iocus delendus est

This must include the gerundive.

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Pius was no more pious than the Aeneas after whom he was christened.

Someone in the White House has been reading Petrarch and been getting very mixed up about Babylonish captivity.

Looks arduous.

Simplest solution the best in this case.

OA is a great principle but in practice it is often a euphemism for Author Pays - or Institution Pays, which is even worse.

Quite the welcome walking onto campus @kent.ac.uk

Simpler: Bruges. To see the manuscripts of Johannes Crabbe.

Wednesday was Ghent, today was Brussels, and yesterday was:

We are looking forward to seeing many of you, in person or online, tomorrow. Because of illness, this will be a single bill! We send Petra best wishes and look forward to hearing Clotilde on 'Exploring the Reception of Marbod of Rennes' _De ornamentis verborum_ (c. 1100-c.1300)'.

St Mary's, Eastry.

Love those ligatures! Complimenti, @poorfrankraw.co.uk

I have some elliptical lavatorial humour but they thought I was taking the...

To Winchester for @komldsp.bsky.social exploration of cathedral and college.

Online attendance also possible so wherever you are, whatever time it is with you, you do not need to miss out!

Medieval Manuscripts Seminar

For those of you who cannot get enough palaeography and all things manuscript: join us next Tuesday, 24th March, 5:30pm for the latest seminar in London's Senate House featuring a stimulating double-bill of excellent young scholars, Clotilde Lemarie and Petra Mijanovic:
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Felix Id. Mar.!
The day that sends shivers down the spine of any would-be tyrant and so accelerates that self-destructive spiral of suspicion and repression described by the Socratic philosophers.
A day to honour Brutus.

An inkling of an inknovation.

To @cburycathedral.bsky.social for the last @memsunikent.bsky.social Palaeography session for the term and a delight to see the Cathedral Gate once more unwrapped, complete with its Renaissance decoration.

Absolutely. I tell my students what I notice every year: errors, when they appear, often are at the start, fewer in the middle, then more towards the end. That is because at the start you have not yet got your eye in, then you start to get it, but when you work too long, you get cross-eyed!

On this last point, I always add - switch off auto-correct: if you let it do its damnedest, it will lose you marks!

+ So, if your tutor prefers square brackets to mark expanded contractions but you say you are going to use round, they cannot take a mark of you - as long (and this is crucial) you are consistent.

Great idea to post this here! My @memsunikent.bsky.social students will be thanking you. I'll add a couple of suggestions below. Here just one thought:
preface your transcription with your set of conventions - they define not just your practice but how you can be marked. +

In which we discuss oyster shells and candles, pigments and what to do when you have a hole in your parchment:

The English Heritage Podcast Every object has a story to tell. But how can one mystery item lead us on a journey through history, people and places?  In the English Heritage podcast, comedian and writer Amy Matthews brings you ...

It's not too late: as it's @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social, why not listen to a lively conversation about the best books - the handwritten ones - on the latest English Heritage podcast.
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Hope you have as much fun as we did recording this!

Yes, in the same vein as Ursus nomine Paddington. Winnie ille Pu remains the best, I humbly submit.

It can but dream.

Yes, this does look odd. Why *is* that ticket machine pretending to be a piece of luggage?