How your email finds me.

(From an 8th-century northern French manuscript, here showing a wind rose with 24 winds and a put-upon person in the middle).

Online at https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc65498x (27v)

#palaeography #medieval @medievodons @histodons

The End of the World in Images: The Picture Book of the Life of St John and the Apocalypse

Picture Book of the Life of St John and the Apocalypse is a unique and visually striking example of the picture-book Apocalypse – a distinctive group of medieval manuscripts that present the apocalyptic visions of the Book of Revelation primarily through images.

https://www.medievalists.net/2026/02/picture-book-st-john-apocalypse/

Apocalypses at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=apocalypses

#books #medieval_manuscripts #palaeography

The application process for this summer's school in Digital Palaeography at Göttingen (with a focus on the medieval Latin West) is open!

All info: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/695097.html

Please forward the link to any colleagues or students who might be interested!

@historikerinnen @histodons @medievodons #palaeography #medieval

Unusual ghosts.

(From the 13th-century sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10509412z/f21.item.r=villard%20de%20honnecourt) #palaeography #medieval

If you can't afford to travel to an archive but can afford to pay someone for a few hours of their time, there is now a tool for that: #Sourcery. It allows you to pay someone on the ground to go scan or photograph what you need. #palaeography #manuscripts

Link: https://sourceryapp.org/?utm_source=dancohen&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-writing-is-on-the-wall-for-handwriting-recognition

This morning I am in Berlin looking at #manuscript Theol lat fol 366, said (with relative certainty) to be written by St Liudger ca 800 CE. Liudger was a missionary from Utrecht who spent years in Britain, then founded the monastery in Werden (Germany) where this manuscript is from. I feel like Liudger is right next to me when I sit in front of his book and read his words, just as he did over 1200 years ago! #palaeography #goosebumps

You can look at it yourself online: https://handschriftenportal.de/search?hspobjectid=HSP-88c14a7a-6cd6-36ec-8617-aeab8637aef6