#medievalmanuscripts — Public Fediverse posts
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Medieval books were crafted from animal skin, repaired by hand, and valued by quality. Even stitched pages reveal hidden histories—so what can imperfections tell us about the past?
#MedievalManuscripts #BookHistory #Parchment #Codicology #MedievalArt
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A mesmerizing medieval manuscript illuminates the fervent prayer of David, resplendent in gold and intricate foliage. The tension in angular forms mirrors the emotion in his supplication—what story do you draw from this striking image?
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New instance, new #introduction
#BookConservation
#PaperConservation
Heritage #EnvironmentalMonitoring
#Exhibitions
#MedievalManuscripts
#GLAM
#Naps
#Reading
#Travel
#Introvert
#CakeMasking in public. Public transport over car driving with acknowledgement that some people need a car. Twitter alumni from the early exodus. Love heist films. American and English languages with a few other basics under the tongue: Italian, Spanish, Swahili, Japanese. Best trip ever was Antarctica.
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in case anybody was wondering where these weird little guys came from:
LeafPup Creature: The Northern French Hebrew Miscellany, BL Add 11639, f68v
UniCreature: The Maastricht Hours, BL Stowe MS 17, f219r
Flower Creature: The Hours of Saint-Omer (first half), BL Add 36684
MerBunny: The Book of Hours, use of Metz, Metz. BM, MS 1588, f148r
#medieval #marginalia #medievalManuscripts #medievalMarginalia
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Just gave my first keynote.
(It went well—and was fun. 🙂🤓)
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A belated #cat for #Caturday and an early #snail for a #SlowSunday : Cat in a snail shell from the Book of Hours, Use of Maastricht (‘The Maastricht Hours’), Stowe MS 17 f.185 Netherlands, S. (Liège), 1st quarter 14th c. British Library collection #CatsInArt #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalMarginalia
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Rare Medieval Manuscripts Take Center Stage at TEFAF Maastricht 2025 https://www.medievalists.net/2025/02/rare-medieval-manuscripts-take-center-stage-at-tefaf-maastricht-2025/ #TEFAF #medievalmanuscripts
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A Dispute? (‘The Cloisters Apocalypse’; Normandy, c.1330)
#MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #Critters #MedievalAnimals #Dragon #Wyvern
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Medieval Manuscripts: The Book of Hours of Lorenzo de’ Medici https://www.medievalists.net/2020/01/medieval-manuscripts-the-book-of-hours-of-lorenzo-de-medici/ #BookofHours #medievalmanuscripts
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Medieval Manuscripts: The Book of Hours of Lorenzo de’ Medici https://www.medievalists.net/2020/01/medieval-manuscripts-the-book-of-hours-of-lorenzo-de-medici/ #BookofHours #medievalmanuscripts
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Medieval Manuscripts: The Book of Hours of Lorenzo de’ Medici https://www.medievalists.net/2020/01/medieval-manuscripts-the-book-of-hours-of-lorenzo-de-medici/ #BookofHours #medievalmanuscripts
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Richard Abels offers this fascinating look at medieval warfare through the Morgan Picture Bible https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/warfare-morgan-picture-bible/ #MedievalWarfare #MedievalManuscripts
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The illustrator of Lambert of Saint-Omer’s Liber Floridus reminds us that we are not always the apex of the food-chain. #Critters #Griffons #Monsters #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscripts
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Delighted to be settled in University of Toronto’s Robarts Library to take in this talk by Matthew Boyd Goldie. #MedievalTwitter #MedievalManuscripts
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And thus one of my weirder childhood fantasies has been fulfilled: I am a sorceress, a necromancer. I wrest utterances from the void. I raise the dead. 📜🔬🪄👻😜 #OBNS_MISHA #BookScience #MedievalManuscripts
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New multispectral analysis of Voynich manuscript reveals hidden details - Enlarge / Medieval scholar Lisa Fagin Davis examined multispectral imag... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2048317 #multispectralimaging #medievalmanuscripts #voynichmanuscript #cryptography #archaeology #science
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New #introduction: I’m the Mark Andrews Fellow in Book Science at OBNS (Old Books New Science) Lab, University of Toronto, and a #MedievalManuscripts scholar and cataloguer. My research mainly focuses on later #medieval European #manuscripts with an emphasis on scientific and #quantitative methods, #materiality, and provenance studies. 📚 📜 🔬 📊
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Visiting you this year was a great honour and pleasure, Cambridge University Library and Girton College. Thank you for everything.
Now that I’m settled back on the other side of the pond, I have news:From 01 September, I return to University of Toronto’s Old Books New Science Lab as the Mark Andrews Fellow in Book Science.
Watch this space! 📚📜🔬📊
#BookScience #MedievalManuscripts
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#Caturday #NotALion in a Book of Hours from Cambridge University Library. #MedievalManuscripts
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#TIH #OTD in #BookHistory #MedievalManuscripts: Happy birthday to Gerard Isaäc Lieftinck (1902 Aug 03–1994 May 09), Dutch medievalist. #Medieval
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Explore the Book of Kells Like Never Before https://www.medievalists.net/2024/06/explore-the-book-of-kells-like-never-before/ #BookofKells #medievalmanuscripts
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Decorated initials: notorious site of interspecies struggle since the 11th century. 😱 #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #MedievalAnimals #Critters
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“‘God created … every winged bird according to its kind’, by which Genesis 1:21 mainly meant #crows & #ravens, because what other #birds could you possibly want?” — this 13th century artist, apparently.
One for @ct_bergstrom#corvids #MedievalManuscripts #Critters #MedievalAnimals
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On Thursday, I had the honour of introducing a Girton College student to Cambridge University Library and giving her a crash-course in handling #MedievalManuscripts. Here’s a highlight from one of them. #Demons #Critters #MedievalAnimals #Hunting
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A #Caturday #NotALion in one of the #MedievalManuscripts of Pembroke College, Cambridge (now held at Cambridge University Library). #Manuscripts #Critters #MedievalAnimals
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At Girton College, Cambridge, #SaintMargaret ’s #dragon has the sweetest little puppy-dog eyes you ever did see… 🥹 #MedievalManuscripts #Saints #MedievalAnimals #Critters #aww
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#TIH #OTD in #BookHistory 6 May 1236: Death of Roger of Wendover, Benedictine monk & 1st of a series of important chroniclers at St Albans. His best-known chronicle, Flores historiarum, survives in 2 #MedievalManuscripts—including the 1 shown in the 📷—& an edition in Matthew Paris’ (c.1200–1259) Chronica majora.
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Looking forward to visiting #Copenhagen this week for ‘The Future of Molecular Palaeography’, a closing workshop/discussion for the @ercb2c project
#Parchment #BookScience #QuantitativeHumanities #MedievalManuscriptshttps://sites.google.com/palaeome.org/ercb2c/get-involved/workshops/copenhagen-24
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It's always very exciting to hear about raman spectroscopy & Special Collections. #archives #manuscripts #MedievalManuscripts #RamanSpectroscopy https://news.columbia.edu/news/using-nanotechnology-uncover-details-medieval-manuscript
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A segunda sessão do ciclo “Quando a Ciência e a Tecnologia se Cruzam com as Artes e as Letras” vai ser no dia 5 de Março, tendo Catarina Miguel (Laboratório HERCULES) como convidada.
A Catarina vai dar a conhecer a abordagem interdisciplinar seguida no estudo de um conjunto extraordinário de manuscritos iluminados medievais do scriptorium do Mosteiro de Alcobaça.
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/05ctal-02/
#Histodons #Illuminations #Alcobaça #Scriptorium #Iluminuras #MedievalManuscripts #ManuscritosMedievais
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@sapiens This was a wonderful project! You've prompted me to revisit the #OnlineExhibition which I applauded when very new on Mastodon: https://h-net.social/@ClaireFromClare/109495946015311257
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Today I’m in the Parker Library (Corpus Christi Cambridge) working on, among other #MedievalManuscripts, this wee #LawBook. Like many tiny common #law #manuscripts it’s small but fancy (making it ‘a Rolex’ vs ‘a Ferrari’ 😉).
“Wait. What? …” 🤔
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As Cambridge University Library’s 2nd ever Oschinsky Research Associate, I was thrilled to spend today working with one of the same #MedievalManuscripts that Dorothea Oschinsky researched! #FanGirling 😃 Thank you, Gonville & Caius College Library! #LegalHistory
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Perikopenbuch Heinrichs II. – mehr als tausend Jahre alter Prachteinband der ottonischen Epoche mit karolingischer Elfenbeintafel und reich verziertem Goldrahmen.
Digitalisat:
http://bsb.bayern/4452#Schatzkammer #BSBHighlights #medievalmanuscripts #bsbmuenchen
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#TIH #OTD in #MedievalManuscripts & #BookHistory
Happy birthday to…
• Leonard Eugene Boyle, OP, OC (13 Nov 1923–1999), 🇮🇪 & 🇨🇦 medievalist & palaeographer, & 1st Irish & North American Prefect of the Vatican Library in Rome (1984–1997).
• Martin Bodmer (13 Nov 1899–1971), Swiss bibliophile, scholar, book collector.And happy belated birthday to Wilfrid Voynich (12 Nov [O.S. 31 Oct] 1865–1930), Polish revolutionary, antiquarian, bibliophile of Voynich manuscript fame.
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A #Medieval #MyLittlePony! Painted in Bruges in the late 14th century, this one now lives in Cambridge University Library’s ‘Roberts Hours’. #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #pink #horses #Critters #MedievalAnimals #RareBooks
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#OTD #TIH 01 Nov 1903: Death of Theodor Mommsen (b. 1817), German scholar & jurist. On 12 Jul 1880 at 2a.m., fire broke out in his house at Marchstrasse 6, Berlin. Several #MedievalManuscripts were burnt to ashes: MS O.4.36, a loan from Trinity College Cambridge; an important Jordanes manuscript from Heidelberg Uni; & other #manuscripts. After being burned whilst attempting to rescue the #books, he had to be restrained to prevent him from re-entering the blazing house. @bookhistodons
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New #introduction: I’m Oschinsky Research Associate at Cambridge Univ Library, Fellow of Girton College, & a #MedievalManuscripts scholar & cataloguer. My research mainly focuses on later #medieval European #manuscripts with an emphasis on #quantitative methods, materiality, & provenance. I’m about to publish a book on #parchment & have started writing another on legal manuscripts. 📜🪶📚
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#TIH #OTD 11 Sep 1942: Death of Adriano Cappelli (b. 1859), Italian archivist & palaeographer at Parma State Archives, best known for his Lexicon Abbreviaturarum—a dictionary of c.14,000 abbreviations from #MedievalManuscripts.
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#TIH #OTD 10 Sep 1482: Death of Federico da Montefeltro (b. 1422 Jun 07), lord of Urbino. He commissioned the construction of a great library, then perhaps the largest in Italy after the Vatican, with his own team of #scribes producing #manuscripts in his personal scriptorium. #BookHistory #MedievalManuscripts
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Beautiful damage in a copy of Theodosian Code (Lyon, 6th century). #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #Parchment #LegalHistory #HistoryOfLaw #Conservation #oops
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A little bit of medieval manuscript for a treat: a leaf from The Ridware Cartulary (England, 1308–1309). Spot the lurking #critters !
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For those interested, ‘Publishing in a Medieval Monastery: The View from Twelfth-Century Engelberg’ by Ben Pohl is free to access until the 20th of July from Cambridge University Press.
‘This Element contributes to the burgeoning field of medieval publishing studies with a case study of the books produced at the Benedictine monastery of Engelberg under its celebrated twelfth-century abbot, Frowin (1143–78). Frowin was the first abbot of Engelberg whose book provision policy relied on domestic production serviced by an internal scribal workforce, and his tenure marked the first major expansion of the community's library. This Element's in-depth discussion of nearly forty colophons inscribed in the books made for this library during Frowin's transformative abbacy offers a fresh perspective on monastic publishing practice in the twelfth century by directing our view to a mode of publication that has received only limited attention in scholarship to date.’
@histodons @medievodons #Medieval #MedievalManuscript #MedievalManuscripts #Medievalist #Medievalists #Medievodon #Medievodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #PublishingHistory #MiddleAges
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For those interested, ‘Publishing in a Medieval Monastery: The View from Twelfth-Century Engelberg’ by Ben Pohl is free to access until the 20th of July from Cambridge University Press.
‘This Element contributes to the burgeoning field of medieval publishing studies with a case study of the books produced at the Benedictine monastery of Engelberg under its celebrated twelfth-century abbot, Frowin (1143–78). Frowin was the first abbot of Engelberg whose book provision policy relied on domestic production serviced by an internal scribal workforce, and his tenure marked the first major expansion of the community's library. This Element's in-depth discussion of nearly forty colophons inscribed in the books made for this library during Frowin's transformative abbacy offers a fresh perspective on monastic publishing practice in the twelfth century by directing our view to a mode of publication that has received only limited attention in scholarship to date.’
@histodons @medievodons #Medieval #MedievalManuscript #MedievalManuscripts #Medievalist #Medievalists #Medievodon #Medievodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #PublishingHistory #MiddleAges
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For those interested, ‘Publishing in a Medieval Monastery: The View from Twelfth-Century Engelberg’ by Ben Pohl is free to access until the 20th of July from Cambridge University Press.
‘This Element contributes to the burgeoning field of medieval publishing studies with a case study of the books produced at the Benedictine monastery of Engelberg under its celebrated twelfth-century abbot, Frowin (1143–78). Frowin was the first abbot of Engelberg whose book provision policy relied on domestic production serviced by an internal scribal workforce, and his tenure marked the first major expansion of the community's library. This Element's in-depth discussion of nearly forty colophons inscribed in the books made for this library during Frowin's transformative abbacy offers a fresh perspective on monastic publishing practice in the twelfth century by directing our view to a mode of publication that has received only limited attention in scholarship to date.’
@histodons @medievodons #Medieval #MedievalManuscript #MedievalManuscripts #Medievalist #Medievalists #Medievodon #Medievodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #PublishingHistory #MiddleAges
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For those interested, ‘Publishing in a Medieval Monastery: The View from Twelfth-Century Engelberg’ by Ben Pohl is free to access until the 20th of July from Cambridge University Press.
‘This Element contributes to the burgeoning field of medieval publishing studies with a case study of the books produced at the Benedictine monastery of Engelberg under its celebrated twelfth-century abbot, Frowin (1143–78). Frowin was the first abbot of Engelberg whose book provision policy relied on domestic production serviced by an internal scribal workforce, and his tenure marked the first major expansion of the community's library. This Element's in-depth discussion of nearly forty colophons inscribed in the books made for this library during Frowin's transformative abbacy offers a fresh perspective on monastic publishing practice in the twelfth century by directing our view to a mode of publication that has received only limited attention in scholarship to date.’
@histodons @medievodons #Medieval #MedievalManuscript #MedievalManuscripts #Medievalist #Medievalists #Medievodon #Medievodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #PublishingHistory #MiddleAges
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For those interested, ‘Publishing in a Medieval Monastery: The View from Twelfth-Century Engelberg’ by Ben Pohl is free to access until the 20th of July from Cambridge University Press.
‘This Element contributes to the burgeoning field of medieval publishing studies with a case study of the books produced at the Benedictine monastery of Engelberg under its celebrated twelfth-century abbot, Frowin (1143–78). Frowin was the first abbot of Engelberg whose book provision policy relied on domestic production serviced by an internal scribal workforce, and his tenure marked the first major expansion of the community's library. This Element's in-depth discussion of nearly forty colophons inscribed in the books made for this library during Frowin's transformative abbacy offers a fresh perspective on monastic publishing practice in the twelfth century by directing our view to a mode of publication that has received only limited attention in scholarship to date.’
@histodons @medievodons #Medieval #MedievalManuscript #MedievalManuscripts #Medievalist #Medievalists #Medievodon #Medievodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #PublishingHistory #MiddleAges
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Three of a kind in ‘The Arnstein Bible’ (Germany, Arnstein, Premonstratensian Abbey of St Mary & St Nicholas, c.1172). #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #Poker #Interlace
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