Medieval History
Myriah Williams writes
- Medievalists Work To Restore Damaged 14th Century Manuscript
A 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 have been unrecoverable. Gregory Heyworth, associate professor of English at the...
- Greetings From Rare Book School In Charlottesville, Virginia.
This summer Rare Book School is excited to offer four courses designed specifically to advance the research of scholars in medieval and renaissance studies. Introduction to Paleography, 800?1500 introduces students to the book-based scripts...
- Historical Image Overlays For The St Chad Gospels
From Ansax-net. This is a terrific website: I'm sure many of you will also find it fascinating: Celia On 2/12/14 7:59 AM, Endres, William F wrote: Dear Colleagues, I am happy to announce that I now have available for viewing images...
- Vatican Library Digitation
Vatican City, march 24, 2010 Newsletter 5/2010 Dear friends and readers, The Osservatore Romano dated March 24 has published the following story which we felt certain would be of interest to you. I am sending it as an ?extraordinary Newsletter?, to which...
- New Medieval Art Websites, Ii.
My post written last month called attention the a number of interesting new websites. In recent weeks I've noticed some more interesting new websites dedicated to medieval art. First I need to mention a new database, launched on December...
Medieval History
Further Developments in the Black Book of Carmarthen Research
Myriah Williams writes
Interest generated in research on the Black Book of Carmarthen (NLW MS Peniarth 1) resulted last week in an international collaboration between Dr Gregory Heyworth, director of The Lazarus Project, the National Library of Wales and myself. The Lazurus Project specializes in multispectral imaging, a process in which a series of photographs is taken of an object lit with numerous colour bands spanning from ultraviolet to infrared. A specialised lens made of quartz is used in the imaging, as it allows for much better transmission of ultra violet light than standard glass.
Over the course of three days we captured images of select pages in the Black Book, as well as some of the fourteenth-century Peniarth 20, a manuscript whose outer pages suffered damage significant enough to render their texts illegible. The processing of the images is fairly labour-intensive, so the full results of the endeavour will not be known for some weeks or longer. Initial results, however, look promising. I look forward to seeing what comes to light from this work (pun intended), and am delighted to have taken part in it.
- Medievalists Work To Restore Damaged 14th Century Manuscript
A 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 have been unrecoverable. Gregory Heyworth, associate professor of English at the...
- Greetings From Rare Book School In Charlottesville, Virginia.
This summer Rare Book School is excited to offer four courses designed specifically to advance the research of scholars in medieval and renaissance studies. Introduction to Paleography, 800?1500 introduces students to the book-based scripts...
- Historical Image Overlays For The St Chad Gospels
From Ansax-net. This is a terrific website: I'm sure many of you will also find it fascinating: Celia On 2/12/14 7:59 AM, Endres, William F wrote: Dear Colleagues, I am happy to announce that I now have available for viewing images...
- Vatican Library Digitation
Vatican City, march 24, 2010 Newsletter 5/2010 Dear friends and readers, The Osservatore Romano dated March 24 has published the following story which we felt certain would be of interest to you. I am sending it as an ?extraordinary Newsletter?, to which...
- New Medieval Art Websites, Ii.
My post written last month called attention the a number of interesting new websites. In recent weeks I've noticed some more interesting new websites dedicated to medieval art. First I need to mention a new database, launched on December...