It seemed a stretch at first to have an IT company support our Practice Group of 5 offices and an ASC when their closest office was over 800 miles away. codexIT quickly dispelled our fears with their comprehensive onboarding process, involving a week onsite and their quick response time with remote support and industry-specific knowledge. They solidified our belief in their IT support model when we went down over a weekend after a huge power outage in our city and they put a tech on a plane immediately and had us up and running before patients arrived Monday morning.
codexIT was brought in to help our full-time IT Director. As our Practice locations and ASC had grown our IT Director had installed a complicated, multi-layered solution involving Cloud-based networking and Virtual Desktops to keep up. The solution quickly overwhelmed a one-person IT Department in scope and scale and things started to unravel. codexIT came in and spent the time required to map out and document our IT infrastructure so they could configure it properly for our practice. They then spent the next several months redoing everything to work efficiently with our practice flow. We look at IT very differently than before; it has gone from an albatross to a competitive advantage.
We only know little about the early ownership of the manuscript. At the end of the 16th century it was in the possession of the Swiss Calvinist Johann Philipp von Hohensax (1550-1596) who since 1567 has been temporarily active as a councillor and bailiff in the service of the Palatine Prince Elector. A few years after the assassination of von Hohensax the Prince Elector Frederick IV (1538-1610) claimed the codex. After long-drawn-out negotiations the codex was taken to Heidelberg in 1607. Whether the manuscript had been in the possession of the Prince Electors once before cannot be proofed.
The Prince Electors could enjoy the codex for only a short time. During the Thirty Years' War the manuscript was brought to safety in 1622, before the conquest of Heidelberg by the troops of the Catholic League led by Tilly. The family of the Prince took the manuscript with them when fleeing into exile.
The turbulent destiny of the "Codex Manesse" left traces on the manuscript. Many miniatures are damaged by colour abrasions on a smaller or larger scale and ink corrosion faded some areas of the text. For reasons of preservation the original codex is kept in an air-conditioned safe and is rarely exhibited. A first part-facsimile was still published in Paris in 1852.
Yes, but do consider that synthesis scanner charges are more expensive than codex scanners until you get the unlimited charge upgrade - I personally recommend that's the absolute first thing you buy from Simaris besides synth scanner charges and possibly the synth traps depending how hard you find it to find synthesis targets. I personally do not need them, so I've quite literally never purchased them.
To apply HDE on ARRIRAW data from AMIRA and ALEXA cameras pre-dating the ALEXA 35, you need to install the free CODEX Device Manager software. The software is only available for macOS. It will encode ARRIRAW to HDE on the fly from Codex recording media to a target directory. You can find the latest version of Device Manager at help.codex.online.