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Towards A Premodern Manuscript Application Profile, Sheila A. Bair, Susan Steuer

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Individuals who wish to develop digital scholarly works and libraries that wish to provide access to their precious and fragile holdings have an interest in digitizing premodern manuscripts. These handmade objects are often beautiful and each one is unique. The features of zooming and light alteration available through digital photography and manipulation are assets to medieval scholars, because these methods can reveal more information for teaching and research. Digital collections of medieval manuscripts can be hard to find or remain unpublished, in part because the description of these works is difficult. Involvement in the International Congress on Medieval Studies at …