2025-11-15T07:53:05-08:00 2024-12-31 200793608 Bruce A Gray CPA 843 Settlers Dr Milliken CO 80543 990 2024-01-01 352253653 Early Manuscripts Electronic Library EARL 9098965900 904 Silver Spur Road 254 Rolling Hills Estates CA 90274 Michael B Phelps Executive Director 2025-11-13 true true Brewster A Gray CPA P00388792 9705789950 X 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Michael B Phelps 904 Silver Spur Road 254 Rolling Hills Estates CA 90274 436224 false X N/A Use digital technologies to preserve and provide access to historical source materials, especially ancient and medieval manuscripts and rare books. 5 4 3 0 436208 0 16 0 436224 0 0 86551 0 3984 182340 268891 167333 79989 251761 58163 47765 21826 203996 Use digital technologies to preserve and provide access to historical source materials, especially ancient and medieval manuscripts and rare books. false false 196571 EMEL continued to pursue its core mission through projects that used scientific imaging technologies to recover illegible texts in ancient and medieval manuscripts. ProjectsEMEL continued for a second year its project with the Biblioteca Capitolare of Verona, Italy, to determine the best methods to recover erased texts from chemically damaged, palimpsest manuscripts. EMEL organized multiple U.S. and European partners to visit Verona in January and December of 2024 and apply a variety of scientific imaging and measurement technologies to the damaged manuscripts. The project succeeded in identifying technologies capable of detecting erased text on the damaged manuscripts.EMEL collaborated with the Austrian National Library to transport a palimpsest manuscript to the DESY synchrotron in Hamburg, Germany, and apply XRF scanning to the manuscript. XRF scanning revealed previously illegible text on the manuscript.EMEL began a new project in collaboration with Aristotle University in Thessaloniki to recover erased texts from palimpsest manuscripts at Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos (Greece). A team of scientists and scholars visited the Monastery in July for a first of five planning digital imaging sessions at the Monastery.EMEL worked throughout 2024 with scientists and scholars to process the multispectral data it collected from palimpsest manuscripts in 2023 and 2024, and therby make the erased layers of text legible for the first time.EducationEMEL personnel and affiliated scientists presented the results of EMEL projects at a variety of conferences and workshops, including: a conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, on the application of technology to cultural heritage; an annual workshop on multispectral imaging for cultural heritage in Trivulziana, Italy, which included students from the U.S. and multiple European countries; a conference in Glasgow, Scotland, discussing the results of EMEL's collaborative project with the University of Glasgow to use scientific imaging to recover information from damaged 7th century Net Testatment manuscripts; and a conference in Norway on scientific imaging and manuscript studies. 196571 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 8 0 true 3 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 5 4 false false false false false false false true true false false true false false false false false false CA X Michael B Phelps 9098965900 306 Bayoak Drive Cary NC 27513 Michael B Phelps Chairman 40.00 0.00 X X 58800 0 0 Claudia Rapp Secretary 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Randy Merritt Treasurer 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Dimitri Antsos Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Matt McGovern Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 58800 0 false false false 0 436208 436208 0 16 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 436224 16 0 0 0 0 58800 19600 35672 3528 0 21600 21600 0 0 6151 1499 4562 90 0 0 750 750 0 0 0 0 0 1442 1442 0 0 2066 2066 1112 1112 0 0 0 0 0 2808 2106 562 140 Project Develop & Imaging 120511 120511 Data Management 41284 41284 Dues & Subscriptions 4512 3384 902 226 Cataloguing 3801 3801 4054 3274 780 268891 196571 68336 3984 17596 93458 29129 125039 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 413714 380450 33264 33264 0 0 0 0 0 79989 251761 23163 12765 35000 35000 58163 47765 X 21826 203996 21826 203996 79989 251761 167333 14837 X false false false X 482158 68374 206232 53379 436208 1246351 0 0 0 0 482158 68374 206232 53379 436208 1246351 0 0 1246351 2 12 16 30 0 2 12 16 30 0 0 482160 68374 206232 53391 436224 1246381 1.00000 1.00000 0.00000 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 293714 289479 4235 120000 90971 29029 33264 Middle East 0 0 Research and Digitization Research and Digitization 0 Europe 0 1 Research and Digitization Research and Digitization 0 1 1 false false false false false false Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Form 990 is reviewed by Chairman and provided to other board members for comment. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Documents are available upon request.