Training in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies: Some Online Resources

 

Salisbury Cathedral Archive, Press IV, Indulgence, c. 1233-40

1) Digitization

See the information and the links at http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2017/03/digitising-our-manuscripts-from-anglo-saxon-england.html

IFLA, https://www.ifla.org/publications/node/8968

2) Free Courses

Digging Deeper Online Courses:

Elaine Treharne, Benjamin Albritton, Orietta Da Rold, Suzanne Paul, with Kenneth Lidga, Jonathan Quick and Colin Reeves-Fortney (2015), ‘Digging Deeper I and II’, https://online.stanford.edu/course/digging-deeper-making-manuscripts and https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/English/diggingdeeper2/Spring2015/about

Harvard History of the Book

Harvard’s online modules, http://online-learning.harvard.edu/series/history-book

Inscribe:

InScribe, https://www.history.ac.uk/research-training/courses/online-palaeography

National Archives, UK Palaeography Course, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/

The Newberry Library, University of Toronto, St Louis University Center for Digital Humanities, and ITER, https://paleography.library.utoronto.ca/

University of Glasgow, https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/ems-palaeography

3) Major Projects

CLAMM, Graphem, and projects on classification of handwriting,
http://clamm.irht.cnrs.fr/

Dave Postles’ Palaegraphy Course, http://paleo.anglo-norman.org/medfram.html

Denis Muzerelle’s Codicological Terminology, http://vocabulaire.irht.cnrs.fr/pages/vocab2.htm

Dianne Tillotson, ‘Medieval Writing’, http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/whyread/reading.htm

DigiPal, by Peter Stokes, with Stewart Brookes, et al, DigiPal: Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Diplomatic, www.digipal.eu

Dorothy Porter’s Manuscript Videos, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies: https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/

Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, Resources and Tools, https://www.vhmml.org/, especially https://www.vhmml.org//school and https://www.vhmml.org/folio

Interactive Album of Mediaeval Palaeography, Universités Lyon, http://ciham.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/paleographie/index.php?l=en

4) Organizations for Manuscript Studies

Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections, http://www.amarc.org.uk/index.htm

Comité international de paléographie latine, http://www.palaeographia.org/cipl/cipl.htm

5) Pay-for Online Training Courses

Ductus, Evellum, http://evellum.com/

6) Training Courses for paying and selected participants

Institute for Advanced Studies Summer Courses (payment required)

Institute for Advanced Studies in London, https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/study-training/study-weeks/london-international-palaeography-summer-school

Rare Book School in Virginia, http://rarebookschool.org/courses/manuscripts/m10

7) Websites about Online Resources

Siân Echard, http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/sechard/512digms.htm

Juliet O’Brien, https://metametamedieval.com/2012/03/11/manuscripts-manuscript-studies

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Thanks to fellow Tweeters, Georgia Heney, Felicia J. Steele, Matthew Holford, Carin Ruff, and Sara Charles. This list does not pretend to be complete; it’s a fast gathering of what’s around at the moment. I’d be glad to update or add other links. See, for more complete information about online resources, ‘Websites’ at section 7.