What happens when you spend too long cataloging lines, rubrics, crosses, and prayer structures in a 16th-century prayerbook? Apparently I default to poetry. Send help.

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

#ManuscriptStudies #Nuntastic #Kalamazoo2026 #scribes #blog #research #BreakTime

A glimpse into Batak manuscripts from North Sumatra! Protecting threatened practices like this is why we do what we do. Join our July 6th meeting - link in bio.

#scripts #scriptkeepersnetwork #endangeredscripts #endangeredlanguages #endangeredalphabets #languages #culture #preservation #documentation #indigenous #indigenouslanguages #indigenousscripts #batak #indonesia #putasha #barkbooks #indigenousknowledge #manuscriptculture #southeastasia #culturalheritage #manuscriptstudies #batakculture

📯 This week's #DigitalHistoryOFK: Riham Aida Mokrani presents "Manuscript Meets Model: Digital Approaches to Arabic #Paleography" - exploring how #OntologyEngineering & #ML are transforming Arabic #ManuscriptStudies.

📅 4 June, 4-6 pm (CET), online
ℹ️ Abstract: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10533

#DigitalHistory #4memory #Paleography #MachineLearning #semanticweb #ontologies
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Sad to hear that Peter Beal, specialist on early modern manuscripts, has died.

I met Peter in the mid-2000s when the Institute of English studies was preparing for the CELM project bid.

Peter Beal obituary: palaeographer who catalogued Churchill’s papers

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/peter-beal-dv99zgdxp

#obituary #manuscriptstudies #manuscripts #earlymodernliterature

The #Schoenberg Institute for #ManuscriptStudies is pleased to introduce #BASIRA - Books as Symbols in #RenaissanceArt, a new, #openaccess online database of representations of books and other textual documents in the figurative arts between approximately 1300 and 1600 CE.

Enter the database: https://basira.library.upenn.edu

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