ABSTRACT
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 98 is far less famous, but it, too, is characterized by absence, by blanks of different kinds. The massive roll has an unusual amount of blank space, but the direction for this chapter was suggested by another, quite accidental, absence. The only scholar who has written about CCCC 98 at length calls it the Adam and Eve roll, because it begins with an image of Eve with a distaff, followed by one of Adam delving. Absence prompted by the passage of time, the fading of ink, and the challenges of certain hands, becomes presence again, through the medium of the computer interface. This chapter considers some of the opportunities offered by the manuscript and its blanks, as they are presented through Parker 2.0. Parker 2.0 is also about containment, classification, and control of material objects. It considers some of the problems in both old and new ways of delivering medieval manuscripts.
