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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, 4 days ago

@DonnaHuntriss @bookhistodons @medievodons

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, 11 days ago

@bookhistodons @histodons More from this manuscript.
#MedievalManuscripts https://mastodon.social/@SJLahey/111331758123163022

SJLahey, 18 days ago to bookhistodons

Biblically-accurate #manicule? #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscripts 👀
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SJLahey, 17 days ago

@KarenStrickholm @bookhistodons @histodons It’s a leaf in a carefully-copied collection of medieval English common law texts. A reader added the manicule to mark a passage of interest. 😊

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? …” 🤔
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@bookhistodons @medievodons

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, 5 months ago

My (for fun) ‘Ferrari–Rolex Theory of Medieval Manuscripts’
Two main strategies for flaunting wealth via a manuscript:

1. a huge, deluxe volume conspicuously displayed (=Ferrari);
2. tiny but exquisite manuscript you carry around, occasionally flashing discretely (=Rolex).
   MS 482 is [akin to] ‘a Rolex’ 😁

litteracarolina, 6 months ago to histodons

Teaching #palaeography means I keep discovering new manuscripts week to week - like this gorgeous eleventh-century one from Italy, written in Beneventan script.

@medievodons @histodons

https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.1202, IIIv

SJLahey, 6 months ago

@litteracarolina @medievodons @histodons 😍

SJLahey, 8 months ago

More information and programme here:
https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/research-institute/events/jenkinson-conference
@bookhistodons

SJLahey, 8 months ago

While taking in today’s stellar papers, I updated the #Wikipedia @wikipedia entry on Jenkinson, adding, inter alia, brief mention of this symposium (with archived links!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Jenkinson
#Libraries #GLAM
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Sardonicus, 9 months ago to random

An update.
I am getting help for my PTSD and as such I will be avoiding coming back to Mastodon for a while.

SJLahey, 8 months ago

@Sardonicus ♥️ Only just seeing this now. You know I am just a text away whenever you need.

SJLahey, 8 months ago

@brackman1066 @bookhistodons @medievodons @histodons Nice!

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, 8 months ago

@taoish @bookhistodons @medievodons Yes it is, indeed! 😊
I ♥️ @internetarchive

Sardonicus, 11 months ago to random

Klaus Kampert

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SJLahey, 11 months ago

@Sardonicus Gorgeous

Sardonicus, 11 months ago to random

'Copenhill, a combined heat-and-power waste-to-energy power plant on the industrial outskirts of Copenhagen that famously doubles as a vertiginous outdoor urban recreational hub'

https://www.archpaper.com/2020/11/copenhill-bigs-skiable-waste-to-energy-power-plant-gets-sweeping-new-photos-from-hufton-crow/

SJLahey, 11 months ago

@Sardonicus looks straight out of a scifi film