Dear list,
The Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge, wich
claims to have the largest collection of vellum manuscripts in the world
after the Vatican,
has decided to cooperate with the Oce
compagny to digital scan all their manuscripts and put them
online.
The 22 most valueable ones are already
done.
Oce has developed a new technique wich
makes 16-bit TIFF format possible to create 36 to 144 Meg. files of each
folio !!.
Without even touching it and the possibility
to scan at an angle of 30 degrees so the manuscripts hardly have to be
opened.
Ultra-violet and infra-red radiation are
almost reduced to 0 in the proces.Part of
the scans is accesable already on:
Time for someone with a lot of persuasive
force to call the Beinecke I would say....
Cheers,Joh.