Monday, July 25, 2011

Medieval Recycling

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  The most recent addition to the site is a script sample of 15th century French cursive . Only trouble is, the document has been used for c...
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Friday, July 08, 2011

Sing, Sing, Sing!

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   There have been some roistering discussions on the subject of digitising books, but those of us in love with medieval manuscripts can onl...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax

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   Well, sealing wax anyway. I have been pottering around doing bits of housework on Medieval Writing , and decided the section on Seals ne...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

Hard Drive, Catastrophe-Proof Bunker or Peat Bog?

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    A couple of interesting items have appeared in the news this week relating to the interests of the people who frequent this blog. The fi...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The Writing of the Illiterate Lombards

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  Right, I promised some more paleography, so here it is. As I have been discussing paleographical nomenclature recently, particularly with ...
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Monday, June 13, 2011

You Want Vinegar with Your Oak Galls?

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   My attempts to tidy up my back office were recently interrupted by a verbose and apparently excitable correspondent who took exception to...
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Friday, June 03, 2011

Domesday or Bust

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AAAAAAAUUGH!!! There, that feels better.   You know, my cyberlife didn't begin with Medieval Writing . About fifteen years ago there w...
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Sunday, May 29, 2011

Reprise on Google, eBooks, Copyright and All That Jazz

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  An enigmatic personage by the name of Dr Beachcomber has sent me an email with a link to his posting Google Burns the Library at Alexandri...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Bang the Drum

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   Got this reference from the blog gladly wolde he . The Campaign for the Future of Higher Education is getting rolling in the USA. I rea...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Literacy Teaching - Again!

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  My two granddaughters, aged nearly 8 and nearly 11, have just been participating in what are called NAPLAN tests at school. I can't re...
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Friday, April 29, 2011

Everything in Boxes

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  I hope you all had a good Easter. I did. I spent the whole time at a folk festival - great music and dancing, food and drink, and generall...
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Saturday, April 09, 2011

Scripts, Hands and Emails

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  There is one particular type of email I get on a recurring basis. Somebody is trying to read a piece of medieval handwriting, but it doesn...
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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Eeee! Books

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  I have just read another article predicting the imminent demise of the printed book as we know it. E-books are about to rule the world and...
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Monday, March 21, 2011

More Little French Things

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There is now a paleography exercise for the letter close of Jean le Bon.
Thursday, March 10, 2011

Little French Things

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  What this website needs is a few little French things Patsy. Saffy, pop down and get us a few little French things sweetie!   No seriousl...
Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Paleographical Passion and Archivist Angst

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   Much of the basic groundwork in paleography and in the study of archives was done a long time ago. That is not to say that good work is n...
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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Glossed Bible

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And a little bit of medieval detritus that I found has turned out to be a torn fragment of a page of what was once probably a very nice glos...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

Monastic Pressmarks

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OK, I promised I would sneak a little something in. There is a set of new script samples of cursive writing from the 14th and 15th centurie...
Friday, February 11, 2011

The Medieval 90s

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  The stuff you find when you start looking through old files! No doubt I thought this primitive bit of computer cartooning infinitely hilar...
Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Dirty Medieval Books

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  OK, so here I am dutifully typing up catalogue entries from scruffy old notebooks and sending files into The Cloud and vowing not to do an...
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