Jonathan Homrighausen is a writer, calligraphic artist, and doctoral student in Hebrew Bible at Duke University. His research centers around the intersection of sacred text and lettering arts, and he has published on Psalms, Esther, the Song of Songs, and The Saint John’s Bible, a contemporary illuminated manuscript of the entire Catholic Bible. Any manuscript scholar …
Teachable Features: Errors and Corrections
This post collects various errors and corrections in manuscripts, and will be added to as more are submitted. If you would like to add your examples below, please email us with images and a description. You must have permission to share the images. Click to jump to examples of different ways of treating errors and …
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Teachable Features: Hair side versus flesh side
Sometimes it can be obvious, even from images, which side of a leaf is the hair side (the outside of the animal's skin) and which side is the flesh side (the inside). Here is an example from Bodleian Library, MS Bodl. 565 (The Itineraries of William Wey).[1] Folio 11r, or the left, is the hair …
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Introducing the Rise Project and Henry of Rinfeldia’s personal notebook
Luciana Cioca is a PhD student at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania, studying the history of the vesperial disputations at medieval universities. She is also a Research Assistant in the Project PN-III-P4-ID-PCCF-2016-0064 “The Rise of an Intellectual Elite in Central Europe: The University of Vienna from 1389 to 1450,” coordinated by Dr. Adinel Dincă and …
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Teachable Features 6: Holes and Damage, MS Laud Misc. 237
Michael Angerer explains different kinds of holes in a single manuscript. Michael is an undergraduate reading English and French at Oriel College, Oxford, with a particular interest in medieval literatures and issues of medieval translation. He is about to start his fourth and final year, having spent his year abroad studying at the École Normale …
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Insights and Perspectives on a research-led teaching format in Medieval German Literature
We're pleased to share Dr Balázs J. Nemes's presentation at the University of Freiburg's Humanities and Social Sciences colloquium (HUMSS) on 6 July 2020. Dr Nemes is a Junior Fellow in Medieval German Literature at Freiburg. Dr Stephen Mossman, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Manchester, has translated this outline of the …
Get involved: Submit a Teachable Feature!
The more Teachable Features we can offer, the more valuable this series will be as a resource. We'd also like to broaden the range of institutions whose collections are featured here. If you'd like to propose a Teachable Feature, please fill in the form below: Guidelines for Posts A Teachable Feature can be as short …
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Teaching Palaeography Before and After Coronavirus
Manuscripts Under Lockdown 3: Dr Leonor Zozaya is a lecturer in the Historic Sciences Department at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. She is a member of the Centre of History of Society and Culture in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Coimbra. You can find more about her …
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Goatskin in the garden: how does it feel to prepare your own parchment?
Manuscripts Under Lockdown 2: Sara Charles is a PhD student at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Her research focuses on medieval martyrologies from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries. She also conducts personal research into the production of manuscripts, exploring parchment making, ink making and illumination. She shares her findings on her …
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The lost library of Canterbury Cathedral: Digital resources to reunite manuscripts and fragments
Manuscripts Under Lockdown 1: Dr Alison Ray has worked since 2018 as Assistant Archivist at Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library, having previously worked at the British Library as Digitisation and Web Curatorial Officer with The Polonsky Foundation England and France, 700-1200 digitisation project. Follow Dr Ray on Twitter. The recent growth of palaeographical and codicological …
