ALT Screen capture of the UTL article, "Plucked from the Blackened Ground: Solving the 108-Year-Old Mystery of the Somme Flower."

ALT The edge of a fragment of a medieval manuscript in poor condition. Riddled with holes, the strip of parchment has been folded in half horizontally. The text traversing its lower half is badly faded to the point of illegibility, while the text of its upper half is partially obscured by stains and ink transfers.

ALT The edge of the same fragment of a medieval manuscript shown in the first photograph. This is a pseudocolour or false colour image produced via special imaging techniques and software manipulation. Here, the fragment is rendered in multiple shades of crimson, dark red, and turquoise, rendering the formerly illegible text legible.

ALT Screenshot of the landing page for University of Toronto Libraries, showing the main search portal in University of Toronto’s customary blue and white. Above this, in the header, is a link to a web feature, titled “Exploring the Hidden Stories of Books: How the Andrews gift will support book science research and innovation at UTL”, along with a pseudocolour image of a fragment of a medieval manuscript. The image shows the fragment positioned atop a black background, but software has been used to transform the medieval manuscript into a psychedelic extravaganza of purple, white, and red script atop lime, aqua, violet, and crimson parchment.

ALT Photograph of a 19th century manor house, at dusk: a beautifully symmetrical red brick building in a mix of styles, with a lily-pad strewn moat cutting through the verdant grass.