@clive 🧵

“…a huge amount of time was spent experimenting with ways to arrange the text in a maximally visually appealing way.

Interestingly, this led to a convergence with certain principles of modern web design. For instance, I counted out the total characters in a few full lines from the first edition of Hortus. They average roughly 35 to 45 characters across, which is what contemporary designers recommend for mobile view on websites.”

#incunabula #book #design

🧵 2/2 #ResearchSupportPartnershipUiO 📷 In the fall, the library's Digital Scholarship Center will offer a hands-on digitisation & data organisation workshop for the Dept. Tentative title: "From analogue document to searchable text."
📜 Individual support for #Transkribus #HTR, esp. training a baseline model for layout recognition of #Latin #Incunabula /w several columns, commentary, marginal notes, rubrics, initials, ornaments.
🤝 Meeting about how to support historical subjects at the library.

Touched & pleased to see the first case study of fragmentarium mentioned by @lisafdavis which was started by the late Nigel Palmer working on #incunabula fragments @bodleianlibs https://fragmentarium.ms/case-studies/case-study-1 #recyclingoxford

I have blogged about my visit to Yale in January as part of a collaborative research project: https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/02/legacies-of-catalogue-descriptions-project-visit-yale-library-partners.html #AHRC #RLUK #JamesBaker #Southampton #British Library #Metadata #Printed Heritage @BL_DigiSchol
#incunabula #bldigital #YaleDHLab #LewisWalpoleLibrary

New blog post at CERL:

Registration of incunabula provenance in Poland, by Agnieszka Franczyk-Cegła, Ossolineum Library, Wrocław

https://cerlblog.wordpress.com/2022/12/05/registration-of-incunabula-provenance-in-poland/

#incunabula
#MEIdatabase
#provenance

As my first post here I am sharing news about my AHRC-RLUK Professional Practice Fellowship which I have blogged about at https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2022/11/my-ahrc-rluk-professional-practice-fellowship-phase-one.html I am grateful for the support from #AHRC #RLUK #JamesBaker #British Library #Metadata #Printed Heritage @BL_DigiSchol
#incunabula #bldigital

We just finished an intensive introduction into #eScriptorium, the #opensource platform #OCR / #HTR at the PSL-week with lovely projects in Latin, French, German, Chinese, Vietnamese, ...
Lovely to discover a couple of new open generalized models trained by others:
#Latin #manuscripts and #incunabula 8th to 15th century.
https://zenodo.org/record/7234166#.Y4MCGuHMKpp
#French 16th to 21st century: https://zenodo.org/record/6657809#.Y4MCfuHMKpo
Finetuning on these will lead to quick success. Especially with the new PASSIM txt2txt alignment.

#introduction

Moin!

I'm a research fellow at the cathedral library Hildesheim @dombib_hi and responsible for its #medievalmanuscripts and #incunabula. My focus is in late medieval #Alltagsgeschichte, #historyofbooks and #materialculture (and their combination!). My current long term projects are new manuscript- and incunabula catalogues. Besides that I'm interested in the positive chances of #livinghistory for teaching history, and I learn #python, or better I try to learn it 😅

#introduction
working at CERL - Consortium of European Research Libraries (www.cerl.org)
#bookhistory
#incunabula
#digitalhumanities
#specialcollections
#rarebookscurators
#dh #digitialhumanities
#BookHistodons #histodons
#rarebooks

#SandarsLectures 2021-2022 of the University of #Cambridge

#Incunabula in Cambridge: European heritage and global dissemination

Three free lectures (online and in person) on 22, 23 and 24 November 2022 by Cristina #Dondi

Info and registering:
https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/sandars/sandars-lectures-2021-2022

#bookconservation #bookbindingtools #manuscripts #incunabula #libraries #bookhistory #bookhistodons #Palaeography #arthistory

What can make my day excellent?

I'm #dogandcat person - so near the pets, reading #maritime stories, enjoying #pipesmoking, scrolling #bwphotography, trying to #cooking worldwide national dishes and finally sipping #melange in some #Vienna quiet place, with the sound of Brigitte Engerer performing #Chopin can make everything better.

Well, boomer stuff mostly.
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Rejoice #BookHistory #Manuscripts Studies #palaeography #paleography #incunabula etc. scholars: there is now a #BookHistodons group you can follow: @bookhistodons
A group is a handle/account you can follow which gathers and boosts all Mastodon posts mentioning the group. (NB: You must mention the group, @bookhistodons It won’t grab posts with just the hashtag alone.) Enjoy—& spread the word!
#Histodons #AcademicChatter

#introduction I work on #bookhistory - particularly of the #renaissance (15th-17th-c Europe). I specialise in the archaeology of the book and in the economics of book production, distribution, circulation and trade.
I'm currently developing a project on Sammelbände in the 15th and 16th centuries.
I tend mainly to share finds and historical interpretation as well as forthcoming events - in English and in French.

#histodons #earlymodern #16thcentury #incunabula

#introduction I work on #bookhistory - particularly of the #renaissance (15th-17th-c Europe). I specialise in the archaeology of the book and in the economics of book production, distribution, circulation and trade.
I'm currently developing a project on Sammelbände in the 15th and 16th centuries.
I tend mainly to share finds and historical interpretation as well as forthcoming events - in English and in French.

#histodons #earlymodern #16thcentury #incunabula

Inspired by #Histodons , I made a #BookHistory Mastodon list, so that all of us #manuscripts #palaeography #incunabula #typography etc. people can find each other.
You can see the new #BookHistodons list here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T-IUl72xlbEcaclP7TUA8kgrhDTVSrMwwsi5iIIfsow/edit?usp=sharing
and add yourself to it here: https://forms.gle/ykwt9vFt9zY7Z3gq6

Inspired by #Histodons , I thought I’d try my hand at creating a #BookHistory Mastodon list, so that all of us #manuscripts #palaeography #incunabula #typography etc. people can find each other.
You can add yourself to the #BookHistodons list here: https://forms.gle/LGpbQ5r86bJPWCLU6

Fiore di virtù
Venezia
Beretin Convento della Ca' Grande
1477

#incunabula