Vatican Library plans to digitize 41 million pages
The Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana has begun the first phase of a massive digitization project and over the next four years will digitize over 3000 manuscripts. The Vatican library hopes to eventually digitize all 82 000 manuscripts in it collection, which covers over 41 million pages.
Limitations and ethical implications of digitizing medieval manuscripts
This article seeks to identify limitations and ethical implications encountered when digitizing medieval manuscripts.
Old Light on New Media: Medieval Practices in a Digital Ages
This essay offers an insight into the way digital editions of medieval texts can be employed to replicate the medieval reading experience.
The St Albans Psalter now online
The St Albans Psalter, one of the most impressive medieval manuscripts created in twelfth-century England, has been digitized and is now available to view for free online.
The Vatican and Oxford University team up to digitize 1.5 million pages of medieval manuscripts
The University of Oxford and the Vatican have jointly created a digital project that will put online over 1.5 million pages of medieval and biblical texts.
Over a thousand medieval manuscripts to be digitized in Poland
Wroclaw University Library in Poland is teaming up with IBM to digitize nearly 800,000 pages of European manuscripts, books, and maps dating back to the Middle Ages. This will include over 1100 medieval manuscripts.
Stanford University and Walters Art Museum team up for medieval manuscript digitization project
A 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
This paper was given at the Canada Chaucer Seminar on April 27, 2013.
Medievalists and the Scholarly Digital Edition
Clearly, 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
The 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
One 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
This 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
The 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
A 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
The 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
This 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
From 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
Oxford 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…
Digitized Medieval Manuscripts in the Classroom: A Project in Progress
Digitized Medieval Manuscripts in the Classroom: A Project in Progress By Andrea Winkler The History Teacher, Vol. 35:2 (2002) Introduction: For many medievalists, the…
Digital Images of Yale’s Vast Cultural Collections Now Available for Free
Scholars, artists and other individuals around the world will enjoy free access to online images of millions of objects housed in Yale’s museums,…
John Rylands Library to digitize late medieval Koran
Technology is to enable scholars for the first time to study a complete manuscript of one of the world’s most important and largest…
Gale Adds Medieval and Renaissance Works to British Literary Manuscripts Online
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, today announced the release of British Literary Manuscripts Online, Medieval and Renaissance, the second installment of the British…
Top Ten Medieval Stories of 2010
For medievalists, 2010 marked a year of new discoveries and research, and a controversy over where to hold a conference. Medievalists.net has chosen…
The Bangor Pontifical Project celebrates first anniversary
The Bangor Pontifical Project, launched one year ago by Bangor University and Bangor Cathedral in Wales, has just reached its first significant milestone.…
British Library, Qatar Foundation, to work together to digitize historical documents
A partnership exploring ways to transform online resources for the study of the history, science and culture of the Arabian Gulf was announced…