Palaeography is fun, that is all
October 29, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Palaeography is fun, that is all
Cum gaudio annuntio vobis quod anno proximo, diebus V–VIII Aprilis 2027, nova editio cursus Palaeographiae Mediaevalis Ibericae celebrabitur, docentibus Ainoa Castro, Manuel Muñoz atque humili famulo vestro.
Introduction to Medieval Spanish Palaeography ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Introduction to Medieval Spanish Palaeography ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Introduction to Medieval Spanish Palaeography
LIPS Short Course
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October 30, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Cum gaudio annuntio vobis quod anno proximo, diebus V–VIII Aprilis 2027, nova editio cursus Palaeographiae Mediaevalis Ibericae celebrabitur, docentibus Ainoa Castro, Manuel Muñoz atque humili famulo vestro.
Introduction to Medieval Spanish Palaeography ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Introduction to Medieval Spanish Palaeography ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Fun fact! When an archivist dies, their soul is entombed in the archive's infinity circuit to ensure that their knowledge of parish registers and medieval palaeography lives on forever.
October 29, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Fun fact! When an archivist dies, their soul is entombed in the archive's infinity circuit to ensure that their knowledge of parish registers and medieval palaeography lives on forever.
“Traist cousing, we greit ȝow well”
The @innerpeffray.bsky.social on deciphering a #C16th Middle Scots letter signed by Mary, Queen of Scots, & written in Scottish Secretary Hand – a difficult shorthand script used as a form of anti-forgery
#palaeography
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The @innerpeffray.bsky.social on deciphering a #C16th Middle Scots letter signed by Mary, Queen of Scots, & written in Scottish Secretary Hand – a difficult shorthand script used as a form of anti-forgery
#palaeography
innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/deciphering-...
October 29, 2026 at 5:47 PM
“Traist cousing, we greit ȝow well”
The @innerpeffray.bsky.social on deciphering a #C16th Middle Scots letter signed by Mary, Queen of Scots, & written in Scottish Secretary Hand – a difficult shorthand script used as a form of anti-forgery
#palaeography
innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/deciphering-...
The @innerpeffray.bsky.social on deciphering a #C16th Middle Scots letter signed by Mary, Queen of Scots, & written in Scottish Secretary Hand – a difficult shorthand script used as a form of anti-forgery
#palaeography
innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/deciphering-...
It is a bit of an in-joke that a writer & an archivist who studied palaeography in the traditional manner should choose to wear a Croata heritage tie featuring the 9th century rounded Glagolitic script letter Ž or Živěte (Ⰶ) meaning to live, symbolising vitality, life & creation
October 29, 2026 at 3:51 PM
It is a bit of an in-joke that a writer & an archivist who studied palaeography in the traditional manner should choose to wear a Croata heritage tie featuring the 9th century rounded Glagolitic script letter Ž or Živěte (Ⰶ) meaning to live, symbolising vitality, life & creation
love, come, some とかが u じゃなくて o で綴られるのは、「読みにくいでしょ」と気を利かせて u を o って書いたらそれが広まったかららしい。
はあ。気を利かせてくれてありがとうね。最悪だね。
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minim_%...
はあ。気を利かせてくれてありがとうね。最悪だね。
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minim_%...
Minim (palaeography) - Wikipedia
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October 26, 2026 at 7:51 PM
love, come, some とかが u じゃなくて o で綴られるのは、「読みにくいでしょ」と気を利かせて u を o って書いたらそれが広まったかららしい。
はあ。気を利かせてくれてありがとうね。最悪だね。
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minim_%...
はあ。気を利かせてくれてありがとうね。最悪だね。
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minim_%...
This coming Tuesday, 27 October, we will be hearing about this exciting project and exhibition @marshslibrary.bsky.social from all those involved at the London Palaeography Seminar - come and join us, in person or online (5:30pm GMT). Register here:
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October 21, 2026 at 7:50 AM
This coming Tuesday, 27 October, we will be hearing about this exciting project and exhibition @marshslibrary.bsky.social from all those involved at the London Palaeography Seminar - come and join us, in person or online (5:30pm GMT). Register here:
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
And that's how I spent my junior year abroad in Ralph Hanna's palaeography classes.
October 20, 2026 at 4:38 PM
And that's how I spent my junior year abroad in Ralph Hanna's palaeography classes.
Please note the original career plan was immigration law, not palaeography.
October 20, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Please note the original career plan was immigration law, not palaeography.
I email the Study Abroad coordinator and ask her if it would be possible to study palaeography. She says hmmmm, not too sure because these classes are for graduate students. But she would check. So she just emails the professor of palaeography at the time and he says sure!
October 20, 2026 at 4:37 PM
I email the Study Abroad coordinator and ask her if it would be possible to study palaeography. She says hmmmm, not too sure because these classes are for graduate students. But she would check. So she just emails the professor of palaeography at the time and he says sure!
I then really got into the development of Caroline minuscule because Vat. lat. 7207 is a pretty early specimen of said script. So then I'm learning all about palaeography, codicology, manuscript transmission, etc. I am now officially hooked.
October 20, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I then really got into the development of Caroline minuscule because Vat. lat. 7207 is a pretty early specimen of said script. So then I'm learning all about palaeography, codicology, manuscript transmission, etc. I am now officially hooked.
And that is how I ended up doing a PhD in Palaeography. It is mostly thanks to this one ten-page paper I wrote in my second year of undergrad, all on the Libri Carolini/Vat. lat. 7207. And yes, whenever I have been back to the Vatican, I do try to call it up.
October 20, 2026 at 4:47 PM
And that is how I ended up doing a PhD in Palaeography. It is mostly thanks to this one ten-page paper I wrote in my second year of undergrad, all on the Libri Carolini/Vat. lat. 7207. And yes, whenever I have been back to the Vatican, I do try to call it up.
And that is how a roomful of members got to hear about juicy 15th century parish gossip in the Hartlebury Church Court book (plus dodgy live palaeography), and Worcestershire’s WW2 Archaeology (thanks to Naomi Taylor), all in one night.
October 19, 2026 at 9:28 PM
And that is how a roomful of members got to hear about juicy 15th century parish gossip in the Hartlebury Church Court book (plus dodgy live palaeography), and Worcestershire’s WW2 Archaeology (thanks to Naomi Taylor), all in one night.
There won't be an insular miniscule version for palaeography nerds, will there? 🐇
October 18, 2026 at 7:09 PM
There won't be an insular miniscule version for palaeography nerds, will there? 🐇
#FamilyHistory can be difficult if your ancestors moved around for work, such as Thomas Fletcher, a Ballad Singer or Travelling Book something... We can't make out that final word - can anyone work out what comes after 'Book'?
#EYAFolklore #palaeography
#EYAFolklore #palaeography
![Extract from Ashbourne St Oswald's parish register including the baptism on 15 June 1686 of Eliz. dau. Of Tho. Fletcher a Ballad Singer or Travelling Book [word unknown]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wj5kvgounn6ciqi3kdn6mgas/bafkreiasofyv7cejucbp7va5rou5ukefxeg4oxz7gnze37i2kwp4jg4y2q)
October 19, 2026 at 10:05 AM
#FamilyHistory can be difficult if your ancestors moved around for work, such as Thomas Fletcher, a Ballad Singer or Travelling Book something... We can't make out that final word - can anyone work out what comes after 'Book'?
#EYAFolklore #palaeography
#EYAFolklore #palaeography
They used to use the letter Captchas to decipher palaeography by crowdsourcing... how far we have fallen...
October 15, 2026 at 10:44 AM
They used to use the letter Captchas to decipher palaeography by crowdsourcing... how far we have fallen...
aha! thanks! My palaeography training/experience comes in at least somewhat handy on occasion
October 15, 2026 at 4:07 AM
aha! thanks! My palaeography training/experience comes in at least somewhat handy on occasion
@chancebonar.bsky.social telling some home truths
![While some universities and institutes (e.g., Harvard, Princeton, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Pappas Patristic Institute) teach Greek palaeography [sic], many students of classical and biblical studies learn these skills through baptism by fire: spending hours with medieval Greek manuscripts and learning through trial and error the writing styles of Byzantine scribes.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6zofo5h2xf64kv2fcx5t2t4i/bafkreiciecujlinmscv4ti25wllov3fw3jfzwecgmfgsdo4ncltobmu4be)
October 15, 2026 at 12:39 PM
@chancebonar.bsky.social telling some home truths
I had fun getting a previously-untranslated martyrdom out into the world + to say a few words (and show an image!) about the weirdness of apocrypha scholars having to learn Byzantine Greek palaeography from scratch
October 15, 2026 at 2:07 AM
I had fun getting a previously-untranslated martyrdom out into the world + to say a few words (and show an image!) about the weirdness of apocrypha scholars having to learn Byzantine Greek palaeography from scratch
Learning Latin palaeography. Featuring my doodle of a weird despairing creature.
October 13, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Learning Latin palaeography. Featuring my doodle of a weird despairing creature.
Yes, I mean to say that my palaeography class began with the Carolingians and ended around 1500. I taught myself the handwriting from the 1600s on my own
October 15, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Yes, I mean to say that my palaeography class began with the Carolingians and ended around 1500. I taught myself the handwriting from the 1600s on my own