Latest posts tagged with #biocodicology on Bluesky
Londoners know every exhibition is a learning experience. Visited #ExpectingBirthBeliefProtection exhibtion at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social yesterday & discover a new science #Biocodicology! This the study of biological materials found in manuscripts.
#LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife3
6/🧵 105 Romanesque bindings (63% of the collection!) originally had sealskin chemises, though most have disappeared with only traces remaining.
Similar bindings in other "daughter houses" of Clairvaux across Europe.
Full paper in RSOS:
#medieval #manuscripts #biocodicology #tradeNetworks
Me traigo de Mastodon esta publicación de David Haskiya de una #postdoc en el proyecto #CODICUM en #Copenhaghen. Trata del análisis de restos de #códices en #pergamino para determinar por filiación biológica fragmentos de estos objetos.
#biocodicology #openScience
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A wonderfully comprehensive article on parchment production #biocodicology
Notice for Prof Joanna Story's lecture "Insular Manuscripts in Carolingian Francia (in and from Germany)", German Historical Institute London, 28 January 2025.
Yesterday listened to Prof Joanna Story's fascinating talk (thanks @ghilondon.bsky.social) about @insularmss.bsky.social ERC AdG Project on identifying provenance of Early Medieval insular-style manuscripts with #Biocodicology (protein & aDNA analysis) – much like the Nordic CODICUM ERC Project!
But if selection panels do not think you are sufficiently rooted in 'their' discipline to teach a 101 course, getting a job is really hard.
My most truly interdisciplinary postdoc - the founder of #Biocodicology - is the one no longer in Academia.
Heads a mass spec lab in a Pharma. 🤯
Prof Tuomas Heikkilä and Dr Tuuli Kasso presenting their project.
Prof Tuomas Heikkilä and Dr Tuuli Kasso presented their CHARM project for studying the parchment and pigments in medieval manuscript #fragments and documents from Finland and Sweden with #biocodicology methods in Helsinki Medieval Materialities and Intellectualities #MeMI workshop earlier this week.
A collage of four archival images from the French National Archives at Hôtel de Soubise. Top left shows a long corridor with floor-to-ceiling shelves filled with historical bound volumes. Top right displays a close-up of aged cylindrical document containers with numerical labels in the 5000 series. Bottom left shows deteriorating archival material with visible damage. Bottom right features a damaged bound volume with distinctive turquoise coloring. These legal and government texts I saw *appear* to have been written on sheepskin, representing a significant collection for biocodicology research (the study of biological material in historical manuscripts). If this is so it is significant, as it would suggest this tradition was broader than just England which we havde discussed in earlier publications
Thanks to #NapoléonIII and conservator Agnès Prévost, I do not think I have ever seen so many dead and dated *sheep* in one place as a I saw at #ArchivesNationales at the speactcular #HôteldeSoubise.
So many potential #biocodicology research projects here.
Bees, biocodicology, and how we can understand more about the making of medieval manuscripts
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#Archives #rarebooks #biocodicology
#bees #beeswax #ArcHives
1524) with @ercb2c #biocodicology
