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A Hidden Medieval Archive Surfaces
By Erik Kwakkel (@erik_kwakkel) On my Tumblr I recently posted two entries devoted to a remarkable discovery made in the Book History class I am co-teaching with Paul Hoftijzer for the Book and Digital...
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The Last of the Great Chained Libraries
By Jenny Weston On a beautiful sunny day last week, the Turning Over a New Leaf project team decided to take a day off from the office to visit a spectacular chained library in the small town of...
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I Love Paris in the Springtime… A User’s Guide to the BnF
By Irene O’Daly Say the words Bibliothèque nationale de France to any manuscript researcher and it tends to invite a series of anecdotes – usually horror stories about long days trawling through blurry...
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Uncovering the Secrets of Leiden University Library: BPL 193 and its Owners
By Marjolein de Vos Marjolein, a student of Leiden University’s MA in Book and Digital Media Studies, is currently an intern on the ‘Turning over a New Leaf’ project. For my internship project...
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A Look at Last Week’s Medieval and Early Modern ‘Words, Words, Words’
By Jenneka Janzen It’s taken for granted that learning or working in another language requires some use of a bilingual dictionary. Our favourite online dictionary or translation app relies on...
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Malcolm B. Parkes, Palaeographer (1930-2013)
By David Ganz David Ganz is Visiting Professor of Palaeography at the University of Notre Dame and a Research Associate of Darwin College Cambridge. M.B. Parkes in his Oxford study Malcolm Parkes,...
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Nuns’ Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Antwerp Dialogue
By Julie Somers Against the backdrop of the beautiful convent of the Grauwzusters in Antwerp, Belgium the third and final interdisciplinary conference on ‘Nun’s Literacies’ took place June 4 – 7, 2013....
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Voices on the Medieval Page (1): The Reader
By Erik Kwakkel (@erik_kwakkel) This is the first part of a series highlighting instances where medieval individuals added information to an existing book, either right after its production or...
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Reading Summer – The Psalter, Breviary, and Book of Hours
By Julie Somers A sunny summer blog post from San Diego! As I was putting together my beach bag and tossing in the essentials such as sunscreen and a good book, it made me wonder what a ‘summer read’...
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Leeds International Medieval Congress 1-4 July, 2013
By Irene O’Daly For every medievalist, the surest sign of summer is not an increase in temperatures, or the prospect of holidays, but the rolling around of the annual Leeds IMC. This year the...
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The Boring, Ugly, and Unimportant – Biases in Manuscript Research
By Jenneka Janzen As I carry out my dissertation research, I’ve spent some time thinking about the role aesthetics play in which manuscripts are studied, and which ones are deemed too boring,...
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Voices on the Medieval Page (2): The Scribe
By Erik Kwakkel (@erik_kwakkel) This is the second part of a series highlighting instances where medieval individuals added information to an existing book after its production. What precisely did...
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Reading Medieval Script: Three (not-so) Easy Steps!
By Jenny Weston Medieval manuscripts are often beautiful to look at. With their strange letter-forms, their often gold-plated initials, and their aged parchment, they inevitably spark a sense of...
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Quire as Folk? Conventions of Manuscript Construction
By Irene O’Daly Although much of the attention of our project focuses on what is in the manuscript – its script, its layout, texts, and additions – we are also concerned with its physical make-up. One...
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Making a Medieval Book: Workshops and Classes for the Curious Artisan
By Jenny Weston As manuscript researchers, we often study how medieval books were produced. We love to look at the quality of the parchment, how the book was originally bound, the character of the...
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Where the Wild Things Are: The Medieval Bestiary
By Jenneka Janzen While a bit denser than Maurice Sendak’s modern bed-time story, medieval bestiaries were, and still are, crowd-pleasers. A bestiary is a collection of short descriptions about a wide...
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Medieval Manuscripts in America
By Julie Somers Last week, a post by Medievalists.net provided a map of the United States with all of the available programs offered in medieval studies. There are quite a number of institutions that...
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Classical Manuscripts in the Leiden University Collections
By Irene O’Daly The project organised a colloquium last week (3 September) entitled ‘Writing the Classics in the Middle Ages’ which focused on the production, form and transmission of classical...
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Strange Weather, Volcanoes, and a Roof Collapse: Secrets of the Medieval...
By Jenny Weston This past June, a great news story was published about a set of Irish medieval manuscripts that helped a team of scientists study the relationship between volcanic eruptions (!) and...
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Stamp of Approval: A Paper Snippet and the Spanish Inquisition
By Erik Kwakkel (@erik_kwakkel) This blog entry focuses on a book fragment I encountered in Leiden University Library earlier this week while studying twelfth-century material with my research team. As...
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