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Insular Manuscripts in the Age of Charlemagne: ERC Advanced Grant research project (2024–2029). Run by Prof. Jo Story, with Dr Anna Dorofeeva and partners in libraries & universities across Europe. Funded by UKRI.
Here is a controversial - or maybe not so controversial? - #palaeography question: how did this scribe do the rolled tops on ascenders and the letter i?
Was it by pushing the pen up and to the left, then down and to the right?
Or were these additional downward strokes?
Was it by pushing the pen up and to the left, then down and to the right?
Or were these additional downward strokes?
July 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Here is a controversial - or maybe not so controversial? - #palaeography question: how did this scribe do the rolled tops on ascenders and the letter i?
Was it by pushing the pen up and to the left, then down and to the right?
Or were these additional downward strokes?
Was it by pushing the pen up and to the left, then down and to the right?
Or were these additional downward strokes?
Exciting news! @ERC_Research grants #ERCAdG to INSULAR MSS in the Age of Charlemagne (€2.5m). Our team includes
@litteracarolina.mastodon.online & partners in libraries & universities across Europe incl. @ercb2c @brad_dan @CharlotteDenoel @LieveWatteeuw @bodleianlibs @BLMedieval
@litteracarolina.mastodon.online & partners in libraries & universities across Europe incl. @ercb2c @brad_dan @CharlotteDenoel @LieveWatteeuw @bodleianlibs @BLMedieval
April 11, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Exciting news! @ERC_Research grants #ERCAdG to INSULAR MSS in the Age of Charlemagne (€2.5m). Our team includes
@litteracarolina.mastodon.online & partners in libraries & universities across Europe incl. @ercb2c @brad_dan @CharlotteDenoel @LieveWatteeuw @bodleianlibs @BLMedieval
@litteracarolina.mastodon.online & partners in libraries & universities across Europe incl. @ercb2c @brad_dan @CharlotteDenoel @LieveWatteeuw @bodleianlibs @BLMedieval
Exciting news! @ERC_Research grants #ERCAdG to INSULAR MSS in the Age of Charlemagne (€2.5m). Our team includes @litteracarolina.mastodon.online & partners in libraries & universities across Europe incl. @ercb2c @brad_dan @CharlotteDenoel @LieveWatteeuw @bodleianlibs @BLMedieval
November 16, 2024 at 8:51 AM
Exciting news! @ERC_Research grants #ERCAdG to INSULAR MSS in the Age of Charlemagne (€2.5m). Our team includes @litteracarolina.mastodon.online & partners in libraries & universities across Europe incl. @ercb2c @brad_dan @CharlotteDenoel @LieveWatteeuw @bodleianlibs @BLMedieval
Is there anywhere else that a scribe writing Insular half-uncial/Insular majuscule uses an uncial rather than an Insular G? (@LitteraCarolina & @cmcurran21) The switch happens on fol. 24r 👇Psalm 46 verse 5 – elegit (uncial G with a fancy curl)...
November 16, 2024 at 8:59 AM
Is there anywhere else that a scribe writing Insular half-uncial/Insular majuscule uses an uncial rather than an Insular G? (@LitteraCarolina & @cmcurran21) The switch happens on fol. 24r 👇Psalm 46 verse 5 – elegit (uncial G with a fancy curl)...
The wonderful Salaberga Psalter [Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, MS Hamilton 553] is now online: <a href="http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0001B96A00000000" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0001B96A00000000 – Enjoy!
November 16, 2024 at 8:51 AM
The wonderful Salaberga Psalter [Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, MS Hamilton 553] is now online: <a href="http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0001B96A00000000" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0001B96A00000000 – Enjoy!
Hear @Helen_Gittos on ‘Christianity before Conversion’ on 28 Oct, 5pm for the 40th annual lecture at All Saints’ Church, Brixworth – the largest extant pre-Conquest church in England, built c. 800. All welcome!
November 16, 2024 at 9:07 AM
Hear @Helen_Gittos on ‘Christianity before Conversion’ on 28 Oct, 5pm for the 40th annual lecture at All Saints’ Church, Brixworth – the largest extant pre-Conquest church in England, built c. 800. All welcome!
Where was Mercian spoken? Find out by joining us in the 8th-C Mercian church at Brixworth, Northants on Sat 29th October @ 5pm (cake @ 3:30) for Dr Christine Rauer's Brixworth Lecture. @UoLMedieval @StAndrewsSAIMS @HyPIRUoL @historyleic @BrixworthChurch
November 16, 2024 at 9:22 AM
Where was Mercian spoken? Find out by joining us in the 8th-C Mercian church at Brixworth, Northants on Sat 29th October @ 5pm (cake @ 3:30) for Dr Christine Rauer's Brixworth Lecture. @UoLMedieval @StAndrewsSAIMS @HyPIRUoL @historyleic @BrixworthChurch
As an earlier Charles once said. Actually it was Alcuin of York, writing in the voice of Charlemagne. From the epitaph of Pope Hadrian I, d. 795. Still in Rome, in the portico of St Peter's basilica. Rex not yet Imperator. #medievaltwitter
November 16, 2024 at 9:30 AM
As an earlier Charles once said. Actually it was Alcuin of York, writing in the voice of Charlemagne. From the epitaph of Pope Hadrian I, d. 795. Still in Rome, in the portico of St Peter's basilica. Rex not yet Imperator. #medievaltwitter
What’s going on here #medievaltwitter? Did he tread in something? One shoe off, one shoe on. And socks and dogbreath.
Doodle in the Echternach Sacramentary BnF Lat. 9433, fo 1r, late 9thC. (https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8479011k/f9.item.zoom)
Doodle in the Echternach Sacramentary BnF Lat. 9433, fo 1r, late 9thC. (https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8479011k/f9.item.zoom)
November 16, 2024 at 9:30 AM
What’s going on here #medievaltwitter? Did he tread in something? One shoe off, one shoe on. And socks and dogbreath.
Doodle in the Echternach Sacramentary BnF Lat. 9433, fo 1r, late 9thC. (https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8479011k/f9.item.zoom)
Doodle in the Echternach Sacramentary BnF Lat. 9433, fo 1r, late 9thC. (https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8479011k/f9.item.zoom)
The Tiberius Bede, fo. 60v. Was it made in the south of England in the early ninth century, or perhaps in Wensleydale? <a href="http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_tiberius_c_ii_f060v" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_tiberius_c_ii_f060v
#InsularMSS @BLMedieval @aardman @HyPIRUoL
#InsularMSS @BLMedieval @aardman @HyPIRUoL
November 16, 2024 at 9:38 AM
The Tiberius Bede, fo. 60v. Was it made in the south of England in the early ninth century, or perhaps in Wensleydale? <a href="http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_tiberius_c_ii_f060v" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_tiberius_c_ii_f060v
#InsularMSS @BLMedieval @aardman @HyPIRUoL
#InsularMSS @BLMedieval @aardman @HyPIRUoL
This line of holes was made when the skin was wet, before stretching. Needle holes from stitching remain. Unpicked, flattened & edges trimmed before writing. Intriguing Primasius Apocalypse MS, now Bodl Lib, Douce 140 f.136, 8C 1/2:...
November 16, 2024 at 9:46 AM
This line of holes was made when the skin was wet, before stretching. Needle holes from stitching remain. Unpicked, flattened & edges trimmed before writing. Intriguing Primasius Apocalypse MS, now Bodl Lib, Douce 140 f.136, 8C 1/2:...
Pity the scribe in mid 8th-C Tours who was handed this piece of parchment to copy the letters of Jerome (now, Épinal, BM MS Lat. 149 (68) fol. 162v https://galeries.limedia.fr/ark:/18128/d252cj4tq538twt2/p334, thank you @bmiepinal !). Lots more #parchment talk at @IMC_Leeds (Session...
November 16, 2024 at 9:54 AM
Pity the scribe in mid 8th-C Tours who was handed this piece of parchment to copy the letters of Jerome (now, Épinal, BM MS Lat. 149 (68) fol. 162v https://galeries.limedia.fr/ark:/18128/d252cj4tq538twt2/p334, thank you @bmiepinal !). Lots more #parchment talk at @IMC_Leeds (Session...
A newly digitised #InsularMSS (?Hersfeld / Fulda), now Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, O IV 17. https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/ubb/O-IV-0017 … Extracts from Gregory of Tours, Sedulius, Sulpicius Severus. Teaching texts? Intriguing format, made from scraps of #parchment...
November 16, 2024 at 10:01 AM
A newly digitised #InsularMSS (?Hersfeld / Fulda), now Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, O IV 17. https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/ubb/O-IV-0017 … Extracts from Gregory of Tours, Sedulius, Sulpicius Severus. Teaching texts? Intriguing format, made from scraps of #parchment...
Beautiful blue birds from Byzantium, on both inner faces of the boards of an #InsularMSS from Fulda, c. 830–40, with a 10th C Byz ivory panel : <a href="http://vb.uni-wuerzburg.de/ub/permalink/mpthf66-49." class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://vb.uni-wuerzburg.de/ub/permalink/mpthf66-49. Have you got any of these @OxQuackademics? #Textilesinbooks
November 16, 2024 at 10:19 AM
Beautiful blue birds from Byzantium, on both inner faces of the boards of an #InsularMSS from Fulda, c. 830–40, with a 10th C Byz ivory panel : <a href="http://vb.uni-wuerzburg.de/ub/permalink/mpthf66-49." class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://vb.uni-wuerzburg.de/ub/permalink/mpthf66-49. Have you got any of these @OxQuackademics? #Textilesinbooks
The Épinal Glossary (c. 700) is online at Limédia Galeries - Glossarium https://galeries.limedia.fr/ark:/18128/d0s75hg5922r9k39/p1
November 16, 2024 at 10:27 AM
The Épinal Glossary (c. 700) is online at Limédia Galeries - Glossarium https://galeries.limedia.fr/ark:/18128/d0s75hg5922r9k39/p1
Was it easier to get to Quentovic or Lundenwic from Canterbury? Lots of interest in this slide on tidal flows in the Channel from our @InsularMSS paper #MSSinASK @BLMedieval. Many thanks to @LeverhulmeTrust & @BritishAcademy_ for continued support.
November 16, 2024 at 10:35 AM
Was it easier to get to Quentovic or Lundenwic from Canterbury? Lots of interest in this slide on tidal flows in the Channel from our @InsularMSS paper #MSSinASK @BLMedieval. Many thanks to @LeverhulmeTrust & @BritishAcademy_ for continued support.
Parchment preparation? An initial from an early 9th C MS from Werden showinga skin on a stretcher? Berlin, BSB Ms. theol. lat. fol. 356, fol. 7v. <a href="http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0001709600000000" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0001709600000000
#medievalmanuscripts
#medievalmanuscripts
November 16, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Parchment preparation? An initial from an early 9th C MS from Werden showinga skin on a stretcher? Berlin, BSB Ms. theol. lat. fol. 356, fol. 7v. <a href="http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0001709600000000" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0001709600000000
#medievalmanuscripts
#medievalmanuscripts