‘Old Books, New Attitudes’ is a student-centered initiative to transcribe and digitally reconstruct the medieval medical manuscript collection of a single early modern collector: the Elizabethan English gentleman Henry Dyngley. The edition available on this site is a work-in-progress, produced by students at Texas Christian University in subsequent semesters of “Technologies of History from Cuneiform to Coding,” taught by Dr. Melissa Reynolds.

To learn more about Henry Dyngley and his manuscript collection, visit the Introduction page. To read about student-centered transcription, digital history, and the digital platforms and tools involved in this project, visit the About page. To read a partial transcription of one of Dyngley’s manuscripts, Trinity College Cambridge MS O.8.35, visit the Folios page.

Check back in Spring 2026 to see more progress and read up on student contributors on the Credits page!