“What on earth is that?!” I thought to myself when we were presented with our latest Code-a-thon challenge on Monday morning. As you may well be able to see from the header image, the test before us was a difficult one: columns, colours, glosses, handwriting and marginalia (that even had its own marginalia!). How could …
Bric-a-brac or: A breviary in an Oxford Charity Shop
by Henrike Lähnemann On 4 August 2021, Mark Butler, an Oxford medical researcher working in the Radcliffe Department of Medicine , entered the Sobell House Charity Shop on Little Clarendon Street where a batch of framed leaves, prints and other miscellaneous donations had been placed at the back of the shop. Recently, while talking about my teaching of …
UNIQ+ Week 3: Beginnings
Week III marked something of a beginning. To characterize the third of a six-week long internship as a ‘beginning’ moment seems, of course, somewhat absurd. But it was indeed a pivotal instance: it was the moment we encountered the complete sammelband for the first time, the point at which we decided upon our own independent …
UNIQ+ Week 2: Learning to encode using TEI
UNIQ+ is a series of research internships designed to give excellent experience to students from under-represented backgrounds to enrich future applications for postgraduate study or graduate employment. For the History of The Book, we are particularly looking at enhancing digital research skills and exploring books as cultural objects. These skills will then be used for …
UNIQ+ Week 1: Introduction to statistics with R
UNIQ+ is a series of research internships designed to give excellent experience to students from under-represented backgrounds to enrich future applications for postgraduate study or graduate employment. For the History of The Book, we are particularly looking at enhancing digital research skills and exploring books as cultural objects. These skills will then be used for …
Report on ‘Singing Together, Apart’ 3
From the Bodleian Events Team: Thank you for booking to attend our digital event, Singing Together, Apart: drama and medieval chant on 14 June 2021. The recording of the event is available here. Please complete our short feedback form, if you have not already done so. Your comments will help us improve future events and …
Hands, ink and abbreviations
A palaeographic analysis of Bodleian Library MS. Germ. e. 5. by Marlene Schilling Report on a History of the Book project In the academic year 2020/21, six brave Germanists took up the challenge of a special group project: editing and understanding the newly digitised manuscript Bodleian Library MS. Germ. e. 5. (part of the Polonsky …
Job offer: Archiving the Digital Edition Launches!
As a follow-up of the Digital Edition Launches during Trinity Term 2021, Medium Aevum, Dark Archives, OCTET, and Oxford Medieval Studies are offering a work contract for a Graduate Student to archive the material since a vital part of any digital scholarship today is maximising the scope for its long-term preservation and accessibility to other …
Buying and Reading Anti-Papal Polemic
Some remarks on the reception of the Antithesis figurata vitae Christi et Antichristi and the Passional Christi und Antichristi. Revised version of the address given by Ulrich Bubenheimer during the launch of the new edition An effective method for researching the reception of a 16th-century edition is the so-called Exemplarforschung, i.e. recording as many surviving …
(8 June 2021, 5:15 pm) Genetic Criticism and Bibliography: a Rapprochement
Genetic Criticism. A Rapprochement – A lecture by Dirk van HulleWhen? : Tuesday 8 June 2021 at 5:15 p.m.(the lecture to follow the formal business of the AGM, which will begin at 4:30 p.m.Where? : Zoom (To attend, please comtact the e-mail below)