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As of May 2024, this website features preliminary transcriptions of the first few folios of Trinity College Cambridge MS O.8.35, a mid-fifteenth century Middle English medical manuscript that was owned by Henry Dyngley (ca. 1515–1589). These transcriptions were prepared from a digital facsimile created by the librarians at Trinity College. Transcriptions and high-res images of the manuscript are viewable on the folios pages. To read about Henry Dyngley and this manuscript as part of his collection, visit the Introduction page.

The preliminary transcriptions of TCC MS O.8.35 were completed by Melissa Reynolds in the summer of 2023 as one of several trial projects associated with the development of EditionCrafter, a publication tool for digital critical editions under development (2022-2024), by the Making and Knowing Project (M&K), Performant Software Solutions, and a number of case-study collaborators. EditionCrafter is designed to be an open-source, customizable publishing tool that will allow users to deploy their own texts, data, and commentary as low-maintenance digital critical editions. It will enable the creation of static sites that rely on basic well-established technologies and workflows to address issues of longevity, maintenance, sustainability, and cost. For more about this work, see the NSF award announcement: Crafting an Open Source Digital Publication Tool for the History of Science.

The data and metadata generated from the manuscript transcriptions and annotations available on this site are available in the GitHub repository dyngleyfamily-editioncrafter-data. This website runs in a Hugo environment on GitHub Pages from the repository dyngleyfamily-editioncrafter-website, based on a template created for the publication of Secrets of Craft and Nature. A Digital Critical Edition of BnF Ms. Fr. 640 by the Making and Knowing Project.