The Ligatus research centre in the University of Arts London has just advertised a PhD position on machine learning applied to the history of bookbinding. I have no direct information about this, although I do know the people involved and can say that they are doing a lot of ...
A very interesting summer programme is being run jointly by the Freie Universität Berlin and the Ecole pratique des hautes études to work on computational methods as applied to manuscript studies. The programme looks very interesting indeed, and many of the lecturers I know and I can attest that they ...
One interesting complication of some medieval manuscripts such as Liber Wigornensis and the Exon Domesday book is that we do not know the original order of the gatherings. In fact, one of the few things that we know for sure for Exon Domesday is that the order as ...
The next Medieval Manuscripts Seminar in London will be on a little-studied fragment which has previously been attributed to eleventh-century Wales. It has been associated with a form of script that only survives from a handful of manuscripts datable to the 1060s through 1080s in Wales, but it has received ...
Elena Pierazzo and I are pleased to announce a workshop in Sydney this June on 'An Introduction to Digital Manuscript Studies'. Based loosely on the longer 'Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age' programme (MMSDA), this workshop will be held on Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 ...