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There's an exciting new 3-year #job in Göttingen (Germany) available as part of the ERC project I'm doing! uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht? (search for job no. 75964).

We need someone with experience in manuscript studies and early medieval Germanic vernaculars. Digital humanities skills an advantage! Deadline: 14 July.

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The wonderful Gerald Schwedler at the University of Kiel (@kieluni) is offering a summer school in #Transkribus, #eScriptorium and #NodeGoat from 28 to 31 July. It's online, free and open to everyone! The teaching language is German. Register here by 24 June:

histsem.uni-kiel.de/de/das-ins (scroll down for poster and full programme).

Please share widely!

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I would be remiss not to mention the passing earlier this year of Francis Newton, emeritus professor of classics at Duke University, two weeks shy of his 97th birthday.

Francis was one of the most eminent palaeographers of his generation, and he remained active and engaged up to his passing, continuing to publish and attend conferences well into his 90s. But in addition to his scholarship, he was gentleman, kind and attentive to anyone asking advice, and especially encouraging to younger scholars.

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#manuscripts #palaeography #FrancisNewton #Beneventan

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In today's #grandma recording, she told me how he transcribed an old contract about our farm. Apart from the old German script as such, she struggled with the spelling that was in dialect. The last world kept her up until 4 am, she said, when she finally was able to go to sleep after deciphering it. After her death, the folder with the 1821 contract was found, together with her transcript and was handed over to me. I'm so proud of her, how she pulled all this!
#genealogy #kurrent #palaeography

When I teach #palaeography I tell my students that the history of handwriting is the history of people. This #manuscript proves it: copied personally by #Petrarch, one of the great poets of the Italian #Renaissance, it ends abruptly at the top of a page, when Petrarch suddenly died in July 1374. We only know this context thanks to painstaking palaeographical and historical research.

Paris, BnF, MS lat. 5784: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1

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📜 Happy to share my last article, which explores the life and handwriting of Bernardino Donato, a key figure in early 16th-century publishing.
His editorial contributions are reconstructed through prefaces and dedication letters.
The paper examines Donato’s script and presents a newly identified autograph: Ambr. L 109 sup. If you're interested in Renaissance publishing, Greek philology or palaeography, check it out!🔍
#Renaissance #Palaeography #Manuscripts #PrintingHistory @medievodons

There are moments of awe in manuscript studies, and this is one - a note written by Cassiodorus himself. He was a sixth-century senator and scholar, known for nothing less than laying the intellectual foundations of Western medieval monasticism. Here he displays his erudition by expanding on a passage from Philo of Carpasia's commentary on the Song of Songs.

Vat. lat. 5704, 58r: digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.la

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Underneath this 8th-century drawing from southern Germany is a note that says "Winithar made these beasts". Winithar was a famous scribe and this is not his handwriting! The drawing was probably made by some monks (or novices) to mock him – or cheekily to transfer the blame for the doodles to him.

(Scribes including Winithar sometimes finished books with the phrase "I made this").

Karlsruhe, Cod. Aug. perg. 182, fol. 67: digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/blbhs

#medieval #palaeography @medievodons