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June 18, 2007
Electronic access to manuscript images
Someday, Lord, someday!
I was running through some medieval links doing iconographic searches today and came across this one I hadn't looked at lately - Liber floridus. So far only two French libraries, but they ARE the Bibliothèque Mazarine and the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, so there are about 1600 manuscripts (they claim 31,000 images) indexed and searchable.
Go and try recherche iconographique. I was using the key word (mots-clés) thesaurus and realizing that this kind of thing is getting useful. Thesaurus settings are useful for search engines like this because one has no idea how things have been catalogued, and even if one did one might not know how to spell it in French. So what I was looking for turned out to be "CHASSE ET PECHE" and turned up all kinds of monkeys hunting things - just what I needed!
I'm grateful that the Morgan Library uses the same search engine as my home library, so it's easier to find stuff.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at June 18, 2007 8:49 PM