Storytelling with an #earlymodern book:
➡️ printed on paper in 1640
➡️ bound in a recycled medieval parchment page (likely in the 17th century)
➡️ had contact with water while being stored (stains!)
➡️ partly been eaten by book worms (my guess: 18th century)
➡️ digitized in the 3rd millennium
We're half way through the week at the Library, hosting classes each day this week. It takes effort and is especially worth it with:
- great lecturers who teach to the manuscripts
- engaged students who ask questions
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#CollectionCare
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#MedievalManuscripts
@libraries
I can't stop seeing boobs on the pillars. #palaeography #medieval #manuscripts
May 29th, 1412; the day Roger decided that wild swimming really wasn’t for him - 15th century, BnF, Latin 9585, f. 38r
@MedMilMedicine #globalmuseum #humour #humor #Manuscripts
Only 5 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week40.html
Consists of a Ge'ez Book of Hours, a commentary on Aristotle, Nonius Marcellus' De compendiosa doctrina (his only surviving work, Seneca's Tragedies and a vol of Papal stuff. #Medieval #Medievodons @medievodons
Saturday evening reading
#evening #reading #manuscripts #medieval
From Schembartbuch aus dem Besitz des Sebastian Schedel, UB of California Coll. 170 Ms 351 (1590).
Source: UCLA Digital Library
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/73212fae-26d0-433b-87f0-0137c3bf46bc
#carnivals #weapons #manuscripts #medieval #germany #armor #heraldry #nuremberg #art #publicdomain
Jeudi 2 octobre, 14h, 1re séance du séminaire Manuscrits en Méditerranée @IRHT_CNRS @campuscondorcet et en ligne
G. Mandolino : La traduction arabe anonyme de la Hiérarchie céleste du Pseudo-Denys l’Aréopagite et son modèle grec
https://manuscrits.hypotheses.org/7953
#bookhistory #manuscripts @bookhistodons
Only 16 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican were digitized in the past week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week39.html
Includes a lot of Ge'ez liturgy, 3 volumes of poems by Aurelio Amalteo, a report from the Venetian ambassador to France, Papias' dictionary, and more!
@medievodons #Medieval #Medievodons
Rediscovered Early Virginia Woolf Stories Set for Publication
Three early, previously unpublished stories by Virginia Woolf, collectively forming a satirical biography, have been rediscovered and will be published next month under the title 'The Life of Violet.' The stories, written in 1907, offer a glimpse into Woolf’s early literary style, predating her firs... [More info]
This was the day Meredith decided to give up fishing in the lake near Radiaton - 15th century, BnF Français, 242, f. 154r
@MedMilMedicine #globalmuseum #medieval #manuscripts #humour #humor
‘Her research has led her to conclude that a monastery in Portmahomack, Easter Ross, north-east of Inverness, is “the most likely place for it to have been made”.’
Terrible #UX for looking at such wonderful content – ugh! 😩
“800 Years Of English Handwriting”, Google Arts And Culture (https://artsandculture.google.com/story/800-years-of-english-handwriting/eAURodcOgMzFIw).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45342121
#England #English #History #Handwriting #Penmanship #Manuscripts #Medieval
From Aratea (ca. 820).
Source: British Library
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f79df3c6-9a31-4ad1-abe5-522a87426b65
#astrology #zodiac #calligrams #astronomy #manuscripts #fish #aratea #stars #constellations #art #publicdomain
From the blog post: “Surprisingly, only 5.7% of #manuscripts disclosed #AI use, despite external surveys estimating usage rates as high as 76%.” 😳
For the past 8 years Jeremy had spent his vacations on the banks of Loch Ness, praying he would see the legendary monster. Suddenly now, he wished he’d gone to Skegness instead - late 15th century, Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque municipale, 236, 64v
@MedMilMedicine #humour #humor #Medieval #Manuscripts
#Editors, if you’re a member of the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences #BELS, you’ll want to attend this Oct. 2 webinar on #formatting #manuscripts for #submission to #science #journals, by Yateendra Joshi, ELS(D). He’s a highly respected professional. https://bels.memberclicks.net/oct-02-2025-webinar
47 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican were digitized this week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week38.html
Includes another Sanvito-rubricated work, Beneventan fragments, Diaries, Classics, Philosophy, Strozzi's _Eroticon_, and more!
Stick-on Post-it fax header notes—things I used on the job back before everything in #publishing was #digitized. Even #manuscripts were handheld paper stacks.
“You’ve made a rookie error there mate. Always do them skin side down.” - 15th century, Kraków, MNK 3025 I, p. 460
Medieval Military Medicine
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