Wired has an interesting article and picture series over the project to scan the Venetus A, the oldest complete manuscript of Homer’s Iliad.

The idea is “to use our 3-D data to create a ‘virtual book’ showing the Venetus in its natural form, in a way that few scholars would ever be able to access,” says Matt Field, a University of Kentucky researcher who scanned the pages. “It’s not often that you see this kind of collaboration between the humanities and the technical fields.”

Wouldn’t it be great to read Golden Age first print comics/etc in a similar fashion?