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Esav Benyamin

Esav Benyamin

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It ain't just Alice in Wonderland! The British Library has made a great leap forward in presenting rare and delicate manuscripts to the public.

Original Alice work in 3D online

The original manuscript of what became Alice in Wonderland has been put online by the British Library using software to virtually turn the pages.

Alice's Adventures Under Ground, by Lewis Carroll, is the latest 3D addition to the Library's Turning the Pages collection of books.

Using Flash technology, the manuscript can be virtually "handled", while audio is played simultaneously.

Fourteen rare books and manuscripts are now in the Turning Pages collection.

Alice joins the Diamond Sutra, Jane Austen's History of England, the Leonardo Notebook, the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Mercator Atlas of Europe among others.

(The entire article is available at the link above.)
 
Esav, you cannot imagine how grateful I am that you gave me that lead. To have the Lindisfarne Gospels available online is a blessing that I cannot describe adequately. The only book from that period that would equal it would be the Book of Kells from the Dublin Library. These are some of the great works of art of the Era of Migrations.

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html

Bless you, not from a religious point of view but from an historical point of view.
 
Hugh, you're welcome! I figured there'd be a few more people as excited as I was to see that. The best of it is, the technology seems so easy to use. Lets look forward to many more books in their collection -- Kells would be an excellent addition.
 
"optional voiceover" That shows that the english education system has failed like ours -they can't read !!......Actually for those of us who can read it's a wonderfull opportunity to see works that have been accessable only to scholars.
 
Alice's Adventures Underground has also been published in facsimile... I got my library to inter-library loan it for me a few years ago. :D
 
I saw the Book of Kells at Trinity while on vacation 2 years back. What a wonderful work of art. I doubt it will be put online like this. I don't think there is even a printed version or a book that shows it in it's entirety. They have it on display and open it to different pages regularly, but I think they want to keep it that way. The library itself is equally impressive.
 
I was "leafing through" the "Lindisfarne Gospels" in the link Hugh supplied, and it was great to be able to see and read very early English as it was just starting to develop from the many languages in use there then.

Thanks for the great links guys.:thumbup::D
 
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