I am very grateful to David Ganz who has sent a list of further manuscripts in Helmut Gneuss's Handlist which are available online. His list makes up this post and is provided as the third installment in this series of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts online. As before, i make no promises to ...Read more
The British Library launched their BL Labs initiative last Monday, inviting presentations from various Digital Humanities-related projects in order to inspire entries for the forthcoming BL Labs competition.[1] Talks were delivered in adrenaline-pumping, lightning-round Pecha Kucha format -- twenty slides slides per speaker, ...Read more
For the next installment of this series of blog posts listing digitised Anglo-Saxon manuscripts which are available online, I now list those from the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV), and Det Kongelike Bibliotek (Royal Library) in Copenhagen. A full explanation of these tables is given in the first installment of this ...Read more
Perhaps the most frequent misunderstanding of the DigiPal project is the role of technology in what we are doing, specifically the automatic identification of scribal hands, and/or automatic identification of letters and features. Despite what many seem to think, we are not using the computer for either of these at ...Read more
Many libraries now are digitising their manuscripts and making these available online. Practices vary substantially in terms of image quality, presentation, permissions and so on, but it cannot be denied that having even basic images of every page and binding of a manuscript is a very useful resource. One of ...Read more
