Let us now sing the praises of the #maintenance staff of Girton College, who have just assisted me with my horribly recalcitrant bike lock (which has been complicating my week). Thank you so much, Dan (et alia).
Visiting the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge today, taking in (you guessed it) yet more Statuta Angliæ #manuscripts — including one which features this rather unhappy little fellow. 😕 #MedievalManuscripts#LegalHistory#HistLaw#Law 📜 📚
#TIH#OTD in #BookHistory 6 May 1236: Death of Roger of Wendover, Benedictine monk & 1st of a series of important chroniclers at St Albans. His best-known chronicle, Flores historiarum, survives in 2 #MedievalManuscripts —incl. the 1 in the 📷—& an edition in Matthew Paris’ Chronica majora. 📚 📜
Today I’m in the Parker Library (Corpus Christi Cambridge) working on, among other #MedievalManuscripts, this wee #LawBook. Like many tiny common #law#manuscripts it’s small but fancy (making it ‘a Rolex’ vs ‘a Ferrari’ 😉).
“Wait. What? …” 🤔
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As the 2nd Cambridge University Library Oschinsky Research Associate, I was thrilled to spend today working with one of the same #MedievalManuscripts that Dorothea Oschinsky researched! #FanGirling 😃 📚 📜 Thank you, Gonville & Caius College Library! #LegalHistory
Spent today looking at #MedievalManuscripts in St John’s College (Cambridge) Library’s Rare Books Reading Room—a wonderful space (📷 1: St John’s Chapel). This manuscript (📷 2) belongs to a group I discussed in my uOttawa MA thesis (sup.: Andrew Taylor); how amazing to see it in person. 📜 📚
For your rampage-related needs: a miniature, Mohawked, axe-wielding maniac and their, uh… [hound? horse? rabid hedgehog? (whatever it is, I’m here for it)] scribbled by some medieval or early modern kid in a Cambridge Univ. Library legal manuscript. #MedievalManuscripts#Manuscripts#doodles 📜 📚
