2015-11-16T21:10:19-08:00 2014-12-31 Gray Salt & Associates LLP 201 W 4th St Ste 100 - PO Box 2018 Claremont CA 917118018 990 2014-01-01 352253653 Early Manuscripts Electronic Library EARL 9098965900 904 Silver Spur Road Rolling Hills Estates CA 90274 Michael B Phelps President 2015-11-16 true Brewster A Gray CPA CGMA P00388792 9096266462 X 2014 2016-04-25 22:37:26Z 473624 false false X N/A Use digital technologies to preserve and provide access to historical source materials, especially ancient and medieval manuscripts and rare books. 6 5 3 0 481209 472252 1276 141 96 0 481350 473624 0 0 72043 59826 0 1445 479098 390086 551141 449912 -69791 23712 308080 344097 2418 14723 305662 329374 Use digital technologies to preserve and provide access to historical source materials, especially ancient and medieval manuscripts and rare books. false false 415738 1276 Continued major five-year project at St. Catherine's Monastery of the Sinai, Egypt to use multi-spectral imaging to recover illegible texts from ancient and medieval manuscripts in the monastery library. Specific activities included: onsite spectral imaging of illegible manuscripts; processing raw spectral data in the US to render the manuscripts legible; coordinating an international team of scholars to catalog the recovered texts; and concluding arrangements with the University of California Los Angeles to archive the resulting images and metadata and publish project results online.With a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanitites, applied multi-spectral imaging to the 1491 world map by Henricus Martellus at the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Yale University. Processed images reveal legends and images on the map which were previously illegible. A similar map by Martellus informed Columbus' first journey to the New World.At the Vatican Library, Rome, used multi-spectral imaging to recover illegible text from a 4th century palimpsest manuscript, which preserves a unique copy of a play by the classical Greek playwright Menander.Collaborated with the Lazarus Project of the University of Mississippi to use multi-spectral imaging to recover illegible text from a 4th century Latin manuscript of the Christian Gospels at the Cathedral Library of Vercelli, Italy.In collaboration with scholars in Vienna, Austria, applied for a grant with the Austrian Science Foundation to return to the Austrian National Library to apply multi-spectral imaging to a plimpsest manuscript to recover the text of a previously lost Greek historian (Dexippus).In collaboration with St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas, applied for a grant with the National Endowment for the Humanities to use multi-spectral imaging to recover erased copies of ancient Jewish texts from a palimpsest manuscript at the Ambrosiana Library, Milan, Italy.Published a new organizational website: www.emelibrary.orgProvided public lectures about our projects at Yale University and the University of Mississippi. 415738 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 false false false false true 11 0 false 3 true false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false false false false X 6 5 false false false false false false false true true false false true false false 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 48000 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 James A Sanders Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Matt McGovern Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 48000 0 false false false 0 472252 472252 Indirect Cost Recovery 1276 1276 1276 96 96 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 473624 1276 96 0 0 0 0 48000 38400 9600 0 7321 7321 0 0 4505 3127 1378 0 0 2777 2777 0 0 0 0 0 976 976 0 0 0 440 440 0 1186 1186 21 21 0 27107 20330 5422 1355 1790 1790 Project Develop & Imaging 259887 259887 Image Processing 29400 29400 Data Management 27971 27971 Cataloguing 18083 18083 20448 16914 3444 90 449912 415738 32729 1445 1165 42055 189896 204512 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 392176 294646 117019 97530 0 0 0 0 0 308080 344097 1808 14723 610 2418 14723 X 305662 329374 305662 329374 308080 344097 23712 X false false false X 82645 529520 398740 401209 472252 1884366 2000 2000 40000 40000 0 0 84645 529520 438740 401209 472252 1926366 0 356560 356560 356560 356560 1569806 4 84 175 141 96 500 0 4 84 175 141 96 500 0 0 84649 529604 438915 401350 472348 1926866 0.81470 0.72370 0.00030 0.00030 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 272176 203675 68501 120000 90971 29029 97530 Middle East 0 1 Research and Digitization Digital imaging 0 1 1 false false false false false false Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process Form 990 is reviewed by Chairman and provided to other board members for comment. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available Documents are available upon request.