July 11, 2024
2025 DMSI Workshop at IMC Leeds “Seeing Beyond: Practical and Low-Cost Multispectral Imaging”
Helen Davies, Katie Albers-Morris, Alex Zawacki, and Evan Gatti led an MSI workshop at the 2025 Digital Medieval Studies Institute following the IMC Leeds. This workshop introduced different levels of MSI capturing and processing, ranging from the more high-end systems to more affordable and portable systems like the MISHA, or Ghost Camera. Attendees also had the opportunity to learn how to use accessible processing systems like Hoku and r-Chive.
July 10, 2025
“Modeling Manuscript Bindings for Teaching and 3D Construction”
Katie Albers-Morris and Evan Gatti led a talk during the Digital Approaches to Materiality of Manuscripts, I: Classrooms session at the 2025 IMC Leeds. During this presentation Katie and Evan discussed how the Videntes team organized and held the 2024 Medieval Manuscripts in a Modern World DH institute in Vercelli. This included explaining the process of collaboration between Videntes and the Museo del Tesoro del Duomo and the Archivio Capitolare di Vercelli, and the different skills targeted by daily sessions.
July 2025
“Seeing Beyond: Practical and Low-Cost Multispectral Imaging” Workshop at DMSI 2025
Helen Davies will be leading the “Seeing Beyond: Practical and Low-Cost Multispectral Imaging” workshop at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds’ Digital Medieval Studies Institute on July 11, 2025. This workshop offers an introductory discussion and hands-on demonstration of low-cost and accessible MSI systems, like MISHA.
May 20, 2025
Publication: “Reading the end of Fled Bricrenn: Multispectral Imaging applied to f. 9v of Leiden MS VLQ 7”
Katie Albers-Morris and Helen Davies, along with Nike Stam and Gregory Heyworth, published an article in the recent volume of Studia Celtica Fennica. This article discusses the use of MSI to investigate the previously illegible final page of Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek MS VLQ 7.
Find the article HERE.
July 2, 2025
Illuminating the Past: A Multispectral Imaging and Cultural Heritage Preservation Project
A new MSI tool-kit project developed by Helen Davies with Prof. Larry Eames and Evangela Dudeck through the Center for Research Frontiers in the Digital Humanities at UCCS is now available online! This project aims to share an affordable MSI process, the Ghost Camera, to audiences beyond the traditional elite academic setting. Tool-kits offered by Illuminating the Past will walk you through planning, implementing, and sharing your own cultural imaging and preservation projects.
Visit Illuminating the Past HERE.
Spring 2025
Publication: “The Apostles’ Roll and the didactic parchments of the Capitular Archive”
The Videntes team has published an article together in a special issue of Arte Cristiana 944. In this article, the team describes the Rotolo con Atti Degli Apostoli of St. Eusebius Cathedral and how Videntes uses MSI imaging to investigate the scroll and its connections to six other scrolls in the Archivio Capitolare, Vercelli.
Find the article HERE.
September 5, 2024
Illuminating the Past: A Summer Institute on Multispectral Imaging and Cultural Heritage Preservation awarded NEH Grant
Dr. Davies was awarded a $250,000 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund the 2025 Illuminating the Past: A Summer Institute on Multispectral Imaging and Cultural Heritage Preservation. Illuminating the Past is a professional development institute to educate participants on multispectral imaging and related methods to enhance analysis of humanities collections. This institute will be held in collaboration with Videntes and UCCS’ Digital History Center.
Read the NEH and the Office of Digital Humanities announcement HERE.
June 2024
Digital Humanities Institute in Vercelli: Medieval Manuscripts in a Modern World
Videntes recently held the first Digital Humanities Institute in Vercelli. In collaboration with the Museum Del Tesoro e Archivio Capitolare, our team was able to lead participants in five days of workshops, lectures, and labs to introduce them to MSI processing with medieval art and archival documents.
April 2, 2024
Publication: “Multispectral Imaging to Recover the Lost Text in the Sarajevo Haggadah”
Videntes team member Katie Albers-Morris has published an article with Aleksandra Buncic and Gregory Heyworth in the Journal of Cultural Heritage, describing the process of using MSI to image the Sarajevo Haggadah. The Sarajevo Haggadah is a Spanish illuminated manuscript that followed Jews expelled from Spain in the 14th century, and the MSI project has revealed a complete text of a sale contract that had been erased.
Find the article HERE.
Spring 2023
Publication: “Fragments under the Lens: A Case Study of Multispectral versus Hyperspectral Imaging for Manuscript Recovery”
Helen Davies collaborated on a recently published article in the Johns Hopkins University Press that seeks to clarify the varied utilities of MSI and hyperspectral imaging (HSI) for the purposes of fragment recover and analysis.
Find the article HERE.
February 10, 2023
Videntes in Ghent
Videntes. A Multispectral Imaging Collective. 