Patrik Granholm

Enhanced image of palimpsested page, original writing in red; a large illuminated 'E' can be seen in bottom right quadrant.

Somehow, an 8th-c. English liturgical manuscript ended up in Mount Sinai (where it was palimpsested and written over by a Christian Arabic scribe). For more info: Michelle Brown, austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572%2...

Happy 191st birthday to the Kalavala, national epic of Finland, compiled into a single more or less coherent narrative from a vast range of traditional or oral folktales, myths and songs by scholar Elias Lönnrot and first published #onthisday in 1835.

Find your next read in this dataset of international bestsellers. In most situations when I say “I need the data,” I’m referring to gossip, and it’s less of a “need” than what some would call a “messy curiosity.” But recently, I came across a Substack post analyz…

Come “poke around” our data “to find new books and authors [you’ve] never heard of!” @jamesfolta.com makes great use of the Int'l Bestsellers dataset built by @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, & @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on @literaryhub.bsky.social. lithub.com/find-your-ne...

HeadStart Classical Studies Explore the worlds of ancient Greece and Rome with this collection of free courses on the classical world.

Free classical studies learning! My fab colleagues (inc. @luxmea.bsky.social @emmabridges.bsky.social @eltonteb.bsky.social) have written a set of free courses on topics like the Odyssey, Augustus & Herodotus. Latest addition is Chella's course on Ovid's big ideas: www.open.edu/openlearn/hi...

Map identifying the approximate regions where various Indigenous groups lived in North America in 1776.

The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...

I den svensk-karibiska kolonin rådde andra lagar - Nättidningen Svensk Historia I den svenska kolonin S:t Barthélemy rådde helt andra lagar än i Sverige – till exempel när det gäller slaveri och familjebildning. I ett EU-projekt vid Uppsala universitet kartläggs livet på den…

I den svenska kolonin S:t Barthélemy rådde helt andra lagar än i Sverige – till exempel när det gäller slaveri och familjebildning. I ett EU-projekt vid Uppsala universitet kartläggs livet på den karibiska ön under åren 1784–1878. svenskhistoria.se/i-den-svensk... #svhist

liiive splash page image

Screenshot of the annotation interface, with toolbars (top-left, top-right, bottom-left), live user cursors and a medieval manuscript image with three annotations.

I can finally share the happy news 🚀 liiive.now — my tool for real-time collaborative annotation of #IIIF images — is going open source!

First code is available here: github.com/rsimon/liiive

Self-hosted setup coming by end of February.

#OpenSource #DigitalHumanities

A little stop motion video I made of an almanac in the University of Rochester collection to try and give viewers an idea of how it functions 😊

(Video of RCL cod. a.1, a late 14th century folding almanac from England, likely Oxford)

My guess would be the Austrian National Library: search.onb.ac.at/primo-explor...

Agnes Toftgård

“Old system, new tricks; Using AI to Improve AV Metadata in a Legacy System” presented by Agnes Toftgård, National Library of Sweden ##FF2025 bit.ly/3MhqFJC

Photomontage showing the interrelationship between the five fragments of runestone U 115. Photo: Magnus Källström

Notes on the runic inscription on U 114 and U 115 in manuscript R 555, at the Uppsala University Library.

#OpenAccess
Källström, M. (2025). "Runstenen U 115 i Runby och en senvikingatida stormannasläkt."
[Eng sum: The runestone U 115 at Runby and a late Viking Age magnate family]
#Runic #VikingAge #Medieval #History
urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=...

The Roman Empire’s Entire Road Network Just Got Mapped, and It's Mind-Blowing A new study identified over 68,000 more miles of ancient Roman roads than were previously known.

The Roman Empire’s Entire Road Network Just Got Mapped, and It’s Mind-Blowing gizmodo.com/the-roman-em...

We are proud to announce that 1,000 manuscripts are now published on manuscripta.se, advancing our mission to make #medieval and #earlymodern manuscripts in Sweden accessible worldwide. #iiif #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalSky

The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections Abstract. It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others

🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨

Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!).
academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...

IIPImage » iipsrv 1.3 Version 1.3 of iipsrv, the IIPImage server, is now officially released and available for download! This is a major new version containing a whole host of new features, major performance enhancements, ...

Version 1.3 of iipsrv, the IIPImage server, is now officially released and available for download. This is a major new version containing a whole host of new features, major performance enhancements, optimizations and numerous bug-fixes:

iipimage.sourceforge.io/2025/05/iips...

Publication de BaTyR : la nouvelle Base de Typographie de la Renaissance La nouvelle version de la Base de Typographie de la Renaissance, développée dans le cadre du projet ANR TypoReF au sein des Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes, est désormais publique ! Ouverte à l’oc...

Publication de BaTyR : la nouvelle Base de Typographie de la Renaissance bvh.hypotheses.org/12669
#bookhistory

Aaron Swartz, patron saint of the open-access internet, gets immortalized in SF Hundreds gathered at the Internet Archive for the unveiling of a statue honoring the late programmer, who's been embraced as a tech hero.

sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/a...

Sad to hear about the passing of the great enigmatist David Lynch.

Don't forget to nominate #DigitalHumanities resources for the annual #DH Awards!

They don't make it onto the ballot unless you do! Consider nominating with diversity in mind!

Self-nomination is fine, but consider also nominating something else in another category!

dhawards.org/dhawards2024...

Ein furchtbares Bild, eine KI-Grafik, auf der ein Mann auf einen zeigt und We Want You sagt und daneben steht "Arshur Arthur Schnitzler" und es schaut natürlich gar nicht aus wie Schnitzler. Aber mehr Zeit will ich mit der Spielerei auch nicht verbringen

Weil ich selbst nur schlechte KI-Bilder machen kann, folgt eine Stellenausschreibung: Ab 1. Mai 2025 suche ich für 4 weitere Jahre #Briefedition #ArthurSchnitzler eine Kollegin, einen Kollegen (30h/Woche, prae-Doc). Arbeitsort: Wien. Details: www.oeaw.ac.at/acdh/institu...

#LitWiss #jobs

First job: Data Librarian for Ancient Greek
Starting ~ 2700 € (gross salary)
Duration: A year
Objectives: Managing the partners in the project, establishing objectives in terms of corpus and producing/controlling the quality of TEI XML
Full description: recrutement.inria.fr/public/class...

Screenshot of the Mapping Saints public interface

The open-access digital research and educational resource, 'Mapping Saints', has now been officially launched!
Check it out here: saints.dh.gu.se

An additional 150 West Norse #manuscripts at the National Library of Sweden have been digitised and published on manuscripta.se in the past 9 months. Descriptions and more digitised manuscripts to follow in the coming months: www.manuscripta.se/search?q=%22... #iiif #MedievalManuscripts

Launching University of Leeds Open Books Following the open textbook funding call of University of Leeds academic staff to collaborate with the University of Leeds Libraries in contributing to the open education movement and advancing kno…

I am delighted to be joining the @universityofleeds.bsky.social #OpenBooks Programme to write a textbook about medieval manuscripts in the digital age! #MedievalSky #MedievalManuscripts #DigitalHumanities @openresleeds.bsky.social @idrleeds.bsky.social

leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2024/12/17/l...

The Long-Lost Tarzan Atari Game, Preserved | Video Game History Foundation After 40 years, the Atari 2600 masterpiece Tarzan has been unearthed.

Kevin Bunch wrote a great article for @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social about discovering a completed but never-released Tarzan game for the Atari 2600. The article is amazing, and when you get to the end... you get to play it at Internet Archive!

gamehistory.org/atari-2600-t...

The Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda is now available in this magnificent electronic edition in the Editiones Arnamagnæanæ electronicæ series, with a lemmatized and morphologically annotated text, encoded in Menota TEI: eae.ku.dk/q?p=eae/vols...
#MedievalManuscripts

advice from Marcus Aurelius for anyone disappointed by Gladiator 2 Were you among the many fans of the first Gladiator movie who found its long-awaited sequel… a little meh? Did you find it somehow both too gay in the wrong ways (queer-coded villains? groundbreaking....

advice from Marcus Aurelius for anyone disappointed by Gladiator 2
donnazuckerberg.substack.com/p/advice-fro...

IIIF Annual Conference, June 2-5, 2025. Leeds, UK. iiif.io/event/2025/leeds. Photos of Leeds in daylight and at sunset. Logo for the IIIF Consortium and the University of Leeds.

The Call for Proposals for the 2025 #IIIF Annual Conference is now OPEN!

Read the full call, including themes and submitting guidance, here: iiif.io/event/2025/l...