I can barely believe it! 🥹 My book is now available for you to read! It’s a mix of research, theory, and very cool ( slightly spooky) objects. 📖 I’m SOOO grateful to @ArcHumanities, @ETreharne, and @Calthalas, among others, and truly can’t *wait* to hear what folks think! ♥️
Coat of arms box, 1583 It contains the coat of arms of Archduke Ferdinand II, framed by the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece and flanked by two griffins. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
Thank you so much to Jen Hoyer of @NewBooksNetwork for our conversation about my recently published book! 📖 Such insightful and fun questions, it was a delight. (See Transmediation and the Archive, late 2024 via @ArcHumanities!)
What a brilliant evening at the opening of the
@britishlibrary exhibit 'Medieval Women: In Their Own Words' —absolutely unmissable! Honoured to have contributed to the companion book alongside @MedievalFemina. Superb work from @BLMedieval
bringing this amazing project to life.
Books have layers! Book printed in black and white (1484), rubricated, woodcuts coloured and initials flourished by hand, damaged, repaired in handwriting. And still going strong today @ubleiden
Dutch translation of the Gesta Romanorum, 21219 B 15: 2.
Shadows from the Walls of Death (1874) gathers real swaths of poisonous arsenic wallpaper sourced from stores across Michigan. Originally printed in a run of 100 copies, only 6 remain due to recipients fearfully destroying their copies: publicdomainreview.org/colle…
And thus one of my weirder childhood fantasies has been fulfilled: I am a sorceress, a necromancer. I wrest utterances from the void. I raise the dead. 📜🔬🪄👻😜 #OBNS_MISHA#BookScience#MedievalManuscripts
ALT The edge of a fragment of a medieval manuscript in poor condition. Riddled with holes, the strip of parchment has been folded in half horizontally. The text traversing its lower half is badly faded to the point of illegibility, while the text of its upper half is partially obscured by stains and ink transfers.
ALT The edge of the same fragment of a medieval manuscript shown in the first photograph. This is a pseudocolour or false colour image produced via special imaging techniques and software manipulation. Here, the fragment is rendered in multiple shades of crimson, dark red, and turquoise, rendering the formerly illegible text legible.
ALT Screenshot of the landing page for University of Toronto Libraries, showing the main search portal in University of Toronto’s customary blue and white. Above this, in the header, is a link to a web feature, titled “Exploring the Hidden Stories of Books: How the Andrews gift will support book science research and innovation at UTL”, along with a pseudocolour image of a fragment of a medieval manuscript. The image shows the fragment positioned atop a black background, but software has been used to transform the medieval manuscript into a psychedelic extravaganza of purple, white, and red script atop lime, aqua, violet, and crimson parchment.
✨ Exciting news! We’ve successfully opened the glazing of the St. John’s fragment, mounted over 20 years ago. Thankfully, it hasn’t adhered to the glass as we feared. Now, it's ready for re-glazing to ensure its continued preservation! 📜
#TheJohnRylands#Conservation#Papyrus
I’m cooking dinner and watching all the *amazing* talks that make up this event! (Trying not to burn food when getting distracted with inspiration.) Sign up and join in this week. I’m participating in the last session of the workshop, “Hands-on the digital,” too!
#SaveTheDate On October 24, the „Middle Ages“ workshop will be held at #SFB1567. Participants from a variety of professions discuss digital and virtual developments in discourse about the Middle Ages.
For more information ➡️virtuelle-lebenswelten.de/bl…
Usually I like to stay on the other side of the camera but it was great working with @ahrcpress@UKRI_News team talking about projects and work we do @theUL for @CamDigLib. This is always a huge team effort.
Maciej Pawlikowski (@mmpawlikowski) bought a one-way plane ticket to Cambridge to see a friend after university. Now he leads the Digital Content Unit @theUL, making cultural heritage accessible to the public through digitisation work.
New #101Jobs ep: youtu.be/cNZiQ8Ec8GI
Notre renard est formel : l'#automne est arrivé au musée ! 🍁🍂
#LeSaviezVous 3 renards se cachent sur les tapisseries de la #DameALaLicorne ! 🦊
Amusez-vous à les retrouver lors de votre prochaine visite au musée.