Tag: manuscripts
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Manuscript Encounters V: CCI, Paris!
This is a brief record of a research trip to Paris in December 2024. More detailed work on this will be forthcoming, but for now, this is just a record of those few days as an important research experience (archived from Bluesky). 🧵In 2024 I have had to squeeze in a good number of research…
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Manuscript Encounters III: British Library & Weston Library
For ‘Scotland on Parchment’ I received generous funding from the Paul Mellon Centre for a series of MS research trips to be undertaken this year. I originally wrote this up as a Twitter thread, but since leaving the site, I thought that I would log it here instead. I hope to include a number of…
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Experiential Learning & Close Looking: Illuminating the Zodiac Man
Experiential learning is a philosophy of learning built around the idea of learning by doing and then reflecting on the experience. This current project aims to do just that. Learning about manuscript illumination as a process by trying to recreate the objects of my studies using (as far a possible) historically appropriate materials, methods and…
Bryony Coombs 