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Historian researching medieval writing: scribes, scripts and manuscripts in the digital age. Lecturer in Digital Palaeography at the University of Göttingen.

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The artist who painted the initials in this Italian manuscript (@subugoe Cod. MS philol. 116) painted this A upside down so that it now looks like a V. An A was added in the margin as a correction. Did the artist work upside-down, and if so, why?

Pre-modern books are great records of human error and therefore of historic working practices.

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I guess, the pages were only much later bound into a book? Then, he might have worked upside down. For a right-handed artist, the hand wouldn't lie on the ink of the text but next to the parchment. Thus, the risk of leaving stains on the text is minimized... 🤔

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@litteracarolina @subugoe @medievodons @histodons @historikerinnen Another possibility is that it was no "A", but a "V" mixing up atque and utique (vtiqve), later adding the bar as first correction.

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This is the handwriting of renowned historian Theodor Mommsen @subugoe. I‘m a trained palaeographer and I can’t read it - not without spending a long time working out the individual letters. But native German speakers who have seen this type of writing before have much less trouble. Cursive is all about exposure! @histodons @medievodons @historikerinnen

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@litteracarolina @subugoe @histodons @medievodons @historikerinnen 💯 👍 Beautiful, neat but nonetheless illegible writing is so frustrating!

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@litteracarolina @subugoe @histodons @medievodons @historikerinnen Oh, but at least this isn't Sütterlinschrift.

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Here is another lovely from @subugoe (8 Cod. MS pers. 14), containing the Šerḥ-i Sabḥat al-abrār, a literary text. This is from the 17th or 18th century. @historikerinnen @histodons @medievodons

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@subugoe @historikerinnen @histodons @medievodons My student has just discovered what looks like 18th-century censorship in this manuscript! The miniature of Yusuf and Zuleika having sex on their wedding night has been obscured by a carefully cut, glued and decorated piece of paper.

Open page of a manuscript in Arabic, with a colourful miniature of two people having sex partially hidden by a flap of paper.

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Looking at #Arabic #manuscripts 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 #palaeography

litteracarolina , to histodons group
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Update from the eManuSkript project: we've mocked up a website with a holistic interface for all the apps; we're starting tagging of the 200GB supplementary training set for our neural network; the students are developing script & #manuscript training sets for online tutorials; and much, much more. I have such a brilliant team!

We're looking for a student with graphic design skills for a short project - if you're it, please get in touch! #palaeography @historikerinnen @histodons @medievodons

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These are digital photos of a camel from a 15th-century Persian manuscript in the @subugoe (Cod. MS pers. 14). The purple image was taken with ultraviolet light and the grey picture with infrared. Because infrared goes right through most pigments, it reveals the preliminary sketch of the camel underneath the pigment (which you see in the UV photo). Really interesting for the history of art!

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Infra-red light photo of a drawing with a man (left) and a camel (right).

litteracarolina , to Medievodons group
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Just got my new DinoLite digital ! All ready for some ink and pigment analysis with my students on Thursday. @medievodons @histodons @historikerinnen

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@medievodons @histodons @historikerinnen Here are some images I took just now of ordinary ballpoint on paper, the first with UV and the second with normal light. Great definition on the ink edges and paper fibres.

Stroke of a ballpoint pen on paper under normal light. The whole image is reddish purple in colour.

litteracarolina , to Medievodons group
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Please spread the word about this! We need more applicants. Deadline is tomorrow but late applications can be accepted. #palaeography @medievodons @historikerinnen @histodons

From: @litteracarolina
https://mastodon.online/@litteracarolina/111935843148645383

litteracarolina , to Medievodons group
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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."

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

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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.

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litteracarolina , to histodons group
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I got to see the Fulda Sacramentary today: a stunning example of Ottonian (tenth-century) art and one of the major treasures of the @subugoe.

@medievodons @historikerinnen @histodons #medieval #manuscript #palaeography

An illustrated medieval manuscript page with a central figure surrounded by a circular zodiac calendar, with human figures representing the months and symbols for the astrological signs.
Illuminated manuscript page with a large ornate initial "P," featuring gold leaf, blue and red pigments, and decorative flourishes extending into the margins.
An illuminated manuscript page with Latin text and decorative borders.

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@litteracarolina @subugoe @medievodons @historikerinnen @histodons 😍

litteracarolina , to random
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I’m really excited to be part of this incredible project. To learn more, see the press release (in English and German) on my university’s website: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html?id=7427

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litteracarolina OP ,
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I should also say that @InsularMSS will involve not only #medieval #manuscript studies but also #digitalhumanities and scientific research: palaeoproteomics, #multispectral and photometric stereo #imaging, handwritten text recognition (#HTR), Raman and XRF #spectroscopy, infra-red #microscopy & much more. Perhaps most important, though, will be the freedom and time to do this important work!

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Very cool that the oldest known Polish prose text is actually assembled from binding fragments. It really highlights the importance of , and the possibility of more treasures hidden inside early modern book bindings.

The manuscript is digitised at https://polona.pl/item-view/032eb921-7c51-4d0e-a9aa-deb98a51cb4e?page=7.

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litteracarolina , to Medievodons group
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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.

#palaeography @historikerinnen @medievodons @histodons

litteracarolina , to histodons group
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I still have a #job available for a #historian!

Conditions:

-Half-time (50%)
-From 1 April for two years
-You need an MA (PhD desirable, not essential)
-You need experience with #medieval Latin #palaeography

Job:

-Co-manage a group of programmers & assistants
-Help develop innovative digital teaching tools in #manuscript studies

Apply here: https://obp.uni-goettingen.de/de-de/OBF/Index/74428 (deadline is 22 March)

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