UNESCO: Preserving 200-800 years old Newari Manuscripts for the Future. “Nepal faces a twofold challenge in conservation: a lack of specialized facilities and a limited understanding of modern preservation practices. Many precious documents are stored in subpar conditions—often in glass cabinets or on open shelves exposed to high humidity, insects, and fungi. Even highly revered texts like […]

ICYMI: My contribution to the "historians have goofball adventures in the archives" thread-athon sparked by @appuhn.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy. 🗃 #archives #manuscripts

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rzug5jxal4snlewudks3efsf/post/3mallbzbdzk2n

Creation (ca. 1330), from The Holkham Bible Picture Book.

Source: British Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/249950a7-f3e5-4b03-b990-dcfec48d317e

#halos #animals #manuscripts #nature #christianity #bible #plants #art #publicdomain

📣 #CfA: 10. #Sommerkurs für Handschriftenkultur vom 23. bis 29. August 2026 an der @ubleipzig: „Mittelalterliche Handschriften verstehen lernen“.

Ausschreibung 👉 https://www.ub.uni-leipzig.de/fileadmin/Resources/Public/images/Bilder_Forschungsbibliothek/Sommerkurs/ausschreibung_hsk_2026.pdf

#Manuscripts #Handschriften #summerschool #histodons #medievodons

Since all of this weeks 18 #Manuscripts were uploaded by the #vatican on Friday, I'm a bit late
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026/week5.html
Many classics, a medical notebook, an Avvisi, Boccaccio and Poggio, texts on gems and art, and more!
@medievodons #Medieval #Medievodons

#Nepal #manuscripts #CulturalHeritage

'While post-earthquake digitization initiatives were a commendable first step, the resulting digital replicas remain largely inaccessible to the public.'

https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/preserving-200-800-years-old-newari-manuscripts-future

Cats, A Mouse (ca. 1250–60).

Source: The Getty

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/9a6d7346-a6f3-4922-9e5f-6f0f9f3f8493

#animals #cats #manuscripts #mice #art #publicdomain

University of Manchester: New online collection of Arabic manuscripts I: the Glorious Qurʿan. “A small selection of the John Rylands Library’s Arabic manuscripts is now available online for the first time via our Manchester Digital Collections (MDC) platform. Our new Arabic Manuscripts digital collection allows you to explore fully digitised copies alongside detailed descriptions.”

Yale Library: Yale Library announces the return of 12th-century manuscript to the Republic of Poland. “Yale University Library has announced the transfer of a liturgical manuscript known as the Cistercian Collectar (Beinecke MS 883), from the collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library to the Republic of Poland. The library welcomed representatives from Poland to New Haven on […]

Wishing you hadn’t decided to use a do-it-yourself spray tan kit the night before the big meeting - 15th century, University of Cambridge, MS Nn.3.2, f. 19r
@MedMilMedicine #globalmuseum #humor #humour #medieval #manuscripts

#Arab #CulturalHeritage #manuscripts #art

'A small selection of the John Rylands Library’s Arabic manuscripts is now available online for the first time via our Manchester Digital Collections (MDC) platform.'

https://rylandscollections.wpcomstaging.com/2026/02/03/new-online-collection-of-arabic-manuscripts-i-the-glorious-qur%CA%BFan/amp/

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.

John; Satan and Christ; the Annunciation (ca. 1330), from The Holkham Bible Picture Book.

Source: British Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bb99cc5f-517b-4121-a39d-185fc787d4f3

#halos #wings #manuscripts #angels #christianity #bible #art #publicdomain

Installing a large trampoline inside the castle walls turned out to be one of Lord Ricochet’s worst ever ideas - early 15th century, British Library, Add MS 18857, f. 118v

@MedMilMedicine #humour #humor #globalmuseum #medieval #manuscripts

Inches of snow fell
More than the new #manuscripts
only six digitized

... from the #Vatican at least
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026/week4.html

Boccaccio, Ockham, Giles of Rome, Virgil, Bondio.. and more!
#Medieval #Medievodons @medievodons

Illustration by Cyprianus, from Clavis Inferni (null).

Source: Wellcome Collection

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/dfd3f284-2f5e-44d5-9adb-9116550eebdd

#cyprianus #sorcery #manuscripts #medieval #magicians #occultism #symbolism #magic #art #publicdomain

The murder of Abel (ca. 1330), from The Holkham Bible Picture Book.

Source: British Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/e21b0e4d-5ff7-44f0-8984-5b45f0f7811c

#manuscripts #foliage #christianity #bible #artistry #art #publicdomain

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/115983651663698761

This is more than scale for scale’s sake. Projects like CoMMA show how AI can shift historiography itself: not by “interpreting” the past, but by restoring access to it. By transcribing manuscripts without normalising spelling or silently resolving abbreviations, AI allows historians to study scribal practice, layout, and linguistic variation at a scale previously impossible.

#Historiography #MedievalStudies #Manuscripts #HistoryOfTheBook

Gerade diese schöne #OER aus dem Bereich #codicology und #arabic #manuscripts von der Uni #Leiden gefunden: https://mouse.digitalscholarship.nl/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/115983651663698761

The method has nothing to do with the marketing slopWord AI. It is #ML = #MachineLearning which is often used in science. Better read the study.

#medieval #medievistodon #medievists #histodon #bookstodon #academicChatter #manuscripts #digitalization #OCR