Some cosmic ray flipped a bit in my brain and I have started a blog of stories about working in tech except the tech has been replaced with vaguely-DnD fantasy tropes. The first one is about UI/UX on spell scrolls. https://gainfulemploy.bearblog.dev/arguments-in-the-scriptorium/ #dnd #ui #ux #accidentalimmolation #sf #fantasy #fiction #scriptorium

Humphreys 1995 argued that if 13thc Dominicans paid a professional scribe for a #book, there must not have been an in-house #scriptorium

But, but, but: I get books from the bookstore, the library, the internet archive, and friends. There can (and should) be more than one source of books.

And I think the same was true "back then." Professionals were hired to do "a thing" (whatever their schtick was) but in-house scribes could handle other kinds of book-copying

Otherwise, such a great article

"we will find good reasons to relinquish the notion of a single author (Herman), sitting at his desk in the scriptorium with his sources spread out in front of him & composing the whole work, in favor of a series of Poets, perhaps *beginning* with, & certainly *including, a Herman, each bearing in his memory word for word whole passages of Scripture and liturgy along w/the basic chronology of biblical events."

Pamela Gehrke, Saints & Scribes (1993), p. 14

_The Evening Post_, 15 September 1924:
NELSON COLLEGE WAR MEMORIAL
The attention of the Old Boys of #Nelson College is directed to an advertisement in another column in connection with the opening of the #Scriptorium, which has been erected by the Old Boys’ Association as a memorial to the old boys of the college who fell in the late war. His Excellency the Governor-General will perform the opening ceremony and unveil the memorial tablet. The principal of the college desires to know as soon as possible the number of old boys likely to be attending the ceremony, and those intending to be present are requested to notify the honorary secretary of the Wellington branch of the Old Boys’ Association on or before Friday next.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240915.2.116

Ich darf jetzt endlich nicht mehr nur Stickeralben kleben, sondern alte Manuskripte illustrieren!?
#Scriptorium ist das Spiel, von dem ich nicht wusste, dass ich darauf gewartet habe!
https://youtu.be/1UyOt1XB7Dg?si=jfUJeodFSCnNOrYa

I've been fascinated by her posts on making medieval inks & manuscripts, so have just preordered 'Medieval Scriptorium' by Sara Charles. It's due out next week, & a review by Richard Ovenden is at https://archive.is/WFSlG.

[Edit: original paywalled again, link replaced with archived version.]

Here's the book description on Sara's website: https://www.teachingmanuscripts.com/publications

#NewBook #medieval #scriptorium #manuscript #bookmaking @medievodons @bookstodon

A segunda sessão do ciclo “Quando a Ciência e a Tecnologia se Cruzam com as Artes e as Letras” vai ser no dia 5 de Março, tendo Catarina Miguel (Laboratório HERCULES) como convidada.

A Catarina vai dar a conhecer a abordagem interdisciplinar seguida no estudo de um conjunto extraordinário de manuscritos iluminados medievais do scriptorium do Mosteiro de Alcobaça.

https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/05ctal-02/

Tábara (Zamora), un pueblo ligado a la historia de uno de los monasterios más importantes del país.
#Tabara #Zamora #CyL #scriptorium #iglesia #romanico #monasterio #torre

The scriptorium refers to the writing rooms that have been created in monasteries since late antiquity, in which sacred and sometimes also profane texts are reproduced by hand. In scientific literature, scriptorium is also used as a synonym for writing school for the scribes working there and to characterize the origin of their products: "Handwriting from the scriptorium of ..." #scriptorium #writing #antiquity #monastery #books #history