Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
Lisa Fagin Davis
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One of my amazing Latin Paleography students @rarebookschool.bsky.social composed elegaic couplets for me and wrote them out in a beautiful uncial bookhand! [translation follows]
ELEGIAC for heaven's sake.
Credit to scribe and poet @aericusmarcellus.bsky.social!
Roughly translates to:
"The secret of writing has long lain buried in the night.
And you, teacher, come, and the shadow of the mind departs.
For under your guidance, a new age is born.
You give life to the skilled, you give voice to the silent."
It's fine, I just have something in my eye...
#respect
If you live in Boston's North End, please help me find my #LostDog Maggie! She has a collar with my contact information.
We've got her! Some residents walking home at 2:30 AM found her a few blocks away. She's ok!
Just finished Kate Quinn's delightful and magical novel The Astral Library and commissioned my amazingly-talented niece to draw me as a Book Dragon guarding some of my favorites. Behold!
If it's Wednesday @rarebookschool.bsky.social Latin Paleography, that means we've made it all the way to the year 1200, which means it's time for SPEED-DATING! Six minutes per leaf to classify the hand and give it a date (pre-1200). Ready, set, GO!
