One interesting complication of some medieval manuscripts such as Liber Wigornensis and the Exon Domesday book is that we do not know the original order of the gatherings. In fact, one of the few things that we know for sure for Exon Domesday is that the order as ...
The next Medieval Manuscripts Seminar in London will be on a little-studied fragment which has previously been attributed to eleventh-century Wales. It has been associated with a form of script that only survives from a handful of manuscripts datable to the 1060s through 1080s in Wales, but it has received ...
Elena Pierazzo and I are pleased to announce a workshop in Sydney this June on 'An Introduction to Digital Manuscript Studies'. Based loosely on the longer 'Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age' programme (MMSDA), this workshop will be held on Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 ...
The Lindisfarne Gospels (British Library, MS Cotton Nero D.iv) with its playful half-uncial script, splendid carpet pages, and zoomorphic ornamentation is one of the best-known and most loved items in the British Library. Michelle Brown has gone so far as to call the manuscript "one of the great landmarks of ...
We are delighted to announce the programme for On the Same Page: Digital Approaches to Hebrew Manuscripts at King's College London. This two-day conference will explore the potential for the computer-assisted study of Hebrew manuscripts; discuss the intersection of Jewish Studies and Digital ...