This project uses a web-based enviroment to allow for the virtual reconstruction of pre-modern manuscript books that at some time in their history were taken apart, "broken" into pieces and dispersed. Using IIIF technology, the Broken Books program allows me to contribute images and information, including cataloging metadata, about undiscovered leaves of the Llangattock Breviary, with the goal of virtually reconstructing the original manuscript.
Please also see a second Broken Books project at: http://brokenbooks2.omeka.net.
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Broken Books: The Llangattock Breviary, a Rolls-Royce of a Manuscript
A presentation concerning the virtual reconstruction of the Llangattock Breviary, or the Breviary of Leonello d'Este, the first test case...
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Third Sunday after Easter, Matins, Lessons 8-9; Laudes; Vespers; Matins for the following week
Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines.
Second week of Easter, Saturday Vespers; Third Sunday after Easter, Matins
Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines.
Holy Saturday, Matins, Lessons 1-3
Decoration, recto: 1 two- line initial, two vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms; verso; 1 two- line initial, two vertical…