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…
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/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…
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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…
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