| PW-50296-09 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | University of Pennsylvania | Digitizing the University of Pennsylvania's Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, 1000-1600 | 6/1/2009 - 7/31/2011 | $292,958.00 | Nancy | M. | Shawcross | | | | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | PA | 19104-6205 | USA | 2009 | Medieval Studies | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 292958 | 0 | 292958 | 0 | The digitization of 800 codices, documents, and fragments constituting the entirety of medieval and Renaissance primary sources held by the university's Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Penn proposes to produce & make freely available on the Internet digital facsimiles of its collection of European manuscripts from 1000 to 1600. With a total project cost of $790,272, Penn requests $292,958 from NEH to fund salary & fringe benefits for 2 years for 1 full-time digital data coordinator & 2 full-time digital camera operators. Penn's collection comprises approximately 800 discrete items, totaling approximately 320,000 pages and offers important research material in the fields of art history; English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish literatures; European political, social, and economic history; the history of science and technology, including alchemy; the history of witchcraft; legal studies; music; religious studies; and philosophy. The project will provide 3 entry points for the facsimiles: access through a hot link in the WorldCat and local cataloging records, access via Digital Scriptorium, and access through a project-specific website with faceted searching. |