{"id":1,"date":"2013-06-14T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/?p=1"},"modified":"2021-02-21T15:04:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T15:04:03","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/2013\/06\/14\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"11th Century Manuscript Digitisation Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/06\/DavidLaing.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25\" alt=\"DavidLaing\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/06\/DavidLaing-300x174.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/06\/DavidLaing-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/06\/DavidLaing-624x362.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/06\/DavidLaing.jpg 793w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Notices of David Laing, 1878, Stevenson, Thomas George. Etching of the collector David Laing reading from Ms 12.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hello &amp; welcome to our very first Post!<\/p>\n<p>It seems appropriate to kick off this blog with the exciting news that we have just completed the digitisation of one of the Special Collections oldest manuscripts- Ms 12, an 11th Century manuscript of Four Gospels from Germany.<\/p>\n<p>When Bibliotheca Laureshamensis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibliotheca-laureshamensis-digital.de\/\">http:\/\/www.bibliotheca-laureshamensis-digital.de\/<\/a> got in touch to discuss the possibility of photographing all 510 pages of the manuscript our Rare Books Librarian was thrilled by the re-emergence of this wonderful document &amp; a joint digitisation project was soon agreed.<\/p>\n<p>We hope to have this available soon in a book reader format, but in the meantime you can get a flavour of it at <a href=\"http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\/luna\/servlet\/view\/all\/what\/Ms%2012?sort=Work_Title,Work_Creator_Name,Work_Shelfmark\">http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\/luna\/servlet\/view\/all\/what\/Ms%2012?sort=Work_Title,Work_Creator_Name,Work_Shelfmark<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/06\/0025929d.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24\" alt=\"Laing 5\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/06\/0025929d-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/06\/0025929d-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/06\/0025929d.jpg 513w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">f.122r of Ms 12, Four Gospels, 11thC. German.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello &amp; welcome to our very first Post! It seems appropriate to kick off this blog with the exciting news that we have just completed the digitisation of one of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/2013\/06\/14\/hello-world\/\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">11th Century Manuscript Digitisation Complete<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[65,79,84,86],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}