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Special Collections & Archives' Outreach & Engagement: 3D Scans

How Special Collections & Archives interacts with the world.

3D Scanning

In early 2022 Special Collections partnered with UCC Library's DIgital Learning and student workers to 3D scan a selection of objects including parchment fragments using a EinScan-SP desktop scanner. This collected data was used to construct digital 3D models. The resulting scans, though imperfect, serve as an example of what is possible. For example, not only is the text on the fragment visible so too is the topography of the parchment fragment. 3D scans of these fragile items mean less handling is required but not at the expense of new or ongoing research. This innovative technique gives insight into the creation of manuscripts irrespective of the language of the manuscript fragment.

3D Scanned Objects with Originals

Music Fragment (Recto)

The parchment fragment is an extract from a medieval book of chants with musical notation and rubricated letters. It is used in a 16th century bound volume: Philo. Philōnos Ioudaiou eis ta tou Mōseōs: Kosmopoiētika, Historika, Nomothetika. Tou autou monobibla. = Philonis Iudaei in libros Mosis: De mundi opificio, Historicos, De legibus. Eiusdem libri singulares. Ex bibliotheca regia. Parisiis: Ex officina Adriani Turnebi ..., 1552. 

Music Fragment (Verso)

The parchment fragment is an extract from a medieval book of chants with musical notation and rubricated letters. It is used in a 16th century bound volume: Philo. Philōnos Ioudaiou eis ta tou Mōseōs: Kosmopoiētika, Historika, Nomothetika. Tou autou monobibla. = Philonis Iudaei in libros Mosis: De mundi opificio, Historicos, De legibus. Eiusdem libri singulares. Ex bibliotheca regia. Parisiis: Ex officina Adriani Turnebi ..., 1552. 

Date Stamp

 
Date stamp, U.238, Special Collections. 

Four different book stamps lying on their sides. They appear green but this is part of the 3D scanned environment.

A range of 3D scanned objects

Different stamps used within the Library at Queen's College Cork and UCC Library during the 19th-20th centuries. U.239, Special Collections.

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