The #initials in this #eighth-century copy of Pliny from the British Isles are stupendous. The one with the white line down the middle would have taken forever to do: the white line is achieved by filling in the brown colour on either side.
Source: https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/item/4125824?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=95735198b647fd95b8af&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=1#page/83/mode/1up
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Huge news: the Codices Vossiani Latini, for years behind a €8000-a-year paywall, have just been made open access. This is a huge collection of 300 #medieval #manuscripts, many of them from the earliest years of the Middle Ages.
https://www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01/more-than-300-medieval-manuscripts-from-the-bibliotheca-vossiana-now-available-in-open-access
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Inspired by @Mareike2405 and her starter pack of historians (https://fedidevs.com/s/Mjc2/), I have created a starter pack of medievalists on Mastodon: https://fedidevs.com/s/MzQw/.
Leave a reply if you'd like to be added, but bear in mind your profile has to be discoverable (see screenshot - the first and third boxes have to be ticked as shown).
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Does anyone know the history or name of this insular letter y? @medievodons @historikerinnen @histodons #palaeography
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I'm at the British Library and the charter I'm looking at – from CE 799 – may not be photographed. It's literally back to the drawing board for me! #palaeography @medievodons @histodons @historikerinnen
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Doing an online quiz. Not quite sure what "according to historical tradition, not modern scholarship" is supposed to mean. #medieval #Anglo-Saxon
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Are any computer scientists here on Mastodon working in Visual Computing, or Computer Vision? I'm looking for a collaborator to work on the visualisation of medieval handwriting as movement. Would be grateful for re-posts!
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The Baptism of Christ as it really was: unbelievably awkward.
Amiens, Bibliothèques d'Amiens Métropole, MS 108, fol. 170v: https://portail.biblissima.fr/fr/ark:/43093/ifdata811b56e0ac488fd8e0d00f14c97828a15f1cf07c
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Am so very excited to be going on research trips again next year, starting with Anglo-Saxon charters in the British Library in January. In the archive we get to be Indiana Jones, hunting the elusive treasure.
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On the bottom right of this lovely ninth-century depiction of St Matthew writing his Gospel, we see a book chest containing 3 codices and a scroll. This was the standard way books were kept until around the 12th century: stacked flat on top of each other in chests. Bookshelves were invented much more recently than one might think!
(The text across the image is bleed-through from the previous page).
18v: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8426037h/f42.item.r=%22Saint-Martin%20de%20Tours%20%20%20Minuscule%20caroline%22
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This is the actual handwriting of Alcuin of York, famous scholar, teacher and adviser to Charlemagne in the 8th century. With bonus parchment hole! #palaeography
20v: https://dhb.thulb.uni-jena.de/rsc/viewer/ufb_derivate_00014774/Memb-I-00075_00042.tif?logicalDiv=log_ufb_cbu_00028127
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This is a 9th-century copy of the Notitia Galliarum, a Roman register of cities from the 4th–6th centuries. In this entry, it lists the primary cities of the first province of Germany: Strasbourg (stratisburgo), Speyer (spira) and Worms (uuarmacia). This was an important list, even centuries after it was first made, because it helped prevent bishops arguing over the territories of their dioceses!
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72r: https://i3f.vls.io/?collection=i3fddbk&id=https://digital.dombibliothek-koeln.de/hs/i3f/v20/225149/manifest&toc=false&view=gallery
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This is an #INSULAR manuscript, which means it was written in Germany but has associations with the British Isles. So the flourish on the final s may actually come from a similar Northumbrian practice. See for example the Salaberga Psalter, in which many final letters have beautiful formal flourishes. This is one of the many questions our project will be investigating! #palaeography
7r: https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN838718817&PHYSID=PHYS_0019&DMDID=DMDLOG_0002&view=overview-toc
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It's always a delight when a scribe finishes the page with an exuberant flourish on the final letter, just because they can - as in this 9th-century manuscript, where the final long s (shaped like a modern f) is curling wildly into the lines above. #palaeography
Fol. 5r: https://i3f.vls.io/?collection=i3fddbk&id=https://digital.dombibliothek-koeln.de/hs/i3f/v20/225149/manifest&toc=false&view=gallery
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My book is now available in paperback!
https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802701661/reading-nature-in-the-early-middle-ages/
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It is very annoying to discover, while writing about #palaeography - in which the shape of letters matters very much - that Times New Roman changes the shape of the letter a depending on whether it is italicised or not. #harrumph
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The Berlin State Library is looking for the next Head of Manuscripts and Historic Prints – a position which is open not only to librarians but to anyone with the relevant experience of #medieval #manuscripts and printed books, and with a little leadership experience. A PhD is not a must, but you should be fluent in German and English.
Apply here: https://karriere.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de/jobposting/bfcde88c0a1f80e782c15558522a1f0ab366eff80?ref=homepage
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A student has asked me for information about the process of adoption of the letters Y and Z into the Latin #alphabet via Greek / #Etruscan. Can any #ancient historians or historical linguists on here recommend relevant reading? (I've already suggested some work by Philippa Steele and @PhilipBoyes, and various ancient handbooks / general chapters). #palaeography
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This morning I'm writing about the Godescalc Evangelistary, which is just such a pleasure to look at online: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6000718s/f2.item.
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We've kicked off our ERC Advanced Grant project on #Insular #manuscripts 600–900 CE, and have many exciting things planned! Follow me, @InsularMSS & our Bluesky project account (https://bsky.app/profile/insularmss.bsky.social) to keep up to date on our work over the next 5 years. See also this press release: https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/insular-project
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