As Cambridge University Library’s 2nd ever Oschinsky Research Associate, I was thrilled to spend today working with one of the same #MedievalManuscripts that Dorothea Oschinsky researched! #FanGirling 😃 Thank you, Gonville & Caius College Library! #LegalHistory @bookhistodons@medievodons
I have found my True Love, and it is this miniature, Mohawked, axe-wielding maniac and their, uh… [hound? horse? rabid hedgehog? (whatever it is, I’m here for it)] scribbled by some medieval or early modern kid in a Cambridge University Library legal manuscript. #MedievalManuscripts#Manuscripts#doodles#DoodleArt#CHARGE! 🪓🤺
#TIH#OTD in #MedievalManuscripts & #BookHistory
Happy birthday to…
• Leonard Eugene Boyle, OP, OC (13 Nov 1923–1999), 🇮🇪 & 🇨🇦 medievalist & palaeographer, & 1st Irish & North American Prefect of the Vatican Library in Rome (1984–1997).
• Martin Bodmer (13 Nov 1899–1971), Swiss bibliophile, scholar, book collector.
And happy belated birthday to Wilfrid Voynich (12 Nov [O.S. 31 Oct] 1865–1930), Polish revolutionary, antiquarian, bibliophile of Voynich manuscript fame. @bookhistodons
#OTD#TIH 01 Nov 1903: Death of Theodor Mommsen (b. 1817), German scholar & jurist. On 12 Jul 1880 at 2a.m., fire broke out in his house at Marchstrasse 6, Berlin. Several #MedievalManuscripts were burnt to ashes: MS O.4.36, a loan from Trinity College Cambridge; an important Jordanes manuscript from Heidelberg Uni; & other #manuscripts. After being burned whilst attempting to rescue the #books, he had to be restrained to prevent him from re-entering the blazing house. @bookhistodons
This is the account for Manuscript, Rare Book & Archive Studies (MARBAS) at Princeton. We're an initiative dedicated to sharing resources and techniques related to textual artifacts produced before 1600. That's manuscripts, archival documents, early printed books, papyri, inscriptions, the list goes on! We're all about premodern texts and the multitudes of materials that have carried them.
#TIH#OTD 11 Sep 1942: Death of Adriano Cappelli (b. 1859), Italian archivist & palaeographer at Parma State Archives, best known for his Lexicon Abbreviaturarum—a dictionary of c.14,000 abbreviations from #MedievalManuscripts. #palaeography#manuscripts#BookHistory