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Multispectral imaging has restored the Cotton Genesis - and our @universalviewer team has applied IIIF-based functionality to enable switching between the visible light, ultraviolet and infrared images of a single folio in the same canvas. Very exciting!

https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/rescued-from-the-flames-the-cotton-genesis-restored-to-life

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Rescued from the flames: the Cotton Genesis restored to life

New multispectral imaging at the British Library has helped us to read one of the earliest surviving illuminated Bibles.

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aroenb 6d ago

@adi @universalviewer @BL_DigiSchol Very nice work, thank you for sharing!

I had idly wondered (yet shamefully never read up on) whether/how multispectral images work in IIIF, what the viewer needs to do etc.

Any chance that the IR/UV layers could be made translucent instead of a full switch?