RESEARCH FELLOW/ASSISTANT VACANCY
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
LIBRARY, MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES/FRENCH

As part of an international research team, you will contribute to the
AHRB
funded project 'Christine de Pizan: the Making of the Queen’s
Manuscript'.
You will research, design and develop an innovative website presenting
images, linked transcriptions and analyses of British Library Harley MS
4431,
prepared by Christine de Pizan for Queen Isabeau of France in 1413.
Details
of the project are available at: http://www.pizan.lib.ed.ac.uk/

You should have strong IT skills as well as a postgraduate qualification
in a related area (such as informatics, computing, art history, French,
manuscript
studies, linguistics) or have equivalent relevant experience. An
interest in text
encoding and a good knowledge of French are essential. This post is
available
for 30 months. Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Andrew Grout,
e-mail:
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Salary scale: £19,460 – £29,128 p.a.
Closing date: 29 October 2004.
Please quote REF: 3002899TH.

Further details and application procedures are available at:
https://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/jobs/index.cfm?action=jobdet&jobid=3002899

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Dr Andrew Grout
Special Collections
Edinburgh University Library
George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9LJ
Tel: +44 (0)131-651-1720
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