![]() ![]() The skins were first soaked in a lime solution to remove the hair and any flesh, and then stretched on a frame so. Parchment is any type of animal skin, including sheep skin, or calf skin (known as vellum), the highest quality skin. The Leiden University archives have been kept at the library since its founding in 1575, soon after which the UBL also started to collect letters, manuscripts and other documents from important Leiden academics. It will be made available through “Manuscripta – a Digital Catalogue of Manuscripts in Sweden”, a national infrastructure maintained by the National Library of Sweden. Most medieval manuscripts were written on specially prepared animal skin rather than paper. Over the centuries, the UBL has collected an appealing, diverse and important collection of manuscripts. ![]() The catalogue will use standard metadata formats and linked open data: TEI for the manuscript descriptions and IIIF for the digitized manuscripts. But since the two media continued to co-exist for a long time in parallel discourses, it is important to pay attention to the handwritten production of the 16th and 17th century, thereby opening up for comparative studies of both media types, their distinctiveness and mutual impact. These younger manuscripts have been neglected by research for a long time, not least because they were produced in a period of transition when book printing was gaining wide-scale momentum. Posts about Medieval Manuscripts written by justhistoryposts. The purpose of this project is to create a complete digital catalogue of the approximately 235 post-medieval manuscripts at the National Library of Sweden and Uppsala University Library, and to fully digitize c. This week on The Medieval Podcast, Mary Wellesley shares the stories behind some of the most famous manuscripts of the Middle Ages and the hidden hands behind them. The better known medieval manuscripts have been attended to within the TTT project, "Text till tiden". Survivors of time, neglect, and sometimes disasters, medieval manuscripts are the work of countless authors, scribes, artists, and craftspeople, many of whom remain anonymous. Together, these images exemplify the cultural and historical contexts of literacy in the medieval period. Research related to the manuscripts concern legal history, language, book, and art history, but is hampered by lack of adequate catalogues. The Medieval Manuscript collection is designed to showcase a range of texts and images over centuries of transmission, illustrating the art of the manuscript during the period of its greatest development and influence. Consequently, an important body of texts, produced after 1530 but organically connected to medieval text production, has been neglected. Historical epochs are arbitrary and govern our thoughts.
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