Pedagogical Approaches to Palaeography and Codicology
Sian Witherden explains the ruling in MS. e Musaeo 54. Sian is in the second year of a DPhil in English, at Balliol College, Oxford. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. e Musaeo 54 is a parchment manuscript dating from the first quarter of the fifteenth century, which contains a version of Chaucer’s Treatise on the …
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Our latest guest post comes from Sarah Laseke, who is a doctoral researcher at Leiden University working on scribal collaboration in fifteenth century manuscripts. Here, she writes about her free 8-week 'Palaeography for Beginners' course. The pleasure of looking at medieval manuscripts has not gone unnoticed – over the past few years, there has been an increased …
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We'd like to thank Thom Gobbitt for permission to reblog this fantastic post about learning to distinguish the hair and flesh sides of parchment:
In our latest guest post, Dr Teresa Webber of Trinity College, Cambridge outlines an interdisciplinary approach to course design in palaeography. The Teaching the Codex workshop in Oxford on 6th February 2016 fostered a dialogue across the disciplines about how elements of manuscript study pertinent to each field are currently being taught. Participants also reflected …
Dr Mary Boyle describes a binding error in MS. Bodl. 565 (c. 1470). I originally described this binding error (amongst other issues relating to the manuscript) in an article for the Bodleian Library Record (April 2015, pp. 22-36), and it is by kind permission of the editor, Dr Alan Coates, that I am able to outline …
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This month we will be taking a short break from publishing guest blog posts in order to launch a new series: Teachable Features. During our colloquium on 6th February, Dr Julia Walworth suggested that a list of manuscripts with interesting or unusual features would be a helpful pedagogical resource. As an accompaniment to any such …
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In the first of our series of guest posts, Dr Pauline Souleau discusses manuscripts as a tool for outreach. Manuscripts. It is not a word the average pupil hears every day in class. It is usually not a word secondary school students have in mind when considering higher education paths. Yet, manuscripts are a gold …
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We are pleased to launch our Call for Contributors, seeking guest bloggers to contribute to a series. Further exciting announcements about the future of Teaching the Codex will follow! NB: This is an archived post, with alt text added in 2024.
We are now able to share Panopto recordings of the Medieval I panel, which featured Professor Henrike Lähnemann and Professor Daniel Wakelin. Daniel Wakelin: Teaching Codicology: Henrike Lähnemann: The Material Meets the Digital Many thanks again to all of our speakers, and in particular to Professor Lähnemann for making these recordings. Thank you also to the Bodleian …
With thanks to Henrike Lähnemann for filming, here is David D'Avray's summing up of the day, ahead of our final discussion:
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