Medieval manuscripts in the digital age / edited by Benjamin Albritton, Georgia Henley, and Elaine Treharne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Albritton, Benjamin, editor.

Henley, Georgia, editor.

Treharne, Elaine, editor.

Series:

Digital research in arts and humanities.

Digital research in arts and humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Codicology--Technological innovations.

Codicology.

Manuscripts, Medieval--Digitization.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major manuscript repository's digital presence and poses timely questions about studying books from a temporal and spatial distance via the online environment.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

List of contributors

Preface

1. Introduction

PART 1: Theory and Practice

2. What it is to be a digitization specialist: Chasing medieval materials in a sea of pixels

3. From the divine to the digital: Digitization as resurrection and reconstruction

4. A note on technology and functionality in digital manuscript studies

5. Ways of seeing manuscripts: Exploring Parker 2.0

PART 2: Materialities

6. A note on Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 210

7. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 367 Part II: A study in (digital) codicology

8. Pocket change: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 383 and the value of the virtual object

9. Rolling with it: Navigating absence in the digital realm

PART 3: Translation and Transmission

10. 'Glocal' matters: The Gospels of St Augustine as a codex in translation

11. Encyclopaedic notes in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 320

12. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 322: Tradition and transmission

13. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 41 and 286: Digitization as translation

PART 4: Of Multimedia and the Multilingual

14. Fragmentation and wholeness in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 16

15. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 144 and 402: Mercian intellectual culture in pre-Conquest England (and beyond)

16. Philologia and philology: Allegory, multilingualism, and the Corpus Martianus Capella

17. Remediation and multilingualism in Corpus Christi College, 402

PART 5: Forms of Reading

18. Living with books in early medieval England: Solomon and Saturn, bibliophilia, and the globalist Red Book of Darley

19. Severed heads and sutured skins.

20. Books consumed, books multiplied: Martianus Capella, Ælfric's Homilies, and the International Image Interoperability Framework

21. Making a home for manuscripts on the Internet

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-300344-3

1-003-00344-3

1-000-08125-7

9781003003441

OCLC:

1157489449