This cheat sheet originally came into being on a request of colleagues and students who wanted to have a quick reference guide to the early medieval annotation symbols found in Latin manuscripts. The first version, which can still be found...
1000 Worte Forschung: An ongoing NWO VENI postdoctoral project (Feb 2018 – April 2021) in Manuscript studies, Huygens ING, KNAW, Amsterdam. The Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville were the first and perhaps the most influential medieval encyclopedia. This ambitious work...
Huygens ING, Den Haag, The Netherlands Date: 3-5 June 2015 This is a call for papers for a conference on the subject of books, practices of writing, reading, copying and studying in the early Middle Ages. It is organized by...
Expert Meeting Voices from the Edge Huygens ING, Den Haag – Universiteitsbibliotheek, Leiden 13th-14th November, 2014 Some weeks ago, our project Marginal Scholarship has hosted a small conference on the subject of marginal annotations in early medieval Latin manuscripts. This...
1000 Worte Forschung: PhD project in History, Huygens ING/Utrecht University If you were asked to pinpoint a scientist in a crowd, how would you recognize one? Or if you were asked to identify a scientific publication among other books, how...
The Carolingian period is chiefly remembered as a period of renovatio. In joint cooperation, the Carolingian dynasty and intellectual elites saw to revision of a number of practices and texts. Some of the artifacts of these reforms and their agents...
After some time, I am back with news from the world of Carolingian manuscripts. My critter this time is manuscript BPL 67F of the University Library of the University of Leiden, a collection of different glossographic texts from the late...
We are bringing you more of the newly discovered Fabula Rodonis peccatoris nequissimi this summer. This piece is entitled Pomum peccati (The fruit of the Sin). Enjoy!
The pick of today is slightly less Carolingian than the other critters that were paraded here. It is another manuscript from Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich with a shelfmark Clm 6253. Clm 6253, the first volume of a three-volume copy of...
Digital Humanities Workshop funded by the COST Action IS1005: Medieval Europe – Medieval Cultures and Technological Resources, and Huygens ING I had recently the opportunity to attend the workshop Easy Tools for Difficult Texts, a two-day event at Huygens ING,...
An incredible new discovery has been made recently to reveal a wholly unknown text with sumptious illuminations bearing the title Fabula Rodonis peccatoris nequissimi (The story of Rodo the most worthless sinner). The first folio of this newly discovered pieces...
Introduction[1] Ms. Leiden, RB Voss. Lat. F 113 is one of the more precious pieces of the Special Collection at Leiden, containing two rare geographical texts, the Cosmographia of Aethicus Ister and the anonymous De situ orbis terrae. It is...
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