What's the solution these days to annotating #medieval #manuscript images in #IIIF? I want to get my students annotating with digital pen + tablet using online manuscripts of their choice - do we have to tediously download the images, or are there annotation-enabled digitisations (or free software) out there?

#digitalpalaeography @medievodons

Historisches Schularchiv des Görres-Gymnasiums Koblenz wird restauriert

https://histgymbib.hypotheses.org/28769

“Hey, how have you been?”

‘Not great, I’ve had a bit of a frog in my throat for the last day or two.’

“Huh, I’ve been feeling a bit low myself, I wonder if that’s what I’ve got too?”

@MedMilMedicine #globalmuseum #humour #humor #manuscript #medieval

Welke instrumenten herken jij?

Het is feest! In de levendige marge van dit blad staat een heel orkest te spelen: muzikanten (mens en dier) brengen de boel tot leven met allerlei instrumenten.

Dit handschrift, gemaakt in Vlaanderen rond 1330-1340, bevat Privileges en andere documenten betreffende de Vlaamse steden. Die vrolijkheid ging dus prima samen met serieuze zaken en officiële teksten.

#medievodons and #histodons - have any of you seen references to multiple suns being seen in the #sky ? I have before me a 15th century chronicle claiming that no less than FIVE suns were seen at #cologne on 24 March 1438 around the ninth hour. #manuscript #Trier Stadtbibliothek 750 (298) 8°, fol. 129v.

4 Oct is the feast of St Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order. He's the patron saint of animals, the environment, and ecologists - so it's also #WorldAnimalDay.
#LuttrellPsalter f60v (East Anglia c.1325-35)

#StFrancis #medieval #manuscript #14thCentury #BritishLibrary @medievodons

**Book of Kells: exploring the evidence that points to Pictish origins in north-east Scotland**

"_While at present it is impossible to prove beyond doubt, Whitworth’s book highlights an important new potential provenance for the Book of Kells. However, it also serves as a timely reminder that our preoccupation with the “nationality” of the manuscript is based on a 19th-century construct, which can distract from other considerations._"

https://theconversation.com/book-of-kells-exploring-the-evidence-that-points-to-pictish-origins-in-north-east-scotland-266568.

A miniature of the God of Love (Diex d'Amors) shooting the Lover (L'Amans), from Roman de la Rose, Royal 19 B XIII, f. 16, c 1320–c 1340, one of the most important and influential literary works written in mediaeval French.
https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/illuminated/amours-shooting-lover-roman-rose-manuscript-royal-guillaum-lorris-meun-original.htm

Medievalists and Carolingians! Does anyone know the process for accessing the notes in Bernhard Bischoff's Nachlass? (Or have a copy that they can share with me?)

I'm looking for his notes on BL Harley MS 2735. The MGH has apparently published a 2-DVD set of his "Handschriftenarchiv" (and earlier a microfiche set, which is the only thing available in the US apparently. Is it the same?)

But the MGH page on Bischoff ominously adds the DVDs are "largely without the material covering the ninth century," which is of course what I need.

Thanks!!

@histodons #medievodons #manuscript

"A rare 15th-century #Portuguese #Jewish #manuscript, long incomplete after it was split into three parts, is whole again after the National #Library of #Israel reunited its final missing pieces.

The #Lisbon #Mahzor, which contains #Sephardic prayers for the #HighHolidays, Three Festivals and more, was produced by the Lisbon school of Portuguese #Jewry in the final years before the region’s #Jews were forced to either convert or be expelled in 1496.

“It appears that even in their most difficult moments the Portuguese Jewish community did not give up its books – they took these cultural treasures along to their next destination,” Chaim Neria, the curator of the National Library of Israel’s Haim and Hanna Solomon Judaica Collection, said in a statement."

https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jta/two-thirds-of-a-15th-century-portuguese-high-holiday-prayer-book-were-lost-to-history/article_4eeabe15-53a4-59f2-b452-eef7690c72ca.html

#manuscript : written with or by the hand

- French: manuscrit

- German: das Manuskript

- Italian: manoscritto

- Portuguese: manuscrito

- Spanish: manuscrito

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See previous words @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/past

Today at the "Hottest Medieval Summer School" (name given to it by our guest lecturer as temperatures soar above 35 degrees Celsius) the students did some #fragmentology, discovering at the end that 6 of them had portions of the same #medieval #manuscript – which had been re-used in the same book binding later on! The descriptions will hopefully be published on @fragmentarium #SummerSchool25

Went to see the fabulous Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry #manuscript, so had to buy the February winter scene snow globe with people exposing their bits to the fire (if you look *very* closely)

Carl Linnaeus was the creator of modern binomial taxonomy (two names, in Latin for animals and plants). Dedicated and talented scientist, terrible artist.
The image is a self portrait of Carl from one of his travel notebooks, he had traveled to the north of Lapland. It shows him on a hill pointing at the midnight sun (which has a face or clouds passing over it). Item LM/LP/TRV/1/2/1 from the Linnean society.
#manuscript

Ma sœur est en mission à la Public Library de New York pour photographier un manuscrit pour moi (elle vit là-bas) : je suis stressée et impatiente comme si j’étais sur place !!

This ivory carving from the ninth century depicts a little-known miracle of Christ: The Poking of the Eye.

From the front cover of Würzburg, UB, M.p.th.f.65: http://vb.uni-wuerzburg.de/ub/mpthf65/ueber.html #medieval #manuscript @medievodons @historikerinnen @histodons

Unaware that they were meant to be peeled, John’s first experience with a banana was not the taste sensation he’d been promised - c. 1300, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 130II, f. 110r

@MedMilMedicine #manuscript #globalmuseum #humour #humor

Getty Museum receives major gift of rare Italian #manuscript pages.

The pages, many of which originated in Christian choir books, were donated by collectors T. Robert Burke and Katherine States Burke.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/getty-museum-receives-major-gift-of-rare-italian-manuscript-pages/3730544/ #Getty #museums #globalmuseum

Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515) via The Public Domain Review [Shared]

Despite being full of blooms, this book of floral illustrations marks an autumn in aesthetic history: it was composed during “‘the last flowering’ of northern European manuscript illumination in the medieval tradition”, write curators at the MET. Created in the workshop of the Master of Claude de France, one of the most renowned ateliers in Tours during the early sixteenth century, it takes the form of a model book — and indeed several subsequent commissions linked to Queen Claude drew inspiration from this work.

https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/06/13/master-of-claude-de-frances-book-of-flower-studies-ca-1510-1515-via-the-public-domain-review-shared/