Category Archives: Project News

The Last of the Great Chained Libraries

Posted on May 10, 2013 by

By Jenny Weston On a beautiful sunny day last week, the Turning Over a New Leaf project team decided to take a day off from the office to visit a spectacular chained library in the small town of Zutphen (located in … Continue reading →

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Digital Tools for Medieval Texts: Workshop at the Huygens ING

Posted on April 26, 2013 by

By Julie Somers At the Huygens ING in The Hague, researchers and program developers convened last week to discuss the creation of tools that are intended to help all ‘scholars-at-large’ of medieval manuscripts use digital technologies in useful ways. The … Continue reading →

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‘I have trodden the winepress alone’ (Isaiah 63.3)

Posted on March 29, 2013 by

Depiction of Christ in Majesty (left), Crucifixion (right) from the Stammheim Missal, used at Hildesheim (Germany) in the 1170s.  If you look on the bottom of f. 86r, you can observe a man treading grapes in a vat. The banners … Continue reading →

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“Devil Be Gone!” : Temptation, Sin, and Satan in Medieval Manuscripts

Posted on March 22, 2013 by

By Jenny Weston For most God-fearing medieval Christians the Devil was ‘legitimately scary’. He (and his band of demonic followers) presented a very real threat to one’s spiritual fortitude—always out to trick, torment, and tempt good Christians into a life … Continue reading →

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The Social Life of ‘Medieval Fragments’

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

Come visit our Flickr Photostream We have some great photos from the past Lieftinck Lectures and Manuscript Colloquia held at Leiden University Library. All available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/medievalfragments. Check them out! We’ve also recently opened a Facebook page where you can find … Continue reading →

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The Proud Reader: Showing Off the Medieval Book

Posted on March 1, 2013 by

By Erik Kwakkel (@erik_kwakkel) When I started this post I set out to answer a very simple query: what is the oldest photograph we have of a real reader interacting with a medieval manuscript? The quest was sparked by a 19th-century photograph … Continue reading →

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Lieftinck Lectures in Medieval Manuscripts

Posted on April 17, 2012 by

Lieftinck Lectures, a set on Flickr. The VIDI-project “Turning Over a New Leaf” (co-)organizes several public lectures and colloquia related to medieval manuscripts. The theme for 2011-2012 is “Books and Readers in Medieval Britain and Ireland”. Modest displays of manuscripts … Continue reading →

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‘Again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy’ (Matt. 26.43)

Posted on April 6, 2012 by

We’re taking a break from our regular Friday blogging schedule this week due to the Easter vacation!

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Medieval Garbage found in Leiden University Library

Posted on March 7, 2012 by

Erik Kwakkel recently discovered a manuscript made entirely from ‘offcuts’ – leftovers from parchment production that were normally thrown out, or boiled down for glue – in the University Library, Leiden. It is the first time that such a book … Continue reading →

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Meet the Project!

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

This is the project blog of “Turning Over a New Leaf: Manuscript Innovation in the Twelfth Century” based at the Institute for Cultural Disciplines, Universiteit Leiden.  You can find out more about our research interests by clicking this link Led … Continue reading →

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