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We cordially invite all of you to A Night of Manuscripts by Candlelight, hosted by Stanford Manuscript Sciences. On March 2nd, we will have a social hour between 4:30 and 5:30 pm with food and refreshments. Everyone interested in manuscript sciences…
    I’d like to offer some reflections on the experience of developing a massive open online course on medieval manuscripts. From 2014-2015, I got the opportunity to collaborate on the Digging Deeper sequence of online courses, initiated by…

THE ORIGIN AND CONTEXT OF THE SALISBURY MAGNA CARTA

Elaine Treharne (Stanford University) and Andrew Prescott (University of Glasgow)  Argument This short article, to be expanded for journal publication later this year, presents a discussion…

Some of the participants at 'Medieval Text Technologies in China and Europe'

Stanford’s Text Technologies’ major new project bringing together scholars who work on the Eastern and Western textual traditions kicked off with a three-day conference at the Stanford Center at Peking University in…

In 2010, Christie’s sold a beautiful, de luxe Book of Hours that had been made in Northern France in about 1460. It was listed here. The book went under the hammer for £25,000 + auction fees and was sold to a trade buyer. Christie’s description…