#palaeography — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #palaeography, aggregated by home.social.
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I'm teaching a class tomorrow on Arabic / Persian #HTR, and my example manuscript is absolutely amazing. It's a famous 16th-century work on mathematics by al-'Āmilī made in India and has an absolutely insane-looking layout - glosses going diagonally in several directions off the main text - that is nevertheless relatively clear to a human reader, and is not unusual in Arabic books. Will be interesting to see how an AI handles it!
Library of Congress link: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/wdl.9542 #palaeography
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I'm teaching a class tomorrow on Arabic / Persian #HTR, and my example manuscript is absolutely amazing. It's a famous 16th-century work on mathematics by al-'Āmilī made in India and has an absolutely insane-looking layout - glosses going diagonally in several directions off the main text - that is nevertheless relatively clear to a human reader, and is not unusual in Arabic books. Will be interesting to see how an AI handles it!
Library of Congress link: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/wdl.9542 #palaeography
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Unexpected yet amazing goodies (wax tablet, two styli, ink, reed pen) from the brilliant head of my project in Munich, who knows me well! #palaeography
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Unexpected yet amazing goodies (wax tablet, two styli, ink, reed pen) from the brilliant head of my project in Munich, who knows me well! #palaeography
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I'm glad finally to be able to share the link to my finished project eManuSkript: https://emanuskript.vercel.app/.
This is a suite of tools for teaching and learning digital #palaeography and #codicology as applied to #western Latin #manuscripts. The website includes 4 multi-use apps, and 4 supporting information packages, as well as a large searchable bibliography. Our code and text is available on GitHub under a CC BY-NC licence.
A few bugs remain but they will be cleared in the next 2 weeks!
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I'm glad finally to be able to share the link to my finished project eManuSkript: https://emanuskript.vercel.app/.
This is a suite of tools for teaching and learning digital #palaeography and #codicology as applied to #western Latin #manuscripts. The website includes 4 multi-use apps, and 4 supporting information packages, as well as a large searchable bibliography. Our code and text is available on GitHub under a CC BY-NC licence.
A few bugs remain but they will be cleared in the next 2 weeks!
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How your email finds me.
(From an 8th-century northern French manuscript, here showing a wind rose with 24 winds and a put-upon person in the middle).
Online at https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc65498x (27v)
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How your email finds me.
(From an 8th-century northern French manuscript, here showing a wind rose with 24 winds and a put-upon person in the middle).
Online at https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc65498x (27v)
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AI understanding of #palaeography has improved exponentially. Impressive.
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AI understanding of #palaeography has improved exponentially. Impressive.
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The End of the World in Images: The Picture Book of the Life of St John and the Apocalypse
Picture Book of the Life of St John and the Apocalypse is a unique and visually striking example of the picture-book Apocalypse – a distinctive group of medieval manuscripts that present the apocalyptic visions of the Book of Revelation primarily through images.
https://www.medievalists.net/2026/02/picture-book-st-john-apocalypse/
Apocalypses at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=apocalypses -
The End of the World in Images: The Picture Book of the Life of St John and the Apocalypse
Picture Book of the Life of St John and the Apocalypse is a unique and visually striking example of the picture-book Apocalypse – a distinctive group of medieval manuscripts that present the apocalyptic visions of the Book of Revelation primarily through images.
https://www.medievalists.net/2026/02/picture-book-st-john-apocalypse/
Apocalypses at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=apocalypses -
If you’re very very nice to your manuscript librarian, they might gift you with a bucket (!) of medieval seal impressions for your teaching! #palaeography #sigillography
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If you’re very very nice to your manuscript librarian, they might gift you with a bucket (!) of medieval seal impressions for your teaching! #palaeography #sigillography
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The application process for this summer's school in Digital Palaeography at Göttingen (with a focus on the medieval Latin West) is open!
All info: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/695097.html
Please forward the link to any colleagues or students who might be interested!
@historikerinnen @histodons @medievodons #palaeography #medieval
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The application process for this summer's school in Digital Palaeography at Göttingen (with a focus on the medieval Latin West) is open!
All info: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/695097.html
Please forward the link to any colleagues or students who might be interested!
@historikerinnen @histodons @medievodons #palaeography #medieval
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Unusual ghosts.
(From the 13th-century sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10509412z/f21.item.r=villard%20de%20honnecourt) #palaeography #medieval
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Unusual ghosts.
(From the 13th-century sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10509412z/f21.item.r=villard%20de%20honnecourt) #palaeography #medieval
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This fragment of wood is of a letter from Hostilius Flavianus to Flavius Cerialis the Commanding Officer of the IX Cohort of Batavians who were stationed at Vindolanda in about AD 97-105. He wishes Cerialis "a fortunate and happy New Year". https://www.vindolanda.com/ #Vindolanda #Roman #palaeography #NewYear
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If you can't afford to travel to an archive but can afford to pay someone for a few hours of their time, there is now a tool for that: #Sourcery. It allows you to pay someone on the ground to go scan or photograph what you need. #palaeography #manuscripts
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If you can't afford to travel to an archive but can afford to pay someone for a few hours of their time, there is now a tool for that: #Sourcery. It allows you to pay someone on the ground to go scan or photograph what you need. #palaeography #manuscripts
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This morning I am in Berlin looking at #manuscript Theol lat fol 366, said (with relative certainty) to be written by St Liudger ca 800 CE. Liudger was a missionary from Utrecht who spent years in Britain, then founded the monastery in Werden (Germany) where this manuscript is from. I feel like Liudger is right next to me when I sit in front of his book and read his words, just as he did over 1200 years ago! #palaeography #goosebumps
You can look at it yourself online: https://handschriftenportal.de/search?hspobjectid=HSP-88c14a7a-6cd6-36ec-8617-aeab8637aef6
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This morning I am in Berlin looking at #manuscript Theol lat fol 366, said (with relative certainty) to be written by St Liudger ca 800 CE. Liudger was a missionary from Utrecht who spent years in Britain, then founded the monastery in Werden (Germany) where this manuscript is from. I feel like Liudger is right next to me when I sit in front of his book and read his words, just as he did over 1200 years ago! #palaeography #goosebumps
You can look at it yourself online: https://handschriftenportal.de/search?hspobjectid=HSP-88c14a7a-6cd6-36ec-8617-aeab8637aef6
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I’ve attracted the right kind of #palaeography student this term: one of them can’t attend for the next two weeks because he is going on a pilgrimage to Mount Athos.
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I’ve attracted the right kind of #palaeography student this term: one of them can’t attend for the next two weeks because he is going on a pilgrimage to Mount Athos.
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I can't stop seeing boobs on the pillars. #palaeography #medieval #manuscripts
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I can't stop seeing boobs on the pillars. #palaeography #medieval #manuscripts
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Attention Palaeographers! 🖋️✨
I'm happy to share the Corpus Litterarum: a new dataset of annotated Latin manuscript characters from the St. Gall codices CSG 11 & 70 (Winithar).🔎 2,152 line images
🔠 44,407 annotations across 73 classes
📜 Includes Latin letters
🤖 Semi-automatic labelling with RoboflowThe dataset is freely available on Zenodo:
👉 https://zenodo.org/records/16995048Use it for palaeography, HTR, character segmentation — or just to explore the manuscripts of St. Gall!
#DigitalHumanities #Palaeography #HTR #MedievalStudies #History #OpenScience
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Attention Palaeographers! 🖋️✨
I'm happy to share the Corpus Litterarum: a new dataset of annotated Latin manuscript characters from the St. Gall codices CSG 11 & 70 (Winithar).🔎 2,152 line images
🔠 44,407 annotations across 73 classes
📜 Includes Latin letters
🤖 Semi-automatic labelling with RoboflowThe dataset is freely available on Zenodo:
👉 https://zenodo.org/records/16995048Use it for palaeography, HTR, character segmentation — or just to explore the manuscripts of St. Gall!
#DigitalHumanities #Palaeography #HTR #MedievalStudies #History #OpenScience
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#SummerSchool25 #palaeography This summer school has been so busy I’ve hardly had any time to post despite having lots of things to say - but I will try to catch up next week!
From: @subugoe
https://openbiblio.social/@subugoe/115068340247519071 -
#SummerSchool25 #palaeography This summer school has been so busy I’ve hardly had any time to post despite having lots of things to say - but I will try to catch up next week!
From: @subugoe
https://openbiblio.social/@subugoe/115068340247519071 -
The first review of my first book is out and it’s such a relief to read such a generous and positive assessment of my work! https://muse.jhu.edu/article/965564 #palaeography #Physiologus #environmental_humanities #medieval @medievodons @histodons @historikerinnen
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The first review of my first book is out and it’s such a relief to read such a generous and positive assessment of my work! https://muse.jhu.edu/article/965564 #palaeography #Physiologus #environmental_humanities #medieval @medievodons @histodons @historikerinnen
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One of my brilliant former summer school students made an app for downloading #manuscripts from #IIIF manifests and it now works for BL manuscripts as well. It will be made publicly available soon but in the meantime DM me with your email address for a link if interested! #palaeography #medieval @medievodons @histodons @histodons
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One of my brilliant former summer school students made an app for downloading #manuscripts from #IIIF manifests and it now works for BL manuscripts as well. It will be made publicly available soon but in the meantime DM me with your email address for a link if interested! #palaeography #medieval @medievodons @histodons @histodons
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Monday is the start of the summer school in #digital #palaeography which I run in Göttingen every summer. We have 16 amazing international students and 2 weeks to play with #medieval fragments, #multispectral imaging, network analysis, bookbindings, biocodicology and much much more, topped off by a trip to the fabulous @hab_wf and a hackathon. It's the absolute highlight of my year. Follow this year's posts and photos via #SummerSchool25. @histodons @medievodons @historikerinnen
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Monday is the start of the summer school in #digital #palaeography which I run in Göttingen every summer. We have 16 amazing international students and 2 weeks to play with #medieval fragments, #multispectral imaging, network analysis, bookbindings, biocodicology and much much more, topped off by a trip to the fabulous @hab_wf and a hackathon. It's the absolute highlight of my year. Follow this year's posts and photos via #SummerSchool25. @histodons @medievodons @historikerinnen
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More publishers should send chocolates with their books! Thanks, Four Courts Press!
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More publishers should send chocolates with their books! Thanks, Four Courts Press!
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A moment of personal triumph today: I managed to read the very late Roman cursive in the red box without help.
From this seventh-century copy of the Gospels: https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue/688
The line reads "deo semper gratias": "eternal thanks to God"
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A moment of personal triumph today: I managed to read the very late Roman cursive in the red box without help.
From this seventh-century copy of the Gospels: https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue/688
The line reads "deo semper gratias": "eternal thanks to God"
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Life goals: learn to write like this.
The image shows a capital letter i from a 17th-century printed calligraphy pattern book at the Newberry Library: https://collections.newberry.org/asset-management/2KXJ8Z812G0W7
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Life goals: learn to write like this.
The image shows a capital letter i from a 17th-century printed calligraphy pattern book at the Newberry Library: https://collections.newberry.org/asset-management/2KXJ8Z812G0W7
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There's an exciting new 3-year #job in Göttingen (Germany) available as part of the ERC project I'm doing! https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.html? (search for job no. 75964).
We need someone with experience in manuscript studies and early medieval Germanic vernaculars. Digital humanities skills an advantage! Deadline: 14 July.
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There's an exciting new 3-year #job in Göttingen (Germany) available as part of the ERC project I'm doing! https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.html? (search for job no. 75964).
We need someone with experience in manuscript studies and early medieval Germanic vernaculars. Digital humanities skills an advantage! Deadline: 14 July.
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The wonderful Gerald Schwedler at the University of Kiel (@kieluni) is offering a summer school in #Transkribus, #eScriptorium and #NodeGoat from 28 to 31 July. It's online, free and open to everyone! The teaching language is German. Register here by 24 June:
https://www.histsem.uni-kiel.de/de/das-institut-1/abteilungen/professur-fuer-geschichte-des-spaeten-mittelalters-sowie-wirtschafts-und-sozialgeschichte/aktuelles/ (scroll down for poster and full programme).
Please share widely!
@historikerinnen @histodons @medievodons @DHd #palaeography #digitalhumanities #dh
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The wonderful Gerald Schwedler at the University of Kiel (@kieluni) is offering a summer school in #Transkribus, #eScriptorium and #NodeGoat from 28 to 31 July. It's online, free and open to everyone! The teaching language is German. Register here by 24 June:
https://www.histsem.uni-kiel.de/de/das-institut-1/abteilungen/professur-fuer-geschichte-des-spaeten-mittelalters-sowie-wirtschafts-und-sozialgeschichte/aktuelles/ (scroll down for poster and full programme).
Please share widely!
@historikerinnen @histodons @medievodons @DHd #palaeography #digitalhumanities #dh
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This eighth-century letter T looks like it's running towards the reader. "Read me now!"
(We have to make our own entertainment in #palaeography).