Textual Science: Digital Recovery of Manuscripts and of Cultural Heritage Objects
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Early Manuscripts Electronic Library
Organizer Name
Michael B. Phelps
Organizer Affiliation
Early Manuscripts Electronic Library
Presider Name
Lindy Brady
Presider Affiliation
Univ. of Mississippi
Paper Title 1
Spectral Image Collection and Processing for Historical Manuscripts
Presenter 1 Name
Roger L. Easton, Jr.
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Rochester Institute of Technology
Paper Title 2
Textual Science for the Working Medievalist
Presenter 2 Name
Gregory Heyworth
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Mississippi
Paper Title 3
New Light on Henricus Martellus's World Map at Yale (ca. 1491): Multispectral Imaging and Early Renaissance Cartography
Presenter 3 Name
Chet Van Duzer
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Lazarus Project/Univ. of Mississippi
Paper Title 4
The Sinai Palimpsests Project: The Recovery of Erased Texts in the World's Oldest Library
Presenter 4 Name
Michael B. Phelps
Start Date
14-5-2016 1:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 2335
Description
Imaging technologies – multispectral, x-ray fluorescence, reflectance transformation imaging – have emerged as groundbreaking tools for the textual scholar working with damaged, obscured, or otherwise illegible texts. From the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Archimedes Palimpsest, to the palimpsests of St. Catherine's Monastery of the Sinai and individual medieval works such as the Vercelli Book and the Eschez d'Amours, the collaboration of textual scholars and imaging scientists offers opportunity to expand the corpus of texts and cultural heritage objects available for primary research.
This session introduces textual scholars and art historians to textual science as a new discipline that combines traditional philology and codicology with the latest imaging and material analysis techniques: (1) to recover damaged texts and cultural heritage objects, (2) to elucidate their methods of production, and (2) to determine authenticity and provenance.
Textual Science: Digital Recovery of Manuscripts and of Cultural Heritage Objects
Schneider 2335
Imaging technologies – multispectral, x-ray fluorescence, reflectance transformation imaging – have emerged as groundbreaking tools for the textual scholar working with damaged, obscured, or otherwise illegible texts. From the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Archimedes Palimpsest, to the palimpsests of St. Catherine's Monastery of the Sinai and individual medieval works such as the Vercelli Book and the Eschez d'Amours, the collaboration of textual scholars and imaging scientists offers opportunity to expand the corpus of texts and cultural heritage objects available for primary research.
This session introduces textual scholars and art historians to textual science as a new discipline that combines traditional philology and codicology with the latest imaging and material analysis techniques: (1) to recover damaged texts and cultural heritage objects, (2) to elucidate their methods of production, and (2) to determine authenticity and provenance.