Manuscript Road Trip

The Flight into Egypt, Walters Art Museum, MS W.188, f.112r Last week, I had the great pleasure of visiting Portland, Oregon as the annual Lewis & Clark Society of Fellows Distinguished Visiting Scholar.

Today, I’d like to explore a topic I’ve been thinking about for some time, an attempt to pull together several types of evidence that show how codicology, the study of the physical aspects of a manuscript, can help us better understand the early material…

(with thanks to René Zandbergen, Ray Clemens, Roger Easton, Claire Bowern, Bill Endres, and the curatorial and conservation staff at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library) I have some exciting news for all of you Voynich fans!

The Flight into Egypt, Walters Art Museum, MS W.188, f.112r My last visit to the University of Wisconsin – Madison took place in 2014.

The Flight into Egypt, Walters Art Museum, MS W.188, f.112r Last week, the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (the learned society of which I am Executive Director) took place at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

You may remember this post from 2017, in which I told the story of a 14th-century Venetian manuscript that was repatriated thanks to research by myself and a colleague.

The Flight into Egypt, Walters Art Museum, MS W.188, f.112r As we begin to make our way out of the COVID-19 pandemic, it isn’t only restaurants and theaters that are opening up.

The Flight into Egypt, Walters Art Museum, MS W.188, f.112r It’s been a rough few years, friends.

The Flight into Egypt, Walters Art Museum, MS W.188, f.112r Like all of us, I’ve been working and teaching from home for nearly a year, waiting with bated breath for the vaccine distribution, wearing my mask to keep myself and my community safe, and worki…

The Flight into Egypt, Walters Art Museum, MS W.188, f.112r Back in 2014, I wrote about a lovely Book of Hours from late-fifteenth-century France that was dismembered by Otto Ege in the 1940s and whose leaves became number 48 in his “Fifty Original Leaves…