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MANCHESTER University’s John Rylands Library will be digitising much of its renowned collection of medieval manuscripts, including parts of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The project will allow widespread access to the works online. Staff will begin to scan the pages using a high definition camera in October and the results will be available by late 2009. Jan Wilkinson, University Librarian and Director of the John Rylands Library, said: “The library’s Middle English manuscripts are a research resource of immense significance. “Yet the manuscripts are inherently fragile, and until now access to them has been restricted by the lack of digital copies. Digitisation will make them available to everyone. “For the first time it will be possible to compare our manuscripts directly with other versions of the texts in libraries located across the world, opening up opportunities for new areas of research.” By arrangement with The Independent
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