{"id":5662,"date":"2014-01-01T02:07:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T02:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=5662"},"modified":"2020-10-23T22:31:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T22:31:21","slug":"image-processing-and-manuscript-studies-january-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/image-processing-and-manuscript-studies-january-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"Image-Processing and Manuscript Studies (January 1994)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cover<\/a>A one-day Workshop held
\nat the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,
\nby the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/h3>\n
15 January 1994<\/strong><\/h5>\n

In the Series of Research Group Seminars on ‘The Evidence of Manuscripts’<\/strong>
\n The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge<\/strong><\/p>\n

[First published on 13 October 2015 from our Archives, with updates<\/em>]<\/p>\n

This workshop focused upon optical imaging techniques as aids for manuscript studies.\u00a0 It considered developments in imaging through photographic and computerised methods, as it provided a forum for information and feedback about techniques of image processing, both existing and planned:\u00a0 applications, capabilities, limitations, desiderata, and future potential.\u00a0 Participants included experts in manuscript studies, conservation, photography, imaging aids, computing, radio astronomy, engineering, forensics and medical imaging.<\/p>\n

Our First Event Report in Booklet Form<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Front<\/a>A ‘Preliminary Report’ of the proceedings of the Workshop was prepared and printed by the Research Group as a small-format Booklet soon after the event.<\/p>\n

Following the move of our principal base to the United States later that year, not to the destination expected, but to Princeton, we thought that the Booklet had disappeared.\u00a0 Describing the event for our upgraded website (in October 2015), we had to rely on the corrected proof-copy, transcribed here.\u00a0 More recently, from another section of our Archives, the printed copy of the Booklet has emerged, and we publish it as well in downloadable form<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It represents the first of our printed Booklets for any of our events.\u00a0 It followed the model of our Annual Reports for the Research Project, composed principally by Mildred Budny and circulated in printed copies both individually and as a collected group, as described among our Publications<\/a>).\u00a0 Those reports summarised our Seminars and Workshops, along with accounts of our other activities and the research work itself.<\/p>\n

It also followed the model of the Exhibition Booklets for the exhibitions at the Parker Library of “Canterbury at Corpus” (1991) and “Matthew Parker in Cambridge” (1993), although those are illustrated with our photographs from Parker Library materials. Both were printed in-house and circulated at the events, as well as afterward. Both were reprinted, but in quarto format, in the Old English Newsletter<\/em>, 24:4 (Summer 1991), Appendix A (= pages A-1\u2013A-7) and 27:1 (Fall 1993), Apendix A (A-1\u2013A-8); the latter issue<\/a> is available online in the OEN Archives<\/a>, but not yet the former. In their original design, these Exhibition Booklets emanated in A3 format as a group of single sheets stapled twice along the left-hand side; the 1991 Exhibition Booklet, with text and photographs by Mildred Budny, was also prepared as an A5 booklet of folded and nested leaves with the pages of text and image reduced to half-size in photocopying. Similar layout in small-format booklets came to pertain also to the Annual Reports. Such forms of in-house design, layout, and publication by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence prepared precedents, and customs, for the Workshop Booklet.<\/p>\n

Then, after the Research Project was completed and the Research Group moved to the New World, our scholarly Events mainly focused upon Symposia for some years.\u00a0 As our Annual Series of Symposia on “The Transmission of the Bible”<\/a> gathered momentum, their Programs, with brief Abstracts of the Papers, grew from single or double-sided pages (1995, 1996, and 1997), and took the form of short booklets, as here:<\/p>\n