STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

People love to talk about Shakespeare "anticipating" things, but what about this unknown poet anticipating network analysis

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

In honour of the falling leaves, here are some massive ones drawn on the folio manuscript leaves of Bod. MS Ashmole 38, 165-166

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

The STEMMA team is growing: @normaowens.bsky.social has joined us as a Research Assistant. Norma is interested in using computational and quantitative methods to recover under-represented groups and exploring patterns of connectivity and knowledge transmission in historical networks. Welcome, Norma!

stemma.universityofgalway.iePaper Trees: Celebrating Female Craft in Bodleian MS Rawl. poet. 84 - STEMMALeah Veronese The enchanting tiny worlds of modern recycled book-sculptures are the descendants of early modern paper crafts. In the late-seventeenth century women were engaged in similar arts of coll...

Paper trees and embroidery 🌳🪡 In our latest STEMMA blog @leahveronese.bsky.social explores two poems celebrating female craft in Bodleian MS Rawl. poet. 84 stemma.universityofgalway.ie/paper-trees-...

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

A little bouquet of surprise flowers in the endleaves of British Library Additional MS 15227, Fol.101v to Fol.102r 🌼🌸🌷🪻🌻

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

Plaintive but hopeful elephant 🐘♥️ Please be nice to him British Library Sloane MS 3794: Fol.5r

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

Plaintive but hopeful elephant 🐘♥️ Please be nice to him British Library Sloane MS 3794: Fol.5r

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

LOOK AT THIS LITTLE FACE

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

18 Sept

Variations on a theme of tea-staining your homework? Arts Treasury, 1688, p.119

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

18 Sept

Also featured, how to make purple ink, p.119

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

18 Sept

And just in case you can't bear to travel without vinegar, p.122

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

17 Sept

Today's rabbit hole (or tree labyrinth). Love the little gardener 🥹❤️🪏👒 Ralph Austen, A Treatise of Fruit Trees or Spiritual Use of an orchard, 1653

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

16 Sept

Poetry and maths side by side - just how we like it here at STEMMA Bodleian MS Rawl. Poet. 142, Fols 11v - 12r

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

11 Sept

A verse letter about a dog-seal! 🐕❤️💌 Bodleian MS Add. A. 267: Fol.28r

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

10 Sept

Paper cut! Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 14: Fol. 23r

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

4 Sept

Getting ready for the new academic year: 17th century undergraduate Simon Sloper writes his term dates into his commonplace book in 1619 Bodleian MS Eng. poet. f. 10: Fol.52r

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

1 Sept

August 31st/September 1st

@drnaomibaker.bsky.social

26 Aug

DH2027@adho-conferences.bsky.social

#DH2027 is coming to Galway! ⛵️ Join us 28 June–3 July 2027 at the University of Galway for ADHO’s 37th annual conference, on the theme #Creativity. Our website is now live: dh2027.adho.org Watch this space: the CfP is coming soon. #DH2027 @adho-org.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities

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Naomi Baker

24 Aug

An English woman insisting on inclusive language in 1684! The main text refers to “man” and Ann Bathurst corrects this in the margin - “that is … men & women” #earlymodern

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Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)

@csmc-hamburg.bsky.social

19 Aug

What happens to written artefacts after their initial production? Steffen Döll, head of our new ‘Phased Transmission’ unit, on material and invisible transformations, provenance, archives, and the challenge of developing concepts that work across cultural contexts: uhh.de/csmc-cmu-3

uhh.deMoving Through the Life Phases of Written Artefacts

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Erika Gaffney

@erikagaffney.bsky.social

14 Aug

Call for papers - Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade University of Edinburgh 6-7 May 2027 Deadline: 20 December This conference also launches a new collaborative database sourcing biographical information about women in the early modern book trade. #earlymodern

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

13 Aug

An extra John Heywood poem- or a misattributed nineteenth-century forgery? @caitlinburge.bsky.social looks at a mysterious supposed variant of 'Give Place You Ladies' and John Payne Collier's forgeries in Folger Va339 and the imitation of Henrician poets stemma.universityofgalway.ie/give-place-y...

stemma.universityofgalway.ieUpdates from STEMMA HQ - STEMMAThe STEMMA project has had a busy year, welcoming new postdocs, finishing data cleaning, hosting Manuscripts Week in Galway, and preparing to release a public dataset by end of 2026.

5 Aug

Don’t let the quiet on the STEMMA blog fool you: it’s been very busy around here! Catch up with us in our latest post (and get ready for more soon). #ERCfunded @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social stemma.universityofgalway.ie/updates-from...

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Artjoms Šeļa

@artjomshl.bsky.social

29 July

It’s the first paper in a themed issue on computational poetics we’re co-editing with @nmhouston.bsky.social for CHR journal! Lucky to have this contribution from Erin

Erin A. McCarthy@erinannmcc.bsky.social

Excited and only slightly terrified to have this accepted manuscript available. The Heresy of Vector Embeddings: Early Modern Manuscript Verse and LLMs between Meaning, Form, and History | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

cambridge.orgThe Heresy of Vector Embeddings: Early Modern Manuscript Verse and LLMs between Meaning, Form, and History | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge CoreThe Heresy of Vector Embeddings: Early Modern Manuscript Verse and LLMs between Meaning, Form, and History

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

Lecture by Prof. Steven W. May—happening now! 🤩

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

This all could have been avoided if the Exchequer had switched to paper sooner, May argues 😔

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

Organized coteries are an urban myth

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

Palaeography training and practice with @caitlinburge.bsky.social, @leahveronese.bsky.social, and Jessica Edmondes

Ink making workshop with @meghankern.bsky.social!

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Erin A. McCarthy

@erinannmcc.bsky.social

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

Just about ready to go! Shoutout to the amazing @stemma.bsky.social team for finding the perfect setup for today’s variety show without me asking (or even knowing). ⭐️

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

22 July

This was not even the most exciting seagull behaviour @erinannmcc.bsky.social and @meghankern.bsky.social witnessed while buying last-minute ink-making supplies today

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Meghan Kern

@meghankern.bsky.social

9 July

Come figure it out with us. @stemma.bsky.social is hosting an open (to everyone) Early Modern palaeography training session on the afternoon of 23rd July, at @universityofgalway.bsky.social in the Arts Millenium Building, Room AMB-G012

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

21 July

Manuscripts Week is underway! 🙌

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

As promised! The @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social has generously provided support for two days of public-facing ms activities this July. The events will be free of charge, and there is funding for ECR travel (defined as ≤7 years post-PhD, with preference for those not yet in permanent employment). 1/

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse@stemma.bsky.social

STEMMA will be hosting its inaugural Manuscripts Week this year starting 20 July. Watch our socials for details, including opportunities to get involved.

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We have a snazzy Microsoft Form in which you can register express interest in presenting and/or travel funding, and log any dietary requirements. We are worried about putting the link on Bluesky, but feel free to email one of us and we'll send it along! 4/

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

We are aware that these dates are approaching rapidly, so we encourage you to reach out with questions and EOIs as soon as possible but no later than midnight on 8 July. We aim to respond to selected participants by 10 July. /end

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse@stemma.bsky.social

STEMMA will be hosting its inaugural Manuscripts Week this year starting 20 July. Watch our socials for details, including opportunities to get involved.

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

Thursday, 23 July will begin with a training day aimed at an ECR audience (but open to all), featuring a hands-on workshop about making quills and ink and an early modern palaeography training session. The day will conclude with a public lecture by Prof Steven May at 5 pm. 2/

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

Friday, 24 July will include a mini-symposium featuring 20-min papers on any topic related to early modern ms culture. This will be followed by an international transcribathon led by Prof Joshua Eckhardt, in which palaeographers in Galway will be joined by others around the world via Zoom. 3/

stemma.universityofgalway.ieMeet the Team - STEMMAThe team for the ERC-funded project STEMMA at the University of Galway comprises six interdisciplinary researchers, led by Prof. Erin A. McCarthy.

We are delighted to welcome Dr Muhammad Sohaib Ayub to the team today! Learn more about Sohaib and his work at stemma.universityofgalway.ie/meet-the-team/.

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Erin A. McCarthy

@erinannmcc.bsky.social

24 June

Not to brag or anything, but three of these projects are from my department. (cc: @stemma.bsky.social)

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

@leahveronese.bsky.social

7 June

STEMMA will be hosting its inaugural Manuscripts Week this year starting 20 July. Watch our socials for details, including opportunities to get involved.

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Dr Leah Veronese

3 June

'Scattergood' feels like an excellent name for a commonplacer @stemma.bsky.social

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

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25 May

When you really need brunch 🥓🍳

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

25 May

And relatedly, the bap creed

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

22 May

What's your reading style? Over stimulated spaniel. 🐕 Robert Burton Anatomy of Melancholy

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

19 May

Does MS actually stand for Mouse Snack? 🤔🐭 Summary Catalogue, Vol.III, p.321