I'm glad finally to be able to share the link to my finished project eManuSkript: https://emanuskript.vercel.app/.

This is a suite of tools for teaching and learning digital #palaeography and #codicology as applied to #western Latin #manuscripts. The website includes 4 multi-use apps, and 4 supporting information packages, as well as a large searchable bibliography. Our code and text is available on GitHub under a CC BY-NC licence.

A few bugs remain but they will be cleared in the next 2 weeks!

Niche question: Does anyone on here know whether late #antique #papyrus documents were ruled? Images and references much appreciated!

#palaeography @medievodons @histodons

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