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Digital Dexterity Restores Medieval Manuscripts |
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TWIG - A selection of restored medieval books and manuscripts is to be made available to the public online for the first time. Project director Gunther Franz announced this week that the virtual exhibit will be viewable as of January 2002 at www.libri-europae.org. The site is a collaborative effort of librarians from Germany, Luxemburg and France. Their objective is to explain the restoration process and preserve cultural treasures digitally. Franz also hopes that researchers and restorers can use the site as a forum for idea exchanges on their work and craft. The virtual collection includes 45 rare printed works from the middle ages onward, crowned by a work of the venerated theologian Thomas Aquinus (1225-1274). Further "acquisitions" are planned, among them eight lexicons and a history of the world that was printed in an edition of fewer than 100 copies, of which only scattered remnants have survived. The restoration methods and the content of the works on display will be explained in detail in German, French and English texts on the website. |
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