{"id":54756,"date":"2025-06-02T17:33:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T16:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=54756"},"modified":"2025-06-02T17:33:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T16:33:28","slug":"kassel-university-online-manuscripts-a-fabulous-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2025\/06\/02\/kassel-university-online-manuscripts-a-fabulous-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"Kassel University online manuscripts -a fabulous interface!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well here’s something special! (via this twitter post<\/a>)\u00a0 The image below (online here)<\/a> is fairly familiar.\u00a0 It shows the “serpent column” in Constantinople, as it was in the 16th century before the heads broke off.\u00a0 The column is still there, in the Hippodrome.\u00a0 It is, in fact, the ancient Greek monument commemorating the battle of Plataea, where the Greek cities defeated the Persians.\u00a0 On it are inscribed the names of all the cities that sent soldiers.\u00a0 But this is not what makes this site special.<\/p>\n

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Kassel 4\u00b0 Ms. hist. 31 (T\u00fcrkisches Manierenbuch \/ A Book of Turkish Customs), image 33 \/ f15r<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The whole manuscript is there! It’s on folio 15r, which is the 33rd image in the manuscript.\u00a0 The manuscript itself is a 16th century collection of illustrations of Turks in costume, with a few other things like this.\u00a0 Such collections of pictures exist at other libraries too.<\/p>\n

The interface is actually useful, at least on PC.\u00a0 You get thumbnails, you get IIIF, you get proper references.\u00a0 It’s really rather marvellous.\u00a0 Universit\u00e4t Kassel have excelled!\u00a0 The platform is something called “Orka”, and frankly this is very nice.<\/p>\n

The breadcrumbs at the top make it easy to find the collection, select the Latin manuscripts, display a list of shelfmarks.\u00a0 Whoever designed this actually talked to people who use these sites.<\/p>\n

There are some 474 Latin manuscripts dated before 1500, which is very respectable.\u00a0 And, blessedly, you can display 100 mss at a time, in various orders.<\/p>\n

It’s tremendously useful.\u00a0 It’s now time to note that the Kassel manuscripts are online, and may be accessible and usable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well here’s something special! (via this twitter post)\u00a0 The image below (online here) is fairly familiar.\u00a0 It shows the “serpent column” in Constantinople, as it was in the 16th century before the heads broke off.\u00a0 The column is still there, in the Hippodrome.\u00a0 It is, in fact, the ancient Greek monument commemorating the battle of […]<\/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":[889,1075,1239,1515,1713],"class_list":["post-54756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-information-access","tag-manuscripts","tag-orka","tag-serpent-column","tag-universitat-kassel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54756","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=54756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}