page_title: Parker Library, Corpus Christi College
section_title: Parker Library on the Web
hierarchical_section_title: Parker Library, Corpus Christi College / Parker Library on the Web
caption_attribution_description: English: A part of the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College
context_page_description: The Parker Library is the rare books and manuscripts library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. It is known throughout the world due to its invaluable collection of over 600 manuscripts, particularly medieval texts, the majority of which were bequeathed to the College by Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker, a former Master of Corpus Christi College.
context_section_description: The Parker Library on the Web project is a joint venture run by Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Cambridge University Library and Stanford University Libraries in the United States of America. The main goal of the project is to digitise all of the medieval manuscripts in the Parker Library and to be the first project that seeks to make an entire library publicly accessible on the web. The project is funded by the Mellon Foundation.
  The initial phase of the project began in the summer of 2003, when the first two manuscripts, MSS 16 and 26, were digitised.  These images were available as an initial prototype. A feasibility study was conducted during the early months of 2005 and the main project began at the end of 2005. The images were made by Cambridge University Library imaging staff, working at Corpus Christi College. The project has digitised the 538 manuscripts described in M. R. James' Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College (Cambridge University Press, 1912) creating a subscription-only interactive web application in which the manuscript page images can be used by scholars and students in the context of editions, translations and secondary sources. A very small number of these are printed books, mistakenly catalogued as manuscripts in the 18th century, and so were excluded. Additionally, there are a few manuscripts with paper pages which are badly damaged by moisture, or those with very fragile bindings, which at present cannot be successfully imaged in their totality. Exterior images were made of the present bindings of each manuscript. Additional information drawn from the supplemental hand-list by Richard Vaughan and John Fines of 1960 and descriptive material provided by the Parker Library for any manuscripts acquired more recently.
  Completed in 2010, the process involved the digitisation of over 200,000 separate pages. A beta version, although incomplete and with some errors, is currently available free to all registered users.
caption: A view along the Wilkins' Room inside the Parker Library
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