At 01:15 PM 3/5/2003 -0500, Gail Gilbert wrote: >Colleagues, can you help answer the following question? > >"I know there is a word, "palimpsest" used to describe the part of the >manuscript where text has been removed so that new text can fit in its >place. I also know that "pentimenti" refers to a painting or drawing >where the under-workings show through as a "ghost" image. > >Is there a word which is used to describe the "bleeding" through of text >or writing in a manuscript or sketchbook from the back side of one > >page to the front of the other?" > >Thank you. > > >Gail Gilbert >Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library >Schneider Hall >University of Louisville >Louisville, KY 40292 >502-852-6741 >[log in to unmask] Not surprisingly, the correct word seems to be "bleedthrough" as in the example below: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sfbmhtml/sfbmbuilding.html Building the Digital Collection Creating the Digital Images The Samuel F. B. Morse Papers were microfilmed by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1975. All thirty-five reels of this microfilm were digitized, producing approximately 50,000 images. Digitization of the microfilm was performed offsite by Preservation Resources of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, under contract to the National Digital Library Program. The Morse Papers were scanned as 200 dpi, 8-bit grayscale images that were compressed using JPEG compression, producing images in the JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF). This format is typically used to digitize historical manuscripts because of its ability to capture and display the diversity of tones in manuscripts and the varying nuances produced by handwriting, pencil, and ink. Capturing images in grayscale can often also suppress the bleedthrough typical of handwritten documents in the Morse Papers. (Bleedthrough means that the ink or printing on the verso, or back, of a page can be seen on the recto, or front.) Because JPEG images require considerable time to download, grayscale GIF images were created for convenient access when using the NDLP page-turner feature. GIFs were generated from grayscale TIFF images by Preservation Resources. =========================== Robert A. Baron mailto:[log in to unmask] http://www.studiolo.org __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org//membership.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]