The Digital Medieval Manuscript : Material Approaches to Digital Codicology /

We increasingly encounter medieval books as digital facsimiles-zooming in on high-resolution images, clicking through virtual pages, or engaging with interactive displays. But what actually happens when a parchment manuscript is translated into a digital object? How does this change affect our under...

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Main Authors: Haaren, Suzette van (Author), Bochum, Ruhr-Universität (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Studies in Art & Materiality ; 10.

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Call Number: N5305

Table of Contents:
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • 1 Introduction
  •  1 Digital Codicology
  •  2 A Word on Terminology
  •  3 The Whole Book
  •  4 Digital Material
  •  5 It's a Matter of Time
  •  6 Outline and Structure
  • 2 The Bury Bible: Exploring Mediation, Materiality and Digitisation
  •  1 Introduction
  •  2 An Institutional and Environmental History of the Bury Bible
  •  3 A New Presence: Capturing the Bury Bible for Digital Space
  •  4 Conclusion
  •  3 Reproduction, Fragmentation and Dissemination of Der naturen bloeme (kb, ka16)
  •  1 Introduction
  •  2 The Book of Nature in Copies
  •  3 The Digital Fragment and Hyper-expansion of ka16
  •  4 Conclusion
  • 4 The Sustainable Prayer Book of Mary of Guelders
  •  1 Introduction
  •  2 The Interrupted Life of the Prayer Book of Mary of Guelders
  •  3 Preserving the Fragile: Sustainability for Parchment and Pixel
  •  4 Conclusion
  • 5 Conclusions
  •  1 Digital Codicology  2 Making
  •  3 Using
  •  4 Keeping
  •  5 Time
  • Bibliography
  •  Primary Sources
  •  Literature
  • Index.