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Day: 5 May 2021

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Meeting the Manuscript: a first in-person interaction with a 14th Century copy of Dante

I am sat in the Weston Library, currently the only student in the rare books room, looking for the first time at MS. Canon. Ital. 108 in person. I have stared at, analysed, and laboured over scans of its pages from afar for the last few months. This term I am back in Oxford having …

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Travelling to the internet: A digital edition of MS. Bodley 972

During their time as interns in Oxford, Eva Neufeind and Agnes Hilger started working on a digital edition of MS. Bodley 972, a manuscript of the travelogue of the knight Arnold von Harff from the 16th century. In this blogposts, they report on the developments of the project ahead of the official launch of the edition. …

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