The Yale Program in the History of the Book brings together scholars across disciplines to explore the materiality of the written word over time and across cultures. For the full schedule and details, visit bookhistory.yale.edu.
With colleagues throughout the Yale University Library , and across the university, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library staff have been working to assist...
Check out The Census for a new column by Ben Card (Graduate student in English, Yale University) on The Philosophy of Material Texts . Watch this space for new...
Unique Byzantine/Arabic pattern sheet with Christian saints demonstrates technique of pouncing to transfer images quickly and easily from the pattern sheet to a blank surface. Such pattern sheets were used for manuscripts, but also for mosaics and other artistic media.
Today’s puzzle pictured above for the Paleographical Challenge . [Suggested solution to yesterday’s challenge : To make a good Red rulin Inke Take fyne...
From the Yale Program in the History of the Book : an essay by Eve Houghton (graduate student in English at Yale; graduate organizer of the Yale Program in the...