[Sca-cooks] British Library project

[Elaine Koogler]

Thanks for sending this information. I hope it's ok that I've forwarded 
this information to folk in our Barony as well as others in the Kingdom 
that I believed would be interested.

Kiri

Johnna Holloway wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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