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Visualizing the Construction of Manuscripts, through Collation and Video...
It’s been a month now since the fabulous DigiPal IV Symposium, and I’ve been meaning to share the video of my own contribution to that event since I returned to Penn in early September. My talk is...
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Libraries Supporting Digital Scholarship: The Schoenberg Institute for...
A version of this talk was presented as the keynote for the annual meeting of the Association of College and Research Libraries – Delaware Valley Chapter, in Philadelphia PA on November 6, 2014. Thank...
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Manuscript Road Trip: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
Originally posted on Manuscript Road Trip: The Flight into Egypt, Walters Art Museum, MS W.188, f.112r As we head north out of Baltimore on I-95, we’ll cross the Delaware River and head into...
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Medieval Apps
Originally posted on medievalbooks: How about this for a truism: a book is a book, and something that is not a book is not a book. This post will knock your socks off if you are inclined to affirm...
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Digital Manuscripts as Critical Edition
The following post is the written version of a presentation that Christoph Flüeler, Director of e-codices and Professor at the University of Fribourg, presented at the 50th International Congress on...
View ArticleMAA 2019: Call for Digital Workshops
Dear medievalists, As you consider your submissions for MAA 2019, I hope you will take note that you may propose a “poster, paper, full session, or workshop that explores the role and uses of digital...
View ArticleAnd that’s how we roll… — Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis
Genealogical rolls showing the direct descent of English kings from Adam were a major (and blatant) propaganda tool during the Wars of the Roses in later fifteenth-century England. 332 more words via...
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Ms. Codex 1057: Ferial Psalter
Welcome to 2022! For Coffee With A Codex on Wednesday, January 12, we brought out Ms. Codex 1057, a ferial psalter. Ferial psalters are those that, in addition to the text of the 150 psalms, include...
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Ms. Codex 761: Cosmographies
For Coffee With A Codex on Wednesday, January 19, 2022, we took a look at Ms. Codex 761, an Italian collection of four ancient Greek cosmographies in Latin translation, written ca. 1500. It’s written...
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Forgeries
For Coffee With A Codex on Wednesday, January 26, Schoenberg Curator of Manuscripts Nick Herman showed us several forgeries and reproductions from Kislak collections. LJS 102, ff. 1v-2r The first...
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