Medieval Manuscript Reproduction. – August 16, 2009Posted in: Videos This series of videos comes from an American graduate student who works as a calligrapher who specializes in reproductions of medieval manuscripts. The videos are a how to guide for creating your own manuscript. Click here to visit her website Bygone Arts. See also: Medieval and Renaissance Book Production – article by Richard W. The Making of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts - video lecture by Sally Dormer As the first step in making a reproduction of a page of a medieval manuscript, I create prick-marks on the margin of the parchment. As the second step in making a reproduction of a page of a medieval manuscript, I create ruling lines on the parchment.
In the process of making a reproduction of a medieval manuscript, I write text on parchment using walnut ink and a Brause nib. In the process of making a reproduction of a medieval manuscript, I erase a mistake by scraping the mistake off with a knife. The Reality of Writing a Good Book Proposal - Do Your Job Better. By Rachel Toor Writing a book proposal may not be exactly like appearing on a reality-TV show, but thinking about it in that way might help to remind you what you're up against. In case you spend your Monday nights reading the pre-Socratic philosophers or sequencing genes and have missed the riveting TV series The Bachelor, here's how it works: One bachelor is pursued by 25 bachelorettes (or vice versa). All the contestants have been screened well and seem close enough to appropriate on first blush. During casting sessions, the staff culled hundreds (thousands?) Of contenders who were too short, too fat, too poor, too brown, too pale, too stinky, too dumb, and too smart and sent them off with a line like, "You're great, but we just don't think you'd be a good fit for this particular bachelor/ette.
" I like watching the show because, well, my brow is low, but also because it seems like a pretty close representation of what my life was like as a university-press acquisitions editor. Livres électroniques. Lingua Latina. History of Acoustics and Music Listening. Progetto Raphael. EDICTA: Early Dictionaries / Dictionnaires Anciens. Sarum Performing Graduale beta.pdf (application/pdf Object) Dictionary of the Scots Language. The aim of this project was to create the Dictionary of the Scots Language, an electronic scholarly dictionary covering the Scots language from 1200 to the present. This was successfully completed and published on-line, and serves students of Scottish language, literature and culture around the world.
With limited resources and in the short time-scale of three years, the project undertook to digitise and publish in searchable form on the Internet all 11 volumes of the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and the 10 volumes of the Scottish National Dictionary. These historical dictionaries are mainly available only in specialised research libraries and are prohibitively expensive to buy. They are also in different typographical formats and were created using different editorial principles. Funding sources: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Scottish Language Dictionaries Limited, The Russell Trust Content types created: Dataset/structured data, Text Software tools used: Designing Shakespeare: an audio-visual archive 1960-2000. Patterns of Mozart reception in the nineteenth century. The history of nineteenth-century music is on the verge of being rewritten. There is emerging, in addition to a chronicle of composers and works, and of a thick description of musical cultures and institutions, the possibility of writing the music history of the century in terms of its reception of composers of the previous century and before.
The fusion of traditional modes of historical narrative with views of the century that give due weight to questions of reception is one of the most exciting opportunities facing music history today. Work to date on writing the history of nineteenth-century music that gives due attention to questions of reception centres on Beethoven, and the last few years have seen the publication of a number of monograph and article-length studies of the composer’s significance for the nineteenth century (1-4). Funding sources: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Content types created: Text Software tools used: Microsoft Word Source material used: 1. Shakespeare · An International Database of Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio.
An electronic catalogue of vernacular manuscript books of the Medieval WestMidlands. "The manuscripts of the West Midlands have long been valuable resources for medieval English literary and book history. Research has focused on individual manuscripts or small groups. Surviving in large numbers and from well-documented regional centres of book production, they potentially offer a resource for investigation of the regional parameters of manuscript culture.
Systematic manuscript geography has hitherto been inhibited by lack of research tools for large-scale comparative work. This project aims to enhance the value of these resources for manuscript geography in particular and medieval literary and cultural history more generally by creating a new electronic research resource: An Electronic Catalogue of Vernacular Manuscript Books of the Medieval West Midlands". (from project web site; please see for more details). Funding sources: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Content types created: Dataset/structured data, Text Source material used: Digital resource created: A Catalogue of Medieval British Manuscripts Containing Commentaries on Aristotle. This is a series of definitive Latin texts which are essential for the study of medieval British thought; some of which are to be published online. Funding sources: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Content types created: Text Source material used: "The project exists to publish editions of texts bringing to a wider audience some of the remarkable achievements of medieval scholars and thinkers in Britain whose writings have not previously received the modern editorial recognition that they have deserved.
Digital resource created: "This is a series of definitive Latin texts which are essential for the study of medieval British thought. Access to digital resource: Open Access Data Formats created: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) Institutions affiliated with this project: Project staff and expertise: A Key to English Place-Names. "A Key to English Place-Names is a database maintained at the Institute for Name-Studies, School of English, The University of Nottingham. It is intended to provide an up-to-date guide to the interpretation of the names of England's cities, towns and villages, drawing on the work of the English Place-Name Society (itself housed within the institute) and other researchers.Readers are encouraged (by a 'Your Comments' box beside each name) to offer comments on the appropriateness of otherwise of the etymologies (e.g. 'there's no hill for miles around'), and to inform us of significant additions to the bibliography (it is particularly hard for us to keep track of contributions in local and historical and archaeological journals).
Note that, in common with most historically-based research, we use the county-boundaries that stood before local government reorganization in 1974" (from project web site; please see for more details). Funding sources: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Techniques for the analysis of expressive gestures in musical performance. Classical music is traditionally studied from notation; but music sounds, and how it sounds depends on performance style. The project developed techniques to show what constitutes a performance style. Expressive gestures in sound that characterise personal styles of playing and singing were identified and analysed in detail, using computer visualisation techniques for sound analysis.
Their deployment and function in different musical contexts were examined. The process of style change over 100 years of recorded music can be seen as resulting from the changing constituents of personal styles. Funding sources: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Content types created: Sound, Still Image/Graphics Software tools used: Steinberg Wavelab, Adobe Photoshop LE Source material used: All the sound files derive from original shellac discs held in the King's Sound Archive at King's College, London: Digital resource created: Search - Broadsides at the National Library of Scotland.