Abstract
Chapter 1 demystifies the processes of creating digital manuscripts by tracing the creation of a single digital book: Stanford, Stanford University Libraries, Department of Special Collections, Manuscript Collection, MSS Codex M0379, a largely unstudied fifteenth-century book of hours, which was digitized in November 2014. Pushing against scholarly generalizations about digitization, this chapter foregrounds the specifics of library-authored standard digitization workflows. I also foreground the intellectual and bodily labor that goes into making a digital book, connecting modern digitization to a long history of scribal labor, preserved in medieval scribal complaints. This chapter concludes by showing how embracing a more self-consciously medieval and global perspective on modern digitization reveals that the erasure of modern copyists is a particular, limited regional choice and not a transhistorical, transnational norm.
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