Since we’ve run out of computers to use, for the next couple of weeks I’ll be organizing a collection of about 200 documents of various shapes and sizes that all deal with the Spanish Inquisition, from about 1500-1825. This sounds fantastic except for the fact that I don’t quite know Spanish… however, from a quick [...]
Posts Tagged ‘documents’
Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged documents, manuscripts, silliness on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Vellum
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged complaints, documents, manuscripts on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While I, just like any other person, find holding a bunch of vellum leaves to be aesthetically pleasing, the faint scent of rotting animal that can hang around them puts me right off (and also brings me back to my middle school art room, where an animal died behind the wall and for weeks the [...]
Documents
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged documents, impossible handwriting, manuscripts, paleography on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cataloging documents, compared to codices, is not overly complicated in itself. The worst part is generally the secretarial hands are nearly completely illegible to anyone who is not the scribe. The handwriting is crisp and clear, the ink well-preserved on the vellum, and you can almost see some 14th century Italian scribe whipping through this [...]
