Dear Sophie,
Many thanks for this announcement, and to the BL for this excellent
continuing work and service to all of us who work on Ancient Greek texts
in any form. A quick question: do you have any further information on
the technical specifications of this digitization project? (Both in
terms of the specifications of the images themselves, and also of the
associated metadata and the mechanisms for handling, delivering,
browsing and addressing same?)
I recall there was some discussion a couple of years ago concerning
stable URIs for manuscript images and the manuscripts themselves, making
parts of manuscripts and even parts of pages addressable. Where does
that conversation stand now?
Thanks again,
Gabriel
On 2011-06-09 10:28, Arp, Sophie wrote:
> Phase two of the British Library’s project to digitise all of its
> //ca//. 1,000 Greek manuscripts is now well under way. This phase (also
> generously funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation
> <http://www.snf.org/>) will digitise and make publicly available a
> further 250 manuscripts, adding to the 284 manuscripts digitised in
> phase one. We are currently about half way through this second phase and
> plan to publish the digitised manuscripts in batches during the rest of
> this year on our Digitised Manuscripts <http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts>
> viewer.
>
> A new batch of manuscripts has now been published online, and contains
> 24 manuscripts ranging in date from the tenth to the nineteenth
> centuries. They include a group of illustrated medieval manuscripts of
> the gospels, formerly owned by the celebrated English physician and book
> collector Anthony Askew (//fl//. 1699–1774), acquired by the British
> Museum in 1775. Also included is a tenth-century parchment manuscript of
> Old Testament fragments (Add MS 20002), acquired in parts from Sinai by
> Constantin von Tischendorf (1815–1874) during his second journey to the
> East in 1853, which came to the British Museum in 1854. Another part of
> this manuscript is housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford (Bodleian
> Auct. T. infr. ii. 1). A further highlight is an eleventh-century
> manuscript of Symeon Metaphrastes’s Saints’ Lives for December (Add MS
> 11870), which bears ownership marks of Cardinal Salviati (d. 1553) and
> Pope Pius VI (1775–1779).
>
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