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I'd be looking for
a) word separation
b) abbreviations - Cappelli?
Commented Aug 3, 2015 on Help Us Decipher This Inscription at Medieval manuscripts blog
Help Us Decipher This Inscription
Last week (3 August) we blogged about the medieval sword on display in the British Library’s Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy exhibition. We have been thrilled by the number of enthusiastic comments and suggestions we have received about this sword. Due to the phenomenal range of suggestions, i...
She went that a'way.
OMG!
Commented Jul 14, 2015 on Caption Competition 2 at Medieval manuscripts blog
Caption Competition 2
The second of our caption competitions is from a manuscript newly published in the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts. There are many possibilities for this image – use your imagination! Leave your suggested caption in the comments, or tweet us @BLMedieval. Results will be published here and...
Whatever they decide to call themselves, that team do an excellent job. The images are fantastic - I'm quite happy to see the detail from those rather than risk deterioration of the originals.
Thanks for a great job.
Commented Feb 13, 2015 on Photographed by the Hand of a Sinner at Collection Care blog
Photographed by the Hand of a Sinner
Senior Imaging Technician Kristin A. Phelps takes us behind the scenes of the British Library’s Imaging Services where there are several ongoing digital projects at any given time. Click here for an Arabic translation of this article, as translated by the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation and Dar ...
Fascinating. More of the same please. We guess at the detailed work you do, it is good to know just how detailed?
How about management / specification of the images?
Thanks.
Commented Dec 19, 2014 on Handle With Care: The Conservation and Digitisation of the Phillipps Lectionary at Medieval manuscripts blog
Handle With Care: The Conservation and Digitisation of the Phillipps Lectionary
Before British Library manuscripts reach your computer screens through the Digitised Manuscripts site, they are subjected to conservation assessments. These cover such matters as the angle at which the manuscript may be opened safely, the condition of the binding and the leaves, and any repairs ...
Onwards and upwards. I'm terrifically impressed with the progress being made, the alternatives being offered, for which many thanks.
My only puzzle? As a newbie to the world of libraries / archives, how about a blog entry on your naming conventions and how to navigate them, comprehend them - for the non librarians amongst us?
Pretty please?
Dave
Commented Aug 19, 2013 on Get Ready to 'Save-As': New Uploads to the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts at Medieval manuscripts blog
Get Ready to 'Save-As': New Uploads to the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
As many of you hopefully already know, the British Library offers two different ways to work with digital versions of our medieval manuscripts. Our Digitised Manuscripts website contains complete coverage of many of the items in our collections, while the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts is...
"Are we doing a good job? We hope so -- but please feel free to comment. Most importantly, we want to encourage your research in and enthusiam for our marvellous medieval manuscripts."
I thoroughly enjoy your posts, or to be precise, the 'posts' from scribes from hundreds of years ago. I wonder what they would have blogged about? Ink going thick on cold days?
I'd love to see a series on script variations through the ages.
Commented May 13, 2013 on Why Do We Blog? at Medieval manuscripts blog
Why Do We Blog?
Good question. Why do we blog? The simple answer is we blog in order to tell you, our readers, about our wonderful manuscripts. We are custodians of world-class collections of ancient, medieval and early modern manuscripts; but it may not be immediately obvious to you what we look after at the B...
Yep. Agree 100% Mike. We swapped a few years ago to a Dyson (different model, but same ideas). It shifts dirt like a vacuum should.
One of those cases where you get what you pay for perhaps? Well worth it in this case.
Commented Apr 28, 2013 on Open Mike: Awed and Appalled at The Online Photographer
Open Mike: Awed and Appalled
So I mentioned Saturday is my day for doing chores. And what follows is going to make me look really bad. But I can't help it; the empiricist in me won out. It tilted the scales against the embarrassment potential. (Hey, I'm a blogger. When all is said and done.) Actually, it might make you look...
I wonder if conservators in 100 years time will look at this work and frown, as you do at older work?
Whichever, please continue to delight us with the results!
Best wishes for 2013
Commented Dec 28, 2012 on The Conservation of Codex Alexandrinus at Medieval manuscripts blog
The Conservation of Codex Alexandrinus
The British Library is committed to making available online as many of its medieval manuscripts as possible. But to do so requires considerable work behind the scenes, not least on the part of our dedicated team of conservators. We recently published to our Digitised Manuscripts site images of t...
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Absolute classic (and humorous)
Check everything and still get it wrong... though why is it that there's always someone willing to point it out!
CMOS or Oxford, I guess there's no absolute right | wrong. Just progress towards it.
Dave
Commented Jul 6, 2011 on Dear Carol: Journals vs. Books Editing; Copyeditor vs. Copy Editor at Writer, Editor, Helper
Dear Carol: Journals vs. Books Editing; Copyeditor vs. Copy Editor
Dear Carol, I am an experienced proofreader and beginner copyeditor who would like to work with academic publishers. I would like to get started with journals and move into books. Do you think this is a good approach? Anonymous Dear Anonymous, Not necessarily. When we hire in our department (...
Now I'm intrigued. What was the glue for please?
Oh. And it is possible to live 'unwired' :-)
Dave
Commented Jun 11, 2011 on A Field Trip at Comfortable Shoes Studio
A Field Trip
As many of you know I’m taking an impromptu trip to visit family due to a death. I’m taking a mini journal kit with me, much pared down from my usual supplies. Here’s what I’m taking: My W&N Cotman field set A few water brushes Mini Spray Bottle A few regular brushes Mechanical Pencils 2...
Fantastic development of doodling! Amusing, entertaining, informative.
Just wondering where you get a 10' square whiteboard!
Dave
Commented Sep 26, 2010 on Good Ideas, The Four-Minute Version at stevenberlinjohnson.com
Good Ideas, The Four-Minute Version
I have to admit when the good folks at Riverhead mentioned that they were working on an animated video promoting Where Good Ideas Come From, I wasn't fully convinced it was going to be worth the effort. But the absolutely brilliant video they produced with Cognitive Media in the UK shows how wron...
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