Taking Marjorie's suggestion one step further, the BnF is also supporting persistent links to details of images for embedding - even supplying the code. I haven't seen this advertised broadly either, but:

1. From the zoom view of a folio

1a. Zoom to the desired resolution

2. Click on the "Select a part of the image" button in the upper right-hand part of the screen

3. Highlight the part of the image you wish to save

4. Copy the embed code from the pop-up box

5. Example:
<a href='http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8449032x/f9.item' title='Lien vers le document' target='_blank'><img src='http://gallica.bnf.fr/proxy?method=R&ark=btv1b8449032x.f9&l=4&r=1464,204,194,187' alt='Poésies [de GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT]'/><br/>Poésies [de GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT]<br/> Source: gallica.bnf.fr</a>

5a. Register this snippet if you want with Gallica

6. Embed this in your blog or other site

7. Or simply use the img src URL to show friends the detail you're interested in: http://gallica.bnf.fr/proxy?method=R&ark=btv1b8449032x.f9&l=4&r=1464,204,194,187

Best, Ben

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Marjorie Burghart <marjorie.burghart@ehess.fr> wrote:

Talking about baby steps, things are really moving in the right direction at the French national library (BnF): few people have noticed, but now images from the Gallica portal are royalty-free for any non-commercial use. I don' think the news is very widespread, but just go on Gallica, look for instance for a digitized manuscript (example "Latin 12584"), choose any folio and click on "télécharger / imprimer" (download / print), and you'll find a link to the non-commercial and commercial use policies.
Best regards, Marjorie

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