STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse
@stemma
An ERC-funded project led by Prof. Erin McCarthy and based at the University of Galway. We are building the first large-scale computational model of the circulation of early modern verse in manuscript from 1475-1700.
Organized coteries are an urban myth
This all could have been avoided if the Exchequer had switched to paper sooner, May argues 😔
Lecture by Prof. Steven W. May—happening now! 🤩
Palaeography training and practice with @caitlinburge.bsky.social, @leahveronese.bsky.social, and Jessica Edmondes
Ink making workshop with @meghankern.bsky.social!
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
Manuscripts Week is underway! 🙌
And relatedly, the bap creed
When you really need brunch 🥓🍳
What's your reading style? Over stimulated spaniel. 🐕 Robert Burton Anatomy of Melancholy
Does MS actually stand for Mouse Snack? 🤔🐭 Summary Catalogue, Vol.III, p.321
They just don't write love poetry like they used to 🪰❤️ (Thomas Carew, 'When this flie lived', in Rosenbach MS 239/27)
May the force be with you too, Thomas Beaumont! Happy Star Wars day, as brought to you by 17th century manuscripts 🪐🚀👽
In proving there's a poem (1475-1700) for everything, see: 'Reader I must present you with a shrimp fish' of which there are only two copies (?!) (One with the last two lines scribbled out (?!)) [Folger MS V.a. 345; p. v] #folgerfinds
In code? Is it just how words start to look at 4:30 on a Friday afternoon? [Data from Bodleian MS Add. B. 106, f. 28v]
I *could* go home for the evening, but it's much more fun to stay in my office and confirm that there is, in fact, a digitised image of this gem. (Houghton MS Eng 686, ff. 33v–34r)
Just got new team photos for a forthcoming website update. Here's a sneak peek! 🤩
Closely followed by 'Even as the waves of brainless buttered fish'
Contender for the best first line in early modern poetry?? 'Silly buzzing wanton elf'
When you leave someone on read too long: 'an elegy to the countess of Londonderry supposing her dead by her long silence' 🥶💀
Super Bowl Sunday who? #bookcollecting #librarytrips @rosenbachmuseum.bsky.social
Our postdoc researcher @caitlinburge.bsky.social is off on a manuscript adventure this week - and where better to do history than in historical locations! #earlymodern @rosenbachmuseum.bsky.social
Okay, we definitely need to read the full text of this one (@edunilibraries.bsky.social MS La.III.493, f. 67r–68r). #earlymodern #dh #datacleaning #ManuscriptMonday
The @uniofgalway.bsky.social 's Digital Humanities Reseach Centre launches this afternoon! Come along and have a cup of tea with the STEMMA team (and some of our #dh friends).
An fun Friday observation from one of our Researchers – this wonderful little CELM entry describes John Evelyn’s “Note of the Books, Prints, Letters, Mapps, [etc.,]” that he lent Samuel Pepys with the important note “to be all returned me againe.” Every book owner has that one friend! 😂
Some of our participants from the hackathon last month sat down to chat with our friends at @portershed.bsky.social about the project and their work during the hack - keep your eyes peeled for the footage! But how better to start than to learn more about STEMMA from @erinannmcc.bsky.social herself?
Team 8 is isolating the circulation and arrangement of John Donne’s Satires as a trial run for analysing clusters of poetry in the dataset! #ERCFunded #STEMMAhackathon
Team 6 is employing vector embeddings to perform sentiment analysis on manuscript collections! #ERCFunded #STEMMAhackathon
Team 5 is using the poems of Philip Sidney as a case study of poem popularity over time! #ERCfunded #STEMMAhackathon
Team 4 is taking a deep dive on post-1700 content to see whose work gets perpetuated into the century beyond our data set! #ERCfunded #STEMMAhackathon