#KB National Library of the Netherlands

[lionofchaeronea]

St. Nicholas, bishop of Myra, secretly gives dowries to three poor girls. Miniature executed by a French artist known as the "Master of Jean Rolin II," for folio 84r of the Book of Hours commissioned by a court official named Simon de Varie and completed in 1455. Now in the KB National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague.

[arkivalier]

Mysio (cat) - KB, National Library of the Netherlands, Netherlands - Public Domain.

Migale - KB, National Library of the Netherlands, Netherlands - Public Domain.

Mustela (weasel) - KB, National Library of the Netherlands, Netherlands - Public Domain.

Canis (dog) - KB, National Library of the Netherlands, Netherlands - Public Domain.

[missbcm]

KB National Library of the Netherlands created a Medieval MEME generator as an interactive and fun introduction to their collection of Medieval Manuscripts. For the moment it is only available in Dutch, but you can also just browse the highlights of the collection (in English) HERE. 

[dritamoon]

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ROB doesn't have the full mirror of data and certainly not any of the high cadence data archives. JHelioviewer, at least in it's latest version, comes with a couple bad default settings.įirst you need to change the data source from ROB (Royal Observatory of Belgium) to GFSC (Goddard Space Flight Center). The website is fine but it doesn't really compare to the full 4K OpenGl accelerated 30+fps, 10s interval frame, movies JHelioviewer can show. Edit: I just realized you linked to the website version instead of the Java application.

[andreajoannacespedes]

A Semiotic Analysis 

         For most signs, meaning is relative and if not intuitive so that it’s easy to grasp just by looking, but some do purposely invite a mixture of ideas and can spread a single meaning across multiple images. Much like that, is the use of words and labels to amplify meanings in things like road signs, food packages and the common book cover are perfect examples.

        This particular image of a cover is of a book with a take on the end of the world, as the distorted title reads “The end of the world filmed by The Angel of N-D, novel by Blaise Cendrars of Sirene Editions, La Boetie Ave. Paris 1919”. The designs were intended to use the entire space of the cover to reflect that it is the end, it therefore has an literal meaning that emphasizes the message with the size and variety of the letters and brings our attention to the main signs.

        The most important part of the cover is the disproportional text, the words that describe the title and the angel in the back that is still connected to it. Since there is an angel in the back of the text, it participates in any information about the book that can be thought of. With what is suggested by Saussure’s method of describing a sign, it’s obvious that the signifier of the image is the title in its composition. The following component, the signified, carries the meaning “end of the world”. Together, they create the sign that the story is about the end of the world. For the most part, it has a straight forward message that is objective because it is a title that defines the name of the book, but tit also makes the reader subject to it. It uses a lot of distortion and deliberately makes the lettering look misplaced which forces the reader to focus on it.

        After digging into the book itself, the meaning of its title changed slightly due to how it was written. The book’s story actually comes from a civil yet satirical perspective that criticises God during the socio-economic state of the world in the midst of war, claiming that God is the one to blame for the war and considers its death tolls as profit. It also takes on a morbid ideology that he does so to “maximize the company’s profits”, the company being a lesser recognized presence and more of an entity that renders profit from war, which is really the naivety of many military organisations. In the end, the satyr is given through the outcome that God becomes bankrupt after a count of the lives lost in the war.

        Lastly, the image is of course very literal and interpellates whoever sees it with simple tricks of the eye. To be more specific, it has created a continuous effect that brings the basic components of a sign outright but also keeps simplicity if conveying its message just enough to maintain some visual persuasion.

Citation:

"La fin du monde, filmée par l'ange N.-D." KB National Library of the Netherlands, www.kb.nl/en/themes/koopman-collection/la-fin-du-monde-filmee-par-lange-n-d. 

[fenyeskozepkor]

Resource: http://manuscriptminiatures.com/4512/7228/

Manuscript:  KB 10 B 21 Rhimebible, Folio 152v (Utrecht, Germany, 1332)

Holding Institution: National Library of the Netherlands

[mileheitcity-blog]

Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the Meermano Museum

Today was a long day of travel and field trips, this time from Delft (a great little town, by the way) to The Hague, the seat of government in the Netherlands. Our first stop in The Hague (Den Haag) was the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), or the National Library.  The KB is an enormous place, with much of the material held down in cold, crypt like settings underground referred to individually as a “depot”. It seems to be a large depository for Dutch written material, including newspapers, books, and magazines.  There are also some materials in English as well.  The collection itself is not entirely accessible by the public, as it is organized in accession order, meaning it’s organized by the date the library acquired the material.  Items can be checked out, but an archivist must retrieve them for you so the item can be found and not get lost. Legend has it their archivists at one time used to hustle around on a skateboard, which would certainly be a challenge. They still make use of a card catalog upstairs, which is something of a forgotten art in the States, so that was nice to see, but most of the documents can now be found digitally. After our tour, we heard a brief lecture on the role and status of public libraries in the Netherlands, and although they’re not doing perfectly, they’re still doing better than we are in the United States. While aggregate library use is down in the Netherlands, it’s growing among young people under the age of 18.  In time, hopefully many of those young library users will continue to avail themselves of the same and perhaps even expanded services. The Netherlands has a much lower ratio of library branches per-capita than the United States: roughly one branch for every 15,500 people in the Netherlands as compared to around one for every 2,800 people in the United States, but after seeing the bustle of the OBA just a short time ago it seems that the bustle of the space and the efforts the Dutch have made to bring people into their libraries have made for a far more inviting space than what we have in the United States.  Albeit some of what we see in the Netherlands is a result of their housing policies, particularly in regards to those experiencing homelessness, but the rise in use among youth and the overall efficiency of Dutch libraries could not have happened without innovation of the physical space.  Moving people experiencing homeless into housing rather than into our public libraries is definitely something that seems to work, but it only tackles part of the issue.

Our next stop was the Meermano Museum, a large personal collection of rare manuscripts and antiquities.  We were taken on a private tour of the museum, where we got to see some very early examples of typeface dating back to the European middle ages and the development of modern Latin script. They had an early printing press on display along side some letter stamps.  The antiquities portion of the collection had art and artifacts dating back even farther and included some Roman busts, coins, and even a mummified child from Egypt! But the highlight of the collection were the pages from the Guttenberg Bible and the 15th century maps of North America. It was definitely refreshing to see some of these items so well preserved, you generally can’t get that close to these materials back home. We finished our tour with some snacks and refreshments, a welcome end to a long day.

Tomorrow: The International Criminal Court, oh boy..

[mooc-homework]

Medieval Manuscripts Assigment week 1

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Name: Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands)

Location: The Hague, the Netherlands

Type of library: National Library

Link to page: https://www.kb.nl/en/resources-research-guides/kb-collections/medieval-manuscripts

Quality of digitations: Varies, but in general good. Most images are in full color and at least decent resolution.

Earliest manuscripts: ca. 800

Latest manuscripts: ca 1550

Legal status of digitations:

“Terms and conditions for reuse & credits

·      The Koninklijke Bibliotheek and Museum Meermanno | Huis van het Boek have waived their copyright on the metadata **for both sets, which, therefore, have a **CC0 licence (link is external).

·      There is a Public Domain Mark (link is external) for the objects (illustrations) in the ByvanckB set, which means that there are no copyright restrictions on reproducing, publishing, processing or sharing these illustrations.

Although there is no requirement to credit the source when using the set, the KB and Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum would be grateful for this. Please use the following text: Museum Meermanno | Huis van het Boek &National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague. Source:manuscripts.kb.nl(link is external)– [link to object].”

(https://www.kb.nl/en/resources-research-guides/data-services-apis/medieval-illuminated-manuscripts-data-set)

User friendliness of search options: Good.

Digitized illuminated manuscripts have their own catalogue, apart from the general one. (http://manuscripts.kb.nl/ )

The illuminated manuscripts catalogue offers highlights, a search and a browse by subject option.

Search and browse can be done in English, German, French or Italian (not in Dutch, which I think is pretty weird for the Dutch national Library).  The browse function uses the iconoclass system. Search options include title, author, miniaturist, time period/date, language and place of origin.

Languages: Search options in English, German, French, Italian. Explanations in Dutch and English.

Notes: There is also a ‘modern manuscripts’ collection for documents from ca. 1550-present, at https://www.kb.nl/en/resources-research-guides/kb-collections/modern-manuscripts-from-c-1550.

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Name: British Library

Location: London, United Kingdom

Type of library: National Library

Link to page: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/introduction.asp

Quality of digitations: Varies, most are very good (in color and high definition).

Earliest manuscript: 1st quarter of 9th century

Latest manuscript: 1817

Legal status of digitations: “The Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts content is now available for download and reuse. Although still technically in copyright in the UK (and a number of other common law territories) the images are being made available under a Public Domain Mark* which indicates that there are no copyright restrictions on reproduction, adaptation, republication or sharing of the content available from the site. The catalogue information is made available under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.” (https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/reuse.asp)

User friendliness of search options: Good. The ‘advanced search’ or ‘browse’ options let you select books on basis of time period, location of origin, artist, language and such. In ‘simple search’ you can use keywords, so you can look for books/pictures by subject. ‘Manuscript search’ only works with MS number, so it’s pretty useless unless you’re looking for a specific book you already know.

Languages: English

Notes:  -

3

Name: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

Location: Heidelberg, Germany

Type of library: University library

Link to page: http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/Englisch/allg/benutzung/bereiche/handschrift.html

Quality of digitations: Varies. Most are good, but some older entries are in black and white and/or low resolution.

Earliest manuscripts: 1st century (papyrus fragments)

Latest manuscripts: 18th century

Legal status of digitations: Mentioned separately for each book. All books that I checked  were published with a ‘Creative Commons: attribution and share alike’ license.  More information on what that means can be found here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0

User friendliness of search options: Horrible. There is a quick search that helps a bit if you tell it to search ‘this site’ for the right keywords. There’s also a search on the page Heidelberg historic literature – digitized , but it couldn’t find its own arse if someone else pointed it out to them.

Your best option is to search by clicking links. However, there is an abundance of links, and the difference between what all of them have to offer isn’t clear.  Digitized manuscripts can be found on several of them. Some links are dead. Not all pages have an English version, and some that have are only partly translated. The link above is the best starting point I could find.

On the other hand, I am happy with the option to display thumbnails to all the pages of a manuscript on one page, once you have found a manuscript you like.

Languages: German, English.

Notes: I’ve included this library because it contains one of my favorite manuscripts; the Codex Manesse : https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg848/0001/thumbs

4

Name/Institute: Bodleian Lybrary

Location: Oxford, England

Type of library: Research Library of University

Link to page:

https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/Discover/Search/#/?p=c+,t+,rsrs+0,rsps+10,fa+ox%3Acollection%5EWestern%20Manuscripts,so+ox%3Asort%5Easc,scids+,pid+,vi+

Quality of digitations: Good. All images I saw were in color and in high resolution.

Earliest manuscript: 500-599

Latest manuscripts: 1700 - 1713

Legal status of digitations: “You may print off or download any content only for non-commercial purposes, including but not limited to private study, research, or teaching and instruction within an educational establishment, under the following terms:

·         If the permitted use of the content involves any distribution, dissemination or communication of the content (by any means or process) to another person, you must (wherever possible) acknowledge the source of the content in the following form: “[title], [author], [date content created], [Shelfmark or other identifier], Photo: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford [year]”, linking where possible to the Digital.Bodleian site as the source of the content.

·         You may not remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices including attribution metadata, credits and notices, that are placed in or near the text, images or data.”

(https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/terms.html)

User friendliness of search options: Fair. The page offers  a simple search function.  On the left you can click to select books from a certain language or collection. You can also sort the results by date, relevance or shelfmark. However, sorting by date doesn’t work for 100% because the software reads –for example-  0700 and 700 as two different  years.

Languages: English

Notes:  There is also another webpage with images from the Bodleian at http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/allCollections . It seems to be from an older project (this one , I guess: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/medievalimages ), but offers much better search options.

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Name: Library Ets Haim/Livraria Montezinos

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Type of library: Library of the educational and research institute of the Portuguese-Jewish Seminary.

Link to page: http://etshaimmanuscripts.nl/manuscripts/

Quality of digitations: Good. In color, high definition.

Earliest manuscript: 1282

Latest manuscript: 20th century

Legal status of digitations: Ets Haim owns the copyright for the digitations. (© 2018 Ets Haim Manuscripts)

User friendliness of search options: Mediocre. The search function is very simple. You can only enter keywords. There is no way to select on creation date. Besides that, all documents have been tagged with one or more broad categories to which they belong, and  you can view documents per category too.

Languages: Search in English, explanations in English and Hebrew.

Notes:  These manuscripts contain relatively few illuminations. The majority dates from after the middle ages.