Durham Cathedral Library MS. B.II.35 Bede and other historical texts This week will be our last ‘Colour your own medieval manuscript’ for the time being (until we can digitise some more manuscripts and find more images that need colouring!). We are ending on a high note with not one, but FIVE uncoloured initials from Durham Read More …
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Colour your own medieval manuscript – part 4
Durham Cathedral Library MS A.III.4 – Kings, glossed; Benjamin minor We are back to initial letters again this week and we have a small but perfectly formed ‘E’ for you (so small, we have made it a bit bigger in the colouring book style version, and left a space for you to add your own Read More …
Colour your own medieval manuscript – part 3
Durham Cathedral Library MS B.II.30 Cassiodorus on the Psalms We have a slightly different task for you this week, as we can’t really claim that this lovely image of David (written in the circle he is holding) is unfinished, but as you can see, it is rather faded, and in need of a little attention. Read More …
Colour your own medieval manuscript, part 2
Durham Cathedral Library MS B.II.34 Florus of Lyons, Collectaneum in epistolas Pauli (Corinthians-Hebrews) Welcome to the second instalment of ‘Colour your own medieval manuscript’. We hope you enjoyed Part 1 – Durham Cathedral Library MS A.IV.10 Matthew, glossed and have now honed your illuminating skills and gained an insight into what it was like to Read More …
Colour your own medieval manuscript!
Part 1 – Durham Cathedral Library MS A.IV.10 Matthew, glossed Have you ever wanted to have a go at illuminating a medieval manuscript? Well, now is your chance! With at least another couple of weeks of lockdown to go (here in the UK), we thought we might be able to use our stunning manuscripts to Read More …
Project update, April 2020
Latest news from the DPLR project The Libraries at Durham University and Durham Cathedral are now closed to the public until further notice, and the project staff are working from home. Much though we would like to, we can’t take our cameras and manuscripts home with us, so sadly, digitisation has been suspended for the Read More …
Decorations in Pierre Bersuire’s ‘Repertorium morale’
This week’s guest blog is from Kathleen E. Kennedy, Associate Professor of English at Penn State Brandywine on Pierre Bersuire’s Repertorium morale. Durham Cathedral’s copy of Pierre Bersuire’s Repertorium morale is an excellent introduction to English ecclestical book production in the late Middle Ages. Enormous compendia like the Repertorium were laboriously compiled to assist in Read More …
Our latest research fellow, Graziana Ciola
Hello, everyone! I am currently the Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation/Lendrum post-doctoral fellow for the Durham Priory Library Project. I am a historian of medieval logic and philosophy. I specialise in 14th century logic and natural philosophy. I completed a PhD in Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, defending a doctoral thesis on Marsilius of Read More …
Using the features of IIIF
The Priory project has followed the IIIF standards for making our images of Priory books as open and usable as possible. In return we have already gained many benefits, not just from sharing technology but also access to Priory books held and digitised by other institutions. Part of working with open source software and standards is Read More …
Who Consults the Durham Cathedral Library Manuscripts and Why
By Catherine Monahan In a recent trip to England, I visited Durham Cathedral in hopes of viewing several of the Anglo-Saxon manuscripts found in the Cathedral Library. As the Managing Editor of the Dictionary of Old English, I was looking forward to seeing the actual manuscripts rather than the poor copies which we consult regularly during Read More …