Day 11

Day 11!

Today was the day we have been preparing for! The palimpsest we got was Italian, from the 1400s. The original was religious script from the 1300s, but that writing was removed, the parchment cut, and covered with music. This document is from RITs Cary Collection, and was procured for educational purposes. As far as we know, today was the first time MISHA imaged an actual historical document. The front and back both have music written on it, so Hudson and I had to image both sides. Since this took most of the day, we have yet to process the images yet. I do not happen to be fluent in 14th-15th century Italian, so I cannot translate the script right away, but I am interested in researching more into what this particular document says, and possibly discovering what the music sounds like. It will take extensive research, however, so that is a task I will have to leave until it is ensured I have that kind of time.

Our code isn't quite ready yet, and we would like to be able to do more with it, so It may take all next week before we can use our own code to process the images we took today. I am really excited to learn more about this palimpsest in the coming week, and actually create some useful code that will assist in its processing!