Making and Knowing Project – Intersections of Craft Making and Scientific Knowing

Digital Critical Edition is live!

Our long-awaited Digital Critical Edition here. See it for yourself!

About the Making and Knowing Project

Click here to learn more about what we are doing at Columbia University to create a digital critical edition of a 16th-century book of secrets.

Laboratory Seminars

Reconstruction of the materials and techniques described in the manuscript is being carried out in a laboratory at Columbia University, led by Prof. Pamela Smith.

Text Workshops

Marc Smith, Ecole des chartes, Paris, is leading paleography workshops at Columbia University for revising and refining the transcription and translation of the manuscript.

Photos from our Lab

See images of reconstructions from our years of work in the lab. Click the image to link to our photo repository.

Text Workshops

TEXT WORKSHOPS: Students gain paleography skills in middle French script and textual analysis by transcribing, translating, and encoding the manuscript.

Lab Seminars

LAB SEMINARS: Students pair laboratory reconstructions with contextual research to gain insight into historical techniques and materials.

Working Groups

WORKING GROUPS: Experts from across the globe meet every year to provide critical oversight of the project research.

Digital

DIGITAL: Creating an open-source, multimedia digital critical edition and experimenting with DH pedagogy and advanced visualization.