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Subject: braun & hogenberg
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:16:54 -0500
From: Patrick Scott <[log in to unmask]>


You recently inquired through MAPS-L if any one was contemplating
putting all the B&H maps on line.  We are contemplating this, and had
been in touch with the Hebrew University project in hope of learning
from their expertise and experience, and ensuring the projects meshed.
In principle, the larger project could be collaborative between several
libraries, each contributing from its own maps and each a mirror-site
for the work done elsewhere.  Absent external funding, we have digitized
relatively few of our maps, and only at exhibit dpi, not in research
detail.
See for example the B&H maps (London, Cambridge, Oxford, Rome, Naples,
Phlegraean fields, Florence) in the John Milton exhibit:
http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/britlit/milton/milton.html
We have some 400 B&H maps, from all six vols, but that includes a fair
number of duplicates; complete bound vols of vols 1 and 6.   If your
(CWinters's) colleague/inquirer is interested in a specific map or maps,
we be glad to see if we could help.

Patrick Scott
Director of Special Collections,
Thomas Cooper Library,
& Professor of English,
University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
Tel: 803-777-1275
Fax: 803-777-4661, attn Dr Scott
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