The varieties of glossing
This week I received a call for papers from Pádraic Moran (National University of Ireland, Galway) on behalf of the Network for the Study of Glossing about a conference to be held at Galway on June...
View ArticlePieces of parchment in Utrecht
On September 20, 2018, the Utrecht Archives (Het Utrechts Archief) opened the exhibition Perkament in stukken [Parchment in pieces] with medieval manuscript fragments from both this institution and the...
View ArticleGlossing from a comparative perspective
Alderik Blom has sent the call for papers for a conference about glosses to be held in Marburg on June 6 and 7, 2019 with the title Glossing from a comparative perspective. It will be a sequel to last...
View ArticleA meeting in Utrecht on Digital Humanities
This year’s international congress of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) will be held at Utrecht from July 9 to 12, 2019. The main theme of next month’s conference in Utrecht is...
View ArticleParatext und Texte des klassischen Altertums
Am Rande eines Textes kann man vieles entdecken. Manchmal überschreitet man gewisse Grenzen einer Forschungsdisziplin. Es ist darum erfreulich dass der dreizehnte Celtic Conference in Classics ein...
View ArticleFragmente digital beschreiben
Die Beschreibung von Handschriften und Fragmenten ist zuerst ein Auftrag im Bereich etwa der Katalogisierung bzw. Archivierung und zweitens ein Verfahren innerhalb der Kodikologie. Allerdings ergebt...
View ArticleFragments in context
In view of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences for keeping safe distances it is only natural that also for the study of fragments online events are being organized. I would like to point...
View ArticleThe art of reasoning
In December 2020 the Huygens Institute / Institute for Dutch History in Amsterdam launched the virtual exhibit The Art of Reasoning in Medieval Manuscripts. For those familiar with medieval manuscripts...
View ArticleÉditer les gloses en ligne
Parfois on ne se rend pas compte des choses simples que presque par hasard. Récemment l’édition en ligne des gloses au premier livre des Étymologies d’Isidore de Seville est parue, le fruit du travail...
View ArticleDiscarded and reused documents
Live, hybrid or only online, scholarly events are being organized in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Bologna a hybrid two-day conference will be held on December 2-3, 2021 around the theme...
View ArticleMusical manuscript fragments in archives
After a period with several lockdowns it is good to see live scholarly events can take place again. The role of medieval fragments in enhancing our knowledge of medieval literature and science is...
View ArticleComparing glossing practices
Sometimes a book appears that already with its title and contributing authors – many of them members of the Network for the Study of Glossing – stands out among recent publications, and therefore I am...
View ArticleWorking on a Handbook of Glossing
Pádraic Moran (University of Galway) is a very active scholar in the field of studying glosses in all their forms and aspects. As a part of the new project Global and Local Scholarship on Annotated...
View ArticleEine Bibliographie zur Paläographie im Netz
Auf dem Hypotheses-Blog Digital Palaeography der Universität Göttingen wird nicht nur berichtet über die dortige Forschungsprojekte im Bereich der Handschriften und Digital Humanities. Jüngst hat Anna...
View ArticleCare for the description of medieval documents
For the 2025 International Congress of Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, MI, to be held from May 8 to 10, papers are invited for a special hybrid session of the International Society for Medievalist...
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