If you can't afford to travel to an archive but can afford to pay someone for a few hours of their time, there is now a tool for that: #Sourcery. It allows you to pay someone on the ground to go scan or photograph what you need. #palaeography #manuscripts

Link: https://sourceryapp.org/?utm_source=dancohen&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-writing-is-on-the-wall-for-handwriting-recognition

If you can't afford to travel to an archive but can afford to pay someone for a few hours of their time, there is now a tool for that: #Sourcery. It allows you to pay someone on the ground to go scan or photograph what you need. #palaeography #manuscripts

Link: https://sourceryapp.org/?utm_source=dancohen&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-writing-is-on-the-wall-for-handwriting-recognition

A much more exciting week brought 76 #Manuscripts online at the #Vatican https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week45.html
Includes a glossed Priscian, a bunch of 17th C Barberini stuff, a pile more Ge'ez, many Cicero, Iñigo de Mendoça's Spanish _Vita Christiana_, and MORE
#Medieval #Medievodons @medievodons

The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/

#HackerNews #EdsgerDijkstra #Manuscripts #ComputerScience #Programming #History #TechInnovation

“ Yah, apparently it’s called sushi… ” - 13th century, Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, 2200, f. 69v

#globalmuseum #medieval #humour #humor #sushi #manuscripts

‘B’ is for Bitten - 13th century, British Library, Landsdowne MS 420, f. 103r

@MedMilMedicine #humour #Humor #globalmuseum #manuscripts #BritishLibrary

Release Notes ➡️ https://handschriftenportal.de/info/release-notes

@historikerinnen @medievodons

#manuscripts #digitalhumanities #handschriften

Release Notes ➡️ https://handschriftenportal.de/info/release-notes

@historikerinnen @medievodons

#manuscripts #digitalhumanities #handschriften

A wonderfully bizarre ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 14th century, Lyon. Bibliothèque municipale, Ms 742, f. 79v

@MedMilMedicine #elephants #medieval #manuscripts