Shiny New Camera Arrives in the DIU

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Last week saw the delivery of our brand new camera- the Hasselblad H5D-200MS. This camera is hot off the press with only a few in the country so far. Capable of capturing high quality files up to an astonishing 570MB, this should be fantastic for shooting exhibition images when large format printing is called for. The addition of a second copy unit will also help us to gear up towards increasing the departments output.

More information about the camera can be found at http://www.hasselblad.co.uk/promotions/h5d.aspx

The Centre for Research Collections has launched a competition online using DIU Images!

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The Centre for Research Collections is trying to find one image from the vast and immensely diverse Collections to stand out and proudly represent it. Some of the highlights captured by the Digital Imaging Unit have been selected and a Facebook competition asking people to help find the Iconic Image of the CRC was launched!

Some of the Treasures nominated for the best and most iconic image are various books from the William Shakespeare Collection, different beautiful medieval and oriental manuscripts, musical instruments and other objects which all deserve to win. However, only the one which receives the most Likes will win the competition!

Please vote for the image you like and think best embodies the Centre and its Collections!

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The CRC is looking forward to announcing the winner in the near future, so keep tuned for more updates and follow the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/crc.edinburgh

11th Century Manuscript Digitisation Complete

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Notices of David Laing, 1878, Stevenson, Thomas George. Etching of the collector David Laing reading from Ms 12.

Hello & 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 the Special Collections oldest manuscripts- Ms 12, an 11th Century manuscript of Four Gospels from Germany.

When Bibliotheca Laureshamensis http://www.bibliotheca-laureshamensis-digital.de/ 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 & a joint digitisation project was soon agreed.

We hope to have this available soon in a book reader format, but in the meantime you can get a flavour of it at http://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/servlet/view/all/what/Ms%2012?sort=Work_Title,Work_Creator_Name,Work_Shelfmark

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f.122r of Ms 12, Four Gospels, 11thC. German.