why foliation is important
I’m not talking about trees and green spaces. This is the bibliographic process of describing a book’s collation, what P. Gaskell called a formula that shows “how the book was—or ideally should have...
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There is really only one method behind paleographical study. If you want to read a medieval text you stare at each little scribble, or graph as the scholars like to call them, and you try and figure...
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Reblogged from The Conveyor: COMMITTEE FOR PALAEOGRAPHY/BODLEIAN CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF THE BOOK Medieval manuscripts masterclass In copying late Middle English, as in copying other languages,...
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detail of TNA KB27/795 civil side, rot. 1 (Hillary term, 39 Henry VI) Back in October, at the formal start of my doctoral programme, my supervisor suggested I start looking for relevant examples of...
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Reblogged from The Freelancer: by Christian Tobler At the Pennsic War event this year, I taught a suite of four classes treating the use of the German longsword, dagger, sword and buckler, and,...
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