Congratulations to the 2026-2027 recipients of the John ‘Bud’ Velde Graduate Fellowship: Megi Mecolli, Camellia Paul, and Sophie Weinberg! Read on to learn more about what RBML’s Velde Graduate Fellows are up to this academic year. Megi Mecolli My project is centered on transcribing Pre-1650 MS 0102, the “Crafte of Conjureynge” manuscript, an Elizabethan spellbook […]
Category: History of Science
Velde Graduate Fellows
September 29, 2026
Lost Letter from Leopold von Ranke Found!
January 8, 2007
***This post was previously posted at the RBML Discoveries from the Vault website*** The German historian Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886) is today often regarded as the founder of the science of history as a discipline involving the use of a wide range of documents in historical research. At one time, a very interesting letter from […]