Reading this useful post on registering at the British Library reminded me that I’d been meaning to write up some practical remarks on visiting the place: things I wish I’d known myself when I started making trips there. I’m sure there are plenty of things I could still do more efficiently on day trips to the BL, but I hope that none of the following thoughts are wrong and that some of them might be useful to someone.
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The news [EDIT: (much!) more detail here] of the Wellcome Library’s purchase of a fifteenth-century medical almanac has been doing the rounds in the last…
Leave a CommentIn the last couple of days I’ve been conducting a rapid survey of particular measurements in a group of manuscripts. Today I was looking at…
Leave a CommentSomething I should probably have said in my previous post, because it took me a distressingly long time to start doing it myself: if acid-free…
Leave a CommentThis post: just some written-up notes collecting together things I’ve found useful in understanding manuscripts’ physical structure.
Leave a CommentThis is just a little note. I’ve met several people who were working on relevant things but didn’t know that the manuscripts in the John…
Leave a CommentQuadrivium: as its new website has it, an ‘annual training event for postgraduates and early career researchers of medieval and early modern textual studies’. There’s no conference fee and—get this!—there are even small but very helpful grants towards the cost of accommodation and travel. So of course I go. This year I attended the ninth Quadrivium symposium, hosted by the University of Kent.
Comments closedYou can read a lot about medieval manuscripts on the web, but I haven’t found much bluntly practical information about studying them. When I started…
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