Today's existential dread can wait its turn, I'm still spending quality time with yesterday's.
Daily calligraphy practice: uncial! Bonus mistakes added free of charge.
Practice is supposed to be messy; don't compare your real practice to someone else's carefully curated video.
Daily calligraphy practice #2: gothic quadrata. It's a bit sloppy and that's ok.
What's the use of this? No use at all, thank God.
We interrupt your daily scheduled doomscrolling for cat.
My gardening assistant may not know the scientific names of plants, but he accepts payment in scritches.
Daily calligraphy/paleography practice after years of neglect #1: Luxeuil script!
Because you don't have to be great at something for it to bring you joy.
Full manuscript: iiif.biblissima.fr/collections/...
This is BNF Latin 2290, c850, Greek text in Latin letters. The transcription suggests Greek was still a living language to the scribe (ke epi gis irini).
It belonged to St Denis near Paris, which used Greek in its liturgy to support its claim to have been founded by St Dionysius the Areopagite.
Saturday morning is for gardening and paleography! Thanks to @rarebookschool.bsky.social for letting me see, handle, and photograph these beauties, includng a Renaissance riddle long hidden on the back of a fragment.
