The Reappearances of St. Basil the Great in British Library MS Cotton Otho B. x

نویسندگان

  • Kevin Kiernan
  • W. Brent Seales
  • Jim Griffioen
چکیده

We illustrate how digital technology can help restore greviously damaged, practically inaccessible, medieval manuscripts. Our example was an important version of the Old English Life of St. Basil the Great now clinging to existence in charred, illegible, disordered, and strangely dispersed fragments.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Computers and the Humanities

دوره 36  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2002