- #DIGITIZED MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS FOR FREE#
- #DIGITIZED MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS DOWNLOAD#
- #DIGITIZED MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS FREE#
#DIGITIZED MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS DOWNLOAD#
Viewers can download material by page, manuscript or collection. The images and metadata are hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries’ OPenn manuscript portal and are also available through the Internet Archive. “Scholars are discovering connections and relationships among manuscripts held in the PACSCL member collections that were not immediately obvious, opening new avenues for the study of provenance, scribal practice and related issues.”Ī 1462 handwritten copy of Virgil’s Aeneid with penciled sketches in the marginsĪt Lehigh University Ī researcher shared that she had been working with blurry black-and-white photocopies prior to digitization of one manuscript, which was a difference of “night and day.” Others said the access and quality opened up a whole new world for medieval scholars. “Response to the project has been enthusiastic, both among the special collections community and the medieval studies community,” said Lois Fischer Black, curator of special collections at Lehigh and principal investigator of the project. It is the nation’s largest regional online collection of medieval manuscripts. Users can view, download and compare manuscripts in nearly microscopic detail.
#DIGITIZED MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS FREE#
With the leadership of Lehigh, Free Library of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania Libraries, the consortium has virtually made available nearly all the region’s medieval manuscripts, including descriptive metadata, which have been released into the public domain and are easily downloadable at high resolution. The recently completed project is called Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis: Toward a Comprehensive Online Library of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in PACSCL Libraries in Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware. The project was funded by a $499,086 grant on the consortium’s behalf to Lehigh University from the Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Enabling New Scholarship Through Increasing Access to Unique Materials initiative of the Council on Library and Information Resources, supported by The Andrew W.
The pages were digitized and cataloged through a three-year collaborative project of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL). The hand-lettered and illustrated pages range from brightly hued, gold-leafed illuminated works of art to functional texts intended for students of science, philosophy and religion. Led by Lehigh University, a partnership of 15 Philadelphia-area libraries has scanned and digitized more than 160,000 pages from 475 original manuscripts, the earliest dating to the ninth century.
#DIGITIZED MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS FOR FREE#
Now, thousands of original medieval manuscript and early modern images are available for free online, for scholars and aficionados to search, download and study. From tattoos to video games to Game of Thrones, medieval iconography has long inspired fascination, imitation and veneration.
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