[Scriptoris] From the Althing list: Abbey Library manuscript collection online: scribes and binders note

[Elaine]

Fantastic. Can hardly wait to get to the site and REALly go through it.
Many thanks for sharing.

BTW, I have been out of the scene for a few years. Have we met? I am  
primarily a scribe, but just before I took the pause, I was doing  
entire scrolls and the illumination as well. Mostly Warlord things.  
What does the A&S scene look like today, its emphasis and the like,  
and who is doing most of the work?

Do you think there might be interest in holding a  meeting of scribes  
and illuminators in Dallas, near White Rock Lake? Where do most of  
the s & i people  live these days?

HL Lete Bitherspring



On Oct 23, 2008, at 8:22 AM, Wayne Ross wrote:

> I've just been pointed at this:
>
> The Abbey Library of St. Gall, with its 2,100 manuscripts, is among  
> the
> oldest and most significant manuscript libraries in the world. Half of
> the manuscripts, or codices, were produced in the middle ages, with
> about
> 400 volumes produced before the year 1000 A.D.
>
> They are digitizing the entire collection with content description,
> facsimiles (from front to back including endpapers)  and pics of the
> bindings (frontal, some clearly post-dating the contents), including a
> range of resolutions for close-in work):
>
> http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en/index.htm
>
> They've done 144 manuscripts so far.
>
>
>
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