Colleen Curran
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Sermone nitidus. Early Insular, Irish, British, Breton, Cornish, Welsh and wider Palaeography & Manuscripts. I love the letter g.
Nope, second existential crisis of the day. 'On the other hand, as he matured, William [of Malmesbury] came to regret the amount of time he had spent in researching and writing history.'
A copy of the 1956 facsimile of the Lindisfarne Gospels is going for a mere €1,500. www.rarebooks.ie/books/litera...
Have you ever wanted to know how much of the CLA corpus is comprised of Insular manuscripts? I bet you did. It is a hwopping 19%. 19. Percent. Now you too can tell your friends and family this fun fact! You're welcome!
The Admonitio Generalis fragment went for a whopping £130,500 higher than the estimated high price. I.... wow.
This g just can't handle the heatwave (St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek Cod. Sang. 271)
'Do you even remember my name? A whole year has passed without a letter to comfort my eyes or a greeting to sound in my ears.' -Alcuin, Letter 13 Alcuin, you would've LOVED Microsoft Teams.
E.A. Lowe continues to crack me up: 'As far as my experience goes with pre-Caroline manuscripts, and I have seen most of them...' I mean, he probably wasn't wrong, but still.
🥲 I missed St Dunstan's Feast Day (19 May). Feeling kind of how Dunstan looks here... (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Auct F 4 32)
"One should forbear, however, from engaging in the favorite sport of scholars, scribe-bashing." New favourite sentence from David Pelteret.
“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.” Happy Julian of Norwich Day to you and yours! (British Library, Add ms 37790)
My 1911 copy of Edward Kylie's The English Correspondence of Saint Boniface has arrived!! It's so small!!!
Possibly my favourite opening line of any article. 'Palaeography, like life, is full of accidents.' - E.A. Lowe
That 5.9 magnitude earthquake in Malmesbury was caused by Aldhelm rolling over in his grave
A mirrored half-uncial-shaped g? This is it. All of the other g's can go home. (Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 751, fol. 39v)
"The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay." Matthew 28: 5-6 (London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius C VI, fols. 13v, 14v
Just try it: 'Primitus pantorum procerum praetorumque pio potissimum paternoque praesertim privilegio panagerieum poemataque passim prosatori sub polo promulgantes' (British Library, Cotton ms Domitian A IX)