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Zhrooooooooom! A great day to be in #London #JubileeCelebration #QueenElizabeth 70 years strong 🇬🇧

The largest and heaviest book in China: the genealogy of the royal house玉牒, Qing Dynasty, 1-meter in thickness, and over 150 kilograms. Collection of First Historical Archives of China.

Delighted to have worked with the wonderful A V Hudson on the Lord Frederick Campbell #Charter XXI 5 - the only surviving English document that still has an authentic, legible, pre-Conquest seal 🦭🪄🌈bit.ly/3O9btu4 #multispectral

Guess who’s #Bach in the lab! #imagingscience #classicalmusic #simplerhythms #steadyshifts #irongallink #zweig

Fantastic permanent position opportunity for a #culturalheritage #imagingscientist SUB Göttingen @[email protected]. The Göttingen State and University Library (SUB Göttingen) is one of the largest academic #libraries in Germany. sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/about-us/jo…

Ministers - if you want to take a screenshot of your resignation letter, it's shift+command+4 on a Mac or Windows+PrtScn on a PC. Stop taking blurred, wonky photos.

We love to discover beautiful and interesting details in the bindings we treat. Check out these headbands from the Arabic manuscripts: OR 5099 and Add MS 9596. 😍

I'm delighted to give everyone a sneak preview of a major project we're currently working on that uses multi-spectral imaging on some of the fire-damaged Cotton manuscripts in our collection, in collaboration with British Library Imaging Scientist Christina Duffy.

This papal bull (Cotton MS Vitellius B IV/I) is one of the most important documents in British history. Given by Pope Leo X in 1521, it conferred on Henry VIII the title Defender of the Faith, a title used to this day by Queen Elizabeth II and now HM King Charles III.

Like many of the manuscripts in the Cotton collection, it was badly burned in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731. With multi-spectral imaging, we can now uncover many of the previously hidden details, names, seals, and signatures it contains.

Today was #Day1 in my new role as Senior Content Strategist at Amazon Web Services in Dublin! A big change from cultural heritage, but I am very excited for new challenges! Amazon Web Services Amazon #alwaysdayone #tech #data

Sometime before he died #OTD in 1066, Edward the Confessor's seal was attached to a small parchment writ. Almost 1000 years later, Christina Duffy's technological wizardry revealed some of the secrets- and erasures- it had been carrying: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

I am so happy to see these images being published! This was a great project to work on and I can’t wait to see what it leads to.

We wanted to express our gratitude to Gina Goldhammer for funding our incredible work to restore the Cotton manuscripts, and to @CCockburn2 Christina Duffy Gavin, Camille, Gary & Francesca for their contributions to the project. More on the Blog soon. blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

Delighted to see #multispectral images of Cotton Vitellius F. XI in the Spring 23 edition of Irish Arts Review. Great article by Bernard Meehan on this 10th century Irish Psalter. Medieval Manuscripts

Our hearts since whenever we think about the Cotton fire (1731), at the fatefully-named Ashburnham House. And then we remember that modern technology can sometimes come to the rescue, as described in this blogpost. blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

Now you see it, now you don't A hidden sketch in one of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, revealed using multi-spectral imaging. Looks very much as if Leonardo had tried to rub it out. Does it represent Michelangelo's David, dare we ask? bl.uk/events/daggers…

Another of our fire-damaged manuscripts is now online Cotton MS Otho A VIII contains Goscelin of Saint-Bertin's Life and Translation of St Mildreth, and the Old English Life of St Machutus Multi-spectral imaging sponsored by the Goldhammer Foundation access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ar…