ABSTRACT
This book examines the manuscripts through ‘traditional’ and disciplinary lenses, and focuses on general observations about the ways in which scholars perceive and interpret the virtual world of medieval manuscripts—the online dimension. Digital catalogues establishing corpora of manuscripts (like Manuscripts of the West Midlands), online projects focusing on palaeography and codicology, and other major projects promising innovation in textual critical work have tended to dominate the broad field of digital manuscript studies. Filling in the blanks of medieval scholarship is often a case of detailed scrutiny of clues left within the manuscript text itself. The initial Parker 1.0 platform was a custom-built piece of software that supported searching of the bibliography, searching of the manuscript descriptions, and some curated browsing of various aspects of the catalogue such as date ranges. The digitized Parker manuscripts have grown beyond just a Parker on the Web environment and are becoming dynamic objects used in a variety of ways across a variety of projects.
