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Are any of you at London Firsts tonight? If so, let’s meet up! (I’m here in the queue…) @bookhistodons

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in 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 —including the 1 shown in the 📷—& an edition in Matthew Paris’ (c.1200–1259) Chronica majora.
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For , selections from the Sankt Florian Psalter—St Florian being the patron saint of . (I love the ‘jewelled’ line-fillers in this codex).
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A medieval manuscript leaf: folio 57 recto in Warsaw, National Library, Rps 8002 III. 2 columns of text in Polish, each of 26 lines, in black ink. Every 2nd or 3rd line opens with a slightly enlarged initial in gold leaf and colours: blue, red, and green. Whenever the text does not reach the end of a line, the empty space has been filled with an (aptly-named) ‘line-filler’, a decorative shape intended to complete the line. Usually line-fillers are formed of simple, abstract, pen-work. The examples on this page are more elaborate. Some are dense blocks of coloured ink, with intricate geometric patterns meticulously picked-out by leaving some areas uncoloured. Others consist of bars of burnished gold leaf adorned with repeating patterns of interlocking geometric windows, each filled-in with translucent pigments in emerald green or rose pink. The gold catches the light, making the golden initials and line-fillers appear to appear to spring up off the page.
Detail from a medieval manuscript leaf: folio 51 verso in Warsaw, National Library, Rps 8002 III. 2 columns of medieval Polish, each with 17 lines of text in black ink. Every second or third line opens with a slightly enlarged decorated initial in gold and colours, mostly blue, red, and green. Whenever the text does not reach the end of a line, the empty space has been completed with a decorative ‘line-filler’. Most line-fillers are fairly simple, created of abstract pen-work, but most of the examples here are truly luxurious: bars of burnished gold leaf adorned with repeating patterns made of tiny, interlocking geometric forms. Each form is filled-in with translucent pigment in rich, vivid hues—deep cobalt blue, ruby red, jade green—and then highlighted with white, to create a 3-dimensional effect. The technique creates the illusion of line-fillers made from enamelled jewels, floating above the parchment.

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For 600 years the Voynich manuscript has remained a mystery—now, researchers think it's partly about sex ** the culture of late-medieval and —which physicians at the time often referred to as "women's secrets."

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-years-voynich-manuscript-mystery-sex.html

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Manuscript Portal Brings Medieval Manuscripts from Greifswald Online

104 manuscript volumes from the Greifswald Ministry of Spirituality and 55 volumes from the holdings of the Greifswald University Library were digitized. In total, this resulted in 83,375 image files with 72,293 pages. Together with previously digitized works, 165 manuscripts stored in Greifswald are now available via the M-V Digital Library and the manuscript portal.

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https://arkeonews.net/manuscript-portal-brings-medieval-manuscripts-from-greifswald-online/

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The season of hosted classes started at this week.

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THE ART OF READING IN THE MIDDLE AGES
https://www.medieval-reads.eu/

"The project ‘The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’ will show the importance of medieval reading culture as a European movement by bringing together (digitised) manuscripts produced between c. 500 and c. 1550 from across Europe, unlocking their educational potential by curational and editorial enrichment, using innovative ways for displaying and handling digital objects in an educational context."

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@sapiens This was a wonderful project! You've prompted me to revisit the 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 , this wee . Like many tiny common it’s small but fancy (making it ‘a Rolex’ vs ‘a Ferrari’ 😉).
“Wait. What? …” 🤔
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Detail of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 102 recto in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, manuscript 482. The photo is taken from the bottom of the leaf, angling slightly up the page. Visible are roughly 24 lines of Latin copied in brown ink in a clear, even hand. The 7th line up from the bottom is copied in a conspicuously larger hand. Following it are 6-lines of text with the first 5 lines indented to accommodate an enlarged decorative initial ‘A’. Rendered in gleaming gold leaf, the initial sits atop a ground painted in cobalt blue and rose, elegantly ornamented with a geometric pattern of delicate white strokes.

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Today I’m back ‘home’ in Cambridge University Library—where mythical hazards lurk in the ! 😱🐉
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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 that Dorothea Oschinsky researched! 😃 Thank you, Gonville & Caius College Library!
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Detail of a page in a modern, printed book: page 460 in Dorothea Oschinsky’s Walter of Henley and Other Treatises on Estate Management and Accounting, published by Oxford’s Clarendon Press in 1971. The image shows two paragraphs of Latin text transcribed from a medieval manuscript: page 379 in Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, manuscript 205.111.

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Spent today looking at in St John’s College (Cambridge) Library’s Rare Books Reading Room—a wonderful space (📷 1: St John’s Chapel). This manuscript (📷 2) belongs to a group I discussed in my uOttawa MA thesis (sup.: Andrew Taylor); how amazing to see it in person.
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Photo of a detail of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 53 recto in Cambridge, St John’s College, manuscript A.7. 21 lines of French copied in black ink, in a precise, spiky hand, with the first 14 lines indented to accommodate an enormous decorative initial ‘E’ for ‘Edward’ (for this is England’s King Edward II). The letter is rendered in blue and white atop a black-painted square densely packed with fine, scrolling filigree vines in gold. At centre, superimposed atop the letter, is a painting of a king, his long brown hair and beard just beginning to grey beneath his golden crown. Clad in a pink, ermine-trimmed cloak over a vermilion robe, he sits enthroned—golden sceptre in one hand, golden orb in the other—gazing at the adjacent text with an expression of deep suspicion. Can the scribes be trusted? Only time will tell.

SJLahey, to bookhistodons
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I have found my True Love, and it is this miniature, Mohawked, axe-wielding maniac and their, uh… [hound? horse? rabid hedgehog? (whatever it is, I’m here for it)] scribbled by some medieval or early modern kid in a Cambridge University Library legal manuscript. ! 🪓🤺

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in &
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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Pay attention! This is the important bit—right here.

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‘S’ is for ‘shiny’ in this Cambridge University Library Statuta Angliæ manuscript.
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A ! Painted in Bruges in the late 14th century, this one now lives in Cambridge University Library’s ‘Roberts Hours’.

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SJLahey, to Law
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Itty-bitty book from Cambridge University Library’s Special Collections 🥺. (Yes, really.)

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MARBASPrinceton, to Archaeology

This is the account for Manuscript, Rare Book & Archive Studies (MARBAS) at Princeton. We're an initiative dedicated to sharing resources and techniques related to textual artifacts produced before 1600. That's manuscripts, archival documents, early printed books, papyri, inscriptions, the list goes on! We're all about premodern texts and the multitudes of materials that have carried them.

We'll be posting about , , and from a range of geographies and across , , and the period.

Looking forward to connecting with @antiquidons, @histodons, @medievodons, @bookhistodons, and others!

https://marbas.princeton.edu/

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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 .

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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 producing in his personal scriptorium.
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Macro shot : detail of University of Victoria’s 1201 de Burgh charter. More: https://mastodon.social/@SJLahey/111017679718353578

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A 1201 charter of Hubert de Burgh—then Chamberlain to King John, later Chief Justiciar—bearing “the only known complete seal [from] his early career” ( https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/11170 ). Now held by my alma mater, University of Victoria.

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SJLahey, to bookhistodons
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Un petit tête-à-tête. 📜
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How to do things with your old accounting records (an old roll of accounts repurposed as a flyleaf in the Cartulary of Lacock Abbey).
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A light snack in the ‘Taymouth Hours’. (England, London?, 2nd quarter of the 14th century).
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