#manuscript studies

[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

[eibhlinniccolla]

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!

[luchael]

Relapsing head first into my medieval obsession.

Maybe the true Grail were friends we made along the way…

[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

[eibhlinniccolla]

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?

[garadinervi]

Maysaa Ajjan (ميسا عجان), Tribute to Elias Khoury: Mentor, Friend, and Literary Giant, Institute for Palestine Studies, Beirut, Ramallah, and Washington, D.C., February 21, 2025

Plus: Celebrating Elias Khoury and Mahmoud Darwish with Ammiel Alcalay and Sinan Antoon, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, March 14, 2025, co-presented by Archipelago Books and Lost & Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative with the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center

(image: A manuscript page from Yalo (2002); in The Art of Fiction No. 233: Elias Khoury, Interviewed by Robyn Creswell, The «Paris Review», No. 220, Spring 2017)

[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.

[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.