Carin Ruff
@carinr.bsky.social
Medievalist, Latinist, paleographer, Episcopalian, with novel in progress. DC-based, with beagle. Web: ruffnotes.org
Cover image is from the Reichenau Gospels, Walters Art Museum MS W7 fol. 7r.
Cover image is from the Reichenau Gospels, Walters Art Museum MS W7 fol. 7r.
My sister's recipe. I think pretty much this recipe circulates widely on the internet. We didn't grow up with corn pudding but are now addicted.
Bake at 350 for about 50 minutes. I have generally left out the butter and it's still plenty rich!
Bake at 350 for about 50 minutes. I have generally left out the butter and it's still plenty rich!
November 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
My sister's recipe. I think pretty much this recipe circulates widely on the internet. We didn't grow up with corn pudding but are now addicted.
Bake at 350 for about 50 minutes. I have generally left out the butter and it's still plenty rich!
Bake at 350 for about 50 minutes. I have generally left out the butter and it's still plenty rich!
Corn pudding is ready to go. Now on to the beans...
November 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Corn pudding is ready to go. Now on to the beans...
Supervising preparations and pretending she is not going to try to steal something as soon as I step out of the kitchen.
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Supervising preparations and pretending she is not going to try to steal something as soon as I step out of the kitchen.
Good night from Dolly.
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Good night from Dolly.
Beagle continues to feel my priorities are out of whack.
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Beagle continues to feel my priorities are out of whack.
Either the sky is on fire or we are gearing up for a really spectacular sunset here in DC.
November 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Either the sky is on fire or we are gearing up for a really spectacular sunset here in DC.
Very happy news, just in time for Thanksgiving: the mammary mass and nearby lymph node that Dolly had excised two weeks ago came back benign!
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Very happy news, just in time for Thanksgiving: the mammary mass and nearby lymph node that Dolly had excised two weeks ago came back benign!
Finally, watch those doors and check those gates as clueless relatives and excess children swarm in and out of the house.
Dolly says, "I was a stray and then I escaped from my foster home and I am a proud Home Again microchip spokesbeagle. Thank you for your attention to this announcement."
Dolly says, "I was a stray and then I escaped from my foster home and I am a proud Home Again microchip spokesbeagle. Thank you for your attention to this announcement."
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Finally, watch those doors and check those gates as clueless relatives and excess children swarm in and out of the house.
Dolly says, "I was a stray and then I escaped from my foster home and I am a proud Home Again microchip spokesbeagle. Thank you for your attention to this announcement."
Dolly says, "I was a stray and then I escaped from my foster home and I am a proud Home Again microchip spokesbeagle. Thank you for your attention to this announcement."
Pulling discussion w/ @brunellus.com abt the old BL digitised MSS search interface out of a thread. I checked the Wayback Machine to confirm my memories of how it worked. Here are captures of the old Search and Browse pages. Now I can see clearly what I loved: a very effective date slider in Search.
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Pulling discussion w/ @brunellus.com abt the old BL digitised MSS search interface out of a thread. I checked the Wayback Machine to confirm my memories of how it worked. Here are captures of the old Search and Browse pages. Now I can see clearly what I loved: a very effective date slider in Search.
Bonus Cathedral bells on the way home. 🔔🔔🔔
November 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Bonus Cathedral bells on the way home. 🔔🔔🔔
I went across town to #touchpews at the Rite I Eucharist for Late Sleepers and was rewarded with Mozart's Mass in C major as the service music. Bonus: the Cathedral carillon playing "Let all mortal flesh keep silence" as I walked to church across the Close, and change-ringing as I left. ⚓️
November 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I went across town to #touchpews at the Rite I Eucharist for Late Sleepers and was rewarded with Mozart's Mass in C major as the service music. Bonus: the Cathedral carillon playing "Let all mortal flesh keep silence" as I walked to church across the Close, and change-ringing as I left. ⚓️
St. Gall 553 preserves an early-9th-c. copy of Jonas's Life of Columbanus, mercifully not in Luxeuil minuscule, which didn't outlive the early 8th c. www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...
November 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
St. Gall 553 preserves an early-9th-c. copy of Jonas's Life of Columbanus, mercifully not in Luxeuil minuscule, which didn't outlive the early 8th c. www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...
One is grateful for that rare long footnote that makes clear what all the sniping has been about.
(Rupert Bruce-Mitford in St Cuthbert, his Cult and his Community to AD 1200, p. 178)
(Rupert Bruce-Mitford in St Cuthbert, his Cult and his Community to AD 1200, p. 178)
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 AM
One is grateful for that rare long footnote that makes clear what all the sniping has been about.
(Rupert Bruce-Mitford in St Cuthbert, his Cult and his Community to AD 1200, p. 178)
(Rupert Bruce-Mitford in St Cuthbert, his Cult and his Community to AD 1200, p. 178)
Good evening from Dolly Beagle.
November 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Good evening from Dolly Beagle.
Speaking of Ælfric, Abbo, and Edmund, I see that Brill is proposing to sell PDFs of the Toronto Medieval Latin Texts series, which are slim paperbacks of single-MS editions to teach with, for a hundred and forty-nine fucking dollars per volume. Shameless bastards.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Speaking of Ælfric, Abbo, and Edmund, I see that Brill is proposing to sell PDFs of the Toronto Medieval Latin Texts series, which are slim paperbacks of single-MS editions to teach with, for a hundred and forty-nine fucking dollars per volume. Shameless bastards.
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You're welcome! I didn't check for the BL MS, Cotton Tiberius B.ii from which Winterbottom edited the text before I posted because I despair of the BL these days, but it turns out it IS online: iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifes...
November 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
You're welcome! I didn't check for the BL MS, Cotton Tiberius B.ii from which Winterbottom edited the text before I posted because I despair of the BL these days, but it turns out it IS online: iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifes...
They followed the voice and found a wolf protecting the head between its paws.
In the Latin version, Abbo quotes the head in OE and then translates: “illud [sc. caput] respondebat designando locum patria lingua dicens: ‘her, her, her,’ quod interpretatum latinus sermo exprimit: ‘hic, hic, hic.’”
In the Latin version, Abbo quotes the head in OE and then translates: “illud [sc. caput] respondebat designando locum patria lingua dicens: ‘her, her, her,’ quod interpretatum latinus sermo exprimit: ‘hic, hic, hic.’”
November 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
They followed the voice and found a wolf protecting the head between its paws.
In the Latin version, Abbo quotes the head in OE and then translates: “illud [sc. caput] respondebat designando locum patria lingua dicens: ‘her, her, her,’ quod interpretatum latinus sermo exprimit: ‘hic, hic, hic.’”
In the Latin version, Abbo quotes the head in OE and then translates: “illud [sc. caput] respondebat designando locum patria lingua dicens: ‘her, her, her,’ quod interpretatum latinus sermo exprimit: ‘hic, hic, hic.’”
The story goes that the Vikings cut off Edmund's head and hid it in the woods. His people went looking for the head, calling out, "Where are you, friend?" And the head answered, "Here, here, here!" "'Hwær eart þu nu gefera?' And him andwyrde þæt heafod, 'Her, her, her.'" See the HERs washed in red!
November 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The story goes that the Vikings cut off Edmund's head and hid it in the woods. His people went looking for the head, calling out, "Where are you, friend?" And the head answered, "Here, here, here!" "'Hwær eart þu nu gefera?' And him andwyrde þæt heafod, 'Her, her, her.'" See the HERs washed in red!
It's the feast of Edmund, King and Martyr, d. 869 or 870. 🕯️ Let's look at the accounts of his miraculous talking head by Ælfric and his source Abbo of Fleury. 🧵
Here's the opening of Ælfric's Old English life of Edmund in CUL MS Ii.1.33 and of Abbo's Latin life in BNF lat 5362.
Here's the opening of Ælfric's Old English life of Edmund in CUL MS Ii.1.33 and of Abbo's Latin life in BNF lat 5362.
November 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It's the feast of Edmund, King and Martyr, d. 869 or 870. 🕯️ Let's look at the accounts of his miraculous talking head by Ælfric and his source Abbo of Fleury. 🧵
Here's the opening of Ælfric's Old English life of Edmund in CUL MS Ii.1.33 and of Abbo's Latin life in BNF lat 5362.
Here's the opening of Ælfric's Old English life of Edmund in CUL MS Ii.1.33 and of Abbo's Latin life in BNF lat 5362.
This is the day the Church of England celebrates Hilda of Whitby, d. 680. 🕯️ Here's the passage from Bede's Historia about the calling of the Synod of Whitby (memorably, 664) from Wolfenbüttel, Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 34 Weiss.
Here is the whole MS: diglib.hab.de/wdb.php?dir=...
Here is the whole MS: diglib.hab.de/wdb.php?dir=...
November 20, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This is the day the Church of England celebrates Hilda of Whitby, d. 680. 🕯️ Here's the passage from Bede's Historia about the calling of the Synod of Whitby (memorably, 664) from Wolfenbüttel, Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 34 Weiss.
Here is the whole MS: diglib.hab.de/wdb.php?dir=...
Here is the whole MS: diglib.hab.de/wdb.php?dir=...
Today marks 25 years since my dad died, at the age I am now. This year has been feeling like a mass mortality event, since so many of my friends' parents & parents' friends are now in their late 80s, & it's hard to fit those lost so long ago, in another world, into this scheme. He was a great dad.
November 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Today marks 25 years since my dad died, at the age I am now. This year has been feeling like a mass mortality event, since so many of my friends' parents & parents' friends are now in their late 80s, & it's hard to fit those lost so long ago, in another world, into this scheme. He was a great dad.
Finally for today, BNF lat 2833 is a 12th-century manuscript from Spain containing part of Odo's Collationes. Here's the whole thing: portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/4309...
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Finally for today, BNF lat 2833 is a 12th-century manuscript from Spain containing part of Odo's Collationes. Here's the whole thing: portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/4309...
Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal MS 237 is a copy of Eriugena's translation made during the latter's lifetime, in the early 860s, and was later Odo's personal copy.
Here's the digitized MS: portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/4309... and here's more about it: archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/c...
Here's the digitized MS: portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/4309... and here's more about it: archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/c...
November 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal MS 237 is a copy of Eriugena's translation made during the latter's lifetime, in the early 860s, and was later Odo's personal copy.
Here's the digitized MS: portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/4309... and here's more about it: archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/c...
Here's the digitized MS: portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/4309... and here's more about it: archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/c...
It's a different text that gets the big initial at the opening of the vol, but I didn't want to miss showing you that. The text here is Adrevald de Fleury, Historia translationis s. Benedicti. There's also a later St. Bertin ownership inscription with an anathema and a lion to reinforce the point.
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
It's a different text that gets the big initial at the opening of the vol, but I didn't want to miss showing you that. The text here is Adrevald de Fleury, Historia translationis s. Benedicti. There's also a later St. Bertin ownership inscription with an anathema and a lion to reinforce the point.