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Eric Weiskott Discovers Fragment

February 17, 2015

Eric Weikott, Assistant Professor of English at Boston College, has published an article on a manuscript fragment he discovered in a printed book in the Beinecke collections.  The fragment adds new information to the recently edited text of the Middle English poem Spec...

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Yale Lectures in Medieval Studies

January 26, 2015

 

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Lisa Fagin Davis Examines the Voynich Manuscript

January 21, 2015

Lisa Fagin Davis describes the "world's most mysterious manuscript" in her recent road trip to New Haven, which can be seen here.  Yale University Press will be publishing a photofacsimile of the Voynich along with interpretative essays in a new series entitled Yale St...

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Road Trip with Lisa Fagin Davis

January 21, 2015

Lisa Fagin Davis, Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America, has published her account of the early books and manuscripts at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.  Her outstanding description can be found here.

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Hopkins Students Examine Beinecke Manuscripts

October 29, 2014

Students from Jacqueline LaBelle's Art History class at the Hopkins School in New Haven CT spent the morning viewing manuscripts and printed materials in Arabic, Latin, Old French and English.  They looked at a thirteenth century Koran (Arabic MSS suppl. 80), a fourtee...

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Conservation on Papyrus Fragment (Part 2)

August 29, 2014

Once the papyrus had been straightened, the (rather) extensive drying period was begun under weights.  Once the papyrus was completely dry, we gave the fragments a careful secondary cleaning to ensure that the text was as readable as possible. Then we (very) carefully...

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Conservation on Papyrus Fragment (Part 1)

August 29, 2014

Numbering almost 7000 items, the Yale Papyrus Collection has a dazzling array of documentary and literary texts that span over a thousand years of history.  The diverse papyri collection attracts scholars from all over the world, who not only make the journey to the Be...

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Eric Weiskott Discovers Fragment

February 17, 2015

Yale Lectures in Medieval Studies

January 26, 2015

Lisa Fagin Davis Examines the Voynich Manuscript

January 21, 2015

Road Trip with Lisa Fagin Davis

January 21, 2015

Hopkins Students Examine Beinecke Manuscripts

October 29, 2014

Conservation on Papyrus Fragment (Part 2)

August 29, 2014

Conservation on Papyrus Fragment (Part 1)

August 29, 2014

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