At the Matenadaran Yerevan
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Green sustainability is all the rage today, but we’ve got nothing on our fanatically recycling medieval predecessors. They carefully and page-by-page took apart books, scrubbed some pages to create clean (an ebay listing might say “gently used”) parchment for new pages in new books; other pages, perhaps not so gently used, became filler for the…
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Picture from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Den_Sorte_Diamant_1.jpg A MegaVision spectral imaging system is permanently installed at the Royal Library of Denmark in Copenhagen. The MegaVision RTI Arc was used to spectrally image cutouts by Hans Christian Andersen, the nineteenth century Danish author famous for children’s stories and movies based on them. This collection, shelfmark Laage Petersen 659 at the…
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Picture from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library#/media/File:The_British_Library_-geograph.org.uk-_2786739.jpg Ground-breaking multispectral imaging work of the British Library’s burnt copy of the 1215 Magna Carta has recovered text which has not been read in 250 years. This work has been completed by British Library conservators and scientists in preparation for next year’s 800th anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta. The…