Image viewing and manipulation with Mirador: Presentation by Elizabeth McAulay and Todd Grappone (UCLA Library) at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Members Meeting Spring 2017. This presentation is about a project to publish a research website for medieval palimpsests manuscripts using IIIF-compliant image server and IIIF-compliant viewer Mirador.
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represent dozens of
manuscripts
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represent st. Catherine’s
Erased texts are illegible
Dozens of palimpsest
manuscripts
Dozens of palimpsest
manuscripts
Held in
a
remote
location
6. Multispectral Imaging
• Different wavelengths of light
used to illuminate the
palimpsest
• Multiple images taken from
each folio
• Fragility of manuscripts
requires specialized
equipment and careful
handling
8. • Use best imaging science techniques to
enhance legibility
• Scholarly identification of texts
Project Methods
• Digital publication with all necessary features
to conduct research online
13. Discoveries
• Erased text in Ethiopic and Latin
• Earliest surviving copies of several texts
from the Hippocratic corpus
• Previously unknown classical Greek
medical texts, poetry and philosophical
treatise
• Texts written in Christian Palestinian
Aramaic and Caucasian Albanian that
add significantly to the corpus of writing
in this dead languages