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Getty: A Rare 500-Year-Old Manuscript Gets a Second Life Online

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Getty: A Rare 500-Year-Old Manuscript Gets a Second Life Online. “The Florentine Codex… is a 16th-century manuscript that details, in both the Spanish and Nahuatl languages, the culture and history of the Mexica (Aztec) people, including the invasion of Mexico City by the Spaniards and their Indigenous allies. The Digital Florentine Codex reveals the manuscript’s contents by providing access to new and previously published Nahuatl and Spanish language transcriptions, English and Spanish translations, as well as easily searchable texts and images.”

National and University Library of Iceland: Foreign manuscripts from Willard Fiske’s Library

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National and University Library of Iceland: Foreign manuscripts from Willard Fiske’s Library. “The books arrived at the library soon after his death, but were not unpacked from boxes until after the library’s move to a new building in 1908. Recently, it was discovered that among the books the library received from Fiske’s collection were four foreign manuscripts, all of which are unique.” All four manuscripts have been digitized and are available online.

Medievalists: 61 Medieval Manuscripts digitized and available online

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Medievalists: 61 Medieval Manuscripts digitized and available online. “One of the largest databases of medieval manuscripts has added 61 new items to its collection. They include manuscripts from the Franciscan order as well as fragments dating back to the eighth century. The digitized manuscripts were added to e-codices: The Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland, which is run out of the University of Fribourg. The new additions bring their collection to over 2500 items.”

Library of Congress: Library of Congress Releases Newly Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts

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Library of Congress: Library of Congress Releases Newly Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts. “The Library of Congress has released some 230 newly digitized manuscripts written in Hebrew and similar languages such as Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian and Yiddish. The collection, available online for researchers and the public for the first time, includes a 14th century collection of responsa by Solomon ibn Adret of Barcelona, considered one of the most prominent authorities on Jewish law of all time.”

Historical census publications of Africa, the West Indies, and Pacific Islands: ‘Unlocking our Hidden Collections’ (British Library Social Science Blog)

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British Library Social Science Blog: Historical census publications of Africa, the West Indies, and Pacific Islands: ‘Unlocking our Hidden Collections’. “The British Library acquires material at a rapid rate, and this has resulted in areas where material cannot be catalogued promptly soon after its arrival. This prevents discovery and access by readers, effectively ‘hiding’ the material away. In response to this, the Unlocking our Hidden Collections initiative aims to clear cataloguing backlogs, process donated material, and upgrade already existing bibliographic records, making the material ‘visible’ once more.”

British Library Asian and African Studies Blog: Bollinger Javanese Manuscripts Digitisation Project completed

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British Library Asian and African Studies Blog: Bollinger Javanese Manuscripts Digitisation Project completed. “Through the generous support of William and Judith Bollinger, 120 Javanese manuscripts from the British Library’s collection have just been digitised and are now fully accessible online. The manuscripts date from the 17th to the early 20th centuries, and are written on paper in both Javanese script (hanacaraka) and adapted Arabic script (pegon), and include a few manuscripts in Old Javanese.”

New York Times: A Hospital Visit Reveals Medieval Secrets Hidden in Books

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New York Times: A Hospital Visit Reveals Medieval Secrets Hidden in Books. “Even in medieval times, recycling was in vogue: Bits of parchment salvaged from older handwritten manuscripts were often used to reinforce other books. Using CT scanning, a team of researchers has now shown that those medieval leftovers hidden beneath some books’ covers can be seen.”

Medieval and Renaissance Women: full list of the charters and rolls (British Library Medieval Manuscripts Blog)

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British Library Medieval Manuscripts Blog: Medieval and Renaissance Women: full list of the charters and rolls. “… we are thrilled to release a list of all the rolls and charters digitised as part of our Medieval and Renaissance Women project. There are 25 rolls and 219 charters in total, in addition to the 93 manuscript volumes that we announced in a previous blogpost.”

Leafing Through History: Mining DNA Clues From Centuries-Old Manuscripts (North Carolina State University)

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North Carolina State University: Leafing Through History: Mining DNA Clues From Centuries-Old Manuscripts. “Since early 2021, an intercollege, interdisciplinary team of NC State researchers has been using modern scientific techniques to mine genetic clues from old manuscripts. In doing so, they are uncovering traces of the past hidden in the books and shaping future scholarship.”

Modern scribes: How medieval books go from parchment to the cloud (Binghamton University)

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Binghamton University: Modern scribes: How medieval books go from parchment to the cloud. “In her new book, Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor, [Professor Bridget Whearty] introduces readers to the digitization process and the highly trained professionals who perform this work.”

British Library Blog: Three Alexander the Great manuscripts newly digitised

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British Library Blog: Three Alexander the Great manuscripts newly digitised. “In preparation for the exhibition, we have digitised three more of our illustrated Alexander manuscripts, so that, in addition to the pages on display in the exhibition, all the images and accompanying text can be viewed online. One of the newly-digitised items is an early collection of Latin works; the others are French versions of Alexander’s life story, as told by the Roman historian, Quintus Curtius Rufus.”

Confederation Centre of the Arts: New digital exhibition explores Anne of Green Gables manuscript

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Confederation Centre of the Arts: New digital exhibition explores Anne of Green Gables manuscript. “The Anne of Green Gables Manuscript: L.M. Montgomery and the Creation of Anne officially launched online today. The digital exhibition will allow people to explore Montgomery’s original text, see what was written on the back of pages, and find out how famous moments were developed or revised. The interactive website includes never-before-seen material, such as Montgomery’s publishing contract for the novel.”

British Library Blog: From Julian of Norwich to Eleanor Cobham: more magnificent manuscripts online

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British Library Blog: From Julian of Norwich to Eleanor Cobham: more magnificent manuscripts online. “Readers of this Blog may know about out ambitious project to digitise a selection of manuscripts, rolls and charters connected with Medieval and Renaissance Women. Here we reveal another ten volumes that are now available online, including important literary manuscripts, a guide for female recluses, obituary calendars, and a volume with its own embroidered bookbinding.”

The Local Germany: German archive acquires trove of works by poet Rilke

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The Local Germany: German archive acquires trove of works by poet Rilke. “A huge collection of letters and manuscripts by modernist poet Rainer Maria Rilke has been handed over to the public German Literature Archive (DLA), the archive said Thursday.”

University of Leiden: Medieval manuscripts made available in Europeana

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University of Leiden: Medieval manuscripts made available in Europeana. “Over 600 manuscripts and early prints have been made digitally available by Leiden University Libraries (UBL) via the Europeana platform. In the project ‘The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’ (ARMA), seven European heritage institutions added 30,000 digitised medieval items to Europeana’s database and improved the quality of another 30,000, thus bringing medieval reading culture within the grasp of users.”