Last site update of the year!

There are not many user visible changes, but the rose site has changed a great deal under the hood. The FSI image viewer has been updated to the latest release and our image server is now the new FSI server. The combination of the new image viewer and image server should be faster and more stable. Numerous other changes should make the rest of the site snappier too.

The one content addition is the Chevrier Rose. You may also notice that edge flipping and page dragging have been enabled in the page turner. Try dragging the corner of a page or simply click on the corner to see.

Bug fixes include:

• Always create a new viewer popup when requested.
• Race condition removed in the page tracking code.
  
• Foliation of printed books fixed in description and viewer.
  

Collection grows to 130 manuscripts

• UC 1380 image tagging fixed.
• More image tagging.
  
• Small fixes to collection data spreadsheet generation and display.
• More manuscripts from the BnF availble.
  

17 more manuscripts available!

• Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal: ms. 6818, ms. 2989, ms. 2872, ms. 5209, ms. 3336, and ms. 6045
  
• BnF: fr. 814, fr. 1568, fr. 798, fr. 1576, fr. 12592, fr. 19153, fr. 12596, fr. 19157, fr. 24390, fr. 19157, fr. 24388, fr. 25523, fr. 25526, fr. 2194, fr. 24392

• More detailed image tagging and more manuscripts tagged
  
• Better handling of paginated manuscripts.
• Improved character name searching
  
• Image tagging display update
• Index terms used in tagging listed in illustration keyword glossary.
  
• Full description of Selden Supra 57 from Tim Stinson
• Background color change in content window.
• All manuscript descriptions now include information about different texts.
  

The Getty has produced a short video on making manuscripts, and they have another on the structure of a medieval manuscript:



Both videos might prove helpful for someone examining the images of manuscripts found on our site.

Site update

• Changed image tagging format to normalize character names and illustration titles. This greatly improved the illustration title and character name tables.
  
• Reworked the data collection table to better utilize space.
  
• Updated to latest gwt and gwt-visualization.
• More image tagging.
• Support for bibliographies in RefWorks XML format. See Douce 195, Douce 332, and Selden Supra 57.
  
• Automatic linking of bibliography references to Google books when available.
  
• Fixed search bug caused by huge query expansions (searching for responsiveness, or Sisyphus in Safari) by limiting expansions.
• Fixed search bug caused by " not being escaped
• The contact email address working again after resolving email relay issue
• Fixed naming of images in endmatter of Hunter 409.

Screencasts

We have put up 3 videos demonstrating how to search manuscript folios, illustrations, and text.

These screencasts were made by our student assistant, Taylor Breslin.

Finding a folio



Finding an illustration or illustration keyword



Finding a line or section of verse

Available editions

Parts of several editions of the poem are freely available in Google books. There is vol. 1 of Méon's 1819 edition; vol. 1 of Michel's 1864 edition; vol. 3 of the edition of Langlois from 1921 as well as his Origines et sources du Roman de la Rose; vol. 3 of Dufresnoy and Damerey's 1799 edition; and vol. 5 of the 1880 edition of Croissandeau. There is also a transcription of Hunter 409 in Max Kaluza's 1891 publication. And finally, Francis William Bourdillon's book on The early editions of the Roman de la Rose is available in full.