Kimball Musem in Fort Worth and Picasso’s Man with a Pipe other works by Picasso, Braque
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Santa Barbara Art Museum and Monet’s Villas at Bordighera and works by Gaugin, Morriset, etc.
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Field Diary of David Livingston’s the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh.
Picture from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_of_Scotland#/media/File:National_Library_of_Scotland,_Edinburgh.JPG The MegaVision EV Multispectral system is used in the imaging of David Livingstone material at the National Library of Scotland. Dr. David Livingstone was an African missionary, a medical doctor, explorer and advocate against the slave trade in Africa. In his final years, Dr Livingstone was reduced to writing on used newspaper…
Museo Del tesoro del duomo and mappea mundi in Vercelli
Picture from: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_del_Tesoro_del_Duomo_di_Vercelli#/media/File:Sala_Crocifisso_Museo_tesoro_duomo_Vercelli.jpg This trip was part of the Lazarus Project managed by Gregory Heyworth of the University of Mississippi, and included Roger Easton of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Keith Knox of the Air Force Research Lab of Maui in Hawaii, Dale Knox, Damianos Kastotakis (Saint Catherine’s Monastery) and Liz Bondi, a student at…
Biblioteca Nazionale Torino
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…
At the Matenadaran Yerevan
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British Library in London and 800 year old Magna Carta
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…