b'DigiPal'http://www.digipal.eu/blog/2017-04-22T10:17:24+00:00TruemanuSciences 20172017-04-22T09:53:47+00:002017-04-22T10:17:24+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/manusciences-2017/<p>The deadline is fast approaching to register for manuSciences 2017. This is a Franco-German summer school organised jointly by the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), the Hamburg Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMS), and the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University (PSL). It comprises a series of lectures and courses which 'will focus on a multi-facetted investigation of manuscripts adding new chemical and physical analyses, imaging methods and techniques from computer sciences to classical philology, paleography, codicology, linguistics and history.' Quoting/paraphrasing further from the EPHE version of the website:</p>
<p><strong>What</strong>: A week-long programme on physical sciences and digital methods in manuscript studies and philology. Active participation is expected. The lectures and courses will be in English.<br/><strong>Where</strong>: Villa Clythia, Frejus, France<br/><strong>When</strong>: 10–15 September 2017<br/><strong>Who (participants)</strong>: Up to 40 (max.) young researchers, from master and Ph.D. students to researchers and university lecturers.<br/><strong>Who (lecturers)</strong>: Roger Easton, Leif Glaser, Oliver Hahn (organiser), Keith Knox, Marcus Liwicki, Eve Menei, Ira Rabin (organiser), Hasia Rimon, Uzi Smilansky, Marc Smith, Peter Stokes, Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra (organiser), Dominique Stutzmann</p>
<p>For more details, including how to register, see <a href="http://humanum.ephe.fr/fr/manusciences17">http://humanum.ephe.fr/fr/manusciences17<br/></a>or <a href="https://www.bam.de/Content/EN/Events/2017/1115-manusciences-17-summer-school.html">https://www.bam.de/Content/EN/Events/2017/1115-manusciences-17-summer-school.html</a>.</p>
<p>[<em>This article has been cross-posted on the <a href="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/manusciences-2017/">Models of Authority</a> and <a href="http://www.exondomesday.ac.uk/blog/manusciences-2017/">Conqueror's Commissioners</a> websites</em>.]</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.bam.de/_SharedDocs/EN/Downloads/Events/va-1115-poster.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=3"><img src="https://www.bam.de/_SharedDocs/EN/Downloads/Events/va-1115-poster.pdf;jsessionid=9981FBFAC70D45AC468A693E3616B981?__blob=publicationFile&v=2"/> </a></p>DigiPal and Proust2016-06-02T15:04:43+00:002016-06-02T15:12:17+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/digipal-and-proust/<p>As part of some experimental work with the <a href="http://www.item.ens.fr">Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes</a> (ITEM) in Paris, the DigiPal team will be represented at a workshop on Proust on Monday. This involves a 'proof-of-concept' study applying the DigiPal framework to Proust's draft manuscripts. It continues (in a somewhat different direction) a <a href="http://research.cch.kcl.ac.uk/proust_prototype/">prototype dynamic genetic edition</a> of Proust's writing that was develoepd by Elena Pierazzo, Julie André and Raffaele Viglianti. If the experiment works then you may well see more of DigiPal applied to modern authorial drafts.</p>
<p>The schedule for the workshop is below, taken from a post <a href="https://bnf.hypotheses.org/375">here</a>, and I hope to see some of you there.</p>
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<h2>Journée d’étude : Proust numérique, Proust imprimé : l’édition des manuscrits aujourd’hui</h2>
<p>Journée d’étude organisée par Julie André et Nathalie Mauriac Dyer dans le cadre des travaux de l’équipe Proust de l’ITEM-CNRS. Entrée libre</p>
<p><strong>Date</strong>: 6 juin 2016<br/><strong>Place</strong>: École normale supérieure 29, rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris amphi Jean Jaurès<br/><strong>Contact</strong> Julie André julie.andre@polytechnique.edu Nathalie Mauriac Dyer nathalie.mauriac@ens.fr</p>
<h3>Programme</h3>
<p>9h-9h30 : accueil des participants<br/>9h30-10h <em>Introduction</em>, par Julie André et Nathalie Mauriac Dyer</p>
<p><strong>Proust imprimé</strong></p>
<p>10h-11h Julie André, Emanuele Arioli, Matthieu Vernet : <em>Les références dans les cahiers : limites et enjeux de l’annotation</em><br/>11h-12h Simone Delesalle, Francine Goujon, Lydie Rauzier : <em>L’édition par cahiers : une hypothèse productive ?</em></p>
<p><strong><em>— Déjeuner —</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>Proust numérique</strong></p>
<p>14h00 <em>Introduction</em>, par Paolo D’Iorio<br/>14h15-15h15 Thomas Lebarbé, Françoise Leriche, Caroline Szylowicz : <em>Le projet CORR-Proust : premières briques pour une édition numérique de l’épistolaire proustien</em><br/>15h15-16h15 Julie André, Geoffroy Noël, Nathalie Mauriac, Jeremy Pedrazzi, Elena Pierazzo, Peter Stokes : <em>Vers DigiProust</em></p>
<p>16h15-16h45 : <em>Pause</em></p>
<p>16h45-17h30 : <em>Proust entre numérique et imprimé</em>, table ronde avec les participants de la journée, Guillaume Fau, Daniel Ferrer (modérateur), et Dirk Van Hulle.</p>
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<p><strong>Where:</strong> University of Roehampton, Fin001, <a href="http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/uploadedFiles/Pages_Assets/PDFs_and_Word_Docs/Campus/Campus-Map.pdf">Fincham Building</a></p>
<p><strong><span>Arianna Ciula</span></strong> (Research Facilitator, Roehampton)</p>
<p>In this paper I will reflect on the 'emergent meanings' of digital palaeography by analysing recent approaches and conceptualisation in the field. A contextualised take of the term 'digital' coupled with 'humanities' will be used to frame current approaches in digital palaeography as critical and self-reflective. Further, I will show how these approaches can operate within an intermedia-aware framework by connecting the structure of expression of handwriting with structures of meaning. Moving back from a formal to an historically situated analysis of the discipline, I will show how digital approaches relate to the scholarly tradition of the study of handwriting and writing systems as a whole. Finally, I will relate practices of modelling of handwriting in digital palaeography to modelling in digital humanities.</p>
<p>ALL WELCOME</p>Job Vacancy: ingénieur de recherche en analyse de sources, Paris2015-09-16T13:08:28+00:002015-09-16T13:30:01+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/job-vacancy-ingenieur-de-recherche-en-analyse-de-sources-paris/<p>Dominique Stutzmann, long-time supporter of DigiPal and related projects, is advertising for an <em>ingénieur de recherche</em> to work on his HIMANIS project in Paris at the IRHT. The description of the post that he has circulated is as follows:</p>
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<p>Dans le cadre du projet européen HIMANIS, l'Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (CNRS, UPR 841) recrute un ingénieur de recherche en analyse de sources, pour une durée de deux ans.</p>
<p>Le projet HIMANIS (<i>HIstorical MANuscript Indexing for user-controlled Search</i>), piloté par l’IRHT (D. Stutzmann) et associant les universités de Groningen (Pays-Bas, L. Schomaker) et Valencia (Espagne, E. Vidal), ainsi que la société industrielle A2iA (France, R. Messina), vise à : </p>
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<li>indexer automatiquement le texte des registres de la chancellerie royale de France à partir des images numérisées (essentiellement le fonds JJ des Archives nationales et des volumes conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale de France) ;</li>
<li>créer des services de recherche, de découverte et d’amélioration collaborative à partir de cette indexation automatique ;</li>
<li>créer des savoirs nouveaux (organisation et écritures de la chancellerie)</li>
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<p>Le poste est à pourvoir à partir du 1er novembre 2015.</p>
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<p>Further details are available from <a href="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/PDFs/fiche_de_poste_ir_irht_himanis.pdf">the attached PDF</a>. As always, please contact the HIMANIS project directly with any questions or concerns.</p>PhD in Bookbinding Description2015-08-27T12:40:40+00:002015-08-27T12:44:36+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/phd-in-bookbinding-description/<p>The <a href="http://www.ligatus.org.uk">Ligatus research centre in the University of Arts London</a> has just advertised a PhD position on machine learning applied to the history of bookbinding. I have no direct information about this, although I do know the people involved and can say that they are doing a lot of very interesting things. The description as I've received it is as follows:</p>
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<p>Ligatus, a research centre of the University of the Arts London, in collaboration with Oxford University are inviting applications for a PhD research project in the subject of machine learning in bookbinding history.</p>
<p>Ligatus is the leading centre in the study of bookbinding history with a strong interest in documentation methods. Recent projects include a survey of 4,000 books (including photographs) from the medieval library of the Monastery of St. Catherine in Sinai, Egypt and a thesaurus of bookbinding concepts (Language of Bindings Thesaurus) which can be used for classifying content. This PhD project will look at image recognition and the automatic extraction of bookbinding features from photographs of books.</p>
<p>The ideal candidate will have a computer science degree with relevant projects and a strong interest in cultural heritage or a relevant humanities degree with proven knowledge of machine learning and image analysis techniques.</p>
<p>For more information please contact Dr Athanasios Velios (<a href="mailto:a.velios@arts.ac.uk">a.velios@arts.ac.uk</a>). Funding for this position may be available if applications are received by the deadline of the 30th of November.</p>
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<p>If you're interested then please contact them directly for further details.</p>One-Year Palaeography Vacancy on Exon Domesday2014-08-14T17:16:19+00:002014-08-14T17:25:38+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/one-year-palaeography-vacancy-on-exon-domesday/<p>As promised in <a href="http://localhost:8080/blog/a-new-phase-for-digipal-ii-the-conquerors-commissioners-project/">an earlier post</a>, we are now receiving applications for a one-year postdoctoral position on the 'Conqueror's Commissioners' project working on the Exon Domesday book. This is a new AHRC-funded project which will build on the DigiPal framework specifically in the context of the Exon Domesday book. The successful applicant will be employed by King's College London but will be based primarily in Exeter. The full advertisement is <a href="https://www.hirewire.co.uk/HE/1061247/MS_JobDetails.aspx?JobID=54068">available online</a> and is reproduced (with minor editing) below:</p>
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<h1>Research Associate in the Department of History</h1>
<p><strong>Reference:</strong> THW/14/059639/103<br/> <strong>Salary Details:</strong> Grade 6 £32,277<br/><strong>Contract Type:</strong> Temporary/Fixed term<br/> <strong>Contract Term:</strong> Full time</p>
<p>This is a one-year post, contributing to the work of Professor Julia Crick (Department of History, King’s College London), Dr Stephen Baxter (St Peter’s College, Oxford) and Dr Peter Stokes (Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London) in their major AHRC project, The Conqueror’s Commissioners: unlocking the Domesday Survey of South-Western England. The successful candidate will work as part of the project team, will have experience in the palaeography and codicology of medieval manuscripts, and have special responsibility for recording the physical construction of the book.</p>
<p>The successful candidate will have a Ph.D on a relevant topic, good knowledge of codicology and palaeography and a working knowledge of medieval Latin. Candidates willing to make independent palaeographical judgements, with experience in handling medieval manuscripts and familiarity with palaeographical literature will be favoured. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to work to deadlines are essential. He/she will be able to work independently and to work as a team.</p>
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<li><span>The closing date for receipt of applications is 04 September 2014.</span></li>
<li><span>Interviews will be held in mid-/late-September tbc.</span></li>
<li><span>Equality of opportunity is College policy.</span></li>
<li><span>The appointment will be made at Grade 6, spine point 31, currently £32,277 per annum.</span></li>
<li><span>Fixed term contract for 12 months.</span></li>
<li><span>Please note that the post holder will be based in Exeter with frequent travel to King’s London campuses.</span></li>
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<p><strong>Closing date:</strong> 04 September 2014</p>
<p>If you have questions about this role, please contact: Professor Julia Crick, Tel: 07969533068, Email: <a href="mailto:Julia.Crick@kcl.ac.uk" title="Julia.Crick@kcl.ac.uk">Julia.Crick@kcl.ac.uk</a></p>
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<p>Details of how to apply are available from the <a href="https://www.hirewire.co.uk/HE/1061247/MS_JobDetails.aspx?JobID=54068">official web page</a>. Further information about the project is also available from my earlier blog post, <a href="http://localhost:8080/blog/a-new-phase-for-digipal-ii-the-conquerors-commissioners-project/">'A New Phase for DigiPal II'</a>.</p>InScribe Module 2: Script2014-06-09T11:46:34+00:002014-10-25T13:44:19+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/inscribe-module-2-script/<p>A while ago I posted an announcement of InScribe, the online platform for learning manuscript studies at the School of Advanced Studies here in London (see <a href="http://localhost:8080/admin/blog/blogpost/add/blog/inscribe-training-platform-for-palaeography-and-manuscript-studies/">InScribe Training Platform for Palaeography and Manuscript Studies</a> and <a href="http://localhost:8080/admin/blog/blogpost/add/blog/learning-and-teaching-online-i-inscribe/">Learning and Teaching Online I: InScribe</a>). I'm happy to say that Module 2, on script, is now available. The announcement from the InScribe team is as follows:</p>
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<p>We are pleased to announce the release of <strong>InScribe’s Module 2: Script</strong>. This is the second instalment from the online platform <strong>InScribe: Palaeography Learning Materials</strong> and follows the introductory course on Palaeography released in January 2013. Module 2 aims at providing PG students, academics and members of the public with an interest in Palaeography with the skills required to identify individual script styles in order to determine the origin and date of production of a given manuscript. The course is also appropriate for MA programmes and has already been successfully tested at the Warburg Institute (University of London) as part of their MA programme.</p>
<p>Module 2: Script is subject to a £25 fee for individual users, although group/institutional access is also an option.</p>
<p>For further details please go to <a href="http://www.history.ac.uk/research-training/courses/inscribe-palaeography-module-2-scripts">http://www.history.ac.uk/research-training/courses/inscribe-palaeography-module-2-scripts</a> or contact Dr Matt Phillpott (<a href="mailto:Matt.Phillpott@sas.ac.uk">Matt.Phillpott@sas.ac.uk</a>).</p>
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<p>I hope you enjoy it and find it useful.</p>DigiPal at Kalamazoo ICMS 20142014-05-02T10:19:47+00:002014-07-03T21:58:49+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/digipal-at-kalamazoo-icms-2014/<p>DigiPal will be represented at the <a href="http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/index.html">49th International Congress of Medieval Studies</a> Kalamazoo this year, with two sessions on digital methods in manuscript studies. In these the project will be presented, but also related work by others. The emphasis of the first session is on citation and representation: how can we consistenly cite palaeographical details, particularly without a consistent terminology? What about canonical references, linked data? How do we present our arguments in consistent and stable ways? The second session focuses on 'paratext', including provenance details but also scratched glosses and how we can approach these using digital tools. You'll also see the latest developments 'behind the scenes' with the DigiPal framework and some of the other projects in which it's being used. Do come, discuss, and tell us what you think.</p>
<p>Session 375 <br/><strong>Digital Methods I: Citation and Representation of Medieval Manuscripts</strong> <br/>10am, Saturday 10 May, Room Bernhard 208</p>
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<li><em>To Thine Own Self Be True: Attempting to Capture the Ineffable Holistic in the Empire 'Content' and 'Data'</em>; Matthew Evan Davis, North Carolina State Univ.</li>
<li><em>Citing Visual Evidence in Paleographical Argument: The DigiPal Experience</em>; Peter A. Stokes, King’s College London</li>
<li><em>Constructing, Testing, and Analyzing a Semantic Graph of Manuscript Features</em>; Christine Roughan, College of the Holy Cross, and Neel Smith, College of the Holy Cross </li>
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<p>Session 430 <br/><strong>Digital Methods II: Reading between the Lines of Medieval Manuscripts</strong> <br/>10:30am, Sunday 11 May, Room Bernhard 208</p>
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<li><em>Penn Provenance Project</em>; Regan Kladstrup, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Univ. of Pennsylvania</li>
<li><em>First Impressions: Glosses Scratched into Old English Manuscripts</em>; Stewart J. Brookes, King's College London</li>
<li><em>You Scratch My Gloss and I’ll Scratch Yours: Glosses as Commentary, Instruction, and/or Vandalism</em>; Sarah J. Biggs, British Library/Courtauld Institute of Art</li>
</ul>A New Phase for DigiPal: The Models of Authority Project2014-03-28T11:42:05+00:002015-07-15T12:30:43+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/new-digipal-project-models-of-authority/<h4>UPDATE (15th July 2015): We are delighted to announce that the <a href="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk">Models of Authority</a> site is now up and running. </h4>
<p>I am very pleased to announce a new AHRC-funded project which (among other things) will result in some important extensions to the DigiPal framework. 'Models of Authority' is a study of Scottish charters and the emergence of government for the period 1100–1250, to run from 1 April 2014 to 31 July 2017. Quoting from the proposal summary:</p>
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<p>This project is about government and the way it emerged and developed in the middle ages. Government as we would think of it today can first be recognised in western Europe during the twelfth century. But was it the natural result of increasing royal power and authority; or was it a response of kings to disorder? Understanding the emergence of medieval government has to be based on understanding the main source of evidence - charters - and it is in the twelfth century that charters begin to survive in large numbers. This project's new approach is to focus on understanding and interpreting the most distinctive features of charters - the appearance of their handwriting and the formulaic aspects of their prose. </p>
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<p>The Principal Investigator is <a href="http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/dauvitbroun/">Prof. Dauvit Broun</a> from the University of Glasgow; Co-Investigators are Drs <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/people/staff/academic/taylor/index.aspx">Alice Taylor</a> and DigiPal's <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/people/academic/stokes/">Peter Stokes</a>, both from King's College London, and <a href="http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/mtjw2@cam.ac.uk">Dr Tessa Webber</a> from the University of Cambridge; researchers are <a href="http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/johndavies/">Dr John Davies</a> from Glasgow, and Dr <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/people/research/brookes/">Stewart Brookes</a> and <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/people/academic/noel/">Geoffroy Noël</a> from the DigiPal project at King's College London; the research student is Joanna Tucker from Glasgow. </p>
<div>The DigiPal part of the project will not start until the existing grant ends on 30 September 2014, but we will be implementing two significant new developments in the framework, both of which people have been requesting for a long time. The first is the incorporation of full transcripts, meaning that we will be able to link images and annotations to TEI-encoded texts. The second is a formal model for the representation of cursive script, removing the restriction to set script that DigiPal currently supports.</div>
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<div>I’m very happy to be working with this group, and particularly for the chance to add significantly to DigiPal, extending its development for a few more years yet. The cursive script will be a particularly interesting challenge, and I very much look forward to seeing where it all goes.</div>Anglo-Saxon MSS Online VII: Cambridge University Library2014-03-21T14:24:28+00:002014-07-30T01:09:25+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/anglo-saxon-mss-online-vii-cambridge-university-library/<p>Although there aren't many Anglo-Saxon manuscripts available yet, Cambridge University Library is digitising its collection and making images available through a zoomable viewer and (at low resolution) for download under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 3.0</a> licence.</p>
<p>At the time of writing, Anglo-Saxon manuscripts online that I have found are:</p>
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<li>CUL Hh.1.10. Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary, <em>saec</em>. xi3/4, Exeter. <a href="http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-HH-00001-00010/">See CUL Facsimile</a>. <a href="http://localhost:8080/digipal/manuscripts/468/">See on DigiPal</a>.</li>
<li>CUL Ii.1.33. Homilies, <em>saec</em>. xii2. (This manuscript is outside the Anglo-Saxon period, of course, but it does contain Old English.) <a href="http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-00001-00033/">See CUL Facsimile</a>. <a href="http://localhost:8080/digipal/manuscripts/1827/">See on DigiPal</a>.</li>
<li>CUL Kk.1.24. Gospels (Luke, John), prob. Nothumbria, <em>saec</em>. viii. <a href="http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-KK-00001-00024/">See CUL Facsimile</a>. <a href="http://localhost:8080/digipal/manuscripts/478/">See on DigiPal</a>.</li>
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<p>As you can see from the full list of CUL manuscripts on <a href="http://localhost:8080/digipal/search/?&repository=Cambridge%2C+University+Library">DigiPal</a>, the library has many more items in its holdings. I'm sure there will be more to come on their website, so keep an eye on this site for further developments.</p>Papers of Françoise Henry Available Online2014-02-12T09:31:58+00:002014-07-03T21:26:44+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/papers-of-francoise-henry-online/<p>Perhaps this is old news, but I have just stumbled across a collection of the <a href="http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ivrla:11593">papers of Françoise Henry</a> on the <a href="http://digital.ucd.ie">UCD Digital Library</a> website. The collection includes 174 items by Henry now held in the UCD Archives, and includes research notes, correspondence, articles and lectures. Quoting from the website, Henry's collection includes</p>
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<p>Textual and visual material consisting mainly of notes, drawings and plans, documenting early Christian Irish art, its inspiration and the extent of its influence in Europe, in areas including architecture, sculpture, manuscripts, metalwork, ivory and textiles.</p>
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<p>It is not immediately obvious who else is represented in the digital collection, but a <a href="http://digital.ucd.ie/index.php?start=0&query=dc.subject%3AManuscripts&style=list">search for 'Manuscripts'</a> reveals 170 items, many but by no means all of which are Henry's. For example, there is some material by <a href="http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ivrla:2620">Eugene O'Curry</a> (1796-1862), including 'general correspondence on antiquarian, genealogical, linguistic and literary matters', and <a href="http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ivrla:7242">correspondence between John O'Donovan (1809-1861) and William Reeves (1815-1892)</a>. There's also a <a href="http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ivrla:34575">photograph of Ludwig Bieler</a>, and undoubtedly many other palaeographical treasures as well. If you're aware of any items of particular interest, or of similar materials elsewhere, then please do contribute in the 'Comments' box below.</p>Catalogue des manuscrits datés en ligne2013-11-28T09:55:23+00:002014-07-04T12:05:08+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/catalogue-des-manuscrits-dates-en-ligne/<div>Nine volumes of the French series of 'dated and datable' manuscripts are now available online on Galica, thanks to an agreement between the CNRS and the BnF. The full announcement came from Dominique Stutzmann of the IRHT, PI of <a href="http://oriflamms.hypotheses.org">Oriflamms</a> and blogger on <a href="http://ephepaleographie.wordpress.com/">manuscripts and palaeography</a> (among other talents):</div>
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<p>Neuf volumes de la série française des catalogues de manuscrits datés ont été mis en ligne sur <a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/">Gallica</a>, grâce à une convention signée entre le CNRS et la Bibliothèque nationale de France (liste des liens ci-dessous). Nous espérons que cette mise en ligne sera utile pour tous, autant que l'est l'index cumulatif des sept premiers tomes publié en ligne par D. Muzerelle : <a href="http://aedilis.irht.cnrs.fr/cmdf/">http://aedilis.irht.cnrs.fr/cmdf/</a></p>
<p>Cette bonne nouvelle vient accompagner la parution récente d'un volume dans la série française, portant sur les fonds des bibliothèques municipales de Laon, Saint-Quentin et Soissons.</p>
<p>D. Muzerelle (dir.), G. Grand , G. Lanoë , O. Legendre , M. Peyrafort , D. Stutzmann (collab.), <em>Manuscrits datés des bibliothèques de France. II. Laon, Saint-Quentin, Soissons</em>, Paris, CNRS éditions (Catalogue des manuscrits datés, France, 2), 2013. </p>
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<p>The list of volumes available online is as follows:</p>
<p><em>Catalogue des manuscrits en écriture latine : portant des indications de date, de lieu ou de copiste</em></p>
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<li>Tome II, <em>Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds latin Nos.1 à 8000</em>, par Charles Samaran et Robert Marichal ; sous la direction de Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny ; notices établies par Monique Garand, Madeleine Mabille... [et al.]<br/><a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4827f" target="_blank">http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4827f</a> [Text]<a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4827f" target="_blank"><br/></a><a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4828r" target="_blank">http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4828r</a> [Plates]</li>
<li>Tome III, <em>Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds latin Nos. 8001 à 18613</em>, par Charles Samaran et Robert Marichal ; sous la dir. de Marie-Thérè̀se d'Alverny ; not. établies par Madeleine Mabille, Monique-Cécile Garand et Denis Escudier<br/><a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k48292" target="_blank">http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k48292</a> [Text]<a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k48292" target="_blank"><br/></a><a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4830j" target="_blank">http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4830j</a> [Plates]</li>
<li>Tome V, <em>Est de la France</em>, par Charles Samaran et Robert Marichal ; notices établies par Monique Garand, Madeleine Mabille, et al.<br/><a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4831v" target="_blank">http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4831v</a> [Text]</li>
<li>Tome VI, <em>Bourgogne, Centre, Sud-Est et Sud-Ouest de la France</em>, par Charles Samaran et Robert Marichal ; notices établies par Monique Garand, Madeleine Mabille, et al.<br/><a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k48325" target="_blank">http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k48325</a> [Text]<a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k48325" target="_blank"><br/></a><a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4833g" target="_blank">http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4833g</a> [Plates]</li>
<li>Tome VII, <em>Ouest de la France et pays de Loire</em>, par Charles Samaran et Robert Marichal ; notices par Monique Garand, Geneviève Grand... [et al.]<br/><a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4834s" target="_blank">http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4834s</a> [Text]<a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4834s" target="_blank"><br/></a><a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k48353" target="_blank">http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k48353</a> [Plates]</li>
</ul>InScribe Training Platform for Palaeography and Manuscript Studies2013-01-24T14:50:22+00:002014-07-03T19:23:24+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/inscribe-training-platform-for-palaeography-and-manuscript-studies/<p>I am very pleased to report the recent launch of InScribe, an online course for palaeography and manuscript studies which has been developed by the School of Advanced Studies and which is available at <<a href="http://www.history.ac.uk/research-training/courses/online-palaeography">http://www.history.ac.uk/research-training/courses/online-palaeography</a>>. You can see the introductory module now which includes text, photographs of manuscripts, videos of documents presented by people like Dr Erik Kwakkel from Leiden and Prof. Julia Crick from King's College London, as well as some exercises for transcription of medieval script. The site will soon include more content on script and transcription as well as modules on diplomatic, codicology and illumination. The introductory module is freely available, and some of the more advanced modules will be as well, although a paid subscription will be required for the full content.</p>
<p>The project has run in collaboration with the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London, Senate House Library, and Exeter Cathedral Library and Archives. The bulk of the work has been done by Dr Fran Alvarez-Lopez of the School of Advanced Studies, and the project was devised by Prof. Michelle Brown (of the Institute of English Studies) and Dr Jane Winters (of the Institute for Historical Research). Of course InScribe is is not part of DigiPal at all, but I am happy to say that I did have some involvement in it, and that the technology underlying the transcription tool in InScribe is the same that we are using for DigiPal.</p>
<p>Enough from me, though: go yourself, sign up, and try your hand at transcribing some medieval handwriting!</p>