SJLahey, 6 months ago to bookhistodons 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? …” 🤔 1/2 @bookhistodons @medievodons Detail of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 102 recto in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, manuscript 482. The photo is taken from the bottom of the leaf, angling slightly up the page. Visible are roughly 24 lines of Latin copied in brown ink in a clear, even hand. The 7th line up from the bottom is copied in a conspicuously larger hand. Following it are 6-lines of text with the first 5 lines indented to accommodate an enlarged decorative initial ‘A’. Rendered in gleaming gold leaf, the initial sits atop a ground painted in cobalt blue and rose, elegantly ornamented with a geometric pattern of delicate white strokes.
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? …” 🤔 1/2 @bookhistodons @medievodons
Detail of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 102 recto in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, manuscript 482. The photo is taken from the bottom of the leaf, angling slightly up the page. Visible are roughly 24 lines of Latin copied in brown ink in a clear, even hand. The 7th line up from the bottom is copied in a conspicuously larger hand. Following it are 6-lines of text with the first 5 lines indented to accommodate an enlarged decorative initial ‘A’. Rendered in gleaming gold leaf, the initial sits atop a ground painted in cobalt blue and rose, elegantly ornamented with a geometric pattern of delicate white strokes.