Raphaëlle Goyeau
@biblioraphic.bsky.social
Assistant Librarian in Cambridge, AHRC-funded PhD student at UEA and the British Library, book hoarder at home
So fascinating that I managed to forget to take photographs of everything except a couple of the manuscripts on display (on ne se refait pas). One is obviously a pale capture of the new acquisition, so for a better view of John and his feet, see the digitised version and jump to fol. 92v-93r! 2/2
March 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
So fascinating that I managed to forget to take photographs of everything except a couple of the manuscripts on display (on ne se refait pas). One is obviously a pale capture of the new acquisition, so for a better view of John and his feet, see the digitised version and jump to fol. 92v-93r! 2/2
Happily so! I will be at the BL later this week, actually, getting back down to business after the break. If you have any other colleagues who would be interested in being added please do feel free to @ them or name them!
January 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Happily so! I will be at the BL later this week, actually, getting back down to business after the break. If you have any other colleagues who would be interested in being added please do feel free to @ them or name them!
May or may not be already a good bit through The Book Forger; #MerryBookmas everyone!
December 25, 2024 at 12:41 PM
May or may not be already a good bit through The Book Forger; #MerryBookmas everyone!
Indeed! The challenge is now not to devour all of them before the break is over
December 25, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Indeed! The challenge is now not to devour all of them before the break is over
Great suggestion, thank you!
November 28, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Great suggestion, thank you!
No, thank you! It all started because you had some interesting thoughts. Just didn’t want to lose all of it to the e-ther when the original thread gets deleted.
November 14, 2024 at 9:48 PM
No, thank you! It all started because you had some interesting thoughts. Just didn’t want to lose all of it to the e-ther when the original thread gets deleted.
Anyhow thank you for reading my ramblings about Cotton. I feel so lucky to work on this project every day, and there is still so much more to do with it.
November 14, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Anyhow thank you for reading my ramblings about Cotton. I feel so lucky to work on this project every day, and there is still so much more to do with it.
… manuscript from the Cleopatra shelf. It has been assumed that it was ‘in its current form’ when Cotton loaned it out c.1616, but I am now fairly sure it was not, which brings more questions about when and how the latter articles arrived. And this is *one* of a literal *thousand* of manuscripts.
November 14, 2024 at 9:46 PM
… manuscript from the Cleopatra shelf. It has been assumed that it was ‘in its current form’ when Cotton loaned it out c.1616, but I am now fairly sure it was not, which brings more questions about when and how the latter articles arrived. And this is *one* of a literal *thousand* of manuscripts.
The old habit of often only naming the first article of a volume, including in the loan lists, does not exactly help the identification of manuscripts and how much they looked like the volumes we know and handle in the reading rooms (well, minus some fire damage). Lately I’ve been looking at a…
November 14, 2024 at 9:42 PM
The old habit of often only naming the first article of a volume, including in the loan lists, does not exactly help the identification of manuscripts and how much they looked like the volumes we know and handle in the reading rooms (well, minus some fire damage). Lately I’ve been looking at a…
Almost six months after that thread, it’s really interesting to me how much my own research has confirmed this. Looking at Cotton’s descriptions of his books as they went out, it’s obvious that the library changed a lot throughout his life, and continued to do so under Thomas’ and John’s custody.
November 14, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Almost six months after that thread, it’s really interesting to me how much my own research has confirmed this. Looking at Cotton’s descriptions of his books as they went out, it’s obvious that the library changed a lot throughout his life, and continued to do so under Thomas’ and John’s custody.
… which is now Faustina C V. The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library by Colin Tite are absolutely full of examples of things moving about, and in one case receiving two classmarks because the book might have been shelved upside down and was mistakenly given a second emperor shelfmark.
November 14, 2024 at 9:37 PM
… which is now Faustina C V. The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library by Colin Tite are absolutely full of examples of things moving about, and in one case receiving two classmarks because the book might have been shelved upside down and was mistakenly given a second emperor shelfmark.