A loud shout out to the finger image removal technologies. You all contribute to making #bookhistory with access to the originals worth while: This happens when fingers that were used to hold down a book's page to be scanned were captured, and a software repairs this space automatically. 1/2

Heute ist @andrearapp.bsky.social bei uns!! Freue mich!

Medieval and early modern historians, or others who use digital collections! 🍁 When using a digital library/collection for research, are you more focused on individual (digital) manuscripts/books or on the broader context of the library? What does a (digital) library mean to you? Answers are 💕

Aagje and Betje are not entirely impressed... (yet!)

Came home from traveling and found this in my post!! What a strange feeling to finally have the actual published book in my hands. 🤯 brill.com/display/titl...

Did you vote yet? There's still a few days left!

Lena Ciochon beschreibt im Virtuellen Objekt des Monats August, wie trotz schlechter Quellenlage die Figur des St. Stanisław in VR zur Aufführung kommt und welche Rolle Digitalisierungsprozesse und Gamification-Ansätze für die Geschichtsvermittlung spielen. www.virtuelle-lebens...

🗳️ ELECTION TIME! 🗳️ Digital Medievalist community - it's time to choose your next Executive Board! What's happening: - 5 Executive Board positions up for elections (2025-2029 term) - 10 amazing candidates to choose from - YOUR voice matters in shaping our future! #Digitalhumanities #Medievalsky ⤵️

CfP for #IMC Leeds 6–9 July 2026 “The Endless Scroll: Digital Approaches to Medieval Time” Sponsored by @mshl-cdha.bsky.social How can digital methods help us study or represent medieval ideas of time? Submit by 1 Sept 2025 #IMC2026 #DigitalHumanities #MedievalSky IMC Padlet: tinyurl.com/52dbx5ey

Auch das Bochumer Spätmittelalter verteidigt Vielfalt (news.rub.de/hochschulpol...). Von Manuel Kamenzin und Suzette van Haaren. ❤️

Looking forward to #IMC2025 @imc-leeds.bsky.social next week! Proud to present our session on the "Virtual Middle Ages" (8 July, 4:30-6) with @suzettevhaaren.bsky.social - thanks to @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social and @sfb1567.bsky.social at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Not to forget @dhi-paris.fr ... 😎

My article about VR manuscripts in Madoc is finally out 🤲 A short overview of manuscript depictions in virtual reality, and their relation/non-relation to materiality and touch. www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

Travel with our Programme Co-ordinator, Hayley Smith, to the incredible Treasured exhibition at the Weston Library... visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/treasu...

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📣 Digital Medievalist calls for nominations for the next Executive Board elections! ➡️ If you are interested in standing for election or recommending a candidate, please complete the nomination form: tinyurl.com/3xwjbe9p ✅ You must be a DM member and focus on digital medieval studies to apply.

Totally up for this trend! mixmag.net/feature/bard...

Just in case if you missed this printing event in #Mainz: they publically printed a giant page of the Gutenberg bible in the format 5 x 7,20 meter. #bookhistory #skystorians

AAAAAAAH-nouncement! brill.com/display/titl...

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

Happy 15th anniversary to Parker Library On the Web! We’re celebrating our on-going digital existence by gifting our users a spanking new digitised manuscript that we acquired in late 2022: 16thC gift tag from Matthew Parker to Queen Elizabeth I parker.stanford.edu/parker/catal... The details!

Dear medievalist and library Bluesky ☀️ Can someone help me get a good quality photo or scan of the photographic facsimile of the Utrecht Psalter, specifically fol. 1v, published in 1875 by Spencer, Sawyer, Bird&Co? (this is for my upcoming book 🙈) #medievalsky #librarysky

Gesa Blankemeyer ist Forschungsstudierende im Teilprojekt B04 »Virtuelle Texte« und stellt sich und ihr Forschungsprojekt in unserem Blog vor. Nachzulesen → www.virtuelle-lebens...

Look for me under 'virtual reality' or 'digital medievalist'! 📖

Juliet Diekkämper and Suzette van Haaren have compiled a list of »Digital Resources for Medieval Studies in German-speaking Countries«. This list is now publicly available. ➡️ www.virtuelle-lebens...

spread the word / vertel het rond: Looking for 2 enthusiastic book- and/or art historians to come join the team of the NWO OC Research Project "Images on the Move. Early Modern Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks (1550-1700) www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

De demonstratie van vandaag is afgelast. Het beloofde een gigantische demonstratie te worden, maar de veiligheid kan volgens de burgemeester niet worden gewaarborgd. Wat kun je wel doen vandaag? 1/6

Although we've tried to gather as much as we could find, the list is definitely not complete! Please let us know if there's something missing, and I can add it. 🤖

Very happy to present our list of digital resources of medieval studies in German-speaking countries! Juliet Diekkämper worked very hard to get this all together, I'm very proud ✨ Have a look and tell us what you think! www.virtuelle-lebenswelten.de/blog-post/di...

Im Blog: Digital Resources for Medieval Studies in German-speaking Countries, Project »Virtual Middle Ages« publishes an overview. By @suzettevhaaren.bsky.social www.virtuelle-lebenswelten.de/blog-post/di...

📜Opportunity: Take over the Digital Medievalist accounts on Social Media! You can share your research, promote your projects, and engage with new audiences. Interested? Message us with your ideas! 1/2

It is incredible and wonderful to see the support for our petition - 3700 signatures since Tuesday! I hope this petition may be symbolic as well for the other smaller languages in NL that are currently under threat. 1/2 www.change.org/p/red-de-opl...

Look what I found on my desk this morning! ✨ Find my contribution about medieval TikTok on page 133. The e-book will be out at the end of the month! www.virtuelle-lebenswelten.de/blog-post/ne...

British Library has 1,000 digitised manuscripts, available again for the first time since a cyber-attack in October 2023. #libraries www.bl.uk/research/dig...

Actie tegen hogere BTW op boeken bij #Huisvanhetboek in Den Haag

I wrote a blog post about my SIMS fellowship! 📚

This afternoon!

We are extremely saddened to hear that Will Noel passed away yesterday. He was a pioneer in the field of digital manuscript studies, a relentless advocate of open access and friend and colleague to many in the digital medievalist community. He will be sorely missed. Our thoughts are with his family.

✍️There is still time to apply: Summer School in Digital Palaeography that takes place at the University of Göttingen. Successful applicants to the summer school will receive free accommodation. Contributions towards travel costs are also on offer #medievalsky. www.uni-goettingen.de/en/digital+p...

Stacks on stacks on stacks (of quires) ✨ (Kislak Center, University of Pennsylvania, LJS 484, L'arte de la medicina de le bestie)

💡Meet DM Board: @suzettevhaaren.bsky.social, Social Media Subcommittee. She investigates how #digital methods are changing #medieval studies at Ruhr Uni Bochum. Her PhD examined #digitization of medieval manuscripts from a theoretical perspective. http://tinyurl.com/y...

Another eclipse??? 🌞 I know I'm late to the party, but this diagram of a total eclipse I came across yesterday is just so beautiful. And look at that explicit! (Kislak Center, University of Pennsylvania, LJS 216, fol. 19v) #SFBontour

Modelling the manuscript in VisColl on the basis of collation model and with the manuscript and its digital images next to me. It's bringing up ideas about levels of abstraction and virtuality 📖 (Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 463, f. 31v-32r). #SFBontour

Today was my first day as visiting research fellow at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at @Penn. And what a day to start! It was very cloudy but spotted the eclipse briefly. The one in this 16th century book looks more impressive, but the real one was also v cool!

Why aren't men real men any more? You know, the masculine sword-wielding men of the Middle Ages? *sigh* (Armorial équestre de la Toison d'or, between 1429-1461, Biblitheque National de France Arsenal 4790, fol. 47v)

🪧Dear digital Medievalsky, we're dedicated to showcasing the amazing work in our community. Do you have an upcoming event, training, publication, call of papers, or digital project you'd like us to share? Just tag us and we'll help spread the word!

Looking through the ICMS programme and found this passage. Is this a thing?? Are fitted sheets not normal in the US? 😐 What other bedding-related or other culture shock can I expect? Inform me, my American friends!! 🇺🇸

'Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Sustainable Access in a Digital Age' - 02/07 Join Digital Medievalist panel on sustainable access vs. physicality of medieval manuscripts in the digital age, after the digital disruption at the British Library. Register here: tinyurl.com/sustainingit

Attention all @VisColl and VCEditor users! For my research project ‘Modelling the Middle Ages’, I am looking to interview people who are using or have used the digital tool VCEditor for their manuscript research, studies, cataloguing and/or teaching.