We have been working a bit in the shadows lately, and we thought it might be interesting to share what we have been up to! There are news concerning both the DMMapp, the Sexy Codicology Blog. Let's go with order:
We have been working a bit in the shadows lately, and we thought it might be useful to share what we have been up to! Let's start from the DMMapp.
We are rewriting and improving some of our pages. The first one to be edited was the "Codicology" page that we have linked here. It's not perfect yet: it misses some content, and the style is a bit wonky... But we'll keep working on it! Once that is done, we'll move to other cornerstone pages on the Sexy Codicology website. We have also started using MLA citation format for our references on our posts. Although this will very often link to locked journals, and many readers will not be able to read the full texts, we find it important to cite our sources whenever we write these pages. Students, researchers, or enthusiasts can then find the texts we use and gain access via their university or library. We'll do our best find OA alternatives to link to. The aim is to have citations site-wide: pages and blog posts, Over time, all our content will be properly referenced. Like it should have been from the beginning, but we lacked the proper tools (and knowledge!) to do so :)
We have received another four new links to digitized manuscripts and we have added them to the DMMapp! This time around, the resources come from Slovenia, the US, and France. Let’s give a look!
We have added four new links on the the DMMapp: Digital Library of Slovenia - dLib.si New York Academy of Medicine Manuscrits numérisés de la bibliothèque d'étude de Verdun Centre Culturel Irlandais - Irish College in Paris They are all awesome and home to some extremely interesting manuscripts. Post coming up soon on the Sexy Codicology blog!
It’s spring, the sun is shining, and the DMMapp has more links than ever thanks to the following additions:
There is no way we could have come up with a better title. The British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France have just digitized 100 manuscripts, all dated between 700CE and 1200CE, and made them available online! The news is so awesome that as soon as we saw it on Twitter we decided we would write this post.
100 pre-1200 manuscripts have been added to the British Library's Digitised Manuscripts site. Get the list at https://t.co/GZkK4TtD0m pic.twitter.com/FhrQrB19at
— Medieval Manuscripts (@BLMedieval) March 16, 2017
Florence is a beautiful city. The kind of city many people from Rome like myself would like to move to; so similar is it to the Capital: full of art, culture, history… but without the broken roads, the traffic, and a bit more calm. Florence is also home to the Laurentian Library, or, as it's called in Italian: Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, or more simply "La Laurenziana". One of the greatest libraries in the world; one of the places that you have to visit. If you can't get there, you can view their digitized manuscripts on their recently launched new interface!
But how did the Laurentian Library come to be? The history of the library is extremely long; so let's go back to the beginning: it's 1519 and you are Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici. You are a powerful Cardinal that will be pope just four years later. You want a library. Who do you call? Well, Michelangelo, of course! You spare no expense.
There is so much to do! We have succesfully migrated the articles from the DMMapp blog to the Sexy Codicology blog; HTTPS is here too. Plus, we recently posted the article about the humanistic script. It is part of our "Medieval Scripts" section. Facebook is doing nice!
As you might have read in our previous post concerning the DMMapp 3.0, one of the best features is that now we can easily see which links in our database are broken, along with quickly adding what we receive via the missing library form.