JD_Cunningham , to random
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Do you happen to read Tibetan? There's a fascinating ongoing project in Tibet that is digitizing all 84,000 artworks, manuscripts, and books held in an ancient and remote monastery library to make the Buddhist scriptures, literature, and art and science works available to scholars.

https://mymodernmet.com/sakya-monastery-library/

SJLahey , to histodons group
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A in one of the of Pembroke College, Cambridge (now held at Cambridge University Library).
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Detail of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 44 verso in Cambridge, Pembroke College manuscript 301. The gold-haloed head of an evangelist peeks up from the lower edge of the image. Above this curve 2 concentric arches linked together by a decorative rosette, all rendered in shiny gold leaf with burgundy, pine, and cobalt paints. In front of the arches, springing across the page, stretches a yellow lion sporting green and red wings and a glittering halo of burnished gold. Rearing up on hind legs, the beast grasps a golden book in its front paws, and throws back its head to sound the long blue trumpet extending from its mouth.
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    • Jorsh ,
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    I didn't know Dan Aykroyd was a Saint.

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    A golden initial like a tiny in one of Cambridge University Library’s medieval English statute books. 🌞
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    Detail of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 121 verso in Cambridge, University Library, manuscript Additional 3036. 17 lines of French and Latin text copied in dark brown ink. 3 of the lines are indented to accommodate the bowl of an enlarged decorative initial ‘Q’. The tail of the letter, painted in pink and blue, extends down into the margin at left, curling rightwards beneath the block of text it opens, and terminating in a tiny green ivy leaf. The rounded bowl of the letter, painted in blue on a pink ground, is infilled with an 8-pointed star of pink, positioned atop a ground of gold leaf. Catching the light, the gold gleams hazily as a lazy summer sun.
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    • SJLahey OP ,
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    @bookhistodons @histodons More from this manuscript.
    https://mastodon.social/@SJLahey/111331758123163022

    MartinFoysOEPF , to random
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    Announcing the publications of THIRTEEN more digital editions and translations in the Poetry in Facsimile project:

    • Christ I (Exeter Book)
    • Lord's Prayer II (CCCC 201)
    • Exeter Riddles 71-80 & 82

    That's now nearly 24,000 lines / 76% of the OE poetic corpus edited to digital facsimile.

    See these and 270+ other editions here: https://oepoetryfacsimile.org

    >≠

    @medievodons

    ClaireFromClare ,
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    @MartinFoysOEPF What a wonderful site - thanks for the intro!
    🕳️ 🐇


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    SJLahey , to histodons group
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    Lovely portrait of a woman tucked away in a Statuta Angliæ manuscript from Cambridge University Library.
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    Detail of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 243 verso in Cambridge, University Library, manuscript Mm.5.19. At right, the beginning of 12 lines of French text copied in dark brown ink with the 1st 3 lines indented to create space for an added decorative initial ‘N’, skilfully drawn in dark brown ink. The initial is ornamented with very fine pen-work swirling out into the margin to form leaves and tendrils. Several of the lines extend up into the top margin where they coalesce into a small, line-drawn portrait of a woman in three-quarter profile with her hair coiffed.
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    • vruz ,
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    Lovely detail, although she seems to be standing atop a castle looking in the distance with a sense of longing... I wonder who she was in real life.

    Also, what's the irregular blob with biological aspect and interstitial spider webs below her, and to the left of the big letter?

    SJLahey , to histodons group
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    Biblically-accurate ? 👀
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    Detail of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 128 recto in Cambridge, University Library, Manuscript Ll.4.18. Visible is the start of 9 lines of Latin text copied in dark brown ink, the 1st and 8th lines opening with pilcrows or paragraph marks added in red ink, the 5th line opening with another pilcrow added in blue ink. Above all this, in the topmost margin of the leaf, someone has sketched a manicule—a pointing hand or glove typically used to draw attention to a passage—in black ink. This manicule takes the shape of a glove pointing down towards the text with thumb and index finger. The back of the glove is ornamented with a pattern probably intended to represent a flower, but resembling a cluster of 4 eyes.
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    • SJLahey OP ,
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    @KarenStrickholm @bookhistodons @histodons It’s a leaf in a carefully-copied collection of medieval English common law texts. A reader added the manicule to mark a passage of interest. 😊

    KarenStrickholm ,
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    @SJLahey @bookhistodons @histodons

    Oh I see, so a different person made the "manicule" to the margin, probably later in time. Manicule is not in dictionary dot com, but once again, has me covered!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manicule

    dohanian , to librarians group
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    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, , or Turkish would work. @histodons @medievodons @librarians

    AmazingMeagen ,
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    The introduction...
    Index
    Dennis Duncan

    mark ,
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    @dohanian @histodons @medievodons @librarians

    Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies, by Geoffrey Yeo

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55321407-record-making-and-record-keeping-in-early-societies

    letterformarchive , to random
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    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/

    video/mp4

    litteracarolina , to histodons group
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    Today my students and I are on our way to beautiful and for our annual week-long spring school! We’re working with some amazing there (including the Vercelli Book!), but also with modern technologies like imaging and endoscopy. I’ll try to post images of some of our activities using . But first - 11 hours on the train…

    @medievodons @histodons @historikerinnen

    matz ,
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    @litteracarolina @medievodons @histodons @historikerinnen enjoy Verona (I imagine at Capitolare)

    andreasjanke ,
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    @litteracarolina @medievodons @histodons @historikerinnen It's great that you also teach the processing of data. Hoku is really an important tool for the future of visualising lost writing and other features.

    litteracarolina , to histodons group
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    Some very happy -century fishes swimming around. They appear in a famous early Italian version of Cassiodorus' Institutions, which is one of a number of showing a vivarium: a pool for raising living , here linking directly to the river. It represents Cassiodorus' own monastery, Vivarium - one of the first real medieval Western monasteries – at Squillace in Calabria.

    Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Msc.Patr.61, 29v: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb00140805?page=62 @histodons @medievodons

    chronohh ,
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    @litteracarolina @histodons @medievodons 💯 Dank für den Link! Als ChronoLink dann hier: https://mprove.de/chrono?m=IFurnnbndebvb12-bsb00140805-7-61&d=1&s=1&iiif-content=https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/presentation/v2/bsb00140805/manifest&c=a

    chronohh ,
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    @litteracarolina @histodons @medievodons A very nice hyperlink on page 41! https://mprove.de/chrono?q=0.19459,0.2994&z=9.84&m=IFurnnbndebvb12-bsb00140805-7-40&d=1&s=1&iiif-content=https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/presentation/v2/bsb00140805/manifest

    appassionato , to palestine group
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    Great Omari Mosque

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    Israel has bombed—and completely demolished—the Great Omari Mosque in Gaza, which is the second oldest mosque in Palestine. There was no purpose to bombing it. There was no advantage to targeting it. Israel simply destroyed it to make a statement: that Palestinian religion and culture not only mean nothing to them, but are something they’re actively working on wiping out. This was one of Palestine’s most sacred cultural sites. Now it’ll forever serve as proof of the horrifying death and destruction the world has allowed to befall Palestine. There were also manuscripts there that date back centuries. I don't know the status of those manuscripts... but I'm not hopeful they survived. Manuscripts are one of the main ways we explore our intellectual history throughout the years, and are incredibly important to Palestinians as we struggle to piece together our culture that has been lost over years and years of displacement. They are killing the memory of Palestinians because it isn't enough to just kill our flesh.
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    @appassionato @palestine dig up the graveyards, destroy universities, etc etc this is an attempt to erase Palestinians.

    SJLahey , to histodons group
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    ‘M’ for the Merry Month of May in a Cambridge University Library statute book.
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    Detail of a medieval manuscript leaf: folio 61 recto in Cambridge, University Library, manuscript Ll.4.17. Visible are 10 lines of Latin script copied in black ink. 2 of the lines are copied in slightly larger display letters and underlined with red ink. Below these, the next 3 lines of text are indented to accommodate an enlarged, decorative initial ‘M’. The initial is painted in blue and red, and infilled with an ornamental network of fine, scrolling pen-work lines in red ink. The pen-work spills out of the initial into the empty margin at the left of the page.
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    • litteracarolina , to Medievodons group
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    Looking at with my students today. This is a stunning frontispiece from @subugoe Cod MS arab. 190, containing the Kitāb al-wāfīya fi šarḥ al-kāfīya from 1478, collated with the author’s own copy. @historikerinnen @medievodons @histodons

    litteracarolina , to Medievodons group
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    Please share the information about the below as widely as you can - this is a 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 unique."

    https://ies.sas.ac.uk/london-international-palaeography-school/course-descriptions/books-documents-late-medieval-spain

    @medievodons @histodons @historikerinnen

    litteracarolina , to Medievodons group
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    I’ve put a starter Zotero bibliography I share with students online: https://palaeography.hypotheses.org/1025. It’s now shareable and editable by everyone.

    @historikerinnen @medievodons @histodons

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