Mapping Manuscript Migrations

Oxford e-Research Centre, Toby Burrows - Various

Principal Investigator / Director: Toby Burrows

Oxford participants: Toby Burrows (Main Contact); Kevin Page; Judith Siefring; Pip Willcox

Other Participants: Dr Lynn Ransom (University of Pennsylvania), Dr Hanno Wijsman (IRHT), Professor Eero Hyvönen (Aalto University)

Project Webpage: http://mappingmanuscriptmigrations.org/

Start Date: 1st July 2017

End Date: 30th June 2020

Funder: Trans-Atlantic Platform - "Digging into Data" programme Combined funding from the AHRC/ESRC (UK), IMLS (US), AKA (Finland), ANR (France)

Partner organizations (inside or outside Oxford): University of Pennyslvania Library; Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (Paris); Aalto University (Helsinki) Semantic Computing Group

 

 

Project Description:

The Mapping Manuscript Migrations project is linking disparate datasets from Europe and North America to provide an international view of the history and provenance of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. Researchers will be able to analyse and visualize the aggregated data at scales ranging from individual manuscripts to thousands of manuscripts.

Our research will address the origins and movements of these manuscripts, and the collectors and owners involved in their history. We will be able to show how these manuscripts have traveled across time and space to their current locations, where they continue to find new audiences.