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It’s starting to work! – Recensio part 4
This afternoon I went to my draft text and translation, and, as per my last post, starting from the top, looked for a place in the text where the editions differed in meaning. I did not have to go far...
View ArticleDelving into old references in the BHL
One of the problems with skim-reading is that you miss stuff. You can stare at the same pages repeatedly, and never see some of the things on the page. Last night, I noticed some stuff in the St...
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The Alcobaca manuscripts – catalogue located, and lots online at Lisbon!
In my last post, I referred to a manuscript of the Alcobaca monastery in Portugal, number 113. Afterwards I started to search for information. I discovered that the modern catalogue in three volumes...
View ArticleSome Christmas excerpts from Venantius Fortunatus at Purple Motes
A good post here at Douglas Galbi’s blog, Purple Motes, with some quotes from Venantius Fortunatus! sharing food indicates love in Fortunatus’s poetry Share
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Learning by Making a Collation – Recensio part 5
I’ve commented before on “learning by doing”, how you have to actually attempt something in order, not to do it, but to find out how to do it. You never get it right first time, because when you make...
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Merry Christmas, everyone!
It is Christmas Eve. A silence falls across the land. All the shops are shut, and the sound of the motorcar falls silent at last. Those rushing to and fro are at home around the Christmas tree....
View ArticleA discontinued edition of Chrysostom’s “Adversus Judaeos”
There’s a fascinating blog post this morning from Guillaume Bady at the Chrysostom blog: L’édition interrompue des Sermons contre les juifs et les judaïsants de Jean Chrysostome. Using Google...
View ArticleA translation query in Augustine’s “Treatise against the Jews”
I received today an interesting query about an old post from 2015 in which I give an English translation of Augustine’s Adversus Judaeos. This involves some looking up, so I thought I would blog about...
View ArticleThe fragile world of online research tools
It’s after lunch on a rainy Saturday, the central heating is on, and it’s New Year’s Eve. I have my can of diet coke and some crisps. Time to download and collate some more manuscripts of John the...
View ArticleLearning by doing again – Recensio part 6
I’ve now collated my Latin text – all 6 sentences of it – with 2 early editions and 24 manuscripts. I have at least another 6-10 manuscripts accessible to me to collate. As I thought, this is a case...
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