[Sca-cooks] FW: [TY] Chartres Manuscripts Could Be Restored

[Christine Seelye-King]

Ooh, maybe there are cookbooks in there!
Christianna
12th century cooking texts, ooh, it gives me goosebumps....

-----Original Message-----
From: Cathal at mindspring.com [mailto:cathal at mindspring.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 9:36 AM
To: meridian-ty at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [TY] Chartres Manuscripts Could Be Restored


Cathal to All, Greetings:

    The following article on the use of modern technology to restore badly
    damaged period texts was on the BBC site this weeked.  It sounds like
good
    news:



>  Last Updated: Friday, 4 July, 2003, 07:42 GMT 08:42 UK
>

>
> Hi-tech imaging could reveal lost texts
>
> By Paul Rincon
> BBC Science
>
>
> A unique library of medieval manuscripts, devastated by fire during World
War II and considered lost by scholars, could be restored using
> technology developed to study the surface of planets.
>
> The Chartres collection contained many treasures

> The medieval library at Chartres, France, was destroyed in an allied
bombing raid on the evening of 26 May, 1944.
>
> The collection, then housed in an annexe of Chartres town hall, comprised
around 2,000 medieval books and parchments, many of which dated to the
> 12th Century.
>
> The library was considered a national treasure and a good proportion of
the works were unpublished.
>
> After the fire was quelled, volunteers moved in to save what they could
from the smouldering ruins. Although thousands of texts were recovered,
> the fierce inferno carbonised the majority, rendering them unreadable.
>
> But digital technology called multispectral imaging may now be able to
reveal text on even the most badly burned manuscripts, allowing scholars
> to study them again.

The URL for the full article is:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3038368.stm




Cathal.







Na sir 's na seachain an cath.


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