Kategorie: English Corner
British Library: A newly-acquired manuscript of the Knights Hospitaller
Video: Cotton Gloves and Old Books? No Way!
How an Unorthodox Scholar Uses Technology to Expose Biblical Forgeries
66th Helmholtz Open Science Online Seminar
Recording and slides:
https://os.helmholtz.de/en/events/online-seminars/66th-online-seminar/
Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS) journal is now fully open access
📢 We're excited to announce that our Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS) journal is now fully open access! No more logins, no more embargoes, just complete #OpenAccess goodness https://t.co/NpsPsIHLbK #libraries #cataloging #CritCat #LibraryTwitter 🎉 🙌 🎊 pic.twitter.com/l2iVmSzENy
— ALA Core: Leadership, Infrastructure Futures (@ALA_Core) January 26, 2023
Open Access to Theses and Dissertations
A systematic review of Wikidata in Digital Humanities projects
Videos: Early Bamberg printing now on YouTube
“in the series “Bamberger Buch-Geschichten”, the Staatsbibliothek Bamberg organized several online events on manuscripts and early printed books in 2021 and 2022. Four lectures were given in English and included virtual visits to a number of libraries world-wide. A special focus was placed on the beginnings on printing in Bamberg in the mid-15th century, particulary the reprint of Gutenberg’s Latin Bible and the first illustrated books in German issued by Albrecht Pfister. Among the speakers in the series were Eric White (Princeton), Alyssa Steiner (Bamberg) and Henrike Lähnemann (Oxford) as well as colleages from Berlin, Greifswald, London, Manchester, Oxford, Wolfenbüttel and Würzburg.
The events have been recorded and are now accessible on YouTube:
Sebastian Brant’s Ship of Fools in German and English Collections
https://youtu.be/8g3z6k4CSUg
Albrecht Pfister and the Earliest Printed Books in German from Bamberg
https://youtu.be/iuCl08qSxDo
Gutenberg’s Successor in Bamberg and the Latin Bible (B36)
https://youtu.be/3UkZJNnjZEI
The Bamberg Psalter (illuminated ms., c. 1230)
https://youtu.be/VvqrsYKYe28
Numerous other lectures (in German) can be accessed via our website:
https://www.staatsbibliothek-bamberg.de/archiv-der-online-vortraege/ ”
#buchgeschichte
Medieval manuscripts in Germany – the most important resources
There is a new portal (beta) “Handschriftenportal” with descriptions, digitized catalogs and links to digitized manuscripts that many find exciting.
https://handschriftenportal.de/
I have formulated some criticisms in Archivalia:
https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/163218 (in German, for a machine translation I recommend DeepL).
Not all the content of the old portal manuscripta Mediaevalia has been included.
http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/
Other resources:
1. List of collections:
Especially for smaller collections it may be necessary to consult a printed manual from 1992 (not online): Handbuch der Handschriftenbestände in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (West Germany only). If you need a photo of a small entry feel free to contact me.
2. List of printed catalogs
There is a revised 2016 version of the worldwide bibliography Kristeller/Krämer:A List of the Printed Cataogues and Unpublished Inventories of Extant Collections:
https://www.mgh-bibliothek.de/kristeller/
For a more recent bibliography see:
https://www.handschriftencensus.de/forschungsliteratur/kataloge
3. List of digitized manuscript catalogs
Ms. Pfeil has recently revised her great list of worldwide digitized manuscript catalogs:
https://www.uni-kassel.de/ub/landesbibliothek/sondersammlungen/handschriftenkataloge
Please drop her a note if you have additions.
4. Projects on manuscripts in the federal states of Germany
Fun fact: There is no known medieval manuscript in a public collection in the Saarland.
There is a printed catalog for the smaller collections in eastern Germany (former GDR): Handschriftencensus der kleineren Sammlungen in den östlichen Bundesländern Deutschlands (2000).
http://bilder.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/hs//kataloge/HSK0533.htm
Descriptions of a recent project regarding these collections are available via
North Rhine Westphalia – the printed volumes “Handschriftencensus” were both online:
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6:1-314409 (Westphalia)
I am shocked to have just seen that the Rhineland section has disappeared.
The internet project Handschriftencensus Rheinland Pfalz is still incomplete but very useful:
http://www.hss-census-rlp.ub.uni-mainz.de
5. Specialised databases
Three important internet resources deal with manuscripts in the German language.
Handschriftencensus
https://handschriftencensus.de/
Catalogue of German-Language Illustrated Medieval Manuscripts
https://kdih.badw.de/datenbank/start
Handschriftenarchiv
https://handschriftenarchiv.bbaw.de/
The 2022 launched website contains all descriptions. Please note that there are a lot of descriptions of latin manuscripts!
The Rauner Verlag has manuscript databases, some of which are free to use. The three most important ones require a licence.
– Sigrid Krämer: Bibliothecae codicum medii aevi (is an augmented version of her “Handschriftenerbe” – you can use the printed volumes for free in the database of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, see below)
– Sigrid Krämer: Scriptores possessoresque codicum medii aevi
– Analecta carminum medii aevi
http://webserver.erwin-rauner.de/
If there is no other way to get an entry at all, you can contact me.
For the “Geschichtsquellen” (mostly latin historical sources, German part of the Repertorium fontium) there is a manuscript index at
https://www.geschichtsquellen.de/hs
Please note that Roman Deutinger is continuously adding information on the manuscript tradition and digitized manuscripts.
6. Medieval library catalogs
All volumes of Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz are freely available in the publication database of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. I have just seen that there is a new project database with additions.
https://mbk.badw.de/mbk-digital.html
7. Bindings
“Discover rubbings and original book covers on book bindings of the 15th and 16th century in the German-speaking region”
https://www.hist-einband.de/en/
8. Watermarks
https://www.wasserzeichen-online.de/wzis/index.php?sprache=en
9. Digitized manuscripts
There are a lot of projects. A simple way to find them is browsing the List of manuscript reproductions (single pages and whole manuscripts) of manuscripts in German at
https://www.handschriftencensus.de/abbildungen
Here is a list of cities where libraries with large digital medieval manuscript collections are located:
Augsburg, Bamberg, Berlin, Bremen, Darmstadt, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Erlangen, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Fulda, Gotha, Gießen, Göttingen, Greifswald, Halle, Hamburg, Hannover, Heidelberg, Jena, Karlsruhe, Kassel, Kiel, Köln, Leipzig, Lübeck, Mainz, Munich, Nürnberg, Stuttgart, Trier, Tübingen, Weimar, Wolfenbüttel, Würzburg.
Libraries hosting digitized manuscripts for other libraries on a large scale are:
Greifswald, University Library: Digitale Bibliothek Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
https://www.digitale-bibliothek-mv.de/ (60 manuscripts from Stadtarchiv Stralsund)
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/handschriften (other Bavarian state libraries)
To find a digital reproduction of a single manuscript I would first check the new Handschriftenportal.
10. Virtual reconstructions of monastic libraries
See my list at
https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/131642 (in German)
WHAT HAVE I FORGOTTEN?
Video: ChatGPT for search
New online: FOCAL – The Asia Directories Database
Access to the Index of Medieval Art Database Will Become Free on July 1, 2023
Thoughts on AI’s Impact on Scholarly Communications? An Interview with ChatGPT
Copyright as censorship right
Kid-edited journal pushes scientists for clear writing on complex topics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/01/07/science-journal-for-kids/
https://kids.frontiersin.org/ “Frontiers for Young Minds provides a collection of freely available scientific articles by distinguished scientists that are shaped for younger audiences by the input of their own young peers.”
More on #receptiogate
#ReceptioGate has more twists and thrills than a detective novel. It also tells us something about the insane way historical research is funded in the UK and elsewhere, which tends to reward system-gaming rather than scholarship. Read all about it: https://t.co/cOhrpwC1by
— Charlotte Gauthier (@FaraiUnVers) January 4, 2023
Imperial Patchwork “Flickenteppiche” as a Historical Metaphor for Chaos, Federalism and Diversity
Open-Access-Article by Wolfgang Wüst:
A New Year’s Eve Ghost Story
The Untold History of the Biden Family
Collectors! Post your medieval manuscript fragments on the Internet Archive
Please consider! As a collector, I post my print and MS fragments #OA on https://t.co/mQNIsEInk8 to make them discoverable; I also make a monthly donation that becomes substantial over the year. Collectors-please make your materials discoverable and support this valuable service! https://t.co/npeF3IykdW
— MSabinus (@MSabinus) December 29, 2022
Comparing scientific abstracts generated by ChatGPT to original abstracts
https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.23.521610
“ChatGPT writes believable scientific abstracts, though with completely generated data. These are original without any plagiarism detected but are often identifiable using an AI output detector and skeptical human reviewers. Abstract evaluation for journals and medical conferences must adapt policy and practice to maintain rigorous scientific standards; we suggest inclusion of AI output detectors in the editorial process and clear disclosure if these technologies are used.”
A ChatGP3-assisted paper is posted to the arXiv
The Role of AI in Drug Discovery: Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategies: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08104
“This article was created to test the ability of ChatGPT, a chatbot based on the GPT-3.5 language model, to assist human authors in writing review articles. The text generated by the AI following our instructions (see Supporting Information) was used as a starting point, and its ability to automatically generate content was evaluated. After conducting a thorough review, human authors practically rewrote the manuscript, striving to maintain a balance between the original proposal and scientific criteria. “
Books are “more like friends than objects”
We've had several inquiries about our book donation program following this @washingtonpost article.
Yes, we accept physical donations! ✅📚
We want books we don't already have, & we have new tools to help book lovers determine what we need. Learn more: https://t.co/ePyrH1QukA https://t.co/5XOucZ27V2
— Internet Archive (@internetarchive) December 20, 2022
Explore digital images from museums’ open access collections
Der gefährliche Irrweg der Museumsdatenbanken, nur an die Einzelseite zu denken, macht sich auch hier bemerkbar.
https://www.curationist.org/works/work-rijks-NL-AsdRM-lido-641234 zeigt nur den Einband, ohne dass man weiterblättern kann. Einen Link zur Präsentation des Museums gibt es nicht.
The EU Orphan Works Directive Is Officially A Failure
Academic Integrity in Canada (Open Access Book)
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53333 (Thanks to JZ)