Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age

Benjamin Albritton is the Rare Books Curator at Stanford Libraries. He is a medievalist and musicologist and spent nearly a decade managing digital projects including Parker on the Web, collaborations with the Vatican Library and others, and playing a key role in the inception and development of the International Image Interoperability Framework.Georgia Henley is Assistant Professor of English at Saint Anselm College and a Junior Fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. Previously she held a postdoctoral appointment at Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Elaine Treharne is Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities at Stanford University, and Director of Stanford Text Technologies. She is a medievalist and handmade book expert, currently completing The Phenomenal Book. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, of the Royal Historical Society, and of the English Association.

• 1. IntroductionBenjamin Albritton and Elaine TreharnePart I. Theory and Practice2. What it is to be a Digitization Specialist: Chasing Medieval Materials in a Sea of PixelsAstrid J. Smith3. From the Divine to the Digital: Digitization as Resurrection and reconstructionKeri Thomas4. A Note on Technology and Functionality in Digital Manuscript StudiesAbigail G. Robertson5. Ways of Seeing Manuscripts: Exploring Parker 2.0Andrew PrescottPart II. Materialities6. A Note on Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 210Orietta Da Rold7. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 367 Part II: A Study in (Digital) CodicologyPeter A. Stokes8. Pocket Change: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 383 and the Value of the Virtual ObjectAnya Adair9. Rolling with It: Navigating Absence in the Digital RealmSiân EchardPart III. Translation and Transmission10. ‘Glocal’ Matters: The Gospels of St Augustine as a Codex in TranslationMateusz Fafinski11. Encyclopaedic Notes in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 320John J. Gallagher12. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 322: Tradition and TransmissionDavid F. Johnson13. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 41 and 286: Digitization as TranslationSharon M. RowleyPart IV. Of Multimedia and the Multilingual14. Fragmentation and Wholeness in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 16A. Joseph McMullen15. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 144 and 402: Mercian Intellectual Culture in pre-Conquest England (and beyond)Lindy Brady16. Philologia and Philology: Allegory, Multilingualism and the Corpus Martianus CapellaElizabeth Boyle17. Remediation and Multilingualism in Corpus Christi College, 402Carla María ThomasPart V. Forms of Reading 18. Living with Books in Early Medieval England: Solomon and Saturn, Bibliophilia, and the Globalist Red Book of DarleyErica Weaver19. Severed Heads and Sutured SkinsCatherine E. Karkov20. Books Consumed, Books Multiplied: Martianus Capella, Ælfric’s Homilies, and the International Image Interoperability FrameworkAlexandra Bolintineanu21. Making a Home for Manuscripts on the InternetMichelle R. Warren

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