ICYMI: The mind-boggling list of hundreds of #bannedbooks in Tennessee now includes Calvin and Hobbes by cartoonist Bill Watterson, They Called Us Enemy by @georgetakei.bsky.social, and The Complete Book of Cats by Rosie Pilbeam. More at: pen.org/magic-tree-h... #Caturday #Censorship
In light of new research on a Magna Carta manuscript held by Harvard Law School, DS Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow @rosemccandless.bsky.social investigates early manuscripts containing Magna Carta that are discoverable in the DS Catalog.
digital-scriptorium.org/magna-carta-...
Manuscript marginalia featuring a pink dog, with a sad-looking expression, seated on marginal decoration at the top of a page
Photo of a manuscript page in two columns written in dark brown ink, a large historiated illuminated initial, and the pink dog at the very top of the page
Woof, woof! A sad-looking pink doggy sits in the top margin of f. 307v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag
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With recent new additions from Columbia University and University of Pennsylvania, the DS Catalog now boasts representation of just over 2,000 manuscripts with Hebrew language content. Take a look at these in our member collections through this link: search.digital-scriptorium.org?f%5Blanguage...
Wow.
One of our most frequently viewed DS records is for Boston Public Library, MS f Med.101. This ms containing Christine de Pisan's Le livre des trois Vertus was copied in 1405, and is generally considered to be "the truest copy of the text, possibly created under the direction of the author herself."
Theatre History students always bring a lot of enthusiasm to their visit to the Zhang Legacy Collections Center.
Answer: Manuscripts formerly owned by Thomas Phillipps by the owning DS member institution!
To learn more about scholarship on tracing the enormous collection Phillipps amassed in his lifetime, check out this article in Speculum by Dr. Toby Burrows: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Check out these newly added records from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in the DS Catalog, now joining over 16,000 records and the holdings of 37 other institutions:
search.digital-scriptorium.org?f%5Binstitut...
Zhang Legacy Collections Center at WMU hosted our neighbors from Calvin University for a field trip on the history of the book this morning. We are here to serve any students who want to learn from our holdings!
Looking forward to heading home to someone who is always glad to see me.
It’s abbreviations day i paleography!
Schatzi looks unhappy in this picture, but she actually keeps going out for about 20 minutes, coming in for about an hour nap. She’s torn between loving the snow and the fact that I’m home to hang out.
Regional History Curator Lynn Houghton and Western Michigan University Archivist John Winchell pose with a new book, Kalamazoo County Characters, which benefited from materials from the Zhang Legacy Collections Center and the deep knowledge of our staff.
somebody’s not happy that all the holiday household has left.
When Christmas decor has lost its will to continue ...
Despite the snow, Medieval Research Group's first Quaestio of 2025 attracted lots of people to visit manuscripts on loan from the Newberry Library and the Manuscripts in the Curriculum program. wmich.edu/medieval/res...
