SJLahey

SJLahey, 8 months ago to bookhistodons

#TIH #OTD 11 Sep 1942: Death of Adriano Cappelli (b. 1859), Italian archivist & palaeographer at Parma State Archives, best known for his Lexicon Abbreviaturarum—a dictionary of c.14,000 abbreviations from #MedievalManuscripts.
#palaeography #manuscripts #BookHistory

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SJLahey, 18 days ago to bookhistodons

Biblically-accurate #manicule? #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscripts 👀
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SJLahey, 7 months ago to bookhistodons

Pay attention! This is the important bit—right here.
#MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #Monks #TinyMonk
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SJLahey, 6 months ago to bookhistodons

I have found my True Love, and it is this miniature, Mohawked, axe-wielding maniac and their, uh… [hound? horse? rabid hedgehog? (whatever it is, I’m here for it)] scribbled by some medieval or early modern kid in a Cambridge University Library legal manuscript. #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #doodles #DoodleArt #CHARGE! 🪓🤺

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DonnaHuntriss, 5 days ago to random

I did this yesterday on my Redbubble site! #palaeography For those who study manuscripts!

SJLahey, 17 days ago to Women

Lovely portrait of a woman tucked away in a Statuta Angliæ manuscript from Cambridge University Library. #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #LegalHistory #HistLaw #Women #Art
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SJLahey, 5 months ago to bookhistodons

Today I’m back ‘home’ in Cambridge University Library—where mythical hazards lurk in the #MedievalManuscripts! 😱🐉 #HicSuntDracones #Dragons #BookHistory #RareBooks
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SJLahey, 11 days ago to bookhistodons

A golden initial like a tiny #sun in one of Cambridge University Library’s medieval English statute books. 🌞 #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #LegalHistory #HistLaw
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SJLahey, 5 months ago to Law

Today I’m in the Parker Library (Corpus Christi Cambridge) working on, among other #MedievalManuscripts, this wee #LawBook. Like many tiny common #law #manuscripts it’s small but fancy (making it ‘a Rolex’ vs ‘a Ferrari’ 😉).
“Wait. What? …” 🤔
1/2
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Detail of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 102 recto in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, manuscript 482. The photo is taken from the bottom of the leaf, angling slightly up the page. Visible are roughly 24 lines of Latin copied in brown ink in a clear, even hand. The 7th line up from the bottom is copied in a conspicuously larger hand. Following it are 6-lines of text with the first 5 lines indented to accommodate an enlarged decorative initial ‘A’. Rendered in gleaming gold leaf, the initial sits atop a ground painted in cobalt blue and rose, elegantly ornamented with a geometric pattern of delicate white strokes.

SJLahey, 8 months ago to bookhistodons

#TIH #OTD 10 Sep 1482: Death of Federico da Montefeltro (b. 1422 Jun 07), lord of Urbino. He commissioned the construction of a great library, then perhaps the largest in Italy after the Vatican, with his own team of #scribes producing #manuscripts in his personal scriptorium. #BookHistory #MedievalManuscripts
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SJLahey, 9 months ago to bookhistodons

Macro shot #FtW: detail of University of Victoria’s 1201 de Burgh charter. More: https://mastodon.social/@SJLahey/111017679718353578

#Win #Winning #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscriptsInCanada #Charterrific

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SJLahey, 11 months ago to Germany

Legal #garden in a copy of the Schwabenspiegel (‘Mirror of the Swabians’), a collection of national and feudal laws from Southern #Germany, #Bohemia, and parts of #Switzerland (📷: Fribourg, 1410). #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #LegalHistory #HistoryOfLaw #Law
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SJLahey, 6 months ago to ai

“New #AI translates 5000-year-old #cuneiform tablets instantly”
https://bigthink.com/the-future/ai-translates-cuneiform/

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SJLahey, 7 months ago to Law

‘S’ is for ‘shiny’ in this Cambridge University Library Statuta Angliæ manuscript. #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #HistLaw #LegalHistory #Law
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SJLahey, 12 days ago to neverwinternights

At Girton College, Cambridge, #SaintMargaret ’s #dragon has the sweetest little puppy-dog eyes you ever did see… 🥹 #MedievalManuscripts #Saints #MedievalAnimals #Critters #aww
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SJLahey, 24 days ago to bookhistodons

Are any of you at London Firsts tonight? If so, let’s meet up! (I’m here in the queue…) @bookhistodons #RareBooks #MedievalManuscripts

SJLahey, 26 days ago to NovaScotia

#TIH #OTD 14 May 1761: The Halifax Gazette (#NovaScotia) ran the 1st advertisement of bookseller James Rivington (1724–1802) of London, UK, who had opened #Canada’s 1st retail bookshop in Halifax “next Door to Mr. Manning nigh the [Grand] Parade”. #BookHistory #CdnBookHist #books
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SJLahey, 26 days ago to history

Some #BookHistory: French lawyer & author Marc Lescarbot (d.1641) (‘ML’) had a client involved in an expedition to Acadia, New France. He invited ML, who accepted. 1606 July: They reached Port Royal (now in #NovaScotia )… with ML’s #books in tow: the 1st known library* in what is now #Canada.

• Depending on your definition of ‘library’, of course. Let’s say, ‘Lescarbot’s books are regarded as the first known collection of European-style codices in what is now Canada’.
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SJLahey, 6 days ago to Law

#TFW you’re overcome by the sheer horror of c.16 of the 1st Statute of Westminster (3 Edw 1) 😳. #MedievalManuscripts #LegalHistory #HistLaw #Law
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SJLahey, 7 days ago to rainbow

A stripy, #rainbow ‘S’ from Cambridge University Library. 🌈 #MedievalManuscripts
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SJLahey, 19 days ago to Law

‘M’ for the Merry Month of May in a Cambridge University Library statute book. #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #LegalHistory #HistLaw #Law
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SJLahey, 9 days ago to history

#TIH #OTD in #BookHistory 31 May 1669: Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys (1633 Feb 23–1703 May 26) makes his final diary entry.
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SJLahey, 12 days ago to Women

#TIH #OTD 27 May 2019: Leslie Weir was appointed Librarian & Archivist of Canada; she is the first woman to hold this role.
#GLAM #Libraries #Librarians #Women #CdnBookHist #BookHistory
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