Category Archives: Project News

Manuscripts for the Rich & Famous (Super Bling)!

Posted on October 25, 2013 by

By Jenny Weston For the most part, medieval books do not look like this: But just as some people today add chrome to their cars or gems to their watches or phone cases, some medieval people chose to add ‘bling’ to their … Continue reading →

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Writing the Word: Images of the Medieval Scribe at Work

Posted on October 18, 2013 by

By Irene O’Daly Scribal portraits in medieval books were fairly common, and can be an important resource for scholars attempting to reconstruct the atmosphere of a medieval scriptorium, as they provide insights into the materials used in the production of … Continue reading →

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Capless a’s and a Fringe Ligature: The Courtship of Medieval Script

Posted on October 11, 2013 by

By Ramona Venema Ramona is a research master in ‘Classical, Medieval Renaissance Studies’ at the University of Groningen. She is currently working as an intern for the ‘Turning Over a New Leaf Project’.  After completing a course in the fundamentals … Continue reading →

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Digital Humanities Summer School at KU Leuven

Posted on October 9, 2013 by

By Julie Somers In September, the three day ‘Digital Humanities Summer School’ at KU Leuven, Belgium, offered presentations on a variety of approaches to this field.  From ‘digital scholarly editing’ to ‘digital open scholarship’, the lectures provided insight into the … Continue reading →

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Stamp of Approval: A Paper Snippet and the Spanish Inquisition

Posted on September 24, 2013 by

By Erik Kwakkel (@erik_kwakkel) This blog entry focuses on a book fragment I encountered in Leiden University Library earlier this week while studying twelfth-century material with my research team. As discussed in an earlier blog, after the invention of printing … Continue reading →

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Strange Weather, Volcanoes, and a Roof Collapse: Secrets of the Medieval Chronicle

Posted on September 13, 2013 by

By Jenny Weston This past June, a great news story was published about a set of Irish medieval manuscripts that helped a team of  scientists study the relationship between volcanic eruptions (!) and changing climates. In recent months, a team … Continue reading →

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Classical Manuscripts in the Leiden University Collections

Posted on September 9, 2013 by

By Irene O’Daly The project organised a colloquium last week (3 September) entitled ‘Writing the Classics in the Middle Ages’ which focused on the production, form and transmission of classical manuscripts in the medieval West. Alongside a number of papers, … Continue reading →

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