2024-11-09T05:19:59-08:00 2023-12-31 200793608 Bruce A Gray CPA 843 Settlers Dr Milliken CO 80543 990EZ 2023-01-01 352253653 Early Manuscripts Electronic Library EARL 9098965900 904 Silver Spur Road 254 Rolling Hills Estates CA 90274 Michael B Phelps Executive Director 2024-11-08 true true Brewster A Gray CPA P00388792 9705789950 X 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z X N/A X 53391 X 53379 12 0 0 0 0 53391 86631 715 810 325 155359 243840 -190449 212275 21826 X 226968 46725 33264 33264 260232 79989 47957 58163 212275 21826 Use digital technologies to preserve and provide access to historical source materials, especially ancient and medieval manuscripts and rare books. EMEL pursued its core mission in projects that used scientific imaging technologies to recover illegible texts in ancient and medieval manuscripts. EMEL collaborated with the University of Glasgow, Scotland, to use multispectral imaging to recover illegible writing on a 6th century manuscript of the Greek New Testament. The manuscript was disassembled in probably the 12th century and parts of it are now scattered in multiple European libraries. In 2023, EMEL traveled to Turin, Italy, to Paris, France, and to the Megisti Lavra Monastery on Mount Athos, Greece, to digitally image parts of the manuscript. EMEL also conducted a preliminary trip to the Megisti Lavra Monastery to negotiate access to the manuscript.In June 2023, EMEL collaborated with the Sorbonne University in Paris in a month-long project at the French National Library to use multispectral imaging to recover erased texts from palimpsest manuscripts. Palimpsests are manuscripts written on recycled parchment where an early layer of writing was erased so that the parchment could be reused to make a new manuscript. A technology called multispectral imaging has proven successful to recover erased texts from palimpsests, so that students globally can read them.EMEL untertook a second project at the Biblioteca Capitolare of Verona, Italy, which is Europe's oldest library and holds important palimpsests. EMEL's new project in Verona conducted experimental imaging to determine the best methods to recover erased texts from palimpsests damaged by chemical reagents. In the 18th and 19th centuries, scholars painted chemicals onto palimpsest manuscripts, in order to increase the visibility of the erased layers of writing. The long-term effect of the chemical has been to turn the parchment dark brown to black, so that the erased writing is no longer recoverable by multispectral imaging proven useful for other palimpsests. EMEL conducted experiments to discover means to recover erased writing from chemically damaged palimpsests.EMEL worked throughout 2023 with scientists and scholars to process the multispectral data collected from palimpsests in projects in 2022 and 2023. The goal of processing the mutlispectral data is to generate derivitive images that maximize the legibility of the erased texts. In this way, scholars, students, and interested members of the public around the world can read the erased texts for the first time.EMEL continued to develop a cooperation with Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, to pursue future projects of mutual interest.EMEL continued its collaboration with the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) to publish an online digital library of manuscripts digitized at St. Catherine's Monastery of the Sinai, Egypt, so that the images of the manuscripts are globally accessible free of charge.EMEL personnel taught classes on multispectral imaging for cultural heritage in a major international workshop in Trivulziana, Italy, that included students from the US and mutliple European countries. 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