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

What's the ideal length for a practical #paleography video/screencast?

We're thinking of putting together a video library covering different document forms (telegrams, letters, account books), localities/languages, and time periods from the Early Modern to the 20th century.

What would help you (or would have helped you) in your own research? #histodons #genealogy #palaeography

If you have signed up for my 'Transcribing and Editing Manuscripts (afte 1700)' course at the London International Palaeography School in June @Ies_London, please know that I take requests. If you have any issues/problems that you would like to see covered, do get in touch.

https://ies.sas.ac.uk/london-international-palaeography-school/2023-summer-school#transcribing-and-editing-manuscripts-after-1700--wim-van-mierlo

#palaeography #modernpalaeography #handwriting #manuscripts #archives #editing #transcription

Online lecture: Letters from the First Crusade

The next London Palaeography Seminar lecture takes place next Tuesday (2 May 2023) at 17:30 BST. Thomas W. Smith is speaking on 'Scribal Crusading, Epistolary Culture and the Manuscripts of Letters from the First Crusade'.

For more information, click here: https://bit.ly/40TJyUF

To attend via Zoom, contact either Prof Julia Crick of KCL (Julia.crick@kcl.ac.uk) or Dr David Rundle, Uni Kent (D.G.Rundle@kent.ac.uk)

#palaeography #manuscripts

Here's a little historical mystery that may be solvable by someone with #palaeography expertise—is this inscription in Trinity College's copy of #Shakespeare's First Folio written in some form of early modern shorthand? And if so, what does it say?

https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0413/1376565-shakespeare-folio-ireland/

#bookhistory #histodons

This is my dream job. Not an ideal location. Maybe a new freelance option? 🤩 🤔

#snailMail #usps #handwriting #palaeography #paleography

https://journa.host/@algernon/110169281533228903

If you are working on modern manuscripts and archives, my course on 'modern' palaeography, 'Transcribing and Editing Manuscripts (after 1700)', which I'm teaching at the London International Palaeography School (LIPS) this July, might be of interest.

Check out some of the other amazing courses as well.

https://ies.sas.ac.uk/london-international-palaeography-school/2023-summer-school#transcribing-and-editing-manuscripts-after-1700--wim-van-mierlo

#manuscripts #archives #palaeography #editing

Sth. to check out for @OxMedStud students & all of @OxWMTC #palaeography! Also tagging @TeachingCodex & students of @DanielWakelin1's 'Beyond Print' group (@NDomeisen!)
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RT @CSMC_Hamburg
Two more weeks to participate in our J.P. Gumbert Dissertation Award! We are looking for the best #PhD dissertation dealing with #manuscripts or other written artefacts defended in 2022.

The winner receives 5,000€ and a fellowship at CSMC

https:/…
https://twitter.com/CSMC_Hamburg/status/1636322349514366980

@histodons OK, clearly there is interest in trying to rebuild something like RetroReveal. What I need from you all is some idea in how you used it with manuscripts (where were not the primary use.)

Especially re: color spaces. You know how RR had those different filters, like RGBW, YQ1Q2, YUV_Y, LSHLab, etc.? Which did you use with MSS, and did you ever customize a color space? Post here or email marksaltveit at gmail. Thanks!
#histodons #palaeography #codicology #manuscript

Specifically, the software is ImageJ, created for the US National Institutes of Health, and the Color Transformer plugin by Maria E. Barilla. She has since upgraded that to Color Transormer 2, presumably a better choice.

RetroReveal was mostly used by stamp collectors to work with cancellation stamps; there might be ways to do this better suited to medieval scribes' ink and parchment. #histodons #palaeography #codicology

Say, #histodons, is anyone familiar with RetroReveal (RIP), and in particular has anyone tried to recreate it from the underlying open source software?

I'm looking at doing that, but I don't need to reinvent any wheels and am happy to compare notes. @histodons #RetroReveal #palaeography #codicology

If you don't know this tool, it uses image processing techniques to produce pseudo-multispectral images from existing photos. Very useful for reading faded or damaged manuscripts.

The 2023 London International Palaeography Summer School for all your manuscript research training needs. Check out the excellent programme, including (ahem) my course on "Transcribing and Editing Manuscripts (after 1700)" .

https://ies.sas.ac.uk/london-international-palaeography-school

#manuscripts #archives #editing #handwriting #transcribing #palaeography #paleography #summerschool #researchtraining #skills

I’ve received my copy of this new book that I preordered a few months ago. #genealogy #FamilyHistory #palaeography

Friends, the latest London #palaeography Seminar takes place this coming Tuesday (17th) and it will be a corker: Kathleen Kennedy talking about 'Textura during the Cult of the Flourish'. If you are in town, do join us; if not, join us online:
https://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/textura-during-cult-flourish

Transkription zu Übungszwecken: Tourenverzeichnis von Gustav Jahn, 1917
#manuscript #transcription #palaeography #alpinismus

https://bit.ly/3WYyrZa

(Es gibt noch ein paar Lücken und Unsicherheiten, über deren Klärung ich mich sehr freuen würde.)

#Today I'm eavesdropping on a workplace conversation about a nearby #SpecialCollections #library which is "boring" because it's not a #museum and it doesn't even have an app to decipher 18th and 19th century handwriting so the #archives are "impossible to use".

Interesting how expectations around #accessibility are different across different generations. The group of colleagues is mostly #GenZ and, despite doing #heritage related #MastersDegrees, suffer from the lack of #palaeography courses.

Interested in #palaeography & #medieval #manuscripts ?

Thursday 19 Jan 2023, 6pm (GMT)

"Cut Out and Stuck In: Fragments of Medieval Manuscripts in Nineteenth-Century Albums"
by Prof. (U of St Andrews), Margaret Connolly

FREE! Open to all!
With tickets available to attend in person in Edinburgh or online via Zoom

Organised by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

DETAILS:
https://www.socantscot.org/event/january-lecture-cut-out-and-stuck-in-fragments-of-medieval-manuscripts-in-nineteenth-century-albums/

@medievodons
@histodon

#IlluminatedManuscript #MedievalArt

Palaeography and popular culture:

I was just watching episode 4 of Shipwreck Hunters Australia on Disney+, in which they are diving the wreck site of The Trial, an East India Company ship which sank off the coast of Australia in 1622.

Towards the end they showed a couple of manuscripts with the accounts of the survivors, and I will admit to pausing the episode to read part of one out loud to my wife.

#Palaeography #Paleography #ShipwreckHunters #EarlyModern #Earlymodon #EastIndiaCompany

My eldest got me this lovely #postcard for #Christmas. I’ve now tracked down the recipient in the 1911 #recensements for Marseille. But struggling to transcribe her employer (row 4) or that of her father (row 1). Can anyone help? I’m good on fifteenth-century French hands but not nineteenth-century ones! #French #Transcription #Palaeography.

Oschinsky Research Associate
https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/38612/

This role enables a scholar to conduct research in any aspect of the University Library's collections relating to its #medievalManuscripts or #medievalArchive collections, including their #palaeography, #diplomatic
# or #codicology. The Library's medieval manuscript collections include manuscripts in Arabic, Hebrew and other Middle Eastern languages as well as Latin and European vernaculars

#medievalMSS
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