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:
We created the DMMapp to make it easier for you to find collections of digitized manuscripts - and IIIF is making it easier for you to view, study, and compare manuscripts. In this post we are going to tell you all about why it’s awesome!
In 2011, a group of international libraries and universities (Stanford University, The British Library, Bodleian Libraries, The Bibliothèque nationale de France, the National Library of Norway, Cornell University, and Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library) set up the International Image Interoperability Framework, or, in short, IIIF (pronounced as triple-I-F).
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.
The Biblioteca de la Universidad de Barcelona one of the many new digitized libraries to the DMMapp (we are now at 500+!). The link to the Barcelona University Library was given to us through a tweet from @Archivalia_kg (he also has an excellent blog in German!)
Marlay cutting It. 12 - The Burial of St Monica at Ostia (left) and St Augustine Departing for Africa (right). That little jewel in the in the center of Cambridge that is the Fitzwilliam Museum is home to an extraordinary collection of paintings, engravings, and most importantly for us, digitized medieval manuscripts. These manuscripts are available online (and linked in our app) so we went to give a look to see what wealth is available to us.
As someone who loves manuscripts and medieval culture, you might one day end up in Belgium, exploring Flanders, and you might go to Bruges, which was flourishing in the Middle Ages. The area has produced countless beautiful manuscripts with a very typical and recognizable style of illuminations now preserved at the Public Library of Bruges. Bruges’ golden days were in the Middle Ages when it was a very prosperous harbor city that attracted many merchants. The historical city centre today is still much like it was in the Middle Ages which makes it an amazing place to visit for every medievalist (or everyone. Period). While you are there, there is also a library you should visit: the Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge (OBB) - Public Library of Bruges and its extensive collection, which you can visit here or here.
We are extremely proud to communicate that the DMMapp has now reached (and surpassed... we are adding a few in the next days!) the 400 links milestone! This means that, thanks to everyone's submissions, we can link to more than 400 libraries, archives, repositories, etc. that are home to digitized medieval manuscripts! You can find the latest additions on our tidy list. Also, here's a short list of the latest additions:
De natura rerum - Staatsbibliothek Bamberg Msc.Nat.1 Today we are going to give a look at the Digital collection of Bamberg State Library. A fantastic collection of manuscripts, fully digitized, in high quality, and available for everyone to browse, explore, and study. Actually, we should be speaking of collections, plural, since two collections are present: The collection "Manuscripts of Henry II" is traced back to the emperor Henry II, who founded the bishopric of Bamberg in 1007; and the new digital collection. Let's see! Bamberger Apokalypse - 14r - The first horseman, Conquest on the White Horse - The text reads: Then I saw when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “Come.” I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer. - Revelation 6:1-2˄