Mulaika Hijjas is Senior Lecturer in South East Asian Studies at SOAS University of London, where she teaches literature and cultural studies of the region. She is the principal investigator of Mapping Sumatra's Manuscript Cultures, funded by a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award. Follow the project on Twitter or Facebook. Jessica Rahardjo is a DPhil candidate …
Robinson Ellis and the teaching of Palaeography in Oxford
David Ganz was Professor of Palaeography at King's College London from 1997-2010. In 2016, he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. This post contains a reference to attempted suicide. In 1885 a slim volume, entitled XII Facsimiles from Latin MSS in the Bodleian Library, was published by Oxford University Press. [1] The …
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From the Holy Land to the Bodleian: Arnold von Harff’s travelogue travels to Oxford
Aysha Strachan is a PhD student in German at King’s College London/Humboldt University Berlin supervised by Sarah Bowden and Andreas Krass and funded by the LAHP. She completed the MSt. at Oriel College, Oxford in 2019 and took the History of the Book method option to complement her research into the depiction of transgressive women …
Follow the Reader: a Virtual Exhibition Highlighting Manuscript Margins
Mariken Teeuwen is senior researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), and Professor at the Department History and Art History of Utrecht University. Between 2016-2020, Irene van Renswoude, Irene O’Daly, and I worked together on a project titled The Art of Reasoning: Techniques of …
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Creating Public Awareness of the Bestiary in Merton College Library, MS 249
Sebastian Dows-Miller is an MSt candidate at Merton College, Oxford. He has a particular interest in text transmission within manuscript culture, as well as short texts written in Old French, and is always very pleased when the two intersect. Follow him on Twitter here, or follow Merton Beasts directly. The bestiary genre is well known, …
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Teaching Manuscripts Across the Humanities Curriculum: A Case Study in Biblical Manuscripts
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 …
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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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 …
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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Teaching the Codex 