Exploring the world of books at Oxford
‘Goostly psalmes and spirituall songes: a digital edition’ is available to read now on the Taylor Editions website. I was quite at a loss when, towards the end of our first week on the History of the Book and Digital Humanities project, we were directed by our graduate mentors – Mary Newman and Sebastian Dows-Miller …
Things are a little disconcerting when you open an early printed book for the first time: everything initially seems familiar, yet upon further inspection you realise that some things are not quite right. Alongside the characters that we glide over without much thought feature strange additions and conspicuous absences, many of which are incomprehensible if …
For the five weeks of our UNIQ+ internship, the text that I have been working to encode is ‘An A.B.C. for Chyldren’, a sixteen-page pamphlet which (ambitiously) aims to teach people to read and write both English and Latin in just six weeks. Although the author of the document is anonymous, we do know that this …