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Only 13 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week47.html
Contains: Ge'ez liturgy, obsequious Barberini poetry, a text on how to build and use a clock, poetry by Il Porcellio, commentaries on Aristotle, and more
#Medieval #Medievodons @medievodons

title page of Barb.lat.1912. A title and dedication in a roman hand is enclosed by bizarre borders in an al'antiqua style. It appears that the women have nursing armor. Below is a short block of cursive text

f.9v from Ott.lat.1927. A large diagram of a turret clock in black ink is under a few lines of text

f.1r from Ott.lat.1999. There is a purple and blue white vine border on all four sides with a heraldic seal at the bottom. There are 4 lines of gold rubric text leading into the main text block which begins with an enormous illuminated I. The main text is alternating blue and gold ink

Why haven't I started working with #obsidian much earlier? Warum habe ich nicht schon längst angefangen, mit #obsidian zu arbeiten? #medievodons
#texts #manuscripts

Eine Bildschirmansicht: das Programm Obsidian im Dark Mode. Links eine Liste von Handschriften (Ort, Signatur), in der Mitte eine Netzwerkgrafik mit Punkten in unterschiedlichen Größen und Farben, rechts ein Feld zur Anzeige von Links

William Caxton's Edition (1493) of Gower's Confessio Amantis (1390). William Blades (1870) mentions a recent sale of the Caxton for £477. 15s, or about £49,500 in today's money. #medieval #collecting #libraries #printing #manuscripts

Page from the Prologue of William Caxton's Edition (1493) of Gower's Confessio Amantis.

Plate from Palæography: Notes upon the History of Writing and the Medieval Art of Illumination. JOHN GOWER AND THE PRIEST OF VENUS. From a MS. of Gower's Confessio Amantis, written before 1399.
"Confessio Amantis (The Lover's Confession, 1390). This is a 33,000-line Middle English poem by John Gower, which uses the confession made by an ageing lover to the chaplain of Venus as a frame story for a collection of shorter narrative poems. According to its prologue, it was composed at the request of Richard II. "

@mssprovenance I did not know that Victor, the legendary crystallographer collected medieval manuscripts! 🤩 Thank you 🙏 .

Have you seen his fabulously immense Atlas der Krytsallformen? A wee taste of the many volumes here:

https://archive.org/details/atlasderkrystalltaf02gold/page/2/mode/2up

#Crystallography #Manuscripts

Bookworms? Book lice! "not parasitic ... However, they do consume old binding adhesives, paper, wood and leather. They also seem to be attracted to molds which inhabit old books." blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/craiglab/202... #manuscripts #medieval #preservation #archives #libraries #conservation

Finger Damage to a Prayer Book: Seventy-two Names of the Virgin #books #manuscripts #medieval #preservation #archives #research #religion #Christianity jhna.org/articles/dir...

Finger marks where the book was held open close to the spine.
Incipit of a prayer to the Seventy-two Names of the Virgin (fols. 67v-68r), held open at corners. From Brussels, Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, Ms. 15078

Discoloration due to excessive dirty thumbing. #books #manuscripts #medieval #preservation #archives #HigherEd #edchat #libraries

CATS? Please take good care of our books and manuscripts! #books #manuscripts #medieval #preservation #archives #HigherEd #edchat #libraries #cats #pawprints

Dubrovnic, State Archives (15th century).
Emir O. Filipovic, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Sarajevo on X @EmirOFilipovic

THUMBING (2): "The perpetual thumbing and fingering would subject [books] to immense wear and tear." --- Augustus Jessopp, The coming of the Friars, and other historic Essays (1889). #books #manuscripts #medieval #preservation #archives #HigherEd #edchat #libraries jhna.org/articles/dir...

recto leaf from a prayer book made in the eastern Netherlands (Luik, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Ms. 2091B, fol. 14r)

#1119 Andrew Cook (ed) - Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, Vol XV, No 68, October 1982. The British Records Association, London.

#Archives #Archivists #BritishRecordsAssociation #Manuscripts #ERM #BookOfTheDay

The front cover of Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association No 68 for October 1982. Plain pale grey with titrle in deep red.

The Music prints and #manuscripts from the #Donaueschingen court library are now fully accessible online. The #digitization of musical sources has been a priority for the #BadischeLandesbibliothek for 15 years. The music collection from the Donaueschingen court library, which has been taken over almost completely, consists of more than 5,300 printed music editions and over 3,500 music manuscripts.
https://bit.ly/4oQwpaZ

🔜 Today at 3:50 pm (CET) at @swib conference , we will present the functionalities of our cataloguing module and its underlying knowledge graph. We will also discuss the conception and modeling of the #codicological vocabulary as Linked Open Data, along with the challenges of implementing it within the #GUI.

Abstract 👉 https://forum.swib.org/t/controlled-vocabularies-in-a-graphical-user-interface-for-manuscript-cataloguing/1441

🌐 Livestream 👉 https://forum.swib.org/t/swib25-livestream-chat/850

#medievodons #manuscripts #LOD #DH #DigitalHumanities #SWIB25

Associated Press: Timbuktu’s famed manuscripts escaped al-Qaida but the threat remains. “Thirteen years ago, Abdoulaye Cissé risked his life to smuggle tens of thousands of fragile manuscripts out of Timbuktu as al-Qaida -linked extremists swept into the desert town.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/17/associated-press-timbuktus-famed-manuscripts-escaped-al-qaida-but-the-threat-remains/

46 new #Manuscripts went online from the #Vatican this week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week46.html
Includes: Ge'ez imagery, 17th C Barberini stuff, 18th-19th C Sistine music, classics, a spanish illustrated work on machines and _more_
#Medievodons #Medieval
@medievodons

page 4 from Comb.O.10. A full page minature of a cross constructed of triangles in red and black ink. There are geometric borders on all four sides, with the cross overlapping the border on the left and right. All is in a 19th C Ethiopic style

A pen drawing of a complex machine, partially colored with pale brown wash. Machine has a bunch of wheels and cogs, but no obvious purpose. From Ott.lat.1925 f.29v

f.3v from Ott.lat.1925. A pen drawing of a multi-barrel gun mounted on an adjustable carriage with red and yellow wash. It is pointed at a small brown house and there is a multi line caption at the top in a spanish cursive hand

For anyone who's struggled with variable spelling practices before modern printing, there's a summary of what's "interchangeable" in Thomas Wright's Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English. 2 vols. London, 1857. #orthography #English #language #dialect #manuscripts #medieval

LETTERS, &c., COMMONLY INTERCHANGEABLE. (Wright, p. viii)
a, o, and sometimes e.
ar, er, or, ur.
be, bi, by, as prefixes.
c, s, ch, sh, sch.
e, ee, i.
ʒ, g, gh, y.
ʒ, th.
h. often omitted where it ought to be inserted, or used superfluously.
i, y.
k, c, ch.
o, oo, ou, u.
qu, wh, w.
s, c.

"For one of #Victorian #literature’s most distinctive voices, who was once hailed as a genius by #OscarWilde, very little has been known about #AmyLevy for more than a century.

But audiences will now have the opportunity to become more deeply acquainted with a writer whose pioneering work explored women’s independence, #Jewish identity and same-sex desire.

The #UniversityofCambridge has announced it has acquired and for the first time unsealed Levy’s personal #archive, including #letters, draft #manuscripts, #photographs and #diary entries. It is expected the material will inform a wealth of new #scholarship on her life, work and mental health."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/13/archives-amy-levy-queer-jewish-writer-admired-by-oscar-wilde-unsealed

From Tamra Maew (BL Or 16797) (19th Century).

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f49bf10c-255b-47d7-b867-6544235ce0e5

#pets #cats #manuscripts #thailand #luck #art #publicdomain

Attention folks!

We're now welcoming applications for our 2026 University of #Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme. Scholars from around the world are invited to apply to undertake original research using our internationally significant collections, including illuminated #medieval and Renaissance #manuscripts, over 10K of pre-1601 printed #books, and much, much more!

Details in the link.

https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/researchfellows/ #scholarship #archives #library #research #DigitalHumanities

Our next webinar will be tomorrow on the topic of Preaching, Books, and Community in Ottoman Hungary: Browsing Through the Library Collection of Süleyman Efendi, the Vaiz of the Grand Mosque of Buda (c. 1643-1655), by Prof. Tijana Krstić!

Details available here - this talk will be available in hybrid format so please do join us online if you can't make it in person:
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/veranstaltungen/event-details/preaching-books-and-community-in-ottoman-hungary-browsing-through-the-library-collection-of-sueleyman-efendi-the-vaiz-of-the-grand-mosque-of-buda-c-1643-1655

#Hungary #History #Ottoman #Manuscripts #Budapest

A much more exciting week brought 76 #Manuscripts online at the #Vatican https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week45.html
Includes a glossed Priscian, a bunch of 17th C Barberini stuff, a pile more Ge'ez, many Cicero, Iñigo de Mendoça's Spanish _Vita Christiana_, and MORE
#Medieval #Medievodons @medievodons

#manuscripts

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