This document discusses the creation of 3D digital models of heritage assets from the Ename abbey in Belgium from the year 1291. It includes 3D scans and digital restorations of artifacts from the abbey like a crosier, dragon carvings, and market crosses to recreate what the abbey looked like in 1291. Images and references are provided from sources like the British Library and Bibliothèque nationale de France to aid in the digital restoration and interpretation of the artifacts. The goal is to make the 3D models and heritage of Ename abbey interactively available online.

1. Europeana for creating
and disseminating
3D digital heritage
Assets
Daniel Pletinckx
Visual Dimension bvba

2. Ename 1290 in 3D
Ename 1290 game in the Ename Heritage Centre (https://enameabbey.wordpress.com/)

3. Ename 1290 in 3D
Overview of Ename in 1290 (https://enameabbey.wordpress.com/)

4. Ename 1290 in 3D
Ename farms and gardens in 1290 (https://enameabbey.wordpress.com/)

5. Ename 1290 in 3D
Virtual reconstruction of the abbey (https://enameabbey.wordpress.com/)

6. Ename 1290 in 3D
Virtual reconstruction of the scriptorium (https://enameabbey.wordpress.com/)

7. Ename 1290 in 3D
Flemish Masterpiece – Rijmboec by Martijn van Torhout (https://enameabbey.wordpress.com/)

8. Ename 1290 in 3D
Flemish Masterpiece – Crosier of Ename (https://enameabbey.wordpress.com/)

9. Eham 1291 in 3D
Ename in 1291 – adding the watermill and windmill (https://enameabbey.wordpress.com/)

10. Eham 1291 in 3D
INRAP watermill (http://www.inrap.fr/un-moulin-pour-guedelon-archeologie-experimentale-5343)

11. Eham 1291 in 3D
Guédelon – watermill (http://www.guedelon.fr/)

12. Eham 1291 in 3D
Iconography – watermill (Ms. Bodl. 764 f. 44r – 1225-1250)

13. Eham 1291 in 3D
Iconography – watermill (Add. Ms. 42130 – f. 181r – 1325-1340)

14. Eham 1291 in 3D
Location of the watermill in Ename

15. Eham 1291 in 3D
Ename in 1291 – stables on the commons (http://www.guedelon.fr/)

16. Eham 1291 in 3D
Ename – market cross – Europeana

17. Eham 1291 in 3D
Sint-Lievens-Houtem – market cross – Europeana

18. Eham 1291 in 3D
Sint-Lievens-Houtem – market cross – Europeana and local heritage sources

19. Eham 1291 in 3D
UK – market cross – Europeana

20. Eham 1291 in 3D
UK – market cross – Europeana

21. Eham 1291 in 3D
market crosses – Getty Images

22. Eham 1291 in 3D
Iconography – market cross – Ms. Fr. 12559, f167r, BnF

23. Eham 1291 in 3D
Iconography – market cross – S. Vranckx, Rijksmuseum – 1600-1647

24. Eham 1291 in 3D
Iconography – market crosses – Veil Rentier, Royal Library of Belgium - 1290

25. Eham 1291 in 3D
Ename in 1291 – market cross on the commons (https://enameabbey.wordpress.com/)

26. Eham 1291 in 3D
Flemish Masterpiece – Veil Rentier (https://enameabbey.wordpress.com/)

27. Eham 1291 in 3D
Flemish Masterpiece – Veil Rentier (https://enameabbey.wordpress.com/)

28. Eham 1291 in 3D
Interactive Veil Rentier (https://enameabbey.wordpress.com/)

29. Eham 1291 in 3D
Interactive Rijmboec by Martijn van Torhout (https://enameabbey.wordpress.com/)

30. Crosier of Ename
Ivory crosier made around 1175 – front (https://enameabbey.wordpress.com/)

31. Crosier of Ename
Ivory crosier made around 1175 – back (https://enameabbey.wordpress.com/)

32. Digital restoration in 3D
Evangiles de Liessies, 1446

33. Digital restoration in 3D
Based on about 200 similar medieval crosiers, …

34. Digital restoration in 3D
a 3D model of the crosier in high resolution, …

35. Digital restoration in 3D
an extensive study of the crosier by Elisabeth den Hartog (University Leiden), …

36. Digital restoration in 3D
and an extensive study of objects and miniatures from the 12th-13th century, …

37. Digital restoration in 3D
and many detail photographs…

38. Digital restoration in 3D
we made this!

39. Digital restoration in 3D

40. Digital restoration in 3D
Original and digitally restorated object

41. An abbot’s crosier?
BnF, Latin 790, f. 1r (1150-1200)

42. An abbot’s crosier?
The Lewis Chessmen (1150-1200), British Museum

43. An abbot’s crosier?
BL, Harley Roll Y 6, f. 11r (1175-1215)

44. An abbot’s crosier?
BL, Royal MS. 14 C VII, f.126r (1250-1260)

45. An abbot’s crosier?
Ename crosier: 65 mm, other crosiers: between 60 and 100 mm

46. Anatomy of a dragon?

47. Anatomy of a dragon?
British Library, Egerton 809, f. 41r (1100-1125)

48. Anatomy of a dragon?
British Library, Harley MS. 1585, f. 50v (1150-1175)

49. Anatomy of a dragon?
British Library, Harley MS. 1585, f. 50v (1150-1175)

50. Anatomy of a dragon?
British Library, Harley MS. 1585, f. 17r (1150-1175)

51. Anatomy of a dragon?
British Library, Harley MS. 1585, f. 17r (1150-1175)

52. Anatomy of a dragon?
BnF, Latin 790, f. 43v (1150-1200)

53. Anatomy of a dragon?
British Library, Add. MS. 11283, f. 24v (1175-1200)

54. Anatomy of a dragon?
British Library, Add. MS. 11283, f. 26r (1175-1200)

55. Anatomy of a dragon?
Furness Abbey, UK, 12th century

56. Anatomy of a dragon?
British Library, Harley MS. 3244, f. 61v (1250-1275)

57. Anatomy of a dragon?
British Library, Harley MS. 3244, f. 58v (1250-1275)

58. Anatomy of a dragon?
British Library, Harley MS. 3244, f. 39v (1250-1275)

59. Anatomy of a dragon?
BnF, Royal MS. 10 E IV, f. 80v (1300-1340)

60. Anatomy of a dragon?
British Library, Yates Thompson MS. 13, f. 187r (1325-1350)

61. Anatomy of a dragon?
Saint George and the dragon, Tilman Riemenschneider (1490-1495)

62. Anatomy of a dragon?
Gotic gargoyle

63. Anatomy of a dragon?
Dragons on crosiers

64. Anatomy of a dragon?
Crosier of bishop Pall (1165-1220), National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavik

65. Anatomy of a dragon?
Crosier of Anno, Siegburg, 11th and 12th (dragon) century

66. Anatomy of a dragon?
German crosier around 1260 (silver: 15th cent.), Dom museum Hildesheim, 102 mm diameter

67. Anatomy of a dragon?
Ivory crosier, England (1120-1130), Musée national du Moyen Age, Paris, 62 mm diameter

68. Anatomy of a dragon?
Italian crosier13th century, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 112 mm diameter

69. Anatomy of a dragon?
German crosier 13th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 86 mm diameter

70. Anatomy of a dragon?
3D scan - details of the dragon: the upper jaw was removed

71. Bitten by a dragon!

72. Bitten by a dragon!
First sketch of the digital restoration of the dragon

73. Bitten by a dragon!
BnF, Clairmarais MS. 13 ()

74. Bitten by a dragon!
British Library, Add. MS. 50000, f. 66v (1265-1270)

75. Bitten by a dragon!
British Library, Harley MS. 628, f. 87r

76. Bitten by a dragon!
BnF, Latin MS. 15675, f. 10r (1175-1200)

77. Bitten by a dragon!
First 3D result: low jaw cannot be cut in ivory

78. Bitten by a dragon!
Final 3D result

79. Gold after all?
Potential decoration with gold

80. Gold after all?
Potential decoration with gold

81. Gold after all?
Italiaan crosier, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1350-1375)

82. Gold after all?
XRF measurement by Leentje Linders, Agentschap Onroerend Erfgoed

83. What about the staff?
Moralia in Job – museum of Dijon

84. What about the staff?
Royal MS. 14 C VII, f. 142r (1250-1260)

85. What about the staff?
BL, Add. MS. 42555, f. 70r (1275-1300)

86. What about the staff?
Examples of crosiers 12th century and beginning of 13th century

87. Chronology of the Ename Crosier
New abbot’s staff around 1175

88. Chronology of the Ename Crosier
Repaired staff between 1175 and 1390 (game: 1291)

89. Chronology of the Ename Crosier
Staff as grave gift around 1390 (British Library, Yates Thompson MS. 12, f. 34v)

90. Chronology of the Ename Crosier
Abbot’s staff as grave gift (12th century, Furness Abbey, UK)

91. Chronology of the Ename Crosier
Unearthed by grave robbers (1582-1592), broken and discarded

92. Chronology of the Ename Crosier
Excavated in 1995, next to the graves of abbots Yserman (1390) and Ghuise (1393)

93. The interactive crosier
Prototype 2007

94. The interactive crosier
Prototype 2007

95. The interactive crosier
Design 2017 – use by visitors en guides – IoT concept

96. What we need
• Interpretation of the object
• Dating
• Historical conext
• Links to publications, similar objects
• High resolution images
• Multiple images for objects
• Dimensions

97. Thank you!
Follow the Eham1291 project at
http://enameabbey.wordpress.com/
heritage@visualdimension.be
http://heritage.visualdimension.be/