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  1. In May I spent a week in Cheryl Jacobsen's Gothic & Vellum class with Friends of Calligraphy, learning to write and paint directly on parchment. This book seemed to magically come together over the week. The fish just seemed to be calling me through the hole in the parchment. My favorite part of working on skin was turning its “flaws” into features.

    "The Fish" is finished and available for purchase — contact me, if you're interested.

    I've also got a second skin in the studio waiting to become the next book. Just need the time.

    #calligraphy #handlettering #bookart #parchment #manuscriptbook

  2. @louis-lhote.bsky.social talks about a high-resolution analysis of the evolution of the sheepox virus from a surprising source... #Medieval #Parchment @[email protected].

    www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

  3. Whimsical, yes, but at constant acceleration equal to one Earth gravity...these are real travel times to the other planets. The wandering stars are nearer than you think...

    From yours truly: "Inner solar system at 1g parchment map".

    #art #digitalart #digitalpainting #parchmentmap #map #chart #starchart #astronomy #science #spaceflight #spacetravel #parchment #painting

  4. My handmade #parchment is finished! I learned a huge amount. In several weeks I will be testing it as a writing surface!

    #medieval #paleography #codicology @medievodons @histodons @historikerinnen

  5. Am on Malta, but instead of visiting UNESCO sites, I am spending my days in an abattoir making #parchment. This lovely goatskin is finally finished, after two days of hard and stinky labour. The sheepskin is next!

    #medieval #parchment @historikerinnen @histodons @medievodons

  6. In a scientific first, they successfully retrieved #pathogen genomes from medieval #parchment and paper #manuscripts 📖 - revealing that historical documents are an under-recognised source of ancient #disease data. (3/4) +1

  7. @retroadventurers.bsky.social I had a lot of fun coming up with this conceit, playing the OLDEST and the YOUNGEST editions of #Zork 1 to come from the MIT/#Infocom core teams. This is a slightly short episode (as playing the same game twice is a bit cheeky given our format), but both these versions of the game are a must-see for completists in the genre.

    I mention in passing that I always had a bit of #ImpostorSyndrome around Zork, as I have held the domain `zork.net` since the mid/late 90s. I always felt like I was simultaneously dodging #Activision's lawyers and feeling awkward around the die-hard fans who played until they got every last point. Now that #Microsoft has released everything under an open licence, I should probably put a free build up on my site in #Parchment to celebrate!

    The Zork-285 game is interesting in that it did not call itself "Zork"! You'll have to listen to the latest #RetroAdventurers episode to find out what it says. #InteractiveFiction

  8. 🎉 Behold, the thrilling evolution of squiggly lines on parchment! 🧐 A heart-stopping exploration from monks' chicken scratch to Victorian #cursive, brought to you by the riveting world of Derbyshire Record Office. Get ready to nap through 800 years of ink blobs—good luck staying awake! 💤📜
    artsandculture.google.com/stor #squigglylines #parchment #history #writing #DerbyshireRecordOffice #inkblobs #HackerNews #ngated

  9. In 825 CE, before #bookbinding was invented, #TTRPG supplements were copied onto a large sheet of #parchment, with the #map on one side, then folded 4 times to make 16 pages for the text on the back.

  10. Behold the hole in the parchment!

    MS Dd.4.17; Books of Hours; 14th Century C.E.; East Anglia;
    f.36v
    @camdiglib.bsky.social #parchment #archives

  11. Cytology brush technique unlocks medieval DNA clues from parchment pages

    At North Carolina State University, a research project is changing our understanding of medieval history. The team extracts DNA from old parchment documents...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/02/cyt

    Follow @archaeology

    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #parchment #anthropology #DNAAnalysis #medieval

  12. 📜 What can #parchment reveal about the animals and people behind it?
    Matthew Collins @KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET uses biocodicology to explore the hidden lives of the past.

    Discover more
    👉 europa.eu/!CGyPTP
    🎧 bit.ly/42biiFl

    #FrontierResearch @CORDIS_EU
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    nitter.privacydev.net/ERC_Rese

  13. 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. 📚 📜 🔬 📊
    #BookScience #codicology #palaeography #BookHistory #HeritageScience #parchment #DigitalHumanities #quant #statistics