[Sca-cooks] British Library project

[Johnna Holloway]

This is the first of several messages related to things discovered
or found in England during my trip there last week.
Library wise, We did spend
a great deal of time one afternoon at the British Library which now
offers this---
http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/digitisation1.html
This is the link to the their Turning the pages project where one can
look at and examine a number of manuscripts.  There are ten up at the
moment including  the Diamond Sutra, the Lindisfarne Gospels,
the Golden Haggadah, Luttrell Psalter, the Sforza Hours,
Codex Arundel (by Leonardo da Vinci), the Sherborne Missal,
Sultan Baybars Qur'an' and Elizabeth Blackwell's A curious Herbal (from
the 1730s). [Broadband or fast connection is the way to go.]

Yes there are food related pictures scattered in and among the texts.

We were able to play around with it in the Library prior to its
public launch on April 20th. Viewing them in the library is a treat as
one can
view them on a giant yard wide monitor which makes the details come alive.
C&I people  should note that  there is a zoom function too that makes it 
easy
to see funny little details. All in all well worth the trip.

The V&A also now offers a bank of terminals where one can call up 
pictures from
the collection and have them e-mailed back home to your in-box which is 
another
nice thing to explore and use. This includes items that can't be 
photographed well in situ.
There is talk that this will eventually be put up online on the web, but 
there's no date chosen
for that yet.

Johnnae llyn Lewis