There are over 500 forms of the word "through" in medieval English! #PalaeographySchool23

(Source: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/ihd/elalme/elalme_frames.html)

One of the treasures in the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel is the 10th-century Reichenau pericope, Cod. Guelf. 84.5 Aug. 2o. This is the beginning of St John’s Gospel, with the phrase “in principio…” (“in the beginning…”) depicted as a stunning gold monogram. This is a facsimile of the real manuscript, but it has been done so well that even the carved ivory on the front cover is reproduced. #PalaeographySchool23

Is this a facsimile of Charlemagne’s Capitulare de villis, which is held at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel? Yes, yes it is. #PalaeographySchool23

An absolute pleasure to be at Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel today for #PalaeographySchool23.

Tomorrow in #PalaeographySchool23 is one of my favourite days: the morning spent on palaeography, including Caroline minuscule (the best minuscule), followed by an afternoon working with manuscripts, including bindings. The Göttingen library has some fabulous bindings with exciting features: Horn fenestrae! Chains! Chemise bindings! Tooling! Plus I have the help of our head of conservation, who is a genius and brings along a binding frame with sewing/blindtooling tools to show how it's done.

Expanding and extensively tagging a #palaeography and #bookhistory bibliography on #Zotero is hard work, but thoroughly worth doing. Wish I’d had this ten years ago. #PalaeographySchool23

Discussing the fundamental principles of digital critical editions this morning as preparation for working with #eXist and #TEIPublisher. #PalaeographySchool23 @medievodons

Nearly at the end of week 1 of #PalaeographySchool23, and we’ve already covered so much: #IIIF, codicology, #palaeography, TEI-XML, multispectral imaging, digitisation, conservation, cataloguing. The students are amazing and a privilege to teach. Really looking forward to welcoming @patrick_sahle as our keynote speaker next week! @medievodons @bookhistodons

Forgot the name of St Boniface today (“Benedict or something”), but solved most of the computer issues that came up during my 6 hours of teaching. History 0, #DigitalHumanities 1? #PalaeographySchool23