2023-11-14T12:54:11-08:00 2022-12-31 200793608 Bruce A Gray CPA 843 Settlers Dr Milliken CO 80543 990 2022-01-01 352253653 Early Manuscripts Electronic Library EARL 9098965900 904 Silver Spur Road 254 Rolling Hills Estates CA 90274 Michael B Phelps Executive Director 2023-11-14 true Michael B Phelps 999009999 true Brewster A Gray CPA P00388792 9705789950 X 2 AAL1 IAL1 FAL1 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z Michael B Phelps 904 Silver Spur Road 254 Rolling Hills Estates CA 90274 206250 false X N/A Use digital technologies to preserve and provide access to historical source materials, especially ancient and medieval manuscripts and rare books. 5 4 3 0 68374 206232 0 18 0 68374 206250 0 0 82049 88395 0 0 99580 114720 181629 203115 -113255 3135 255621 260232 80667 47957 174954 212275 Use digital technologies to preserve and provide access to historical source materials, especially ancient and medieval manuscripts and rare books. false false 171781 EMEL pursued its core mission in projects that used scientific imaging technologies to recover illegible texts in ancient and medieval manuscripts. EMEL undertook two projects at libraries in Italy to use multispectral imaging to recover the erased layers of writing in palimpsest manuscripts. Palimpsests are manuscripts written on recycled parchment where an early layer of writing was erased so that the parchment could be reused to make a new manuscript. A technology called multispectral imaging has proven successful to recover erased texts from palimpsests.EMEL's first project in Italy in 2022 was at teh Biblioteca Capitolare of Verona, which is Europe's oldest library and holds important palimpsests. EMEL's project there recovered erased early copies of works by important classical authors including Euclid, Livy, and Virgil, and recognized for the first time an early copy of a commentary on the works of Plato by Apuleius. EMEL's project in Verona was the topic of a workshop for scholars and students at the Sorbonne University in Paris, and scholars are preparing to publish the newly discovered work by Apuleius for access by students, scholars, and the interested public.EMEL's second project in Italy was at the Ambrosiana Library in Milan. There EMEL rendered legible for the first time a previously unknown scientific treatise by Euclid and a newly discovered Latin translation of a Greek Christian spiritual text by Pseudo-Makarios. Scholars are preparing to publish both texts to support research and teaching.EMEL leaders successfully negotiated an agreement with the Holy Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos in Greece for a future project to use multispectral imaging to recover erased texts from its palimpsest manuscripts. These manuscripts are largely unstudied.EMEL continued to develop a cooperation with Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, to develop future projects of mutual interest.EMEL continued its collaboration with the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) to publish an online digital library of manuscripts it digitized at St. Catherine's Monastery of the Sinai, Egypt, so that the images of the manuscripts are globally accessible free of charge.EMEL personnel participated in two conferences to communicate EMEL's work to a growing audience of scholars and interested members of the public. 171781 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 8 0 true 3 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 5 4 false false false false false false false true true false false true false false false false false false CA X Michael B Phelps 9098965900 306 Bayoak Drive Cary NC 27513 Michael B Phelps Chairman 40.00 0.00 X X 58800 0 0 Claudia Rapp Secretary 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Randy Merritt Treasurer 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Dimitri Antsos Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Matt McGovern Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 58800 0 false false false 0 206232 206232 0 18 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 206250 18 0 0 0 0 58800 58800 0 23288 23288 0 0 6307 4518 1789 0 0 650 650 0 0 0 0 90 90 13 13 0 0 2050 2050 0 0 1185 1185 0 0 0 2327 2327 Project Develop & Imaging 103616 103616 Cataloguing 3662 3662 Dues & Subscriptions 819 819 Bank Charges & Filing Fees 251 251 57 57 203115 171781 31334 0 9174 47851 213183 179117 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 413714 380450 33264 33264 0 0 0 0 0 255621 260232 11481 12957 35000 35000 34186 80667 47957 X 174954 212275 174954 212275 255621 260232 X 3135 34186 X false false false X 639578 336061 482158 68374 206232 1732403 0 0 0 0 639578 336061 482158 68374 206232 1732403 0 0 1732403 42 33 2 77 0 42 33 2 77 0 0 639620 336094 482160 68374 206232 1732480 1.00000 0.99990 0.00000 0.00010 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 293714 289479 4235 120000 90971 29029 33264 Middle East 0 0 Research and Digitization Research and Digitization 0 Europe 0 1 Research and Digitization Research and Digitization 0 1 1 false false false false false false Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Form 990 is reviewed by Chairman and provided to other board members for comment. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Documents are available upon request. Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 Forgiveness of SBA PPP Loan = $34186