Yesterday I wrote about the digital reconstruction of a piece of medieval sculpture from Shaftesbury using computer technology Today it is the turn of a manuscript to get the equivalent treatment.
Cambridge University website reported on work done by the University Library and the University’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory with a portion of the Suite Vulgate du Merlin, and dated to between 1275 and 1315, which had survived because it had been used to bind some Suffolk estate documents after 1500. The manuscript fragment was only re-discovered in 2019. It is one of a number to survive of the French language text, but each one has differences due to manuscrip copyists individual variations. It has been possible to assign the manuscript to a group within the wider cycle.
Because of the folds and tears, and because the text is in part sewn into the book the Library eschewed the risky process of separating the manuscript out, and turned to the latest digital technology to reach into the recesses and scan the remains. As a result this variant coffee could be retrieved whilst preserving an example of what often happened to discarded texts.
The handsomely illustrated article can be seen at Modern magic unlocks Merlin's medieval secrets
2 comments:
Loads of slick animation and presentation on that Cambridge web site, but alas no sign of a transcription or translation of the document.
Oddly enough some web pages have a tab for each of those, but these are not clickable. Rather disappointing, as it would have been interesting to see some samples of Norman French.
John (Ramsden) (jrq@gmx.com)
Mind-Blowing. Unbelievable. Exceptional.
Thank You, John.
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