I've taken a good long break. But now I'm back with a newsletter on the feeling of belonging -- and why academia makes it hard, if not impossible, to achieve
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2/2 17th-century graffiti. As signed by Pieter Saenredam, whose day is today.
Now I want this to be the key to a mystery...
Suggest fun places to see and go and eat in the Twin Cities! I've been there often before but not for 5+ years. I'd love to know about cool galleries beyond the big museums, or anything else you think would be fun.
Lest we miss marking St. Columba's day...
Last year's post included a thread discussing some features of Insular script.
Red alphabets and yellow alphabets - take that, Archaic Greece!
(Joke reveal: regional Archaic Greek alphabets were very diverse in letter shapes and values, and have been classified into colour-coded types by modern scholars: red, green, light blue and dark blue. But not yellow! 😁)
An unusual initial 'Q'(uieta) at the beginning of Book VII:
"Quieta Gallia Caesar, ut constituerat, in Italiam ad conventus agendos proficiscitur."
BnF MS Latin 5764; C. Iulius Caesar, various incl. De bello Gallico; 11th c; France (Bourgogne?); f.49v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens
TOM BOMBADIL, TECH SUPPORTE:
Hey dol, merry dol! Floweres and starres and rayne!
Turne off your machyne and wayte, then turne it on agayne!
The erased inscription of Laurence Nowell in 1553, on the title page or a copy of George Lokert’s commentaries on Aristotle’s natural philosophy (Paris, 1518). Nowell also owned the unique manuscript of Beowulf, now @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Lokert is @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Sel.3.200.
