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Creative Common Downloads - St Chad Gospels

The Chapter of Lichfield Cathedgral granted Creative Commons rights for the multispectral imaging of the St Chad Gospels (2010). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England and Wales License. Lichfield Cathedral prefers this license because it recognizes the care taken of the St Chad Gospels by the community of St Teilo's Church in Llandeilo Fawr, Wales, when Gelhi traded his best horse to save this great gospel-book.

Granting a CC license represents a generosity that exceeds most publicly funded libraries and museums. Please remember, the Cathedral does not receive State funding. While the Cathedral provides these images free of charge, it faces many challenges in preserving these precious manuscripts. Located in the English Midlands, although beautiful, the Cathdral does not benefit from the tourist traffic that a major city provides. Therefore, I invite you to donate.

Multispectral Images: Download the first 168 pages! These pages include the Chi-Rho, incipits for Matthew and Mark, portrait of Mark, and page 141, which contains a mysterious erasure and marginalia with the earliest surviving Old Welsh writing.

Images for frequencies of 365nm, 450nm, 465nm, 505nm, 535nm, 592nm, 625nm, 638nm, 700nm, 730nm, 780nm, 850, 940nm (ultraviolet to infrared). However, conservation required not all pages have an ultraviolet (365nm) image.

Images for four pages bundled as a 7-zip file (extension .7z). Free software is available to extract them, including 7-Zip for PCs and Keka for Macs.

Once a link clicked, a page on the Open Science Framework will open. A download button (blue with white letters) will appear on the right-hand side of your screen. Click it to download the highlighed file. For further files, scroll through the files in the folder and click on any of them to download.

Pages 1 to 4          Chad001-004.7z/ (scroll to additionally bundled pages)
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Pages 177 to 200 Chad197-200.7z/ (scroll to additionally bundled pages)

Page 1, 365nm      Chad001re_365nm.tif (scroll to additionally desired pages)
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Page 200, 940nm Chad200_940nm.tif (scroll to additionally desired pages)

RGB: To download, click the link for either Medium or Full, and the image with open in a viewer. Either control+click (Mac) or right click (Windows) to download the image. Or, if you know the image you want, simply control+click (Mac) or right click (Windows) a link to start downloading.

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