Professor Henrike Lähnemann is based at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg during the summer, and she has been using a very practical method to teach her students about manuscript production. Click on the screenshot below to watch the video on the Freiburg website, and see Professor Lähnemann and her students produce their own documents.
Reading a Manuscript Description (Joint Blog Post/ Teachable Features 3)
Dr Matthew Holford, Curator of the Medieval Manuscripts Cataloguing Project at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, explains the intricacies of catalogue descriptions of manuscripts. This post features both in our blog and our Teachable Features series. It is easy to forget that manuscript descriptions can be hard to understand. Once you are familiar with the …
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Teachable Features 2: Pricking and Ruling, MS. e Musaeo 54
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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Teachable Feature: Binding Error, MS. Bodl. 565
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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New Series Announcement: Teachable Features
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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Teaching the Codex 