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Vercelli Book Digitale Directed by R. Rosselli Del Turco. Université di Torino, 2003- . <http:// vbd.humnet.unipi.it/> Second beta: <http://vbd.humnet.unipi.it/beta2/>
* The Digital Vercelli Book provides universal access to extremely high-quality scans and machine-readable texts of Vercelli, Cathedral Library, MS 117, the manuscript that contains, among much other poetry and prose, "The Dream of the Rood" (for this reason the Digital Vercelli Book is a partner with the Visionary Cross Project: <visionarycross.org/> ).
A clean, intuitive and attractive interface allows readers to view the images at multiple levels of magnification (21%-135% is the range of the sliders in the dual-page view) and to pair an image with a facingpage edition or to compare two editions to each other. Both purely diplomatic and "interpretive" (i.e., critical) editions are available, the former preserving not only special characters such as Tironian note, high-e, long-s, runes and various abbreviations, but also the manuscript spacing (or lack thereof). There is also additional information about the manuscript and the texts that can be displayed on either of the facing pages, allowing the reader to choose the particular combination of approaches most valuable for a given type of research. For example, a manuscript image on the left can be paired with a diplomatic transcription on the right or a diplomatic transcription on the left with the interpretive edition on the...