If you can't afford to travel to an archive but can afford to pay someone for a few hours of their time, there is now a tool for that: #Sourcery. It allows you to pay someone on the ground to go scan or photograph what you need. #palaeography #manuscripts
#palaeography
This morning I am in Berlin looking at #manuscript Theol lat fol 366, said (with relative certainty) to be written by St Liudger ca 800 CE. Liudger was a missionary from Utrecht who spent years in Britain, then founded the monastery in Werden (Germany) where this manuscript is from. I feel like Liudger is right next to me when I sit in front of his book and read his words, just as he did over 1200 years ago! #palaeography #goosebumps
You can look at it yourself online: https://handschriftenportal.de/search?hspobjectid=HSP-88c14a7a-6cd6-36ec-8617-aeab8637aef6
I’ve attracted the right kind of #palaeography student this term: one of them can’t attend for the next two weeks because he is going on a pilgrimage to Mount Athos.
I can't stop seeing boobs on the pillars. #palaeography #medieval #manuscripts
Attention Palaeographers! 🖋️✨
I'm happy to share the Corpus Litterarum: a new dataset of annotated Latin manuscript characters from the St. Gall codices CSG 11 & 70 (Winithar).
🔎 2,152 line images
🔠 44,407 annotations across 73 classes
📜 Includes Latin letters
🤖 Semi-automatic labelling with Roboflow
The dataset is freely available on Zenodo:
👉 https://zenodo.org/records/16995048
Use it for palaeography, HTR, character segmentation — or just to explore the manuscripts of St. Gall!
#DigitalHumanities #Palaeography #HTR #MedievalStudies #History #OpenScience
#SummerSchool25 #palaeography This summer school has been so busy I’ve hardly had any time to post despite having lots of things to say - but I will try to catch up next week!
From: @subugoe
https://openbiblio.social/@subugoe/115068340247519071
The first review of my first book is out and it’s such a relief to read such a generous and positive assessment of my work! https://muse.jhu.edu/article/965564 #palaeography #Physiologus #environmental_humanities #medieval @medievodons @histodons @historikerinnen
One of my brilliant former summer school students made an app for downloading #manuscripts from #IIIF manifests and it now works for BL manuscripts as well. It will be made publicly available soon but in the meantime DM me with your email address for a link if interested! #palaeography #medieval @medievodons @histodons @histodons
Monday is the start of the summer school in #digital #palaeography which I run in Göttingen every summer. We have 16 amazing international students and 2 weeks to play with #medieval fragments, #multispectral imaging, network analysis, bookbindings, biocodicology and much much more, topped off by a trip to the fabulous @hab_wf and a hackathon. It's the absolute highlight of my year. Follow this year's posts and photos via #SummerSchool25. @histodons @medievodons @historikerinnen
More publishers should send chocolates with their books! Thanks, Four Courts Press!
Here is a controversial - or maybe not so controversial? - #palaeography question: how did this scribe do the rolled tops on ascenders and the letter i? Was it by pushing the pen up and to the left, then down and to the right? Or were these additional downward strokes?
A moment of personal triumph today: I managed to read the very late Roman cursive in the red box without help.
From this seventh-century copy of the Gospels: https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue/688
The line reads "deo semper gratias": "eternal thanks to God"
Am 11./12. September 2025 findet unsere Tagung "Stenographie und karolingische Schriftkultur" in Lorsch statt. Es geht u.a. um jüngste Forschung zu tironischen Noten und neue Erschließungsmethoden. Mehr Infos & Tagungsprogramm: heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/f/514068c807... #medievallatin #palaeography
Life goals: learn to write like this.
The image shows a capital letter i from a 17th-century printed calligraphy pattern book at the Newberry Library: https://collections.newberry.org/asset-management/2KXJ8Z812G0W7
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.
There's an exciting new 3-year job in Göttingen (Germany) available as part of our project! www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...
We need someone with experience in manuscript studies and early medieval Germanic vernaculars. Digital humanities skills an advantage! Deadline: 14 July. #palaeography
Stellenanzeigen - Georg-August...
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
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