By Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, Leo Carruthers, Tatjana Silec
Witnesses to the disappearance of a textual content, palimpsest manuscripts undergo the marks in their personal genesis, with their unique inscription rubbed out and written over at the comparable parchment. This assortment explores analogies of erasure and rewriting saw in editorial and literary practices underlying the creation of texts from medieval England.
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The first step in any enhancement is to obtain a digital photograph of the manuscript in question. Although often underestimated, this is by no means trivial and needs to be done with some care. 12 Let us assume that there is available a high- quality digital photograph taken in natural light in a standard format such as TIFF. indd 37 3/7/2011 2:25:07 PM 38 PETER A. STOK ES like any digital image, is in essence a grid of colored points. Each element in the grid is known as a “picture element,” or “pixel,” and each pixel is assigned a particular color to create an image.
John D. S. Brewer, 1980), p. 28 [11–29]. As is well known, Robinson pleads in favor of taking full account of how/where a manuscript text was placed on the page and within a codex; here, however, his argument is fruitfully applied to consideration of a work within an authorially designed collection, whether in manuscript or edited form. indd 16 3/7/2011 2:22:19 PM I N T RO DU C T ION 17 40. Reading a corpus of generically related texts in association enabled Florence Bourgne, in her “Le statut générique de la Légende des femmes vertueuses de Chaucer—ou la couleur des pâquerettes,” Bulletin des Anglicistes Médiévistes 54 (Winter 1998): 47–50 [37–50], to envision the “Legend of Good Women” as a pastiche of a compendium of saints’ lives.