Happy #monday at work in #Berlin @stabi_berlin Phillipps 1549, written by Valeriano Albini in Venice #PellicierProject #Greek #manuscripts @bookstodon @medievodons @classics

Getting Short
The fire that was threatening our furniture (and my MANUSCRIPTS) has been officially classified as under control. There's one worry put to rest. The home that we've been waiting to move into is slowly nearing completion. The water and electricity are both working now and the exterior of the building is finished and awaiting the stairways. All that remains is to finish and clea
https://greencomet.org/2023/09/08/getting-short/
#homeless #manuscripts #wildfire #writer #writing

e-codices update is live: 61 new #manuscripts, including a large number of St. Gallen fragments!
https://e-codices.ch/en/list/all/LastUpdate

We’re back in #Berlin to continue cataloguing the Greek manuscripts belonged to Guillaume Pellicier and now held at the @stabi_berlin #Greek #Manuscripts @medievodons We’ll be here for the next two months…!

@culhebrewmss This one returned from the Center for Conservation of Art and Historic Artifacts a couple of months ago - the starch in the pages had stuck them together so the book couldn't be opened. CCAHA painstakingly conserved the manuscript page by page until it could be used once again. 15th century, Mizrahi hand.
X893 M584
#hebrewmss #mazeldon #manuscripts #conservation

A different version of "erasing," this time early 15th century style.
#LambethPalaceLibrary MS 69
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#Archives
#Parchment
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Erasing, 16th century style.
#LambethPalaceLibrary MS 20
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#Parchment

No more slacking! The #Vatican is back at work, digitizing 47 #Manuscripts http://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2023/week34.html
Including a few more Henry Stevenson Jr, a lovely Italian Pontifical, more sermons and Conciliar Acta, a partial glossed bible and a 19th C Russian Liturgical text, with neumes. And a Quran, just to be sure
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For the manuscript culture nerds.
Link: https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/smc.html
@bookstodon #manuscripts #OpenSource

Starting on August 29th at The Getty

https://www.medievalists.net/2023/08/graphic-design-middle-ages-exhibition-getty/ #museum #medieval #manuscripts

Digital Collections: Library of Congress Releases 230 Newly Digitized Hebrew #Manuscripts https://www.infodocket.com/2023/08/22/digital-collections-library-of-congress-releases-newly-digitized-hebrew-manuscripts/

One of my constant curiosities in cataloging #manuscripts is the question of how long it took a scribe to copy a manuscript. Thankfully, they occasionally answer this question. In the #colophon of APSTCH PIRA 00026 (pictured below), the scribe ܐܒܪܗܡ ܟܗܢܐ says that he began copying it on 21 Tammúz (July) 1861 CE and it was finished on 23 ʾElúl (September). So, it took about 2 months to copy this particular manuscript (of around 200 folios).

No new #Manuscripts from #Vatican this week, they're still on vacation. Instead I made some code improvements to enable proper OpenGraph previews
http://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2023/week33.html
For those interested in such things, the code is on #GitHub
https://github.com/amacks/vatican_mss
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To the surprise of no one who works with #manuscripts, #colophons can be such a rich source of all kinds of information. Take this manuscript--APSTCH AYMA 00014 (which I posted a picture from yesterday)--for example. This image is the final page, with the colophon on the right surrounded by a decorative border. There are a few interesting things about this colophon that I will thread here below.

A cool feature of some #Syriac #liturgical #manuscripts: at the point in the Anaphora (or 'mass') where they celebrate the Eucharist, certain words are given calligraphic emphasis. The below example is from APSTCH AYMA 00013, which can be viewed here: https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/539054

Just a note, the #Vatican is on vacation this week, so no #Manuscripts were digitized.

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Definitely asked before, but what are your recommended applications (or homegrown systems/procedures) for palaeographical transcription?

Most of what I've done has been in in-house repositories, FromThePage, etc. I have some projects coming up where I need to be more self-hosted, as it were. I currently use a Mac, and my potential list includes Tropy, GenScriber, and Transcript.

Thoughts? Comments? Recommendations?

#palaeography #paleography #archives #manuscripts #genealogy #transcription

For those of you who followed me on that other site, you may know that I love to post #ManuscriptBirds images. Well, a few weeks ago, I found perhaps my favorite bird decoration ever.

The manuscript is CPB 00492. In addition to the striking colors, I love how the tops of the tall letters (taw and alef, and even the mims) are interwoven and turn into little baby bird heads waiting to be fed by the larger birds.
#syriac #manuscripts

In general, I have found the #Syriac collections from India to be a rich source of both grammatical and lexical #manuscripts. It's clear that the Syriac heritage communities in India have maintained a strong desire to keep the Syriac language alive.

Time for some more #syriac #manuscripts fun: This manuscript (APSTCH AYMA 00009) appears to be a resource for someone learning Syriac. But it's not a grammar or a dictionary; rather, it's basically an opposing meanings phrasebook. For example, the first line has two phrases: ܬܐ ܠܗܪܟܐ and ܙܠ ܠܬܡܢ: "come here" and "go there." And the second line has "go up" and "come down." So on and so forth.