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Electronic Beowulf @ 21
Andrew Prescott
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Page from the UK Web Archive snapshot of the British Library’s first web service, Portico,
18 April 1995
The British Library’s Initiatives for Access programme
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Electronic Beowulf pages on the British Library website, 18 April 1995
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The Kontron ProgRes 3012
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Beowulf manuscript, folio 179 recto, under plain and
under ultra-violet light
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British Library MS Cotton Otho B. x, fol. 13(54v)r
Early eleventh-century collection of mostly saints' lives by the monk Ælfric, severely damaged in the fire at Ashburnham House in 1731
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Image prepared by Kevin
Kiernan to accompany a
1995 article on Electronic
Beowulf for ‘Computers in
Libraries’, including images of Thorkelin
transcripts and some of the first ‘hidden letter’
shots
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Splash screen from Electronic Beowulf 1.0 (1999)
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Electronic Beowulf 1.0 (1999), running under the now defunct Netscape 4
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Hidden letters revealed by fibre optic backlighting, and recorded with
detailed textual notes (from Electronic Beowulf 3.0)
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Reading under ultra-violet light from folio 157 verso of the Beowulf
manuscript (shown in Electronic Beowulf 3.0)
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Conybeare’s 1817 collation (left) and Madden’s 1824 collation (right), showing Madden’s tracing of the first lines of Beowulf, viewed in Electronic
Beowulf 3.0
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Edition and glossary (displayed in Electronic Beowulf 2.0)
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Image Based XML (IBX) tool
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Splash screen from Electronic Beowulf 3.0 (2011)
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Electronic Beowulf 3.0: mouseover access to translation and metrics tool
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Metrics tool in Electronic Beowulf 3.0
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Testing conjectural restorations with Electronic Beowulf: the usual restoration of this word on Folio 179r, bemað, is too wide for the space in
the manuscript, but beget fits neatly
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Benedictional of St Æthelwold, as presented in British Library ‘Digitised Manuscripts’ web resource:
www.bl.uk/manuscripts/
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William Schipper, 'Dry-Point Compilation Notes in the Benedictional of St
Æthelwold', British Library Journal, 20 (1994), 17-34
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The dry point note ‘In’ is not visible in this recent digitisation of f. 27v of the Benedictional of St
Æthelwold. It is more clearly visible in the 1910 photographic facsimile.
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Recent British Library digitisation of Cotton MS. Vitellius A.xv: www.bl.uk/manuscripts
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Experimental online access to Electronic Beowulf 3.0, 2013. The eventual full online version will require substantial re-engineering
to replace the present Java interface.
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To get further information about the development of online access to Electronic Beowulf, join the e-
mail list at: jiscmail.ac.uk/EBEOWULF
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Kevin Kiernan demonstrates Electronic Beowulf