Prepare for the Easter Vigil with a little Beneventan #paleography practice! The Montecassino Exultet Roll is STILL not back online at the BL (Because reasons? C'mon.) But you can visit our discussion of it at @visithmml.bsky.social School; see the link in the original thread below.

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For Maundy Thursday, more Bobbio Missal. "our main and most competent scribe...has some locally-influenced feelings about what the correct vowels might be." See the whole thread for details, some transcription, and useful links. ⚓

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Bobbio Missal, detail of fol. 8r showing clear prickings and just-visible dry-point ruling

Bobbio Missal, fol. 8r, full image.

Interestingly the Bobbio Missal *is* ruled, the scribe just doesn't care. Each line of writing does more or less end between two prickings, but it doesn't seem to occur to the scribe to use the ruled lines to establish a baseline.

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Last year for Holy Week, I posted the Exorcism and Blessing of the Oil from the Bobbio Missal. See the whole thread for those texts, some truly terrible handwriting, and even worse Latin. 🕯️🧵👇

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Last year for Holy Week, I did a deep dive into the Bobbio Missal (neither from Bobbio nor a Missal). See the whole linked thread for size comparison, transcription, and useful links. Diving into this Merovingian liturgical manuscript was mindbending! #medievalsky #paleography #liturgy #PalmSunday

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We also include examples of writing in the #Latin script from the #Roman Kingdom to the #digital age.

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3/9

#Calligraphic hands transitioned into prints in #typography.

Here is a schematic diagram on how these hands influence and develop.

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2/9

Throughout time, the #Latin script evolved through the hands of scribes in calligraphy, printers in printing, and typographers in modern print.

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It's less abbreviated than it looks, because the swirly thing that looks like a tilde-esque common mark is actually a superscript U, and A tends to float up like a balloon from the T that follows it. See if you can disentangle the letters. #paleography

A page long believed to have been lost from the #Archimedes #Palimpsest has been identified by a CNRS researcher at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois, central France. #paleography, #archaeology, www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2026/03...

Greek minuscule, 15th-century manuscript of Aristotle Anonymous - Reproduction in: Franz Steffens, Proben aus grieschischen Handschriften und Urkunden, (Trier: Schaar und Dathe, 1912). The page exemplifies Byzantine minuscule — the cursive, compact Greek script that developed from the 9th century onward and became the dominant manuscript hand of the medieval Greek-speaking world. The most visually striking element is the large ornamental "A" (Alpha) in the upper left — an elaborate headpiece initial decorated with interlacing scrollwork, floral motifs, and foliate patterns in a style characteristic of late Byzantine manuscript illumination. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeography#/media/File:Greek_manuscript_minuscule_Aristotle.png

New Project Explores the Craft of Writing in the Medieval Nordic World

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Over 43,000 inscribed pot sherds in Upper Egypt site A joint archaeological mission has documented the world’s most extensive find of inscribed pottery sherds at the site of Athribis.

43,000 #ostraca and a thousand years of daily life at Athribis, Upper #Egypt, #archaeology, #paleography, #epigraphy

Anyone good at late nineteenth century script? Trying to work out the names in a birthday book.
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Xeirographa A guided learning platform for reading Greek manuscripts with interactive transcription exercises.

https://xeirographa.com/ Learn Greek paleography, step by step. Progressively harder to read documents.

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My thread on Ethelbert of Kent from this day last year included a detailed discussion of features of late Gothic Textualis script. Scroll down in the linked thread for some annotated manuscript images. #medievalsky #paleography

An extract from a diary written in 1820. Alongside defences to walks and trips to Hexham is the phrase “RGD [illegible]

Anyone want to take a guess at what RGD did on this day? RGD is the toddler in my previous post (extra points if you can get the word under healthy…) #19thcentury #19thC #handwriting #paleography #history #localhistory