#for dubiously effective science or some shit idk

[guardevoir]

Thesis update: I have created a monster.

Behold: the Old Monk Handwriting Conspiracy Board

Every weird number/letter combination is a medieval manuscript that might (!) belong to the group of manuscripts that I'm trying to figure out for my thesis.

Every line denotes some sort of connection various paleographers and art historians (color-coded) have drawn between these manuscripts.

(this isn't even technically all the connections, and it absolutely isn't even remotely all the manuscripts)

Also, "Reichenau" is not a manuscript but a monastery; notably not the one my academic blorbo scribe lived at, so essentially any line that ends up there is the academic equivalent of "idk what all these other dipshits were on about"

(also fun: all the codices with the most lines are also the fanciest codices, and it's a real pain to sort "this pretty book was genuinely influential in those monasteries back when it was made because let's be real, it fucks" from "this pretty book is well-known and researched and it's tempting to compare shit to it because of that")