Installing a large trampoline inside the castle walls turned out to be one of Lord Ricochet’s worst ever ideas - early 15th century, British Library, Add MS 18857, f. 118v

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The Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University is hiring a lecturer for a 3-year term beginning 1st July 2026. The lecturer will be responsible for teaching two courses per semester at both the undergraduate and graduate level in the field of Celtic Languages and Literatures broadly conceived (language, literature, history, manuscript studies, etc.).

Applications are due 28 February.

More information, including how to apply, is available on the Harvard academic positions website.

#CelticStudies #celtic #gaeilge #cymraeg #brezhoneg #gaidhlig #Harvard #manuscripts

https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15745

The Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University is hiring a lecturer for a 3-year term beginning 1st July 2026. The lecturer will be responsible for teaching two courses per semester at both the undergraduate and graduate level in the field of Celtic Languages and Literatures broadly conceived (language, literature, history, manuscript studies, etc.).

Applications are due 28 February.

More information, including how to apply, is available on the Harvard academic positions website.

#CelticStudies #celtic #gaeilge #cymraeg #brezhoneg #gaidhlig #Harvard #manuscripts

https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15745

The besieging army’s new stealth tactic was a complete bust - 15th century, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, MS Thott.290.2º, f. 23v

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King Edmund immediately regretted having placed his new private chamber so close to the castle’s stables - 13th century, Bodleian Library MS. Lat. bib. e. 7, f. 183r

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Our next hybrid lecture is "Sufi Teaching in the Margins: Ritual, Pedagogy, and Intertextuality in a Kubrawi Manuscript from 15th C. Badakhshan" by Bruno de Nicola!

The lecture is tomorrow, 17:00-18:30 Central European Time: more details at https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/veranstaltungen/event-details/sufi-teaching-in-the-margins-ritual-pedagogy-and-intertextuality-in-a-kubrawi-manuscript-from-15th-c-badakhshan

#IranianStudies #Sufism #Manuscripts #Islam

Our next hybrid lecture is "Sufi Teaching in the Margins: Ritual, Pedagogy, and Intertextuality in a Kubrawi Manuscript from 15th C. Badakhshan" by Bruno de Nicola!

The lecture is tomorrow, 17:00-18:30 Central European Time: more details at https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/veranstaltungen/event-details/sufi-teaching-in-the-margins-ritual-pedagogy-and-intertextuality-in-a-kubrawi-manuscript-from-15th-c-badakhshan

#IranianStudies #Sufism #Manuscripts #Islam

All his life Darren had been afraid of what might be in the water. His friends finally convinced him that he’d have nothing to fear as long as he was in a boat… - 16th century, Cambrai BM, 128 (124), f. 132r

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All his life Darren had been afraid of what might be in the water. His friends finally convinced him that he’d have nothing to fear as long as he was in a boat… - 16th century, Cambrai BM, 128 (124), f. 132r

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The rest of the family didn’t quite share young Jane’s new found passion for snakes - 15th century, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 49, f. 32v

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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

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

A much more exciting week brought 76 #Manuscripts online at the #Vatican https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week45.html
Includes a glossed Priscian, a bunch of 17th C Barberini stuff, a pile more Ge'ez, many Cicero, Iñigo de Mendoça's Spanish _Vita Christiana_, and MORE
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The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/

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“ Yah, apparently it’s called sushi… ” - 13th century, Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, 2200, f. 69v

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‘B’ is for Bitten - 13th century, British Library, Landsdowne MS 420, f. 103r

@MedMilMedicine #humour #Humor #globalmuseum #manuscripts #BritishLibrary

Release Notes ➡️ https://handschriftenportal.de/info/release-notes

@historikerinnen @medievodons

#manuscripts #digitalhumanities #handschriften