New Digital Collections Available Online

Great Houses of Cincinnati

Alice Weston: Great Houses of Cincinnati contains over 1,400 images of some of the city’s great architectural gems photographed by environmental artist Alice Weston.

Available online at <http://digitalprojects.libraries.uc.edu/weston/index.asp>, many of the images in this collection come from the publication Great Houses of the Queen City: Two Hundred Years of Historic and Contemporary Architecture and Interiors in Cincinnati, written by Walter E. Langsam and photographed by Alice Weston in 1997. In addition, the online collection contains added interior and exterior views as well as other properties not included in the publication.

Alice Weston: Great Houses of Cincinnati can be searched by architect, title, style, date, location, and subject. Visitors to the site can view thumbnails and large versions of the images, and can rotate, zoom in and out, magnify particular areas, download, and print the images. For assistance in using the collection, contact Elizabeth Meyer, Visual Resources Librarian, at (513) 556-0279 or at elizabeth.meyer@uc.edu.

The Spanish Antiphoner

The Spanish Antiphoner, a 16th-century Gregorian chant choir book handwritten on vellum pages approximately 16 by 24 inches in diameter with neumatic notation and illuminated capitals is available online at <http://digitalprojects.libraries.uc.edu/
spanishantiphoner/index.asp>. Pages 65 through 72 of the choir book are missing, but 242 pages remain intact.

The Spanish Antiphoner can be viewed in its entirety as both PDF (download Adobe Acrobat Reader) files or by using Book Reader software. When viewing The Spanish Antiphoner through the Digital Collections database option, viewers can view thumbnails and large versions of the images, and then can rotate, zoom in and out, magnify particular areas, download, and print the images.

The original Spanish Antiphoner is located in the Albino Gorno Memorial Music (CCM) Library where it is displayed in a walnut case made specifically for it by the College of Music Alumni Association in 1971. The supports for the case were constructed from carved walnut panels from the old Cincinnati Conservatory of Music building. The Spanish Antiphoner was donated to the CCM Library by the late Martin G. Dumler, a Cincinnati composer, artist, and businessman.

Digitization of this rare illuminated manuscript was made possible by a grant from the Tangeman Sacred Music Center at the university’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) with the assistance of Dr. Matthew Peattie, Assistant Professor of Musicology in CCM.

“I am so pleased that this beautiful, rare musical work is now available to researchers everywhere in digital form thanks to the Tangeman Sacred Music Center and to Linda Newman, Coordinator of Digital Collections. The Antiphoner itself is a focal point at the entrance to the newly relocated CCM Library on the 6th floor of Blegen Library,” said Mark Palkovic, Head of the CCM Library.

To view other digital collections,visit <http://digitalprojects.libraries.uc.edu/>.

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