Bob Peckham posted this to MedTextL, but I'm forwarding it here because I expect folks on this list might have some suggestions for scientific developments. I'm not sure if Bob is on DM so I'm cc:ing him on this, in reply please make sure that you "reply all" so he receives suggestions too.
My own suggestion is the Archimedes Palimpsest project website (http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/). The palimpsest is from a ninth-century manuscript and many different techniques were used to bring out the text.
There's also interesting work happening in digital approaches to palaeography and codicology (both in classics and in medieval studies). A recent conference, Kodikologie und Paläographie im Digitalen Zeitalter — Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age, organized by the Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München had as its output (or input, more properly) a collection of essays on the topic, but I'm not sure if the collection is available online (Malte, can you say a bit more?).
The Digital Medievalist journal has published a few articles on digital approaches to palaeography, and also illustrations on how technologies can be used for research. See:
Peter A. Stokes, "Palaeography and Image-Processing: Some Solutions and Problems" DM 3 (2007-2008) http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/3/stokes/ Arianna Ciula, "Digital palaeography: using the digital representation of medieval script to support palaeographic analysis" DM 1.1 (Spring 2005) http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/1.1/ciula/ Kevin Kiernan, "The source of the Napier fragment of Alfred's Boethius" DM 1.1 (Spring 2005) http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/1.1/kiernan/
For catalogues and cataloguing projects, see the ENRICH project (enrich.manuscriptorium.eu), a project to create a European-wide manuscripts catalogue (using the TEI manuscript description schema). Others on this list can say more about it than I can.
I'll copy this onto the MedTextL as well.
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bob Peckham bobp@utm.edu Date: Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:53 PM Subject: [MEDTEXTL] beyond besic codicology To: MEDTEXTL@listserv.illinois.edu
I am working on the section of the Any Holt Library which will be similar to what I have done with incunabula. This will be for medieval manuscripts. The first page will feature how scholars deal with manuscripts: paleography and codicology, pecia and other procedures in medieval scriptoria. I am interested in recent scientific developments: techniques for identifying and examining a palimpsest, what DNA analysis id doing for manuscript study. Where do I go to find online material for these? I will include a page on catalogs and cataloging projects, and I will include the work I have already done with
CONSULTING MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS http://webpages.charter.net/tbob/medmss.html
TBob
Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D Professor of French Chair, AATF Commission on Advocacy Director, Globe-Gate Intercultural Web Project Director, Andy Holt Virtual Library Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages Univ. of Tennessee at Martin / Martin TN 38238 Email: bobp@utm.edu
Dear all,
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There's also interesting work happening in digital approaches to palaeography and codicology (both in classics and in medieval studies). A recent conference, Kodikologie und Paläographie im Digitalen Zeitalter - Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age, organized by the Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München had as its output (or input, more properly) a collection of essays on the topic, but I'm not sure if the collection is available online (Malte, can you say a bit more?).
A table of contents of the book (together with information how to order it) is available on the website of the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing: http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften-2/kodikologie-und-palaographie-im-digitalen-ze....
The online version of the book will be available in autumn and accessible via the aforementioned website.
Best, Malte
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bob Peckham bobp@utm.edu Date: Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:53 PM Subject: [MEDTEXTL] beyond besic codicology To: MEDTEXTL@listserv.illinois.edu
I am working on the section of the Any Holt Library which will be similar to what I have done with incunabula. This will be for medieval manuscripts. The first page will feature how scholars deal with manuscripts: paleography and codicology, pecia and other procedures in medieval scriptoria. I am interested in recent scientific developments: techniques for identifying and examining a palimpsest, what DNA analysis id doing for manuscript study. Where do I go to find online material for these? I will include a page on catalogs and cataloging projects, and I will include the work I have already done with
CONSULTING MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS http://webpages.charter.net/tbob/medmss.html
TBob
Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D Professor of French Chair, AATF Commission on Advocacy Director, Globe-Gate Intercultural Web Project Director, Andy Holt Virtual Library Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages Univ. of Tennessee at Martin / Martin TN 38238 Email: bobp@utm.edu
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