Two upcoming online lectures next Tuesday, 14 May (alas, their times overlap).
Here's the first, sponsored by the Celtic Studies Association of North America: Sarah Waidler (NYU) will speak on ‘Arthur, Authority and the Saints Revisited’ at 12 noon EDT (= 5 pm BST).
Because I fixed a bug in the code, 115 #Manuscripts were tracked as new from the #Vatican this week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week18.html
The load time for the Vat.lat page had exceeded my timeout for the last 7 weeks, this has been fixed! There's a lot of papal history, including several Scrutini, sermons, commentary, satirical poems, Thomas Aquinas in Terza Rima, Beneventan music, coins and more! #Medieval#Medievodons@bookhistodons@medievodons
Please share the information about the below as widely as you can - this is a #palaeography course for the general public, which is super rare!
"Join Dr Manuel Muñoz in a one-day overview of Iberian late-medieval books at the London International Palaeography School. We will explore the evolution of book scripts between the 13th and the 15th centuries, and we will discover what makes late-medieval Iberian #manuscripts unique."
Exciting news! The European Research Council has awarded an Advanced Grant worth €2.5m to #Insular#Manuscripts in the Age of #Charlemagne. Our team includes Dr. Anna Dorofeeva
(@litteracarolina.mastodon.online) and partners in libraries & universities across Europe, including the ERC Beasts2Craft project, Prof. Daniel Bradley, Dr. Charlotte Denoël, Dr. Lieve Watteeuw, @BodleianLibraries, and the British Library.
Can anyone recommend some things to read about how people (in any culture) used to find information among manuscript miscellanies when those miscellanies didn’t have tables of contents? Anything in English, French, #Armenian, or Turkish would work. @histodons@medievodons@librarians#manuscripts
🔎 Viel mehr als nur Scans: Impulsvorträge und Podiumsdiskussion zu im Rahmen eines #DFG-Projekts digitalisierten Greifswalder #Handschriften und der Rolle des #Handschriftenportal am 18. April, um 18:00 Uhr, im Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald.
Lists like these really drive it home how many #medieval#manuscripts have been lost over time - nearly 1,500 manuscript were destroyed at the National Library of Warsaw alone in WW2.
We’re very excited about this new addition to our collection: a 1882 book from a jacquard weaving course in Lyon, France. As a manuscript, it’s all hand drawn and hand lettered, and it has loom punch cards and fabric samples tipped in. It also has hundreds of intricate diagrams and instructions for this semi-automated form of weaving. Learn more and see a page-through video in our latest blog post by @tanyatypes, Threading Letters: https://letterformarchive.org/news/threading-letters/
I am so very much delighted to share with you that I have just finalized my new video about "Secret Ritual Ingredients in Ancient Magic"! It will be available on YouTube this Saturday, March 23, 6pm CET (1pm EDT)!
The most exciting research I've done yet! I'm very much looking forward to your thoughts and comments.
Today my students and I are on our way to beautiful #Vercelli and #Verona for our annual week-long spring school! We’re working with some amazing #medieval#manuscripts there (including the Vercelli Book!), but also with modern technologies like #multispectral imaging and endoscopy. I’ll try to post images of some of our activities using #Vercelli2024. But first - 11 hours on the train…