![]() And although you wanted to make your own mark on them, you didn't want to be too obvious necessarily," explains Barrett.Īnd as for the pictures, "I don't think it was necessarily just doodling for the sake of doodling," he says. "These manuscripts were considered sacred. With the names, it may simply have been to show ownership without scribbling all over a precious religious text. Why would people have etched their names and added drawings like this, almost invisibly? And that makes it all more exciting," says John Barrett, the Bodleian’s senior photographer and Archiox technical lead. "Everything's measurable, this is not just an imaging tool, it's also a measurement tool as well. The Archiox researchers use two devices to create digital representations of pages and objects: the "Selene", which has four cameras capable of capturing differences in surface relief down to 25 micrometres (0.025mm/0.001in), and the "Lucida", which deploys lasers and two tiny cameras to create 3D scans.
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