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The Teaching the Codex Project
Initial Rationale for Teaching the Codex
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Podcasts
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Teaching the Codex Blog:
Dr Mulaika Hijjas and Jessica Rahardjo on their online course in Jawi
Professor David Ganz on the early history of palaeography teaching in Oxford
Aysha Strachen traces the journey of the Bodleian’s manuscript of Arnold von Harff’s Reisebericht
Prof. Dr Mariken Teeuwen introduces a virtual exhibition highlighting manuscript margins
Sebastian Dows-Miller introduces the Merton Beasts project
Jonathan Homrighausen on teaching with biblical manuscripts
Luciana Cioca introduces the Rise Project
Dr Balázs J. Nemes‘s presentation on research-led teaching at Freiburg’s HUMSS Colloquium
Dr Leonor Zozaya describes teaching palaeography online during COVID-19 (translated by Angela Boyle. Spanish version originally posted at paleografia.hypotheses.org)
Sara Charles prepares her own goatskin parchment at home
Dr Alison Ray on using digital resources to reunite lost libraries
Eleanor Baker creates a school room scriptorium
Hope Doherty on trimming and compilation in Cambridge UL, MS Dd.10.44
Dr Elin Andersson on a quill-use workshop with nine-year-olds in Strägnäs, Sweden
Charlie Farquharson-Roberts on bringing manuscripts to the primary school classroom
Chantal Kobel on teaching Irish palaeography
Barbara McCormack on teaching with special collections and archives at Maynooth University Library
Paul Novosel’s archaeological adventures in the Bolton Library (originally posted at emslimerick.wordpress.com)
Prof Cynthia Turner Camp on teaching the materials analysis of Manuscripts in the undergraduate classroom (Hargrett Hours Project)
Dr Krista A. Murchison on her Blackboard module for teaching transcription
Alexander Peplow on Bodleian Libraries MS Add. A. 92 (Luther autograph manuscript)
Prof Henrike Lähnemann demonstrates writing with goose quills (video link to Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
Anna Boeles Rowland and Dr Pauline Souleau launch the Manuscripts Outreach Network
Dr Mary Boyle on marginalia in the Ship of Fools (reblog)
Dr Samantha Blickhan on ‘doing’ and ‘teaching’ music paleography
Dr Matthew Holford on reading and understanding catalogue descriptions
Sian Witherden on teaching medieval page design
Professor David d’Avray on the palaeography and diplomatic teaching at UCL
Colleen Curran on introducing undergraduates to manuscript studies
Dr Johanna Green on practical palaeography with modern scribes
Naomi Gardom on learning by doing
Dr Emily Chow-Kambitsch on Ben Hur and palaeography
Sarah Laseke on a public engagement approach to teaching palaeography
Dr Thom Gobbitt on learning to distinguish hair and flesh sides of parchment (reblog)
Dr Teresa Webber on interdisciplinary course design in palaeography
Dr Pauline Souleau on outreach and the perks of using manuscripts
Prof Henrike Lähnemann on fundamental historical skills training in Britain (originally posted at hsozkult.de)
Eva Schlotheuber’s Call to Action: Source Criticism in the Digital Age (translated by Mary Boyle. German version originally posted at hsozkult.de)
Teachable Features
Teachable Features 1: Binding Error, MS Bodl. 565
Teachable Features 2: Pricking and Ruling, MS. e Musaeo 54
Teachable Features 3: Reading and understanding catalogue descriptions
Teachable Features 4: Writing with goose quills (video link to Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
Teachable Features 5: Trimming and compilation in Cambridge UL, MS Dd.10.44
Teachable Features 6: Holes and Damage, MS Laud Misc. 237
Teachable Features 7: Hair side vs flesh side, MS Bodl. 565
Teachable Features 8: Errors and Corrections (multi-source post)
Teachable Features 9: Types of Marginal Notes (Rise Project collaboration)
Teachable Features 10: Eusebian Canons (Navigating Biblical Manuscripts 1)
Teachable Features 11: Breviarium (Navigating Biblical Manuscripts 2)
Teachable Features 12: Another Error (Navigating Biblical Manuscripts 3)
Teachable Features 13: Decorative Features in Medieval Manuscripts
Teachable Features 14: Digitization as a Teachable Feature
2024 Workshop:
2019 Colloquium:
2017 Colloquium:
Speakers: Pedagogical approaches to musical manuscripts
Speakers: Approaches to teaching art history and manuscript studies
Speakers: Manuscripts and Outreach Panel
Speakers: Continental and Anglophone approaches to teaching palaeography and codicology
2016 Colloquium:
2016 Storify and Closing Remarks
2016 Medieval I Panel: Panopto Recordings
2016 Speakers and Panel Chairs
Related Initiatives
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