[Sca-cooks] Fwd: [MCH] exploring medieval books online

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

>Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 09:43:36 -0600
>From: Elizabeth Lear <eliz at indra.com>
>To: manche at lists.panix.com, carolingia at bloom-beacon.mit.edu
>Subject: [MCH] exploring medieval books online
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>The British Library has been working on a project called "Turning the
>Pages".  It's quite beautiful, and let's you have that 'nose up
>against the book' experience at home:
>
>
>"Visitors are able to virtually "turn" the pages of manuscripts in an
>incredibly realistic way, using touch-screen technology and
>animation. They can zoom in on the high quality digitised images and
>read or listen to notes explaining the beauty and significance of each
>page. There are other features specific to the individual manuscripts
>- in the Leonardo notebook, for example, a mirror button turns the
>text round so visitors can try to read his famous mirror handwriting.
>
>"Turning the Pages allows many more pages to be viewed and enjoyed than
>when a single opening is displayed in a case, and, most importantly,
>neither the original or facsimile are damaged during the process.
>
>"There are currently nine treasures on display in Turning the Pages;
>the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Diamond Sutra, the Sforza Hours, the
>Leonardo Notebook, the Golden Haggadah, the Luttrell Psalter,
>Blackwell's Herbal, the Sherborne Missal and Sultan Baybars' Qur'an.
>
>"Originally built for the exhibition galleries in the British Library
>at St Pancras, Turning the Pages terminals are also available at a
>number of sites in Northumberland and in the National Library of
>Medicine in Bethesda near Washington, USA.
>
>"Now you have the opportunity to 'Turn the Pages' of the Sherborne
>Missal and Sultan Baybars' Qur'an online with our new web versions.
>
>   http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/treasures.html
>
>"The Lindisfarne Gospel, the Sherborne Missal and Sultan Baybars'
>Qur'an are also published by the British Library on CD-ROM. For
>information on and orders on all our publications, including the new
>multimedia CD-ROM of Sultan Baybars' Qur'an (#12.95 inc. VAT), contact
>the British Library Bookshop."


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