There's an exciting new 3-year #job in Göttingen (Germany) available as part of the ERC project I'm doing! https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.html? (search for job no. 75964).
We need someone with experience in manuscript studies and early medieval Germanic vernaculars. Digital humanities skills an advantage! Deadline: 14 July.
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!
@historikerinnen @histodons @medievodons @DHd #palaeography #digitalhumanities #dh
This eighth-century letter T looks like it's running towards the reader. "Read me now!"
(We have to make our own entertainment in #palaeography).
AI: I will make palaeography obsolete by automatically reading all text!
Palaeographers: These 4 examples of the letter g were written by the same scribe on the same page ca. 727 CE.
Online at https://e-codices.ch/de/bbb/0611/134v
Hungry little creatures eating words, in a ninth-century insular manuscript (the Book of Cerne).
Online at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-LL-00001-00010/230
I would be remiss not to mention the passing earlier this year of Francis Newton, emeritus professor of classics at Duke University, two weeks shy of his 97th birthday.
Francis was one of the most eminent palaeographers of his generation, and he remained active and engaged up to his passing, continuing to publish and attend conferences well into his 90s. But in addition to his scholarship, he was gentleman, kind and attentive to anyone asking advice, and especially encouraging to younger scholars.
#manuscripts #palaeography #FrancisNewton #Beneventan
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/newsobserver/name/francis-newton-obituary?id=57695694
Last week I was ill and in Paris, my least favourite city, but this was entirely justified by being able to see the Echternach Gospels in person. Made on the island of Lindisfarne around 690, it’s a stunning monument of early insular art and script.
Fully digitised at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b530193948
In today's #grandma recording, she told me how he transcribed an old contract about our farm. Apart from the old German script as such, she struggled with the spelling that was in dialect. The last world kept her up until 4 am, she said, when she finally was able to go to sleep after deciphering it. After her death, the folder with the 1821 contract was found, together with her transcript and was handed over to me. I'm so proud of her, how she pulled all this!
#genealogy #kurrent #palaeography
I have to say, having to transcribe lines of a folio of which part has never been edited before, is so very cool.
It makes it harder. But also so cool!
Who knows, maybe we just discovered a new genealogy!
#CelticStudies #Palaeography
On Sunday I'll be taking my students back to Vercelli and Verona, where (among other things) we will be working with an incredible uncatalogued #medieval #manuscript collection and using digital tools to investigate hidden #fragments inside book bindings. We will also be eating a lot of delicious pasta! Posts about this will be tagged with #SpringSchool25 - stay tuned.
When I teach #palaeography I tell my students that the history of handwriting is the history of people. This #manuscript proves it: copied personally by #Petrarch, one of the great poets of the Italian #Renaissance, it ends abruptly at the top of a page, when Petrarch suddenly died in July 1374. We only know this context thanks to painstaking palaeographical and historical research.
Paris, BnF, MS lat. 5784: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84469390/f105.item#
The tools of antique and medieval scribes - versus the tools we now use to investigate the work of scribes! (Here on a desk at the Bodleian, where I’m preparing for an afternoon of reading #medieval #manuscripts).
The Göttingen Summer School in Digital #Palaeography is back on! No fees, free accommodation for 2 weeks, and small travel bursaries. Deadline is 30 April. All information at https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/695097.html. #PalaeographySchool25
📜 Happy to share my last article, which explores the life and handwriting of Bernardino Donato, a key figure in early 16th-century publishing.
His editorial contributions are reconstructed through prefaces and dedication letters.
The paper examines Donato’s script and presents a newly identified autograph: Ambr. L 109 sup. If you're interested in Renaissance publishing, Greek philology or palaeography, check it out!🔍
#Renaissance #Palaeography #Manuscripts #PrintingHistory @medievodons
Revealing #palimpest with #multispectral #imaging! These amazing results, showing a #Merovingian overtext and a 5th-century Gospel undertext, were achieved by my colleague Alex Zawacki at Göttingen. I'll be presenting the full results of this and other cool discoveries in May at a German-language conference in Kiel.
Early #medieval Gospel books often contain images of the four evangelists and their animal symbols, usually with excellent facial expressions. Here is Mark, attempting to save his work from his lion, who appears to love eating books.
Cuthbercht Gospels, p. 154: http://data.onb.ac.at/dtl/7365239
There are moments of awe in manuscript studies, and this is one - a note written by Cassiodorus himself. He was a sixth-century senator and scholar, known for nothing less than laying the intellectual foundations of Western medieval monasticism. Here he displays his erudition by expanding on a passage from Philo of Carpasia's commentary on the Song of Songs.
Vat. lat. 5704, 58r: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.5704
Underneath this 8th-century drawing from southern Germany is a note that says "Winithar made these beasts". Winithar was a famous scribe and this is not his handwriting! The drawing was probably made by some monks (or novices) to mock him – or cheekily to transfer the blame for the doodles to him.
(Scribes including Winithar sometimes finished books with the phrase "I made this").
Karlsruhe, Cod. Aug. perg. 182, fol. 67: https://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/blbhs/content/pageview/14843
Has anyone seen this sign after "deo gratias" before? It looks like it might be the Tironian note for "amen", but in an unusual form.
Clm 14540: https://handschriftenportal.de/workspace
