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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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The Devil is in the Margins: Symbols for textual correspondences in MS Basel, UB, A X 44
Alexandra Baneu is a Research Assistant on The Rise of an Intellectual Elite in Central Europe: The University of Vienna from 1389 to 1450 (aka Rise, project no. PN-III-P4-ID-PCCF-2016-0064), coordinated by Dr Adinel Dincă and Dr Monica Brînzei, and hosted by Babeș-Bolyai University and the Romanian Academy. Rise Team: Alexandra Baneu, Alexander Baumgarten, Cristian Baumgarten, …
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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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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Trimming and Compilation, MS. CUL, Dd.10.44 (Joint Blog Post/ Teachable Features 5)
Hope Doherty explains what the trimming in CUL MS Dd.10.44 can tell us about the way it was put together as a codex. Hope is in the first year of a PhD in Medieval English Literature at Durham University, focusing her research on the interaction between theology and mental illness in Marian writing. She completed …
Teaching the Codex 