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The National University Library of Turin is involved, starting in 2022, in study and enhancement activities focused on some precious manuscripts belonging to the Institute’s holdings, activities conducted in close synergy with the Interdepartmental Research Center Digital Scholarship for the Humanities (DISH) of the University of Turin. These works (inaugurated by a grant from the Doctoral Program in Humanities of the University of Turin financed with PNRR funds and won by Dr. Alessia Grillone, with tutor Prof. Ermanno Malaspina, and by the Tesori del Piemonte project, coordinated by Prof. Roberto Rosselli del Turco, also from the University of Turin) aim, among other things, to offer the publicdigital editions of codes of relevant cultural and historical-artistic importance through the use of EVT (Edition Visualization Technology), open source software developed by Prof. Rosselli Del Turco’s research group between the University of Pisa and the DISH Center.

Thanks to such editions, it is now possible to study these manuscripts by having at one’s disposal a reliable diplomatic transcription, accompanied by additional tools for investigation: highlights of details with special illuminations, enlargements at will, graphic filters for analyzing images, and the possibility of performing complex textual searches. These tools, which are also useful from the point of view of education and preservation of the property, are proposed as the first steps toward a new way of using the documents, which will be extended to other materials in the Library.

Mantegna’s Pliny (ms. J.I.22-23)

The Epistles of Cicero (ms. J.V.34)

BINARIES – NATIONAL LIBRARY for ARIstele

Aristotle, Economists, Nicomachean Ethics, translation by Leonardo Bruni (ms. D V 33)

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Latin translation by Giovanni Argiropulo (ms. E III 25)

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, translation by Leonardo Bruni (ms. E IV 36)