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Paul Ferguson
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Posted: Wed Apr 28th, 2010 06:13 pm

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"One of the most important collections of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts - for centuries kept at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge - has been entirely digitised, and is now available on the internet.

"The college's Parker Library holds more than 550 documents - including the 6th Century St Augustine Gospels, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the earliest history written in English" [and some alchemical manuscripts also]:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8648441.stm

The all-singing-and-dancing version is very expensive to subscribe to but you can browse (but not zoom) to your heart's content free of charge:

http://parkerweb.stanford.edu/parker/actions/page.do?forward=browse

Unfortunately the lack of a zoom facility greatly reduces the usefulness of it if you want to read the texts.

Last edited on Wed Apr 28th, 2010 06:24 pm by Paul Ferguson

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Posted: Wed Apr 28th, 2010 08:06 pm

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Thanks Paul. But yes, you're right; even at full screen, with the ‘basic view’ you can hardly read a few words (I tried ths MS.99).

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Posted: Wed Apr 28th, 2010 10:03 pm

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Carl Lavoie wrote:
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Thanks Paul. But yes, you're right; even at full screen, with the ‘basic view’ you can hardly read a few words (I tried ths MS.99).

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Yes, it's very cunning: left-clicking, then right-clicking and saving the page as, say, a .jpg enables the file to be subsequently opened in a program with a zoom facility, such as the various PhotoViewer programs, but the resolution seems to have been deliberately set at such a level that the resulting image is even then only just at the limit of legibility.

By the way, here are two useful sites listing digitised manuscripts on the web:

http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/

http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/sechard/512digms.htm

Last edited on Thu Apr 29th, 2010 07:43 am by Paul Ferguson

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