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Helen McKee
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Likes dead languages and medieval manuscripts. Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway and King’s College London. She/her.
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Not only does the cat now own you, but it also owns your house.
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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😡
October 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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I was once teaching the Book of Armagh and a student asked me what this word is. I said that it's testimonium, and she just said HOW. And I was just like... you are just going to have to trust me on this one.
October 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Here are the first six lines of this folio. It can be found online at gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
et benedicentur in te et in semine tuo. cunctae trib(us) / terrae et ero custos tuus quocumque perrexeris. / et reducam te in terram hanc nec dimittam. nisi / conpleuero uniuersa quae dixi. cumque euigilasset / Iacob de somno. ait uere d(omi)n(u)s est in loco isto. et / ego nesciebam. pauensque. q(u)am terribilis inquit …
October 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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This is a capsule of illustrated manuscripts and their palettes of the Medieval and Renaissance periods.

There has been trade in pigments for thousands of years, locality is important but not the only source.

colour-illuminated.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explore/illu...
The Illuminators’ Palette
Illuminators employed a wide range of colourants, both man-made and naturally available. Organic pigments were derived from various sources, including plants, insects and molluscs. Inorganic ones were...
colour-illuminated.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
October 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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unless you are St Dunstan, obvs 😇
October 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM