ABSTRACT
Digitization has ushered in a new age of manuscript studies. With processing power and storage capacity increasing virtually exponentially, digital images seems set to become a normally accepted research tool for amateurs as well as professional scholars. This chapter describes about the case studies depends on having very good, very high resolution colour images of the subject. The most obvious advantage of high-resolution digital photography is that it hands the scholar a virtual magnifying glass. This has several immediate uses in manuscript study. An expert practitioner can make all the difference between a usable and an unusable image, though they may both look identical when reduced. This is cogently demonstrated on the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music Project (DIAMM) website. DIAMM has evolved a method of virtual restoration which involves working on the very fine gradations of colour in a high-resolution RGB image to restore the ghost of faded and erased ink.
