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Making and Knowing Project – Intersections of Craft Making and Scientific Knowing
Digital Critical Edition is live!
Our long-awaited Digital Critical Edition here. See it for yourself!
About the Making and Knowing Project
Click here to learn more about what we are doing at Columbia University to create a digital critical edition of a 16th-century book of secrets.
Research and Teaching Companion
The Research and Teaching Companion supports educators interested in incorporating hands-on and experiential learning into their curriculums.
Laboratory Seminars
Reconstruction of the materials and techniques described in the manuscript is being carried out in a laboratory at Columbia University, led by Prof. Pamela Smith.
Photos from our Lab
See images of reconstructions from our years of work in the lab. Click the image to link to our photo repository.
Text Workshops
TEXT WORKSHOPS: Students gain paleography skills in middle French script and textual analysis by transcribing, translating, and encoding the manuscript.
Lab Seminars
LAB SEMINARS: Students pair laboratory reconstructions with contextual research to gain insight into historical techniques and materials.
Working Groups
WORKING GROUPS: Experts from across the globe meet every year to provide critical oversight of the project research.
Digital
DIGITAL: Creating an open-source, multimedia digital critical edition and experimenting with DH pedagogy and advanced visualization.
