Courses in Palaeography:
London International Palaeography School Short Courses
Online Training in Palaeography and Codicology:
French Renaissance Palaeography
Getty Museum video on making manuscripts
Harvard’s online palaeography guide
Interactive Album of Mediaeval Palaeography (Université Lyon 2)
Mouse and Manuscript: Lessons from the University of Leiden
Script Primer by Marc H. Smith and Laura Light
University of Nottingham’s online introduction to palaeography
Glossaries
British Library Manuscript Vocabulary Glossary (due to the cyber attack on the British Library, this resource is currently not available)
University of Nottingham Manuscripts and Special Collections Glossary
Baylor Glossary of Manuscript Terms
Other Digital Resources:
Art of Reasoning (online manuscript exhibition from the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands)
Cairo Geniza Alephbets from Judaica DH at Penn
Groom Club Guide to Calligraphy (an introductory resource to the history of handwriting for younger readers)
Islamic manuscripts digitised at the University of Michigan Library
Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections
Robert Miller’s Resources List (Illuminated Manuscripts)
Transkribus (AI-powered text recognition and transcription service)
Initiatives and Organisations:
Hargrett Hours (Multi-term, student-led project on a 15c Book of Hours at the University of Georgia)
Oxford Centre for Manuscript and Text Culture
Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands
Blogs/Instagram:
Dr Mary Boyle (Co-organiser of Teaching the Codex. Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Oxford and Junior Research Fellow, Linacre College, Oxford.)
Dr Thom Gobbitt (Postdoctoral researcher at Institut für Mittelalterforschung in Vienna. He kindly let us reblog his post from July 2016.)
Professor Erik Kwakkel (No introduction needed.)
Dr Johanna Green (in memoriam) (Lecturer in Book History and Digital Humanities at the University of Glasgow. You can also read her guest post for Teaching the Codex.)
Sponsors and Facilitators:
AMARC (Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections)
Medium Ævum (Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures)
Merton History of the Book Group
Oxford Bibliographical Society
TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities)
Last updated 29th February 2024 (MB)
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