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Stanford University and Walters Art Museum team up for medieval manuscript digitization project
Posted on May 31, 2013 | No CommentsA new agreement will ensure the long-term preservation of the Walters Art Museum's digitized collection of medieval manuscripts and provide new apps for studying them. -
‘Fromm thennes faste he gan avyse/This litel spot of erthe’: GIS and the General Prologue
Posted on May 2, 2013 | No CommentsThis paper was given at the Canada Chaucer Seminar on April 27, 2013. -
Medievalists and the Scholarly Digital Edition
Posted on March 21, 2013 | No CommentsClearly, since 2002 there has been significant growth in the number and range of digitized manuscripts available online, and it may be that the increase in the reported use of digitized facsimiles simply follows the increasing availability of those facsimiles. -
New Testament from the oldest complete Bible available online for the first time
Posted on December 18, 2012 | No CommentsThe New Testament volume from one of the British Library’s most valuable treasures, Codex Alexandrinus, has been made available online for the first time on the British Library’s website. -
The Geese Book – medieval manuscript now available online
Posted on November 28, 2012 | No CommentsOne of the most interesting manuscripts of the late Middle Ages is now available online - The Geese Book, a lavishly and whimsically illuminated, two-volume liturgical book, can now be accessed through a project from the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. -
The Reference Corpus of Late Middle English Scientific Prose
Posted on September 25, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper presents the current status of the project Reference Corpus of Late Middle English Scientific Prose, which pursues the digital editing of hitherto unedited scientific, particularly medical, manuscripts in late Middle English, as well as the compilation of an annotated corpus -
Medieval Arabic manuscripts, East India Company papers, to go online
Posted on July 19, 2012 | No CommentsThe British Library and Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development have unveiled an ambitious partnership to transform people’s understanding of the history of the Middle East, and the region’s relationship with Britain and the rest of the world. -
University of Oxford and Vatican to digitize 1.5 million pages of historical texts
Posted on April 12, 2012 | No CommentsA collaboration between the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana at the Vatican will bring historical texts dating back to the Middle Ages into the digital era. -
Medieval Monastic Library of Lorsch recreated online
Posted on April 10, 2012 | No CommentsThe unique holdings of the medieval monastic library of Lorsch, currently scattered over 68 libraries worldwide, are being re-compiled into a virtual library. -
The Walters Art Museum Receives $265,000 NEH Grant to Digitize Over 100 Flemish Manuscripts
Posted on March 28, 2012 | No CommentsThis third NEH grant allows the Walters to provide public access to an even greater number of its illuminated medieval manuscripts -
Medieval records of the Church Courts of York now online
Posted on November 28, 2011 | No CommentsFrom arguments about church taxes on liquorice, roses and pigeon dung, to families disputing wills and inheritance, the records paint a vivid picture of the social, economic, political, religious and emotional world of people living in a period from the 14th to 19th centuries. -
Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah now available online
Posted on September 21, 2011 | No CommentsOxford University’s Bodleian Libraries have digitized and made available online part of the first comprehensive code of Jewish Law, Mishneh Torah (http://maimonides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Written between 1170 and 1180 by the rabbinic... -
Digitized Medieval Manuscripts in the Classroom: A Project in Progress
Posted on August 17, 2011 | No CommentsDigitized Medieval Manuscripts in the Classroom: A Project in Progress By Andrea Winkler The History Teacher, Vol. 35:2 (2002) Introduction: For many medievalists, the increase in digitized manuscripts has been a... -
Digital Images of Yale’s Vast Cultural Collections Now Available for Free
Posted on May 17, 2011 | No CommentsScholars, artists and other individuals around the world will enjoy free access to online images of millions of objects housed in Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries thanks to a new... -
John Rylands Library to digitize late medieval Koran
Posted on January 20, 2011 | No CommentsTechnology is to enable scholars for the first time to study a complete manuscript of one of the world’s most important and largest Korans. The book’s ornate 88 x 60... -
Gale Adds Medieval and Renaissance Works to British Literary Manuscripts Online
Posted on January 19, 2011 | No CommentsGale, part of Cengage Learning, today announced the release of British Literary Manuscripts Online, Medieval and Renaissance, the second installment of the British Literary Manuscripts Online series. Following the release... -
Top Ten Medieval Stories of 2010
Posted on December 30, 2010 | No CommentsFor medievalists, 2010 marked a year of new discoveries and research, and a controversy over where to hold a conference. Medievalists.net has chosen its top ten medieval stories of the... -
The Bangor Pontifical Project celebrates first anniversary
Posted on November 4, 2010 | No CommentsThe Bangor Pontifical Project, launched one year ago by Bangor University and Bangor Cathedral in Wales, has just reached its first significant milestone. Completion of phase one, funded by a... -
British Library, Qatar Foundation, to work together to digitize historical documents
Posted on October 28, 2010 | No CommentsA partnership exploring ways to transform online resources for the study of the history, science and culture of the Arabian Gulf was announced yesterday by Qatar Foundation for Education, Science... -
Reading Europe: European culture through the book
Posted on October 7, 2010 | No CommentsEuropeana, Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, has launched an online exhibitions that explore highlights of the continent’s literature. Reading Europe: European culture through the book showcases the full texts... -
British Library digitises Greek manuscripts
Posted on September 27, 2010 | No CommentsThe British Library has digitised over a quarter of its Greek manuscripts (284 volumes) for the first time and made them freely available online at www.bl.uk/manuscripts thanks to a generous... -
Medievalists work to restore damaged 14th century manuscript
Posted on September 8, 2010 | No CommentsA team of medieval scholars are undertaking a project to restore a 14th century manuscript, which was had been badly damaged in the Second World War, and was believed to... -
Public asked to help created world’s largest archive on Anglo-Saxon England
Posted on July 5, 2010 | No CommentsAn Oxford academic has challenged the public to help create the world’s largest archive of online material concerned with the Anglo-Saxons, after being inspired by the considerable interest shown in...