Overview

We increasingly encounter medieval books as digital facsimiles—zooming in on high-resolution images, clicking through virtual pages, or engaging with interactive displays. But what actually happens when a parchment manuscript is translated into a digital object? How does this change affect our understanding of cultural heritage? This book explores the digital medieval manuscript as a unique cultural artifact, not just a copy of its physical counterpart. Through three case studies, it reveals how digital manuscripts function in libraries, museums, and scholarship today. Blending manuscript studies with digital humanities, it offers a fresh materialist approach to the discourse surrounding the digitisation of cultural heritage and provides a nuanced view of how it shapes the way we perceive, handle, and preserve medieval manuscripts in an increasingly digital world.

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Author:   Suzette van Haaren
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   10
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.615kg
ISBN:  

9789004705739

ISBN 10:   9004705732
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   04 September 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements List of Figures 1 Introduction  1 Digital Codicology  2 A Word on Terminology  3 The Whole Book  4 Digital Material  5 It’s a Matter of Time  6 Outline and Structure 2 The Bury Bible: Exploring Mediation, Materiality and Digitisation  1 Introduction  2 An Institutional and Environmental History of the Bury Bible  3 A New Presence: Capturing the Bury Bible for Digital Space  4 Conclusion  3 Reproduction, Fragmentation and Dissemination of Der naturen bloeme (kb, ka16)  1 Introduction  2 The Book of Nature in Copies  3 The Digital Fragment and Hyper-expansion of ka16  4 Conclusion 4 The Sustainable Prayer Book of Mary of Guelders  1 Introduction  2 The Interrupted Life of the Prayer Book of Mary of Guelders  3 Preserving the Fragile: Sustainability for Parchment and Pixel  4 Conclusion 5 Conclusions  1 Digital Codicology  2 Making  3 Using  4 Keeping  5 Time Bibliography  Primary Sources  Literature Index

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Suzette van Haaren is a postdoc in the CRC Virtuelle Lebenswelten at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Her research reflects on the impact of the increasing digitisation (and virtualisation) of historical heritage. She is interested in the Middle Ages in contemporary media contexts.

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