This week's #DigitalHistoryOFK: Riham Aida Mokrani presents "Manuscript Meets Model: Digital Approaches to Arabic #Paleography" - exploring how #OntologyEngineering & #ML are transforming Arabic #ManuscriptStudies.
4 June, 4-6 pm (CET), online
Abstract: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10533
#DigitalHistory #4memory #Paleography #MachineLearning #semanticweb #ontologies
@histodons @historikerinnen @digitalhumanities
#Tolkien was also a skilled calligrapher (below an image of one of the manuscripts done by J.R.R. Tolkien).
He taught medieval #paleography at Oxford University.
Candidatures ouvertes pour l'école d'été "Le livre médiéval au regard des méthodes quantitatives" (16-20 juin 2025)
Pendant une semaine, venez vous initier à l'analyse quantitative du livre manuscrit ou imprimé médiéval : quelles observations ? quelles méthodes ? De la paléographie à la codicologie en passant par l'analyse de filigrane, il s'agit d'une semaine combinant approches théoriques et ateliers pratiques.
N'hésitez pas à candidater jusqu'au 31 mars ! 
https://lamop.hypotheses.org/12783
Matching Medieval Manuscripts with Machine Learning.
ATNU Virtual Speaker Series with Hannah Busch (University of Cologne) on February 19, 2025, at 16:00 GMT.
Insights into using AI to date and localize medieval Latin manuscripts.
https://research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/atnuvirtualspeakerseries-hannahbusch-2025-02-19.html
#DigitalHumanities #MedievalStudies #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #Manuscripts #Paleography
Researchers from Zayed National Museum have discovered text concealed beneath a layer of gold leaf on a page of the Blue Qur’an - one of the world’s most well-known Qur’an manuscripts.
https://zayednationalmuseum.ae/en/about/news-and-press/news-and-press-listing-page/the-blue-quran
#islam #religion #IslamicArt
@histodons @historikerinnen
@medievodons @dh #MiddleEast #geschichte #histodons #MedievalStudies #medievalists #MiddleAges #Mittelalter #ReligiousStudies #paleography
Paleography and the Book Lecture “Where Did Newspaper Typeface Come From?”
“UChicago visiting scholar David Ganz discussed how influential scripts such as Caroline minuscule and Italian Humanistic served as models for typefaces like Times New Roman.”
#Video length: one hour and twenty one minutes.
#Lecture #Paleography #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Script #History #Histodon #Histodons #Typeface #Fonts #Typography #Newspaper #TimesNewRoman @bookstodon @histodon @histodons
Paleography and the Book Lecture “Where Did Newspaper Typeface Come From?”
“UChicago visiting scholar David Ganz discussed how influential scripts such as Caroline minuscule and Italian Humanistic served as models for typefaces like Times New Roman.”
#Video length: one hour and twenty one minutes.
#Lecture #Paleography #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Typeface #Fonts #Typography #Newspaper #TimesNewRoman @bookstodon
I have a LOT more empathy for the weird spellings of some modern editions now that I've spent some time with 18th century handwriting.
That stuff makes doctor-scrawl look like fine engraving. I've seen chicken footprints that held more meaning.
Help! This #Latin #grave #inscription clearly begins with “In memoria aeterna,” but what is the rest?
#document #engraving #tombstone #graveyard #paleography #transcription
Photo credit: Juls Boo.
https://www.deviantart.com/canisdiabolos/art/Bogazkoy-Archaeological-Museum-lapidarium-1022771826
Ancient Greek ligatures (Byzantine period, Bogazkale, Turkey)
Défi paléographique du jour proposé par Alice Mauvillain, notre collègue en charge des fonds patrimoniaux ! #paleography #booklover cc @ubmontaigne
#Byzantineodons Question for someone who knows #Greek #paleography far better than I do: How would you describe this hand? It looked minuscule from a distance, but close up the letterforms are way easier to read and more consistent across position...
(#Vatican Pal.gr.258 the text is Paulus Evergetinus _Synagoge_)
@medievodons #Medievodons
The leader of my Tuesday palaeography group set us a little challenge: attempt a flourished signature in the style of early modern English letters. I have tipped past the point of "ooh, how fun!" to "do I have time to cure and cut a quill before meeting, because that MUST be the key". 
And no, I will not be attempting my too-many-curves surname today. 
[Original example on left, my increasingly frustrated attempts on right]
Definitely asked before, but what are your recommended applications (or homegrown systems/procedures) for palaeographical transcription?
Most of what I've done has been in in-house repositories, FromThePage, etc. I have some projects coming up where I need to be more self-hosted, as it were. I currently use a Mac, and my potential list includes Tropy, GenScriber, and Transcript.
Thoughts? Comments? Recommendations?
What's the ideal length for a practical #paleography video/screencast?
We're thinking of putting together a video library covering different document forms (telegrams, letters, account books), localities/languages, and time periods from the Early Modern to the 20th century.
What would help you (or would have helped you) in your own research? #histodons #genealogy #palaeography
Just realized all the hashtags are supposed to be in an #intro post, not my bio. Better very late than never?
Curious about basically everything but in particular: #animals #finance #fashion #art #calligraphy #illumination #politics #CocktailRecipes #cooking #paleography #languages #gardening #poetry #corvids
Fiction: #fantasy #sf #sff #PeriodRomance (particularly non-European). Non-fiction runs the gamut.
Long-time #NYC resident, recently returned to #Boulder #CO; looking for local friends!
We're getting ready to roll out another https://oepoetryfacsimile.org edition this week - this one is a combined edition of Paris Psalm 102 and the accompanying Junius 121 verses of the same.
The latter was glossed by the so-called Tremulous Hand, and provided us with a fun #paleography game. We call it "What the Heck Did TH Write This Time?!"
Give your best guess and we'll post the answer later.
#Manuscript >≠ #Text
Another #Latin #Fragment in a #Greek #manuscript
Phillipps 1506, close to a rampant lion stamp (Sir Thomas Phillipps’ ownership)
@stabi_berlin @Warburg_News
@unito @medievodons @bookstodon
#manuscripts #Greek #Venice #Paleography #Pellicierproject
Paleographic tooters, does anybody know what happened to the free paleographic fonts that used to be available at http://kps-fonts.ch/en_home.html ? Or who made them? I installed a lot of them but not all several years ago, the site is defunct, and I didn't save any other details.
Paleography Workshop/summer class
https://britaix.hypotheses.org/2815
Honestly, this looks amazing and if I could get over the time difference, I'd register in a heart-beat. (It's in English and virtual but synchronous held in France)
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