#manuscript studies

[qqueenofhades]

This is a very interesting story in its own right, especially if you're interested in the new techniques being developed to map/study medieval manuscripts, but just look at these utterly charming eighth-century doodles:

(The bottom right need to be made into medieval cartoon characters immediately.)

[upennmanuscripts]

Exciting news for people who love reading research about manuscripts but don't have money!

[dreamsrunfaster]

being a medievalist means laughing at dead copyists like

[anarcho-sgathach]

A History of Gaelic Script, A.D. 1000-1200?

Does anyone happen to know where I could access a copy of Dr. Elizabeth Duncan's PhD thesis "A History of Gaelic Script, A.D. 1000-1200" online somewhere? I would write to her, but she seems not to have an online presence anywhere.

[suntails]

✨ Once upon a time ✨

[cuties-in-codices]

medieval parchment repairs

in a psalter, south-western germany, late 12th/early 13th c.

source: Hermetschwil, Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. membr. 37, fol. 19r, 53r, and 110r

[akaessi]

three more manuscripts to catalog and record for transmission comparison!! So close!

[magicaloxford]

A rosy view of Oxford from the upper level of a double-decker bus 🚌. I’m getting off in a moment to read a magical manuscript in the Bodleian 💫!

[fairuzfan]

The destruction of culture is an evident part of genocide. Al-Omari housed centuries old Palestinian manuscripts that convey aspects of the intellectual history of Palestinians. I am not sure of their status. Both literal and metaphorical life is being extinguished by Israel.

[nyxshadowhawk]

A selection of images from a sequence depicting the alchemical process, from an early modern manuscript.

[victusinveritas]

Psalters: Not even once.

[stellar-jay]

"Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. It is as it will be."

a special thanks to this wonderful medieval manuscript color chart made by the artist fox-teeth for giving me a jumping off point for the colors and to harumachi clover (swing arrangement) by will stetson for worming its way into my brain and giving me energy as i finally went back to finish this piece

[upennmanuscripts]

The 17th Annual Schoenberg Symposium starts this Thursday evening (EST). Registration remains open through the end of the event. We look forward to seeing you there in person or online!

Circulations

November 21-23, 2024

Before the age of print, manuscript books and documents were the lifeblood of premodern intellectual, religious, literary, and civil life. They circulated knowledge, ideas, beliefs, and values throughout the highly connected yet distinct book cultures of the premodern world. Today, even though performing a different role as artifacts of these times, the surviving witnesses of premodern manuscript cultures continue to move and nourish new lines of cultural, scientific, and scholarly inquiry. This year’s topic takes the notion of circulation as a starting point to consider not only how manuscripts produced in various scribal cultures circulated information throughout the premodern world but also what the mechanisms were, and are, that have generated, shifted, and complicated the movement and circulation of the books themselves from the time of production to the present day. The symposium is organized in partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

This event will also mark the full implementation of the new Digital Scriptorium Catalog, developed by the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies in partnership with Digital Scriptorium. Saturday’s lineup will feature a presentation on the DS Catalog and its contributions to Wikidata as well as presentations on the innovative work of Syriaca.org’s Syriac Manuscripts in the British Library project and the latest updates on the exciting work and discovery of the Peripheral Manuscripts Project.

The program will begin Thursday, November 21, at 5:15 pm, with the keynote address delivered by Lisa Fagin Davis, Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America, followed by a reception. Due to upcoming closures related to renovations at the Free Library of Philadelphia, the entire symposium will take place at Penn Libraries’ Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts.

The symposium will be held in person with an option to join virtually. All are welcome! Registration, full program details, and abstracts are available here:

[finnlongman]

Tumblr is a crucial part of my writing and research process when writing historical fiction, because several of my mutuals are deeply committed pedants and every time I see them yelling relentlessly about a book's mistakes I make notes on what not to do.

I am, however, terrified of being subjected to the Tumblr Pedants™ myself, even more so if they are my friends, and so this instills in me a terrified perfectionism, although I'm aware I will still definitely miss things. But hey, at least I'll make different mistakes. Enrichment for the pedant community.

[anarcho-sgathach]

I'm honestly surprised that I haven't been able to find any published transcriptions of the Irish manuscripts out there. Like, how has no one just published a book containing the text of Lebor na hUidre for example? It'd certainly be much more useful as a reference for translators and celtic studies folks then going to read the scanned manuscripts themselves. And what are you supposed to do if you're blind but want to study the manuscripts?

[justpostsyeet]

Now i can't stop thinking about some orc scholars. Like they wouldn't have been some brutish animalistic beings after living in middle earth for so many years. They have speech, they live in communities and they can have a coordinated war formation so, their might have been some development of culture in their communities. Maybe we just don't know because their history was never preserved.