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[rmhowe]

This was passed to me on about it's third pass round.
I've removed the unnecessary stuff.
Magnus


> >Stanford Report, July 13, 2005
> >Medieval manuscripts to hit Internet
> >
> >
> >A $1.4 million grant awarded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in June
> >will fund
> >a collaborative project in which Stanford University Libraries, the
> >University of
> >Cambridge and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, will make hundreds of
> >medieval
> >manuscripts accessible on the Internet. The Parker on the Web project
will
> >create
> >electronic research tools and digitize library materials, including more
> >than 500
> >manuscripts at the Parker Library dating from the 6th through the 16th
> >centuries,
> >as well as editions, translations and secondary works.
> >
> >The Parker Library in Corpus Christi College holds the collection of
> >Matthew Parker
> >(1504-1575), who served as Archbishop of Canterbury during the English
> >Reformation
> >and was confessor to Anne Boleyn and master of Corpus Christi. An avid
> >book collector,
> >Parker salvaged medieval manuscripts after the dissolution of monasteries
> >and preserved
> >materials related to Anglo-Saxon England. The Parker Library holds nearly
> >a quarter
> >of all extant Anglo-Saxon manuscripts in the world.
> >
> >Although the library has drawn visiting scholars from around the world
for
> >more
> >than a century, access to its materials has been limited due to space and
> >preservation
> >concerns. "As unique artifacts, these manuscripts are kept in a single
room
> >in Cambridge that is not open to the public," said Andrew Herkovic of
Stanford
> >University Libraries. The web project "opens that single room up to the
> >scholarly
> >community."
> >
> >Parker on the Web will create flexible links between high-quality images
> >of manuscripts
> >and texts and supporting texts, such as translations and commentary, to
> >allow scholars
> >to conduct both text-based and contextual research. The Mellon Foundation
> >grant
> >will fund one year of production on the project, which is expected to be
> >completed
> >in about four years.
> >
> >A prototype of the Parker on the Web site, containing high-resolution
page
> >images
> >for two complete manuscripts (Parts I and II of Matthew Paris' Chronica
> >Maiora),
> >as well as all of the 1912 MR James catalog describing the entire
> >collection and
> >other secondary texts, was released last year. The prototype's
development
> >was supported
> >by earlier grants from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and the
Mellon
> >Foundation.
> >
> >The prototype will be freely accessible at least through 2005. Scholars
> >and students
> >in all relevant disciplinesâÂ?Â"especially medieval, Renaissance and
> >early modern
> >studies, art history, paleography, church history, the history of the
> >English language
> >and Anglo-Saxon studiesâÂ?Â"are invited to visit the site and provide
> >feedback to
> >the project team during the prototype stage.
> >
> >"The Stanford team invested a huge effort to get this project to this
point,
> >and I hope the payoff will be great access to the incredible treasures of
> >the Parker
> >Library as well as a replicable model for other manuscript collections,"
said
> >University Librarian Michael Keller.
> >
> >Detailed information about the Parker Library, the project and the
> >prototype is
> >available at http://parkerweb.stanford.edu.
> >
> >================================================================
>
>
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citizenry
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