2017-01-17 - Exercise 1 (Lynn)
Exercise 1
Retail manuscript sites
Charles Edwin Puckett — https://www.cepuckett.com
- leaves only, richly described.
- Medium sized images only, poor treatment of multiple images (overlapping buyers illustration only)
- Philip J. Pirages — https://www.pirages.com
- mixture of manuscript leaves, few books.
- rich set of descriptive categories for browsing, but they were inoperative
Griffons Medieval Manuscripts — http://www.griffons.com/
- “Affordable Renaissance Art…”
- Poor categorization
Sanderus Antiquariat — https://www.sanderusmaps.com
- Individual leaves and cuttings (!)
- A lot of commercial apparatus … cart, new additions, prices
- Has large scale scans
- Medieval Manuscript is just one “catalog”; entire inventory on three pages
- MINIATURE
- Z ANTIPHONARY LEAF
- TEXT LEAVE
Digital Manuscripts
Monastic Manuscript Project — http://www.earlymedievalmonasticism.org/
- Grant funded project at Syracuse University
- Gathers information about projects and site related to the digization and study of manuscripts
- Hundreds of links show how scattered often just a very few resources are
- Nothing there to work on discovery across the aggregated resources or to categorize/describe contents
Clairvaux Virtual LIbrary — https://www.bibliotheque-virtuelle-clairvaux.com/
- “All indexed manuscript” but no mention of how many
- Advanced search, no simple keywords, no auto-complete
- Facets appear only for search results
- Viewer for full pan/zoom: Mediatheque, Grand Troyes (coalition of libraries/archives)