This project will see the very latest digital technology used to understand the complexity of these documents and share them with as many people as possible.
- Hedley Swain, Arts Council England
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge has been granted £87,582 by Arts Council England to allow greater permanent access to its collections of illuminated manuscripts through a new digital resource. The Digital Layers online archive will explore a wealth of images using layer and zooming techniques inspired by internet mapping tools to show the historical, cultural and scientific secrets of the manuscripts.
The Fitzwilliam Museum and the colleges of the University of Cambridge have one of the largest, finest and most historically important selection of illuminated manuscripts in existence. Fragile and sensitive to light, temperature and humidity, the manuscripts can only be displayed for short periods of time under special conditions to protect their delicate materials and pigments.
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Image: Fitwilliam Museum Manuscript Ms 62_f20r
Credit: Fitzwilliam Museum
Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge
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