Dr Sian Witherden is a rare books and manuscripts specialist who has worked in both special collections libraries and the antiquarian book trade. She has collected some resources for further reading to wrap up her series How to collate an early printed book. Online Resources Cambridge Digital Library - especially the collection of paper stocks …
4. Next Steps with Collation
Dr Sian Witherden is a rare books and manuscripts specialist who has worked in both special collections libraries and the antiquarian book trade. This final post in a series on collation explains how to handle more complex examples, and highlights some useful resources. Going further In part 3, we covered how to collate the Bodleianโs …
3. Collating in Practice
Dr Sian Witherden is a rare books and manuscripts specialist who has worked in both special collections libraries and the antiquarian book trade. This post โ the third in a four-part series on collation โ offers a โguided tourโ of the Bodleianโs second edition of Earl Riverโs โCordyalโ (1494). Moving forward In part 2, we …
2. Identifying format
Dr Sian Witherden is a rare books and manuscripts specialist who has worked in both special collections libraries and the antiquarian book trade. This post explaining paper formats is the second in a four-part series on collation. Setting the context In part 1, we explored what collation is and introduced our main case study for …
1. Introducing Collation
Dr Sian Witherden is a rare books and manuscripts specialist who has worked in both special collections libraries and the antiquarian book trade. This post is the first in a series on how to collate early printed books. What is collation? If you are starting to learn about early printed books, you may well have …
Medieval MSS Support Group at the Weston Library
We are pleased to trial a new session, once or twice a month, in which readers of medieval manuscripts can pose questions to a mixed group of fellow readers and Bodleian curators in a friendly environment. Come with your own questions, or to see what questions other readers have!
Teaching the Hybrid Text: An Example
Oxford, Trinity College, MS 29 has a bit of everything when it comes to hybridity, which makes it a very useful object with which to challenge students to think outside of the categories with which they are often presented in courses on the medieval period, such as medieval vs Early Modern, manuscript vs print, parchment vs paper, or verse vs prose.
Introducing the Rise Project and Henry of Rinfeldia’s personal notebook
Luciana Cioca is a PhD student at Babeศ-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 โThe Rise of an Intellectual Elite in Central Europe: The University of Vienna from 1389 to 1450,โ coordinated by Dr. Adinel Dincฤ and …
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Teachable Features 6: Holes and Damage, MS Laud Misc. 237
Michael Angerer explains different kinds of holes in a single manuscript. Michael is an undergraduate reading English and French at Oriel College, Oxford, with a particular interest in medieval literatures and issues of medieval translation. He is about to start his fourth and final year, having spent his year abroad studying at the รcole Normale …
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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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Teaching the Codex 