{"id":52025,"date":"2024-10-03T17:30:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T16:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=52025"},"modified":"2024-10-03T17:30:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T16:30:55","slug":"1000-british-library-manuscripts-now-back-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2024\/10\/03\/1000-british-library-manuscripts-now-back-online\/","title":{"rendered":"1,000 British Library Manuscripts now back online!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Today I <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bl.uk\/digitisedmanuscripts\/2024\/10\/our-first-1000-digitised-manuscripts-return.html\">learned<\/a> that the British Library has made 1,000 manuscripts available online again.\u00a0 They are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/research\/digitised-manuscripts\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Scroll past the pretty-pretty stuff, and a very workable list appears, on three pages, in order of collection\/fond.\u00a0 Each row is a link, with shelfmark, date, and a quick summary of contents.\u00a0 Most are Latin, but there are papyri on page 3.\u00a0 There are no downloads (&#8220;as yet&#8221;).\u00a0 But it is a huge relief to see these appear.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">It looks rather as if the images mostly (all?) come from manuscripts that were made available to other institutions, and thereby preserved off-site.\u00a0 If so, that ought to give BL management pause for thought as to the wisdom of only holding digital images in one place.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Funnily enough the list format, although obviously knocked up quickly, is far more usable to a researcher than anything we had on the old site.\u00a0 I do hope that it is retained, possibly divided into collections, as with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiglaf.org\/vatican\/fonds\/\">Wiglaf index to the Vatican manuscripts.<\/a>\u00a0 Most manuscript repository sites are a pig to navigate.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Looking good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I learned that the British Library has made 1,000 manuscripts available online again.\u00a0 They are here.\u00a0 Scroll past the pretty-pretty stuff, and a very workable list appears, on three pages, in order of collection\/fond.\u00a0 Each row is a link, with shelfmark, date, and a quick summary of contents.\u00a0 Most are Latin, but there are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[338,339],"class_list":["post-52025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-british-library","tag-british-library-digitisation"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}