Dr Sian Witherden is a rare books and manuscripts specialist who has worked in both special collections libraries and the antiquarian book trade. She has collected some resources for further reading to wrap up her series How to collate an early printed book. Online Resources Cambridge Digital Library - especially the collection of paper stocks …
4. Next Steps with Collation
Dr Sian Witherden is a rare books and manuscripts specialist who has worked in both special collections libraries and the antiquarian book trade. This final post in a series on collation explains how to handle more complex examples, and highlights some useful resources. Going further In part 3, we covered how to collate the Bodleian’s …
3. Collating in Practice
Dr Sian Witherden is a rare books and manuscripts specialist who has worked in both special collections libraries and the antiquarian book trade. This post — the third in a four-part series on collation — offers a ‘guided tour’ of the Bodleian’s second edition of Earl River’s ‘Cordyal’ (1494). Moving forward In part 2, we …
2. Identifying format
Dr Sian Witherden is a rare books and manuscripts specialist who has worked in both special collections libraries and the antiquarian book trade. This post explaining paper formats is the second in a four-part series on collation. Setting the context In part 1, we explored what collation is and introduced our main case study for …
1. Introducing Collation
Dr Sian Witherden is a rare books and manuscripts specialist who has worked in both special collections libraries and the antiquarian book trade. This post is the first in a series on how to collate early printed books. What is collation? If you are starting to learn about early printed books, you may well have …
Teachable Features 14: Working with Digital Objects: Digitization as a Teachable Feature, or “How did Those Images Get There?!?!”
Astrid J. Smith has been digitizing materials as rare book and special collections digitization specialist for Stanford Libraries for over a decade. With a background in fine art, and a master’s degree in liberal arts, she strives always to ensure that cultural heritage preservation imaging best practices are combined with her own aesthetic and phenomenological …
Teachable Features 13: Decorative Features in Medieval Manuscripts
Dr Sian Witherden outlines a series of decorative manuscript features. Sian is a Rare Books and Manuscripts specialist. This post also appears on the St John's College blog. I recently joined the St John’s College (Oxford) library team to work on the TEI project, my main role being to incorporate existing catalogue records into the …
Continue reading "Teachable Features 13: Decorative Features in Medieval Manuscripts"
Navigating Biblical Manuscripts 3: Another Error
John Zachariah Shuster studies reception history of the Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In this brief series, I have written about navigating the Herzog August Bibliothek, MS Cod. Guelf. 84.3 Aug. 2° using the Eusebian Canons and the breviarium. In the process of navigation, we ran into a counting error that persisted uncorrected …
Continue reading "Navigating Biblical Manuscripts 3: Another Error"
Navigating Biblical Manuscripts 2: Breviarium
John Zachariah Shuster studies reception history of the Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This is the second of a series of three posts exploring the tools built into biblical manuscripts to help their medieval users find their way around. In my last post, I wrote about the Eusebian Canons in the Herzog August …
Continue reading "Navigating Biblical Manuscripts 2: Breviarium"
Navigating Biblical Manuscripts 1: Eusebian Canons
John Zachariah Shuster studies reception history of the Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This post is the first of a series of three exploring the tools built into biblical manuscripts to help their medieval users find their way around. Herzog August Bibliothek, MS Cod. Guelf. 84.3 Aug. 2° is a neat, legible codex …
Continue reading "Navigating Biblical Manuscripts 1: Eusebian Canons"
Teaching the Codex 