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Fwd: Call for Participation: Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities 2018 (COMHUM 2018)
by Elena Spadini 25 May '18

25 May '18

Apologies for any cross posting CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities 2018 (COMHUM 2018) June 4–5, 2018 · University of Lausanne, Switzerland https://wp.unil.ch/llist/en/programme/ Registration Deadline: June 1, 2018 INVITATION AND SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP: https://wp.unil.ch/llist/en/ event/comhum2018/ You are cordially invited to attend the Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities 2018 (COMHUM 2018), listen to the talks (including invited talks by Bruno Cornelis, Maristella Agosti, and Manfred Thaller), and participate in the discussions. It is often said that the digital humanities are “situated at the intersection of computer science and the humanities,” but what does this mean? We believe that the point of using computers in the humanities is not just to automatically analyze larger amounts of data or to accelerate research. We therefore prefer to understand digital humanities as (1) the study of means and methods of constructing formal models in the humanities and (2) as the application of these means and methods for the construction of concrete models in particular humanities disciplines. The central research questions are thus correspondingly (1) which computational methods are most appropriate for dealing with the particular challenges posed by humanities research, e.g., uncertainty, vagueness, incompleteness, but also with different positions (points of view, values, criteria, perspectives, approaches, readings, etc.)? And (2) how can such computational methods be applied to concrete research questions in the humanities? PROGRAM: https://wp.unil.ch/llist/en/programme/ Monday, June 4, 2018 11:00–11:30 Welcome 11:30–12:30 Invited talk: Bruno Cornelis (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 12:30–14:00 Lunch 14:00–15:00 Invited talk: Maristella Agosti (Università di Padova) 15:00–15:30 Coffee 15:30–17:00 • Mats Dahllöf: Clustering Writing Components from Medieval Manuscripts • Elli Bleeker, Ronald Haentjens Dekker, and Bram Buitendijk: Understanding Texts as Graphs: An Inclusive Approach to Text Modeling • Jean-Baptiste Camps and Julien Randon-Furling: A Dynamic Model of Manuscript Transmission; Elena Spadini: Exercises in Modelling: Textual Variants Tuesday, June 5, 2018 09:15–10:00 • Christelle Cocco, Raphaël Ceré, and Pierre-Yves Brandt: Quantification of Drawing Colours in Human Sciences • Mattia Egloff and François Bavaud: Taking Into Account Semantic Similarities in Correspondence Analysis 10:00–10:30 Coffee 10:30–11:30 Invited talk: Manfred Thaller (emeritus, Universität zu Köln): Decoding What the Sender Did Not Want to Transmit. Information Technology and Historical Data 11:30–13:00 • Barbara McGillivray, Giovanni Colavizza, and Tobias Blanke: Towards a Quantitative Research Framework for Historical Disciplines • Franziska Diehr, Maximilian Brodhun, Sven Gronemeyer, Christian Prager, Elisabeth Wagner, Katja Diederichs, and Nikolai Grube: Modelling Vagueness – A Criteria-Based System for the Qualitative Assessment of Reading Proposals for the Deciphering of Classic Mayan Hieroglyphs • Gary Munnelly and Seamus Lawless: Linking Historical Sources to Established Knowledge Bases in Order to Inform Entity Linkers in Cultural Heritage • Cristina Vertan: Supporting Hermeneutic Interpretation of Historical Documents by Computational Methods 13:00–14:30 Lunch 14:30–16:00 • Susan Leavy, Karen Wade, Gerardine Meaney, and Derek Greene: Navigating Literary Text Using Word Embeddings and Semantic Lexicons • Jose Luis Losada: Map Visualization and Quantification of Literary Places in a Spanish Corpus • Thomas Schmidt and Manuel Burghardt: Toward a Tool for Sentiment Analysis for German Historic Plays • Kyoko Sugisaki: Modeling Thematic Structure in Holiday Postcards REGISTRATION (deadline June 1, 2018): Please register at https://wp.unil.ch/llist/en/registration/ Registration standard fees: 50 CHF or 40€, payable directly on site. The fee covers lunch and coffee breaks on both workshop days. CONTACT Questions and inquiries should be sent to COMHUM2018 Conference Secretariat: <secretariat-sli(a)unil.ch> or to Prof. Michael Piotrowski, Program Committee Chair: <michael.piotrowski(a)unil.ch> CONFERENCE WEB SITE: https://wp.unil.ch/llist/en/event/comhum2018/ -- elenaspadini.com PostDoc - UNIL Centre de recherches sur les lettres romandes <http://www.unil.ch/crlr>

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Reminder: MAA2019 CFP: Digitizing the Global Middle Ages
by Ransom, Lynn 23 May '18

23 May '18

This is just a reminder that the CFP closes on June 15. Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions or for further information. Best, Lynn From: Ransom, Lynn Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2018 3:27 PM To: dm-l(a)uleth.ca Subject: MAA2019 CFP: Digitizing the Global Middle Ages Dear friends, The 94th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy will be held in Philadelphia on the University of Pennsylvania campus from March 7-9, 2019. The overall theme of the conference is "The Global Turn in Medieval Studies." As a co-chair of the organizing committee, I would especially like to invite members of the dm- list to propose papers or sessions relating to the thread "Digitizing the Global Middle Ages: Practices, Sustainability, and Ethics." While this thread can be broadly interpreted, our aim is to further conversations on the role and value of digitization in the preservation of our shared cultural heritage and on the practices and ethics of digitizing across cultural and geographic boundaries. If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please consult the CFP, available here: www.medievalacademy.org/page/2019Meeting<http://www.medievalacademy.org/page/2019Meeting>. Individuals or groups may propose a poster, paper, full session, roundtable or workshop. Membership in the Medieval Academy is required to present at the conference, but special consideration will be given to individuals whose fields would not traditionally involve membership in the Medieval Academy. Proposals are due June 15, 2018. Please feel free to distribute this announcement to other lists that may have interested members. And please don't hesitate to contact me or any member of the organizing committee (names appear on CFP) if you have questions. Best, Lynn ****************** Lynn Ransom, Ph.D. Curator of Programs, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies schoenberginstitute.org Project Director, The New Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu/ Co-Editor, Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies mss.pennpress.org The University of Pennsylvania Libraries 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 215.898.7851

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Call for Nominations to DM Board 2018–2020
by Bleier, Roman (roman.bleier＠uni-graz.at) 23 May '18

23 May '18

Dear list members, Digital Medievalist will be holding elections at the end of June 2018 for five positions to its Executive Board. Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be re-elected (for a maximum of three terms in a row). Members of the Board are responsible for the overall direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist’s many projects and programmes. This is a working board, and so it is expected that you are willing and able to commit a little bit of time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities (such as helping to run its its journal, conference sessions, etc.). For further information about the Executive and Digital Medievalist more generally please see the DM website, particularly: https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/board-roles/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/election-procedures/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/bylaws/ We are now seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual elections. In order to be eligible for election, candidates must be members of Digital Medievalist (membership is conferred simply by subscription to the organisation’s mailing list, dm-l) and have made some demonstrable contribution either to the DM project (e.g. to the mailing list, or the wiki, etc.), or to the field of digital medieval studies. If you are interested in running for these positions or are able to recommend a suitable candidate, please contact Lisa Fagin Davis (LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org) or Roman Bleier (roman.bleier(a)uni-graz.at) who will treat your nomination or enquiries in confidence. The nomination period will close at 23:59 UTC on Friday June 8 and elections will be held by electronic ballot from Monday, 25 June 2018, closing at 23:59 UTC on Friday, 6 July 2018. Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gidI320313760 Discussion list: dm-l(a)uleth.ca Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l

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Re: [dm-l] Latest blogpost
by Christopher Crockett 22 May '18

22 May '18

a quite astonishing piece of work, and congratulations to you, Lisa, and everyone else who was involved in putting that site together. navigating around it to take advantage of all the many features is quick and easy to learn. the "image manipulation" feature is particularly useful. best, christopher p.s. so, when may we expect to see all other surviving European manuscripts put on line in the same fashion? (after all, virtually every ms. is a kind of "fragment" isn't it?) ------ Original Message ------ Received: Tue, 22 May 2018 10:13:13 AM EDT From: Lisa Fagin Davis <lfd(a)themedievalacademy.org> To: dm-l(a)uleth.caCc: Christoph Flüeler <christophe.flueler(a)unifr.ch>, Edwin Schroeder <edwin.schroeder(a)yale.edu>, Elizabeth Hebbard <ehebbard(a)iu.edu>, William Stoneman <stoneman(a)fas.harvard.edu>, Ray Clemens <raymond.clemens(a)yale.edu>, william.duba(a)unifr.ch Subject: [dm-l] Latest blogpost > My latest blopost, about the digital reconstruction of the Gottschalk > Antiphonal using Fragmentarium: > https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2018/05/21/manuscript-road-trip-re… > - Lisa > > -- > Lisa Fagin Davis > Executive Director > Medieval Academy of America > 17 Dunster St., Suite 202 > Cambridge, Mass. 02138 > > Phone: 617 491-1622 > Fax: 617 492-3303 > Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org > > Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ > Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ > Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org > News: https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/news/ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49320313760 > Discussion list: dm-l(a)uleth.ca > Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l

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Re: [dm-l] Latest blogpost
by Stoneman, William P. 22 May '18

22 May '18

We are all looking forward to the Fragmentarium meeting in October. Exciting things are happening. Congratulations, Lisa. Bill From: DUBA William [mailto:william.duba@unifr.ch] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 10:18 AM To: Lisa Fagin Davis <lfd(a)themedievalacademy.org>; dm-l(a)uleth.ca Cc: Ray Clemens <raymond.clemens(a)yale.edu>; Stoneman, William P. <stoneman(a)fas.harvard.edu>; FLUELER Christoph <christophe.flueler(a)unifr.ch>; Edwin Schroeder <edwin.schroeder(a)yale.edu>; Elizabeth Hebbard <ehebbard(a)iu.edu> Subject: Re: Latest blogpost Very cool! Congratulations on Gottschalk, and it's good to hear about what transpired in Kalamazoo! Also, nice video. We've got more exciting fragment news on the way. /Bill ________________________________ From: Lisa Fagin Davis <lfd(a)themedievalacademy.org<mailto:lfd@themedievalacademy.org>> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 4:11 PM To: dm-l(a)uleth.ca<mailto:dm-l@uleth.ca> Cc: Ray Clemens; William Stoneman; FLUELER Christoph; DUBA William; Edwin Schroeder; Elizabeth Hebbard Subject: Latest blogpost My latest blo<g>post, about the digital reconstruction of the Gottschalk Antiphonal using Fragmentarium: https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2018/05/21/manuscript-road-trip-re…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__manuscriptroadtrip.wor…> - Lisa -- Lisa Fagin Davis Executive Director Medieval Academy of America 17 Dunster St., Suite 202 Cambridge, Mass. 02138 Phone: 617 491-1622 Fax: 617 492-3303 Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org<mailto:LFD@TheMedievalAcademy.org>

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Latest blogpost
by Lisa Fagin Davis 22 May '18

22 May '18

My latest blopost, about the digital reconstruction of the Gottschalk Antiphonal using Fragmentarium: https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2018/05/21/manuscript-road-trip-re… - Lisa -- Lisa Fagin Davis Executive Director Medieval Academy of America 17 Dunster St., Suite 202 Cambridge, Mass. 02138 Phone: 617 491-1622 Fax: 617 492-3303 Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org

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Rochester Cultural Heritage Imaging Conference
by Helen Davies 18 May '18

18 May '18

Image: Spectral Imaging reveals the hidden text on the medieval palimpsests. Copyright St Catherine’s monastery of the Sinai Please see below information about the R-CHIVE (Rochester Cultural Heritage Imaging, Visualization and Education) conference held June 7 & 8, 2018 atRIT and UR. Please join us to learn more about applying different imaging modalities to uncover faded, damaged or erased text from manuscripts, globes, maps etc. Speakers from all over (UK, Canada, Germany, Ethiopia, Austria, US) will be presenting their work ranging from: 1) Raman Spectroscopy 2) Spectral Imaging 3) RTI 4) Material analysis through X-ray & particle based Molecular spectroscopy, etc. This two day conference will include workshops such as “how to make a palimpsest”, “Timeline of materials and Inks used in old documents” (breakfast and lunch will also be included). Please see below information re the conference and registration. Register here: www.r-chive.com/2018-2/ <http://www.r-chive.com/2018-2/> Hope to see you there.

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5th DH@Madrid Summer School: “Applications of Natural Language Processing for Humanities Reserarch”
by gimena del rio riande 16 May '18

16 May '18

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that from July 9th to 11th, 2018, LINHD UNED will host the 5th DH@Madrid Summer School: “Applications of Natural Language Processing for Humanities Reserarch”. This DH Summer School is sponsored by LINHD, ERC POSTDATA project and UNED Foundation . The course will bring together a varied group of leading international experts in Digital Humanities, Natural Language Processing and language technologies. Our Summer School will be of special interest for humanists focused in digital research methods applied to the humanities. It can be followed online or delayed, and in face-to-face classroom mode. More information and registration: http://linhd.es/p/dh-verano-2018/ Dra. Gimena del Rio Riande Investigadora Adjunta. IIBICRIT, CONICET (Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual) - http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/ <http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/> Twitter: @gimenadelr Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales: http://aahd.net.ar Coordinadora Humanidades Digitales CAICYT Lab: http://www.caicyt-conicet.gov.ar/micrositios/hd/ <http://www.caicyt-conicet.gov.ar/micrositios/hd/> Marcelo T. de Alvear 1694 (1060). Buenos Aires - Argentina (54)-11-4129-1158 ‌ [image: Mailtrack] <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> Remitente notificado con Mailtrack <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…>

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CFP History and Text analysis (International conference in Paris, 17-19 Jan. 2019)
by Octave Julien 16 May '18

16 May '18

Dear members of the list, The PIREH (University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) is organizing an international conference on History and Text analysis, at the Sorbonne in Paris on January 17-19 2019. We are looking for papers, in English or in French, showing how historians can use different methods of text analysis (computational linguistics, text mining, distant reading…) with a quantitative or qualitative approach (see the call for papers below and https://histlangtexto.sciencesconf.org/ <https://histlangtexto.sciencesconf.org/>). The deadline for the CFP is June the 22nd 2018 (see below). Stéphane Lamassé, Léo Dumont, Octave Julien @PirehP1 http://pireh.univ-paris1.fr SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Benjamin Deruelle (Université du Québec à Montréal) Octave Julien (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) Stéphane Lamassé (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) Virgine Lethier (Université de Franche-Comté) Aude Mairey (Université Paris 1 - CNRS) Damon Mayaffre (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis) Ian Milligan (Université de Waterloo) Bénédicte Pincemin (CNRS - Université de Lyon) André Salem (Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle) Max Silberztein (Université de Franche-Comté) CALL FOR PAPERS (French version) <https://histlangtexto.sciencesconf.org/?forward-action=index&forward-contro…> Computational methods of text analysis (lexicometry, computational linguistics, text mining, distant reading...) are undergoing important developments in many scientific fields and in society as a whole. Such methods can help and interest many different sectors (private companies, public governance, intelligence, data-journalism, etc.). They are also assuming growing importance in the humanities, especially among researchers of the digital humanities. This has led to a number of conferences and regular scientific events, such as the French JADT (Journées d’Analyse des Données textuelles), and to several recent synthesis books (Léon & Loiseau 2016, Jenset & McGillivray 2017). In this movement, the position of historians appears to be paradoxical. Their work is largely based on texts used as sources and, following the evolutions of modern historiography, they showed a growing interest in the discourses and representations of societies and individuals of the past. In this regard, the methodologies of text analysis in history enjoyed a fair success and prominence in France as soon as the 1970s, especially at the Centre de lexicologie politique of the ENS Fontenay/Saint-Cloud. However, despite the influence of the linguistic turn and the development of more powerful and more accessible software, the use of text analysis in history have been less frequent lately, even though such methods continue to prove useful (Genet, 2011). The limited presence of historians at the JADT is symptomatic of that. Nowadays, text analysis is regaining momentum thanks to text mining, which can help with sorting the massive amounts of textual data produced by the digitalization of sources (such as the project Corpus of the Bibliothèque nationale de France – Moiraghi 2018). The aim of this conference is to understand the current uses of computational and statistical text analysis in history, at a time where the intellectual, social and technical context is changing. Several questions can be raised to better assess their use and their contribution to history. 1. The historiography of text analysis For a long time, historians have thought about the way they can associate history, linguistics and statistics (Robin 1973 ; Guilhaumou, Maldidier, Robin 1994 ; Genet 2011 ; Léon 2015 ; Léon & Loiseau 2016), and this historiographical current is not closed. One can go back to the fruitful moments of this collaboration, such as the works of the center of political lexicology of the ENS Fontenay/Saint-Cloud, or those of the laboratory of statistical linguistics of the University of Nice. But it is worth asking why some scientific and intellectual enterprises that appeared promising at first did not eventually reach the same success, for example the works by Michel Pêcheux and Denise Maldidier. One can also consider the intellectual career of historians like Jacques Guilhaumou and Régine Robin, who began their research using lexical statistics before they turned their attention to methodologies closer to a more traditional conceptual history. 2. New methods for new corpora 2.1. The new sources and objects of text analysis In France, text analysis was originally used to analyze political and trade unions texts. While this field of study is still active (Mayaffre 2010) and can even reach a general audience (Alduy 2017 ; Souchard, Wanich & Cuminal 1998), it is worth considering which other types of sources can be analyzed in this way. Some languages have strong idiosyncrasies: the writing of charters, diplomatic cables, or legal texts, for example. Others are characterized by their specific context of production (orality, private or intimate writings, literary texts, etc.). Which questions and approaches are relevant for this kind of material? A language can also be treated as an historical object by itself, especially when it is a tool of empowerment or domination. This is what Serge Lusignan highlighted with a qualitative approach in his essays of sociolinguistic history (Lusignan 2004 and 2012). Similarly, the linguistic aspects of domination are central in gender history or in postcolonial studies. In this respect, what can text analysis offer ? How can such methods assist in grasping those discursive phenomenons? At the same time, a number of fields in history were deeply influenced by the archival turn (Clanchy 1979, and Chastang 2008 for example for the medieval history, or Guyotjeannin 1995). In this approach, sources are considered as an object per se, and a greater attention is given to their mode of production and their conditions of conservation, in order to better understand what they say. Then, is text analysis less relevant, or can it help us shed a new light on the document itself, its formal or material aspects, its genesis and its evolutions? 2.2. Text analysis, big data, and the historian With the statistical approach of textual analysis, a representative and fairly large corpus is needed in order to produce significant results. The ideal size of such a corpus is an open question, but one can wonder how it is possible to study textual materials with different levels of magnification and complementary methods (data mining on big corpora vs. focused analysis of a specific lexicon, for example). Historians must reflect on this shift, now that the corpora of digitalized and born-digital sources (such as websites) are rapidly growing. How can they make those new materials their own, and what can they say, armed with their critical knowledge of sources, about their constitution and their use? Recent publications show this transformation can benefit historians of all periods (Perreaux 2014 in medieval history, for example) and that it redefines the geography of historical research (Putnam 2016). 3. The development of the statistical toolkit of text analysis 3.1. Temporality Corpora with a diachronic structure raise specific issues. The problem of anachronism has long been tackled by historians working on such material (Prost 1988), while more recent works have focused on the visualization of temporality (Ratinaud & Marchand 2014). In textual analysis, words can speak for themselves and reveal a useful periodization for the historian’s work. Some statistical methods (Factorial analysis, topic modeling) can show the evolution of a lexicon, by highlighting words coming in and out of a corpus, but the changes in their meaning itself still are difficult to grasp. What are the means to perceive those semantic transformations? Also, how can we make use of discontinuous series of texts on a large timeframe? Such questions are important to the historian, who works on temporality by definition, but they are also especially relevant when one considers digital writings, in so far as they are frequently organized chronologically (such as Facebook or Twitter posts). 3.2. Innovative algorithms for text analysis Since the seminal book by Lebart and Salem (Lebart & Salem 1994), a common set of statistical concepts and tools has been used by researchers and implemented in free softwares, but new methodologies offer innovative ways to analyze a corpus. In addition to topic models (Barron et alii, 2018), a tool like Linkage (http://linkage.fr <http://linkage.fr/>) uses written exchanges to build a classification of a social network, while some deep learning algorithms relying on word vectors (Embedding Layer, Word2Vec, GloVe) can provide a summary and a comparison of documents very quickly (Levy & Goldberg, 2014). How can those new methods be used by historians? 3.2. Qualitative and quantitative approaches The computer tools available to social scientists for linguistic investigations are not necessarily based on statistics. Softwares like Nooj make a precise formalization of natural languages possible, thus enriching the comprehension of a language in a given state and through time. On a broader level, one must also acknowledge the role of qualitative approaches. Their association with quantitative methods is a fruitful one (Paveau 2012) and they must be taken into account to fully address the possible relationships between languages and history. Contributions illustrating and discussing the benefits of those different methods in history will be most welcome. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Participants can submit an abstract for two types of presentation, in French or in English, : a 20 mn presentation (5000 characters abstract) an A1-sized poster (2500 characters abstract) To submit a proposal for a presentation, please upload an abstract on https://histlangtexto.sciencesconf.org/ <https://histlangtexto.sciencesconf.org/> by June 22, 2018. Accepted papers will be notified on July 13. A detailed draft will be asked to speakers by October 15, 2018. The papers will be considered for publication in a volume of essays. Fundings for transportation may be available depending on the number of applications.

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Reconstruction of the Gottschalk Antiphonal
by Lisa Fagin Davis 15 May '18

15 May '18

Dear colleagues, I am very pleased to debut my Fragmentarium reconstruction of the Gottschalk Antiphonal, the manuscript that was the subject of my dissertation and first book: http://fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-75ud/ The Gottschalk Antiphonal was written and illustrated in the late twelfth century by the scribe/artist/monk Gottschalk of Lambach and was used at the Lambach abbey for several centuries. Along with many other early manuscripts, It was broken for binding scrap in the late fifteenth century, and its leaves were used as flyleaves, pastedowns, and spine- liners for books found at the Abbey bindery. During World War II, many of the leaves were removed from the bindings and sold as a way to raise money for a new wood lathe for the abbey. The leaves are now scattered and have been identified at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, the St. Louis Public Library, a hotel in Badgastein (Austria), the abbey of St. Paul im Lavanttal, and in Lambach itself (although the leaves that were bound into incunables there as late as 1998 have now vanished and are represented in my reconstruction by my old black-and-white photographs). As recently as 2016, an offset of a leaf of the Antiphonal was found in an incunable belonging to the Beinecke Library (ironically, it was there while I was working on my thesis at Yale, but it was only during a recent survey of the bindings by Elizabeth Hebbard (Indiana Univ.) that the offset was photographed and identified). The missing leaf was consecutive with one of the leaves at Harvard, and I have added a manipulated image of the offset to my Fragmentarium reconstruction. For those of you who care about such things, it is worth noting that images of the two leaves at Harvard have been imported directly into Fragmentarium using a persistent IIIF url. The other images were uploaded as individual JPGs. When I first studied the manuscript in the early 1990s, I did it with scissors and paste and black-and-white photocopies on the floor of my living room. It is truly thrilling to see it in glorious IIIF-compliant interoperable color in Fragmentarium! I hope that it will complement the liturgical, art historical, and musicological study in my book: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/music/nineteenth-century-musi… Blogpost coming soon... Lisa -- Lisa Fagin Davis Executive Director Medieval Academy of America 17 Dunster St., Suite 202 Cambridge, Mass. 02138 Phone: 617 491-1622 Fax: 617 492-3303 Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org

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