What benefits to researchers and archives does the digitisation of the notebooks offer?
• The digitising of the codices offers unprecedented access to the manuscripts, which have hitherto been available for specialised research in leading international libraries and private collections, and occasionally exhibited. • Digitisation offers the possibility of the reconstruction in the order he composed them, and the reordering of the manuscripts for the purpose of study (for example by subject or place). • Digitisation of the codices offers benefits for the preservation of the original manuscripts by reducing the need for handling the original manuscripts. • Now that both original codices are unbound, digitisation allows us to create an image of the bound order in which the manuscripts were preserved from the 16th to 20th centuries, thus providing an important historical record of how the manuscripts were kept for much of the past 500 years.
