Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age

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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. Through contributions from a large group of distinguished international scholars, the volume assesses the impact of being able to access and interpret these early manuscripts in new ways. The focus on Parker on the Web, a world-class digital repository of diverse medieval manuscripts, comes as that site made its contents Open Access. Exploring the uses of digital representations of medieval texts and their contexts, contributors consider manuscripts from multiple perspectives including production, materiality, and reception. In addition, the volume explicates new interdisciplinary frameworks of analysis for the study of the relationship between texts and their physical contexts, while centring on an appreciation of the opportunities and challenges effected by the digital representation of a tangible object. Approaches extend from the codicological, palaeographical, linguistic, and cultural to considerations of reader reception, image production, and the implications of new technologies for future discoveries. Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age advances the debate in manuscript studies about the role of digital and computational sources and tools. As such, the book will appeal to scholars and students working in the disciplines of Digital Humanities, Medieval Studies, Literary Studies, Library and Information Science, and Book History. 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