Dr Mary Boyle is one of the co-founders of Teaching the Codex, and a Visiting Scholar at the Großbritannien-Zentrum at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Here we reblog her post on her summer project looking at marginalia in surviving copies of Sebastian Brant's 'Narrenschiff'.
Paleography and Music Notation: Using Research Methods to Develop Pedagogy
Dr Samantha Blickhan is the IMLS Postdoctoral Fellow at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, where she works on crowdsourced text and audio transcription projects for Zooniverse.org. Her PhD (Royal Holloway, University of London, 2016) thesis focused on the paleography and notation of insular song from 1150-1300. Here, she writes about designing an undergraduate music paleography …
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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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Teaching Medieval Page Design
Sian Witherden is at Balliol College, Oxford, working on a DPhil thesis about touch in late Medieval English drama. Here, she writes about teaching medieval page design. In November 2016, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to take six very enthusiastic undergraduate students into the Bodleian Library’s Special Collections for a manuscript class …
Palaeography and Diplomatic Teaching at UCL
We are very grateful to Professor David d'Avray FBA (UCL) for allowing us to post this schema of the UCL and joint UCL-King's Palaeography and Diplomatic teaching. He outlines the teaching structure as follows: The Palaeography and Diplomatic Teaching at UCL has three strands, though they are intertwined. Dr Marigold Norbye teaches a seminar course of …
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Folios, Quires, and Codices, Oh My! Introducing Manuscript Studies to Undergraduates
Colleen Curran recently submitted her PhD in Palaeography & Manuscript Studies at King’s College London on the morphology of Insular Caroline in tenth-century Britain. She writes here about her pilot scheme to introduce manuscript studies to undergraduate students. In September 2016, I organized and taught a pilot scheme to introduce English undergraduates at King’s College London …
Practical Palaeography: Recreating the Exeter Book in a Modern Day ‘Scriptorium’
Dr Johanna Green is a lecturer in Book History and Digital Humanities at the University of Glasgow. Her PhD (English Language, University of Glasgow 2012) focused on a palaeographical study of the textual division and subordination of the Exeter Book manuscript. Here, she tells us about the first of two sessions she led for the …
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Teaching Yourself the Codex
This month, Naomi Gardom writes about teaching herself palaeographical skills for a project on Merton MS 95. Naomi is a third-year undergraduate historian at Merton College, Oxford, and received funding from the College for her project. Meeting a manuscript for the first time is a unique experience, similar only to going on a blind date. …
Codicology and the Ben-Hur Phenomenon
September's guest blog post comes from Dr Emily Chow-Kambitsch, and ties in with the recent cinema release of the new 'Ben-Hur' film. Dr. Chow-Kambitsch is a recent graduate of University College London. Her research focuses on representations of antiquity in historical fiction and their reception in popular culture. This month has seen the return of Ben-Hur to …
Teaching Palaeography – A public engagement approach
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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