Digital Explorations: Opening the Medieval Manuscript Fragments from the Ripon Cathedral Library

‘Digital Explorations’ was one of thirteen projects from across all seven faculties that was supported by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Research England under the Enhancing Research Culture funding stream in 2023. A collaboration between the Institute for Medieval Studies and the University of Leeds Libraries led by Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz, the project set out to enhance research culture at the University of Leeds in the field of Digital Humanities through a pilot study focusing on manuscript fragments from the Ripon Cathedral Library housed in Special Collections at the Brotherton Library. Between February and July 2023, a series of training activities focusing on a range of topics from multispectral imaging to digital fragmentology was organised as part of the ‘Digital Explorations’ project. Enhanced descriptions of selected fragments from the Ripon Cathedral Library Collection are made available open access on Fragmentarium and the project team is currently working on an open access digital exhibit on Omeka showcasing findings. All imaging training data is made available on Research Data Leeds repository for further experimentation.

To find out more, you can visit the project's webpage here.

Kivilcim Yavuz demostrates the possibilities of spectral imaging of medieval manuscript fragments