Anders Toftgaard
@AToftgaard
Senior Researcher (Manuscripts and Rare Books) Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen. MA in comparative literature, and PhD in romance philology.
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Does anybody recognize this decoration on an 18th c. Danish bookbinding? The tooling appears on several spines on books for sale from the library of the manor house Valdemars Slot - for instance on this one: bruun-rasmussen.dk/m/lots/E068168…
Det Kgl. Bibliotek søger en forsker eller seniorforsker i en stilling med latin, latinsk palæografi og middelalderlige håndskrifter som forsknings- og formidlingsmæssigt omdrejningspunkt! linkedin.com/posts/det-kgl-…
Always wanted to learn everything there is to know about #paper? The project #PiMo (Paper in Motion) will be hosting a summer school 31/8 - 3/9 here in Copenhagen! Funding available for up to ten postdocs/ECRs! Deadline for applications 20/6. peopleinmotion-costaction.org/test/paper-in-…
Looking forward to reading...
Out now in the 'Journal of Documentation': Muehlberger, Seaward, Terras et al, 'Transforming scholarship in the archives through handwritten text recognition: @Transkribus as a case study' emerald.com/insight/conten…
The Society for Emblem Studies 12th International Conference will take place at the University of Coimbra, between 22-27 June 2020. Here the Call for Papers: emblemstudies.org/wp-content/upl…
@CERL_org is very proud to have been asked to support this event, and gladly sponsors three tutors and three students so that they can participate in this summer school.
Out now in the 'Journal of Documentation': Muehlberger, Seaward, Terras et al, 'Transforming scholarship in the archives through handwritten text recognition: @Transkribus as a case study' emerald.com/insight/conten…
I am looking so much forward to seeing the film premiere tonight at CPH DOX of the film A Word for Human, A portrait of The Royal Danish Library, directed by Mauricio González-Aranda: lnkd.in/e_d2NT5 #film #library #copenh…lnkd.in/egVNe2P lnkd.in/e854WWr
Conference on Literary Citizenship. Deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended until 15 March 2019 nb.no/en/forskning/l…
2019 Mellon Summer Institute in Italian Paleography. What an opportunity for PhD students and junior faculty at U.S. colleges and universities (and others) newberry.org/07082019-2019-…
Congratulations to @kungbib with the acquisition of a copy of the 1514 editio princeps of Saxo's Gesta Danorum with Olaus Magnus' handwritten notes! So much history combined in one material object.
Out now in the 'Journal of Documentation': Muehlberger, Seaward, Terras et al, 'Transforming scholarship in the archives through handwritten text recognition: @Transkribus as a case study' emerald.com/insight/conten…
Looking forward to hearing about i.a. image-based Similarity Search (youtu.be/i2z6kQ-FSHU via @YouTube) tomorrow at the @CERL_org seminar at @ETH Zurich cerl.org/services/semin…
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Good news from CERL
The Heritage of the Printed Book database (HPB) is now freely available to all researchers. The URL to use is hpb.cerl.org and off you go. You probably won't need it but the Help pages and more info on the content of the db is here: cerl.org/resources/hpb/…
CERL Internship and Placement Grant: cerl.org/collaboration/… @CERL_org
The library of Randers High School, formerly a grammar school, holds a book with the provenance H. L. K. 1707. Does it look familiar to you?
Marina Abramović presents "Abramović Method for Treasures" at the Royal Danish Library youtu.be/nl1BfQDk_jI via @YouTube
Project Update! What progress has been made in teaching a computer to read Bentham's handwriting? goo.gl/OSlSei
New exhibition of treasures opening in Copenhagen next week
A sneak peek of the installation Marina Abramović has created for The Black Diamond - opens next week! @ArtistisPresent #AbramovicTreasures
500 years of #Belarusian book printing: The Copenhagen copy of The Little Travel Book by #Skaryna is online kb.dk/e-mat/dod/1300…
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