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SUMMARY:Exultation and despondency: the digital reconstruction of the lost
  partbooks of John Sadler (Bodleian Library Mus. e. 1-5) - Dr Julie Craig-
 McFeely (University of Oxford)
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160205T140000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Among the many examples of Tudor music in Oxford’s libraries
  is a badly damaged set of partbooks written by schoolmaster John Sadler i
 n the mid 1500s. Acid paper and acid ink has caused burn-through damage to
  most of the pages in the book\, rendering much of the content nearly ille
 gible. The Tudor Partbooks project (a collaboration funded by the AHRC bet
 ween musicologists at Newcastle University and the University of Oxford) i
 s engaged in restoring Sadler’s books to usability for publication in fa
 csimile form as their fragility means they have not been available to read
 ers since the early 1970s. This talk looks at some of the techniques of di
 gital reconstruction and restoration developed by the Tudor Partbooks team
 \, and some of the difficulties we have encountered\, both physical and et
 hical\, in developing this complex process.\n\nThe Tudor Partbooks project
  is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.\n\nJulia Craig-McF
 eely is DIAMM Research Fellow at the Faculty of Music. She is a director o
 f the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music\, for which she has develope
 d digital restoration techniques to restore damaged manuscripts to readabi
 lity and a database of manuscript metadata that covers every polyphonic mu
 sic manuscript prior to 1600. She has published and lectured on English Lu
 te Manuscripts\, Early modern scribal identification\, digital restoration
  and imaging techniques for fragile manuscripts\, and was the imaging advi
 sor on the pilot project to digitise the Dead Sea Scrolls. As a specialist
  manuscript photographer she has worked on documents as diverse as the Win
 chester Bible and the diaries of Imogen Holst. She is a collaborator on a 
 number of international projects in digital humanities.\nSpeakers:\nDr Jul
 ie Craig-McFeely (University of Oxford)
LOCATION:Weston Library (Centre for Digital Scholarship)\, Broad Street OX
 1 3BG
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/583512b6-76e4-4614-85f4-0892266bf196/
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