Commons:Batch uploading/Codex Gigas
Codex Gigas[edit]
The Swedish National Library has made available the Godex Gigas, a 13th century bible manuscript which is also the largest medieval manuscript in existence, in its entirety. It's available in high resolution through FSI Viewer and in medium resolution as jpegs. The whole file structure is available at National Library's website here. The jpegs seem quite simply to download, but it would be even more interesting to extract the high-resolution pictures out of the viewer.
As a reproduction of a medieval volume, there are no copyright issues to worry about (except for perhaps the pictures of the highly ornate cover).
Peter Isotalo 13:30, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Opinions[edit]
I did some research on the software used here. We won't be able to directly download the hi-rez images because they are stored in WEB-INF. We can request chunks of the image from an API, but the max size on those seems to be 2000px (the image I was looking at is 2943x4387 at full rez).
Anyway, for reference the API call images.kb.se/erez4/erez?src=<FILENAME_HERE>&cmd=view&vtl=fsi/info.xml&tmp=fsi gets you an XML with the full width and height of the image. The filename for the first image in Genesis is images/urn-nbn-se-kb-digark-48462.tif; I don't know if there is a good way to find these. Then, you'd make API calls like images.kb.se/erez4/erez?src=<FILENAME_HERE>&width=2000&height=2000&left=0&top=0&right=0.679578661230037&bottom=0.455892409391383&tmp=fsi (left/top/right/bottom are 0.0-1.0 coords of the view window) to download each 2000x2000 chunk of the image.
It might be best to see if they'd be willing to provide the hi-rez versions to us. BMacZero (talk) 17:56, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
KB has published high-resolution images now[edit]
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