Life goals: learn to write like this.

The image shows a capital letter i from a 17th-century #manuscript at the Newberry Library: https://collections.newberry.org/asset-management/2KXJ8Z812G0W7

#palaeography @medievodons @histodons @historikerinnen

This ivory carving from the ninth century depicts a little-known miracle of Christ: The Poking of the Eye.

From the front cover of Würzburg, UB, M.p.th.f.65: http://vb.uni-wuerzburg.de/ub/mpthf65/ueber.html #medieval #manuscript @medievodons @historikerinnen @histodons

Unaware that they were meant to be peeled, John’s first experience with a banana was not the taste sensation he’d been promised - c. 1300, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 130II, f. 110r

@MedMilMedicine #manuscript #globalmuseum #humour #humor

Getty Museum receives major gift of rare Italian #manuscript pages.

The pages, many of which originated in Christian choir books, were donated by collectors T. Robert Burke and Katherine States Burke.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/getty-museum-receives-major-gift-of-rare-italian-manuscript-pages/3730544/ #Getty #museums #globalmuseum

"Shoshana von Blanckensee didn’t think anyone would ever read “Girls Girls Girls.” The 47-year-old #queer #Jewish #writer and oncology nurse isn’t being self-effacing when she says this to me over Zoom. Realistic would perhaps be a better word.

When she first started writing what would become her debut #novel about 20 years ago, queer #novels mostly didn’t get #published. And if they did, they were smaller releases through independent #publishers. Shoshana worked on “Girls Girls Girls” long enough to see queer novels and voices force their way into the cultural arena and zeitgeist. But even with that shift, Shoshana thought she was just muscling her way through to the end of a #manuscript, finishing the #book for the sake of finishing it.

I cannot begin to express how thrilled I am that she was wrong."

https://www.heyalma.com/girls-girls-girls-is-an-intimately-tender-portrait-of-being-young-jewish-and-gay-in-the-90s/

Emma realised that the relationship had no chance when he began telling her yet another story about ‘Mummy’, this time how she had always cooked the feet for him just the way he liked them - 15th century, BnF Ms-5070, f. 211v

@MedMilMedicine #medieval #manuscript #humor #humour

Where should a medievalist in Sighișoara, #Romania go? Well, anywhere really. But at the end of the evening, it has to be the Voynich Pub!

The bartender confirmed that it's named after the #manuscript, but confessed that they don't have a copy to look through.

#voynichmanuscript @histodons @bookhistodons

The Anne of Green Gables Manuscript: L.M. Montgomery & the Creation of Anne [Shared]

The manuscript is housed in the collections of the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Both sides of each page (recto and verso) were scanned at the Robertson Library's Digitization Lab at the University of Prince Edward Island.

https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/05/25/the-anne-of-green-gables-manuscript-l-m-montgomery-the-creation-of-anne-shared/

#book #history #anneofgreengables #greengables #montgomery #princeedwardisland #canada #books #writing #Reading #manuscript #handwriting

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I'm so excited that Dr. Barbara Gastel’s #book #Medical #Editing: A Guide to Learning the Craft and Building Your Career will soon be #published! It's the first #textbook about our #profession! I had the honor of reviewing the #manuscript. https://tinyurl.com/5c6vs3hb

There's so much going on. The world is so fucked up, I just cannot even...so instead, I will meme and hope it makes you smile even for just an instant.

On Sunday I'll be taking my students back to Vercelli and Verona, where (among other things) we will be working with an incredible uncatalogued #medieval #manuscript collection and using digital tools to investigate hidden #fragments inside book bindings. We will also be eating a lot of delicious pasta! Posts about this will be tagged with #SpringSchool25 - stay tuned.

@medievodons @historikerinnen @histodons #palaeography

Nuns, apparently: "Hey, I'm feeling horny, let's go pick some dick off the dick tree!"

https://www.erosblog.com/2013/11/15/penis-tree-the-picking/

TIL: Whatever #ebooks or documents you put on a #Kindle, they're being indexed & uploaded automatically to the #Amazon server if the device has an internet connection. Just found out with an unpublished #manuscript that someone wanted to read on their Kindle and it ended up on the Amazon server, although it was put onto the Kindle manually via cable. Whatever you do with Amazon devices, you're adding everything to Amazon's data collection. #Enshittification #AuthorRights #IntellectualProperty

When I teach #palaeography I tell my students that the history of handwriting is the history of people. This #manuscript proves it: copied personally by #Petrarch, one of the great poets of the Italian #Renaissance, it ends abruptly at the top of a page, when Petrarch suddenly died in July 1374. We only know this context thanks to painstaking palaeographical and historical research.

Paris, BnF, MS lat. 5784: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84469390/f105.item#

@histodons @medievodons @historikerinnen @bookstodon

"Ich musste sehr dafür sorgen, dass die Berichterstattung nicht zu Dan-Brown-mäßig wird," sagt Dirk Schultze, einer der beiden Entdecker einer mittelalterlichen Handschrift an der @stabi_berlin. Doch die Geschichte hinter diesem Manuskript liest sich mindestens genauso spannend wie der "Da Vinci Code": https://www.spkmagazin.de/2025/der-moench-und-die-handschrift.html

Ok... So managed to submit our revised #manuscript with this cover email ;)

Thank you for your patience with us... You'd asked us to submit the revised version by 20th February. Thankfully, you didn't mention the year!! We've taken two full years and are now sending it in before the deadline! :)

@academicchatter
#academia #AcademicChatter #ScientificPublishing #OpenAccess