Dr Marian Toledo Candelaria

Manuscript Data Curation Fellow University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...

DS seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for a full-time, NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship. To apply, please follow this link: wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...

Same experience: Took 2 tries to have the profile deleted.

That's a great find!

The updated MU Digital Library is here! Our Digital Initiatives team has made sure anyone can access Mizzou's special collections and archival holdings online.

digital.library.missouri.edu

#bookhistory #history

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*THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES*, a free, scholer-produced onlyne resource for teachinge and learninge *The Canterbury Tales* at the universitye level: opencanterburytales.lsusites.org

I never thought in my life that I would ever see a facsimile of Domesday Book again. But it was a hit in today's special collections tour!

@historyworkshop.org.uk is looking for new editorial fellows! For early career historians with an interest in radical, public and digital histories: paid, part-time work commissioning and editing on our digital history magazine. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...

Confirmed: We don't have Scottish cookbooks...

Not that I recall, but I can check!

I wasn't expecting Scottish docs in the Midwest, out of all places! And we also have some 18th c. Scottish and English scientific/medical books...

Found a Scottish document in our collections! land grant obligation from 1516 between John 2nd Lord Oliphant and David Anderson, previously described as English. With my thanks to @kiritekatawa.bsky.social for providing info on the contents! digital.library.missouri.edu/node/96506 #manuscript

Oooh, thanks for that! I'll have a look for other medieval docs mentioning Kynnesbury

At first I thought it could be a B...

#BookHistory

Fragmenta Manuscripta 210: Calendar for May and June (leaf), ca. 1390-1410 from England. Detail from the leaf: Would it read "Dedicatio ecclesiae Eynnesbury"?
library.missouri.edu/specialcolle... (University of Missouri-Columbia Special Collections)

English letter from an Englsh nun written c.1637. Words have been scribbled out and I'd like help figuring them out.

OK who wants to try help me identify the words that have been scribbled out here? #earlymodern 🗃️

#Medieval #manuscripts folios ✍️

"Symbols & Signs: Decoding Medieval Manuscripts": delightful examples in the article at https://www.getty.edu/news/can-you-crack-these-medieval-codes/ & an exhibition until 10 Aug at the Getty Center in LA.
#Getty #LosAngeles #medieval #manuscripts @medievodons
h/t @globalmuseum

No, I haven't had recent issues but I do recall a time when I did have this issue. I joked to myself that I'd broken the internet

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Spent 3 very productive days at Howard University learning Tableau Public. I see some data viz about magazines and medieval collections in my future... #bookhistory

You might've broken the internet here...

You don't use gloves to handle manuscripts...

Hebrew Manuscripts and Fragments in Switzerland

🇨🇭 **Hebrew Manuscripts and Fragments in Switzerland**

🔗 https://bwb.hypotheses.org/1228.

#Hebrew #Manuscripts #Switzerland

Thank you kindly! Hope you enjoy my article 😀

Opinion | The Trump Administration’s Data Purges Weaken America The Trump administration has started purging the government’s digital memory. Democracies die without proper archiving and public records.

The deletion of websites and other government data is a dangerous attack on knowledge, harming democracy. My colleague @nannathylstrup.bsky.social & I contribute a guest essay in @nytimes.com today: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...

so many congratulations!!!! You deserve this!

National Endowment for the Humanities staff put on immediate leave A majority of NEH employees received an email placing them on immediate leave. The news comes just days after many humanities councils across the country were told their grants would be terminated.

National Endowment for the #Humanities staff put on immediate leave (via @npr.org) www.npr.org/2025/04/04/n...

I just now found out that we lost NEH funding for the Spanish Homosaurus project: es.homosaurus.org/v4
We plan to continue work on this project, it will just have to proceed in a very different way. Heartbreaking, to me, is we had a professional paid linguist working on this project - not anymore.