Medieval History
So far this summer, one of my projects has been dealing with manuscripts. Specifically, I've returned to a project I started for a paper on St. Gall, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1395, which is described and digitized online here. I had begun by looking at the biblical materials and their paratexts (especially peritexts) to consider how scribes interacted with the Bible in the early medieval period--all of the fragments in this collection are Continental, from between the fifth and tenth centuries. The overall project is much too large for right now (I hope to go back it again sometime), but I've returned to a specific part of this collection that has been largely overlooked--a text of Colossians with glossing in the margins--for a shorter piece that describes and offers a transcription of the fragment.
I've been puzzling over the fragment, transcribing the text and glosses, and trying to brush up on my paleography skills to be able to discuss the texts, the scripts, and compare them to others. What I (re)discover every time I start working with manuscripts is that, despite having experience in various seminars, the only way to understand them is actually to do it: to be immersed, to explore. I have (as seen in the picture) a stack of books on paleography (Lindsay, Lowe, Bischoff, Brown, etc.), along with a hoard of articles from ILL, and I spent much of yesterday looking through plates in the Codices latini antiqiuores and other resources to get a handle on Insular minuscule and its various traits. I've also spent a lot of time with digital descriptions and images on the e-codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland website--a fantastic resource for medievalists.
And I've remembered how much I love looking at, pouring through, and working with manuscripts (even if only in facsimile, digital or otherwise). As monuments of the past, they are beautiful, frustrating, curious, riddling, and screaming at us from every page to pay attention to their idiosyncrasies. So I've been trying to pay attention. And I'm hoping to continue.
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Medieval History
On Manuscripts and Love
So far this summer, one of my projects has been dealing with manuscripts. Specifically, I've returned to a project I started for a paper on St. Gall, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1395, which is described and digitized online here. I had begun by looking at the biblical materials and their paratexts (especially peritexts) to consider how scribes interacted with the Bible in the early medieval period--all of the fragments in this collection are Continental, from between the fifth and tenth centuries. The overall project is much too large for right now (I hope to go back it again sometime), but I've returned to a specific part of this collection that has been largely overlooked--a text of Colossians with glossing in the margins--for a shorter piece that describes and offers a transcription of the fragment.I've been puzzling over the fragment, transcribing the text and glosses, and trying to brush up on my paleography skills to be able to discuss the texts, the scripts, and compare them to others. What I (re)discover every time I start working with manuscripts is that, despite having experience in various seminars, the only way to understand them is actually to do it: to be immersed, to explore. I have (as seen in the picture) a stack of books on paleography (Lindsay, Lowe, Bischoff, Brown, etc.), along with a hoard of articles from ILL, and I spent much of yesterday looking through plates in the Codices latini antiqiuores and other resources to get a handle on Insular minuscule and its various traits. I've also spent a lot of time with digital descriptions and images on the e-codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland website--a fantastic resource for medievalists.
And I've remembered how much I love looking at, pouring through, and working with manuscripts (even if only in facsimile, digital or otherwise). As monuments of the past, they are beautiful, frustrating, curious, riddling, and screaming at us from every page to pay attention to their idiosyncrasies. So I've been trying to pay attention. And I'm hoping to continue.
- Medieval Monastic Library Of Lorsch Recreated Online
The unique holdings of the medieval monastic library of Lorsch, currently scattered over 68 libraries worldwide, are being re-compiled into a virtual library. Heidelberg University Library and local government officials in Germany have been working since...
- Editions, Manuscripts, And Digital Spelunking
When I began researching and writing about the use of apocryphal Acts for Old English sermons (for two chapters of my dissertation), it quickly became clear that I would to need to address a widely circulated collection known as the Virtutes apostolorum...
- Colloquium Inaugurating The Network For The Study Of Caroline Minuscule
Call for papers: Colloquium Inaugurating the Network for the Study of Caroline Minuscule23 May 2014, Cambridge University Library, UKWelcome: Professor Rosamond McKitterick, University of CambridgeConfirmed speakers: David Ganz, Mary Garrison, Erik...
- Greetings From Rare Book School In Charlottesville, Virginia.
This summer Rare Book School is excited to offer four courses designed specifically to advance the research of scholars in medieval and renaissance studies. Introduction to Paleography, 800?1500 introduces students to the book-based scripts...
- St Gall Priscian Glosses
ST GALL PRISCIAN GLOSSES Rijcklof Hofman (transcription), Pádraic Moran (digital edition) http://www.stgallpriscian.ie/ St Gall MS 904 is a copy of Priscian's monumental Institutiones Grammaticae (Foundations of Grammar) written in 851. It contains...