Council on Library Resources
Commission on Preservation and Access
Digital Collections Inventory Report
Preliminary Results
By Patricia A. McClungFebruary 1996
Electronic Beowulf: British Library
The original thousand-year-old manuscript of Beowulfs epic combats has been digitized by high resolution cameras. The digital images allow scholars to view the text in microscopic detail and recapture words and phrases erased by the original scribes, as well as words that have been hidden since the 1731 fire damage and restoration.
Contact: Access is available via the University of Kentucky Web site: http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/bl/kportico.html or contact Kevin Kernan at Kiernan@beowulf.engl.uky.edu
