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• Post #1755784

  Am on Malta, but instead of visiting UNESCO sites, I am spending my days in an abattoir making #parchment. This lovely goatskin is finally finished, after two days of hard and stinky labour. The sheepskin is next! #medieval #parchment @historikerinnen @histodons @medievodons

• Post #1653322

  I'm glad finally to be able to share the link to my finished project eManuSkript: https://emanuskript.vercel.app/. This is a suite of tools for teaching and learning digital #palaeography and #codicology as applied to #western Latin #manuscripts. The website includes 4 multi-use apps, and 4 supporting information packages, as well as a large searchable bibliography. Our code and text is available on GitHub under a CC BY-NC licence. A few bugs remain but they will be cleared in the ne...

• Post #1441601

  Niche question: Does anyone on here know whether late #antique #papyrus documents were ruled? Images and references much appreciated! #palaeography @medievodons @histodons

• Post #1439265

  I'm going to have TWO full-time one-year #postdocs available from 1 April: one for a historian with knowledge of #medieval Latin #palaeography, one for a computer scientist/#programmer (or someone else with a proven ability to code software). Both postdocs will have their own assistants! The job descriptions will be out in January, but please re-post this and forward it on to people you think may be interested/qualified. I'm happy to answer questions. @medievodons @histodons

• Post #1015377

  What you think you see: a dinosaur about to enjoy a tasty book. What the eighth-century illuminator meant to draw: a noble lion, the symbol of Mark the Evangelist. From the Gundohinus Gospels, 12v: https://portail.biblissima.fr/fr/ark:/43093/mdata38b2de93045886523c8581bc455818f6021077e6

• Post #770183

  One thousand years of 😳 From an early ninth-century manuscript (Basel, Universitätsbiblitohek, N I 1:3c, fol. 2r).

• Post #690624

  The wonderful Gerald Schwedler at the University of Kiel (@kieluni) is offering a summer school in #Transkribus, #eScriptorium and #NodeGoat from 28 to 31 July. It's online, free and open to everyone! The teaching language is German. Register here by 24 June: https://www.histsem.uni-kiel.de/de/das-institut-1/abteilungen/professur-fuer-geschichte-des-spaeten-mittelalters-sowie-wirtschafts-und-sozialgeschichte/aktuelles/ (scroll down for poster and full programme). Please share widely!...

• Post #634646

  What’s the latest on #BiDi scripts? Am looking for an up to date resource or set of resources to put together an introductory lecture for a course on #Persian #manuscripts this summer. My knowledge is now a few years behind.

• Post #634645

  If you’re very very nice to your manuscript librarian, they might gift you with a bucket (!) of medieval seal impressions for your teaching! #palaeography #sigillography

• Post #634641

  AI understanding of #palaeography has improved exponentially. Impressive.

• Post #634637

  The names we use for objects in medieval book studies really do sound like they've come directly from a fantasy novel: The Hours of Joanna the Mad The Springmount Bog Tablets The Golden Codex of St Emmeram

• Post #634636

  How your email finds me. (From an 8th-century northern French manuscript, here showing a wind rose with 24 winds and a put-upon person in the middle). Online at https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc65498x (27v) #palaeography #medieval @medievodons @histodons