscripts of Philadelphia, this lecture reexamines the presentation of digital collections on the web. Recorded on Monday 11 March 2019.
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