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Useful intel! Thank you!
Good to see @blmedieval.bsky.social is now over here!
And post 2, with neumed Visigothic goodness: bsky.app/profile/cari... [2/2]
This day last year for Julian of Toledo's feast, we looked at some wacky-cool manuscripts. Post 1, with (downthread) runes and beasties: bsky.app/profile/cari... [1/2]
Let me know what you discover, because my paper-obsessed students NEED TO KNOW!
Good choice!
That was smart of you. I have comprehensively blocked ActBlue on all platforms now after their texts almost made me hate my own party during the last election.
I suppose political spam to Gvoice would at least prevent me having to remember to log in periodically + send something to save the number.
For some reason he texted my Google Voice number.
Narthexians, tell me the story of how your church choir got much better after being pretty terrible. ⚓
(Asking not as a musician or choir member but as a parishioner with ears to hear.)
"Maybe if I hold it next to my head I will absorb the knowledge."
BL Add 15275; Gratian, Decretum; Spain (Barcelona); 14th century; f.141r
👆 Particularly glorious service music! Thank you to @stedscath.bsky.social for making this available online.👆
I may need to see if I can assemble a team-taught course on paper for a future "shorts" course (not a full semester), which I could participate in but where my very limited knowledge would not be exhausted.
19 happy, receptive course participants with great questions, some who had taken my earlier manuscript courses. Once again, they are *really* interested in paper!
The special Evensong was streamed and is available to watch at www.youtube.com/live/wzVNL2g... ⚓
Not reproduced above: all the pre-computer advice about writing in pencil, to practice for when you are in actual MS reading rooms, and about numbering the lines of the original on the xerox you're working from.
I looked up advice on transcription from old teachers, to the extent I managed to scan it and save it on my computer. I believe this handout comes from Frank Mantello, which means it reflects Fr. Boyle's teaching. (Won't attempt to ALT the contents, please forgive.)
You can see me there looking intently at all your applications!
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Very Upper NW DC sitrep, too.
Yes, and presumably H and M are hour and minute.
What better day to welcome the Bury Psalter back to the Abbey of St Edmund site than #WorldBookDay! Join us at 5.30pm this evening, Thursday 5 March, for a special Evensong where we will formally receive the Bury Psalter. Everyone is welcome.
Public relations grandparents, from a LIFE feature on working women featuring my grandmother, ca. 1947, and my dad having none of it. Those are programs from the Met's 1946-47 season on the table in front of her.
My grandfather worked for Herman Miller and bequeathed us some great furniture.
She worked at the Met in the '40s, pre-Bing, and then represented Leonard Bernstein and Michael Tilson Thomas.
Maternal grandmother was a high school English teacher, a job she took to help pay for my mom's college (where mom met dad). Paternal grandmother (the least grandmotherly woman you ever met) was, like grandfather to whom she was briefly married, in PR, w/the more distinguished career of the two. +
some units were formed and trained in the '20s and '30s. My mother remembers, "He told me about lining up on horseback at an intersection when the President came to Philly, saluting as he was driven by, and then galloping down back streets to line up at another intersection farther along the route."
He did, however, serve in a cavalry unit between the wars. Apparently this was a thing: there was some feeling that the American cavalry should have been better trained for WWI and though there was a lot more and better informed feeling that cavalry was obsolete, +
PR exec grandfather served and was wounded in WWII. Pennsylvania grandfather did not; his is the side of the family from which I get my flat feet.
This painting-on-rock situation is wild.
One was, intermittently and not successfully, an insurance salesman in rural Pennsylvania. The other was a PR exec in NYC. And thereby hangs a tale of my parents' respective familes.
John P. O’Connell’s 1932 “Grammatical Explanations for Typographical Apprentices, stresses that “the shirkers are going to reap the harvest of their negligence and arrogance.”
