Training eyes and training hands in the digital research with manuscripts

We could say that the relevance of the contributions in this special volume dedicated to paleography and manuscript culture in today's digital environment is borne out by Cornelis van Lit's (2020) recent emphatic assessment: "I would argue that paleography is perhaps the most digital field of all of manuscript studies, even though the perception within the field is at times to the contrary." On the other hand, the growing specialized bibliography, and also the emergence of aspects that interrelate paleography and computers in high-level scientific journals, fuels a state of affairs centered on a revival of research using original manuscript sources, particularly from a general dimension endorsed by the digital humanities (Stutzmann, 2017), (Albritton, Henley, Treharne, eds., 2020) or more specifically by the digital philology