#siglum

[upennmanuscripts]

If you're on YouTube you should check out Siglum! He copies manuscripts, including some from Penn's collections.

[forgottenbones]

This tiny detail will forever change how you see medieval art (& 6 other scribe stories)

[a-cabin-in-midgard]

Ferðin er löng en við siglum í átt að nýju lífi

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[human-antithesis]

Margt breytist fyrir orð völvanna

Margt breytist fyrir orð vǫlvanna. Margt, jafnvel allt. Hve furðuleg eru ǫrlǫg mannanna sem lenda á vegum sem þeir ætluðu aldrei að fara! Hvers lags óvæntum leiðum þarf maðr að venjast að ganga á? Gamlar skuldir frá tíma afa míns klifra aftr upp til jarðar hárs. Landið, land mitt, goða Þrúðvaldr ok Nirði tileinkaðr fjǫrðr var tekinn af mér. Hann var tekinn á Alþinginu. Systir afa var skuldbundin í gamla Noregi ok við vorum þá hin síðustu af bǫlvaðri ætt hennar. Land þurfti að gefa fyrir land og með stuðningi fárra goða þurfti að gefa réttlæti fyrir óréttlæti. Mannahamrar voru aldrei traustverðir sagði faðir minn mér eitt sinn. Ok hve rétt þat var! Við lifðum hér í sælu með ǫllum nágrǫnnunum í fjǫrðunum sínum. Handan bergsala, já, þar voru svik úlfs fǫðr ekki fjarlæg. En af hverju dvǫldu þau þá ekki lengr í hlǫðvinjar myrkbeina? Margir hauga herrar verða að breytast í steina ok munu brotnir í mola til að gefa heiminum jafnvægi sitt aftr! Ek heyri manna dolga hlátr bergmála í dalnum. Erum ekki lengr heima, dæmd á hausti þessa gamla árs. Sólina myrkvaði fyrir hálfmánuði. Eru mennirnir verk Hropts magana eða eru goðin mannaverk? Hví stóð enginn ragna reinvári mér við hlið? Hver tekr Þórs víf, hvers lags svarta bjargalfr, hvers lags urðar þjótr? Býli sem í tvær kynslóðir var ræktað fyrir þursa þjóðar sjót, yfirgefið verðr þat hér eftir. Við siglum burt með knarrar skeið, marrandi vegna eigna heilla Njǫrðunga. Mikið var gefið ok margt skilið eftir. Við siglum áfram meðfram endalausum svǫrtum strǫndum, sjáum óendanlega hvíta hvelið yfir þeim og fǫrum um suðlæga hornið. Burt, burt til jarðar skarð hafi slétt vestrsins. Burt til hlýs vors strandlengjunnar sem spýtir brennisteinshita frá djúpi Surts. Enn gefr þú varma, dreki! Þú, dreki undirheimanna!

[ENGLISH - Much is changed by the doings of the Norns]

Much is changed by the doings of the Norns. Much, maybe everything. Fate is inexorable. Struggles from my grandfather's time have surfaced again and my land, this fjord dedicated to Þórr and Njǫrðr, was taken from me on the Alþing. My grandfather's sister's debts in the old country fell upon us, the last living relatives of her cursed family. Land had to be given for land, wrong had to be rightened. As my father once said, one should never trust in man's doings. And right he was. We lived happily here among our neighbours' fjords. But across the mountains, Loki's treachery did linger. Why did it not stay there? Many trolls have to turn to stone and be destroyed! Across the valley, I hear the giants' laughter. Exiled we are, damnes in the autumn of this year with winter approaching. Is man the creation of the gods? Or are the gods creations of man? Why did no god assist me? Who takes my land? What dark elves, what cruel Landvættir? A farm, a home built over two generations, now lies abandoned. On ships creaking under the possessions of our family we leave. Much is lost, much left behind. We sail past long black beaches, gaze at the white summits above them and sail around the horn of the south, towards the western fjords. Towards warm springs, spitting sulphur from the depths of Surtr. Warmth you give nevertheless, dragon, you dragon of the underworld!

[gatsbygal]

siglum

  this is the single most terrifying thing I’ve ever...

Was the food… Human cadavers….?

RIGHT?? fucking creepy hahaha

[aboutanancientenquiry]

A 14th century manuscript of Herodotus’ Histories, probably made in the Byzantine city of Mystras

Herodotus (MS Nn.2.34)

This fourteenth-century manuscript is entirely dedicated to the Histories of Herodotus, considered the founding work of history in Western literature. The manuscript is acephalous due to the loss of two quires, and bears the divisions into nine books, conventionally named after the nine Muses. It was borrowed by Richard Porson (1759-1808), who numbered the books and chapters in the upper margin of recto folios or in the text (cf. Cambridge University Archives, Grace Book Lambda, p. 413).

The manuscript has been cited as K since the Gaisford edition (1824), and previously as Askewianus, because it was part of Anthony Askew's collection.

According to Rosén (Teubner edition, 1987), Nn.2.34 is closely related to Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Laur. Plut. 70.3 (siglum A in Herodotus' editions).

Dr Matteo Di Franco

Information about this document

Physical Location: Cambridge University Library

Classmark: MS Nn.2.34

Alternative Identifier(s): Diktyon 12237

Subject(s): Herodotus

Origin Place: Mystras

Date of Creation: late 14th century

Language(s): Greek

Former Owner(s): Askew, Anthony, 1722-1774

Associated Name(s): Richard Porson (1759-1808)

Extent: Codex iii + 212 + i Leaf height: 290 mm, width: 215 mm.

Collation:Quires 1-268 ff. 2r-209v

Material: Western paper, folded in quarto. Watermarks: Circles ( Watermark height: 110 mm, width: 43 mm. ) in the middle of the folio comparable to Briquet, 3205; Bell with cross ( Watermark height: 60 mm, width: 20 mm. ) in the middle of the folio comparable to Briquet, 4007; Star ( Watermark height: 45 mm, width: 45 mm. ) in the middle of the folio comparable to Briquet, 6013; Cutlass ( Watermark height: 92 mm, width: 45 mm. ) in the middle of the folio comparable to Briquet, 5150; Horseshoe ( Watermark height: 40 mm, width: 34 mm. ) in the middle of the folio comparable to Mošin-Tralijc, 3804. The majority of those examples are dated between 1320 and 1385.

Format: Codex

Condition: The folios are yellowed by time and stained. Water stains from ff. 162-192. Mould deposits visible on the right endleaves. Fading of the ink where there is water damage.

Binding:

Script:

Foliation:

Layout: ff. 1r-129v: A single column of 29-33 lines. Written space Written height: 225 mm, width: 158 mm. ff. 130r-210v: A single column of 32-41 lines. Written space Written height: 235 mm, width: 155 mm.

Decoration: Headpieces incorporate the rubrics at the beginning of each book: f. 27v, f. 62r, f. 90v, f. 121r, f. 138r, f. 153vf. 179r, f. 195v. Thick red-ink major initials at the beginning of each book.

Additions:

Provenance:

Origin: The watermark of the paper used indicates that the manuscript was produced in the late 14th century, a dating consistent with the style of scripts. If the identification with Tzyncadyles is correct, perhaps the manuscript was copied in Mystras, where the scribe was active.

Acquisition: After Askew's death, the manuscripts were sold by G. Leigh and J. Sotheby in the auction of his library in 1785. Nn.2.34 was lot 576, and was bought by Richard Farmer for Cambridge University Library. The University of Cambridge general bookplate (engraved by William Jackson in 1706-1707) was added on the pastedown of left cover.

Funding: The Polonsky Foundation

Data Source(s): Description (2019) draws on A catalogue of the Manuscripts preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge, vol. 4 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1861), p. 467-468.

Author(s) of the Record: Matteo Di Franco

Bibliography:Hemmerdinger, Bertrand, Les manuscrits d'Hérodote et la critique verbale, Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di filologia classica e medievale dell'Università di Genova 72 (Genova: Istituto di filologia classica e medievale, 1981).Reeve, M.D., "Review of Les manuscrits d'Hérodote et la critique verbale by B. Hemmerdinger", Phoenix 39 3 287-289 (1985).McKitterick, David, Cambridge University Library: a history, 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986) 2: The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Easterling, Patricia E., "From Britain to Byzantium: the study of Greek manuscripts", in Robin Cormack and Elizabeth Jeffreys (eds), Through the looking glass: Byzantium through British eyes. Papers from the twenty-ninth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, March 1995, Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies publications 7 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000) 107-120.Naiditch, P.G., The library of Richard Porson (Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2011).

The beginning of the manuscript is wanting; apparently the first two quires are gone: only one folio (f. 1r-v) remains from quire β. The manuscript now consists of one folio (f. 1r-1v), 26 quaternions (ff. 2r-209v) and one folio (f. 210r-210v); ff. 211r-212v are later endleaf. A small stub is preserved between f. 210v and 211r.

Early quire signatures in brown ink, in Greek numerals, on the first folio of each quire, recto. Some have been lost to cropping. They survive on the lower margin right of quire 1 (γʹ f. 2r), quires 3-6 (εʹ-η' ff. 18r, 26r, 34r, 42r), quires 13-14 (ιεʹ-ιϛ' ff. 98r, 106r), quires 17 (ιθʹ f. 130r), and on the upper margin right on quires 18-25 (κ'-κζ' ff. 138r, 146r, 154r, 162r, 170r, 178r, 186r, 194r).

Modern quire signatures in Greek numerals, in pencil, which reproduce and complete the previous series, have been added almost systematically to the first folio of each quire, recto, lower margin right.

Binding with pale brown full leather covering over couched-laminate boards. The spine is cracked, corresponding to the opening at f. 130.

There is decorative tooling on boards and spine; traces of decorative tooling are present on the board edge. Head band is fully detached. Bookblock edges are marbled.

Marbled paper endleaves. The left made flyleaf has come away.

The title (Herodotus MS.) is tooled in gold on the spine.

Binding height: 305 mm, width: 239 mm, depth: 19 mm.

Hand A: ff. 1r-129v

A mixed minuscule script, vertical or slightly slanted to the right, in brown ink, with modest variation in letter size.

Syllabic abbreviations and superscript word endings usually appear only at the end of lines and rarely elsewhere (e.g. common abbreviation of μεν). Breathings are curved and not joined to accents; mute iota is absent. Accents are often joined to alpha, upsilon and omega.

Alpha is drawn in two shapes: a rounded one and another one with a long oblique stroke; beta displays in bilobate shape; delta is triangular, with a small eyelet closed. Pi has a elongated horizontal stroke, and so also tau and theta, especially if at the beginning of the line. The modern nu, small gamma, eta, kappa, lambda and sigma telikon are presents.

The epsilon-rho ligature appears in a distinctive form in which the upper part forms a closed loop. Tau-rho ligature is overlapping

Punctuation used includes the middle and upper point, lower comma and full stop.

Tails are rarely flourished into the lower margins, e.g. f. 127r.

An identification with Manuel Tzycandyles (RGK I 255) has been proposed (see Hemmerdinger 1981).

Hand B: ff. 130r-210v.

Hand B displays a mixed minuscule close the model of Hand A, but slanting slightly to the right, with denser text. There is an evident moderate variation in letter size. Syllabic abbreviations and superscript word endings are not limiteted to the end of lines.

Breathings are curved, circumflex accent is normaly not link to vowels. Mute iota is absent.

Tails are rarely flourished into the lower margins.

[i-iii] + 1-212 + [iv]. Modern foliation in pencil in Arabic numerals in the top right-hand corner, recto.

Note by Richard Porson on f. [ii] verso: "Vide editionem Herodoti a Gronovio editam Lugduni Batavorum apud Samuelem Luchtmans anno MMCCXVI: Pag. 32. l. 13 μάχη σφέων ἦν ἀφ' ἵππων κ.τ.λ.". with reference to the 1715 edition by Jacobus Gronovius.

Porson also marked the number of the books and chapters in the upper margin of rectos in Greek numerals, referring to the last chapter of the folio: e.g. f. 6r α, ρε = Lib. I chap. 105. Chapters numbers are occasionally in the text in Arabic numerals.

The manuscript belonged to Anthony Askew (b. 1722, d. 1774), physician and book collector.

Section shown in images 9 to 428

Title: The Histories

Author(s): Herodotus

Note(s): Beginning imperfectly at I 79, 3; TLG 0016.002

Excerpts:Incipit: f. 1r μάχη σφεων ἦν ἀφ’ ἵππων. δούρατά τε ἐφόρεον μεγάλα καὶ αὐτοὶ ἦσαν ἱππεύεσθαι ἀγαθοίExplicit: f. 210v ἄρχειν τε εἵλοντο λυπρὴν οἰκέοντες μᾶλλον, ��� πεδιάδα σπείροντες ἄλλοισι δουλεύεινFinal Rubric: f. 210v Ἡροδότου ἱστοριῶν θ

Section shown in images 9 to 60

Title: Historiae Liber I

Excerpts:Final Rubric: f. 26v Ἡροδότου α'

Source: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-NN-00002-00034/9 with pictures of each page of the volume.

[an-atlas-or-other]

I got a freaking lectionary

“Lectionary 93

Lectionary 93, designated by siglum ℓ 93 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on paper leaves. Palaeographically, it has been assigned to the 16th century (Scrivener 14th-century).”

Why me

Why do I get the Jesus gender

ur government assigned gender for the day is the first thing u get when u click this link to a randomised wikipedia article. NO REROLLS . i am the  trollsteineggje mountain in norway

[theskoomacat]

tag people game thingy!

tagged by @areafiftydun and @gaydavidfincher tysm <3

three ships: i'm not too big on shipping idk what even to say here. most of my fav characters are loners in canon anyway

first ever ship: Ten/Rose

last song: Horse With No Name by America

last film: scrolled through the new Scream, 1/10

currently reading: nothing:(

currently watching: The Sopranos but veeery slowly bc i have little time and energy atm to consume any media

currently consuming: chocolate chip cookies

currently craving: i need to take a trip somewhere badly but i'm in the nightmare part of the semester ughghgh. also sunlight

tagging: @somatiq @gaargoyle @amandatheangrygirl @beholdatimemachine @ghostofrhys @gkettle @russiandahl @tachyonfield @siglum if you want 🤗

[aeide-thea]

wrt the aforementioned ‘notorious’ tacitean passage, my commentary notes that a particular phrasing was ‘obelised’ by a previous editor, which wasn't a word i'd ever encountered before; this was startling both because i know most english words there are to know (look, it's not self-aggrandizing if it's just true), and because this one is such a Peak Classics word: google glosses it as meaning ‘mark (a word or passage) with an obelus to show that it is spurious, corrupt, or doubtful.’

anyway i also didn't exactly know what an obelus was, although clearly it was, you know, one of those marks deployed by editors, so i proceeded to google that while i was about it and learned another thing, which is that apparently the term refers both (1) to the Dagger Symbol of Dubiousness with which i was visually familiar, and also (2) to the division sign? which latter siglum also, i learned recently in the course of some procrastinatory reading-up on paleography, signifies est in tironian shorthand.

said shorthand continued to be used by, inter alios, monks in the british isles—google books has some nice clear examples of the est-obelus in an eighth century manuscript from canterbury—and so it is that one still, apparently, sees the tironian et (⁊) on modern irish signage! this is also apparently the reason videlicet gets abbreviated ‘viz.’ despite being devoid of zeds: it was actually originally vi⁊ (vi—et, essentially), but the ⁊ ultimately got conflated with the more familiar Z. the more you know...!

[englishlistwords]

Siglum

noun

plural noun:

sigla

a letter or symbol which stands for a word or name, especially to denote a particular manuscript or edition of a text.

[binccxh]

@equesbian tagged me with sin and I don't know if I did this right but it's 5 past 12 in the am and I'm naked in the spa

@postmdrnprometheus @anxietyandie @siglum

I dOnT kNoW 10 pEoPlE oN tHiS hElL sItE aNd ThE oNlY oThEr PeRsOn Is AlReAdY tAgGeD

[kindof-sometimes-maybe]

18.5 Thanks to @vinylmeplease for this wonderful reissue. It was late but well worth the wait. The colours of the vinyl match the album cover and the music perfectly. • Við siglum í land Í stórgrýti og sand Við vöðum í land Fremdarástand Já, anskotann • #sigurros #meðsuðíeyrumviðspilumendalaust #festival #vinylmeplease #nowplaying #nowspinning #vinylpodee #vinyl #vinyligclub #vinyladdict #vinyljunkie #vinylig #vinyloftheday #vinylporn #vinylcommunity #needledrop #33rpm #igvinyl #recordcollector #recordcollection #discogs #vinylcollection #vinylsoundsbetter #instavinyl #onmyturntable #黑膠唱片 https://www.instagram.com/p/CdsuL94Porb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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En.chile sigur ros tocando en vivo Fljótavík llegando a mi corazon en vivo 😍 Sjáum yfir rá Sjóinn skerum frá Við siglum mastri trú Seglum þöndum Við stýrum að í brú Við siglum í land Í stórgrýti og sand Við vöðum í land Ófremdarástand Já, anskotann Feginn fann ég þar Þökkum ákaflega #sigurroschile #magicthegathering #dccomics #me #selfie #gaming #gamer #anime #followers #followe #herbalife #party #chile #happy #happyfamily #happybirthday #spotify #sport #foodie #art  #clothing #chocolate #instagram #black #instagood #insta #foodporn #weed #santiagodechile @sigurros

[human-antithesis]

Haka kleifir berja ok brjóta við enda langrar ferðar sinnar

Haka kleifir berja ok brjóta sjálfar sig við enda langrar ferðar sinnar. Sævar bein. Ránheimr! Þú endalausa djúp, skapað í eilífðinni. Vægðarlaust gleyptir þú svo marga og ert enn ekki mett. Hví átt þú samt enn svo mikið líf? Við siglum á taugar vegi ok hans svala brim kælir þennan langa sumardag sem stefnir í hásumar ársins. Endalausar ǫldr flæða áfram, enn kaldar. Við opnum netin ok horfum upp í skýja skríns skjǫdung. Hverju lofar heims skáli, hvert munu þau fara? Láðs lýr festir sig enn einu sinni í netin ok skapar med dauða sínum líf okkart. Kokhljóð heyrast er sjávardýrið þakið snærum berst um í litlum knerri, nálægt endalokum. Éla ranns rít skín ok Alfaðir gaf okkr góðan feng. Hlés dætr gefast upp gegn varrláð várri og við várar okkar veg í gegnum víðáttana. Ægir var okkr hliðhollr. Jǫrmungandr var rólegr.

[ENGLISH - Heavy waves break at the end of their long voyage]

Heavy waves break at the end of their long voyage. Oh ocean! Great depth, created in eternity. Why do you bear so much life, although you have cruelly swallowed so many and still are not satisfied. We sail the sea and it's spray cools the heat of a long summer day that leads us to the middle of the year. The waves pass the ship, always cold. We spread our nets and look at the sky. What will become of these clouds? Fish fills our nets, gasping, jerking, dying - their death, our life. The sun is shining and with Allfather's help we have made a big catch. Our oars push through the waves and we are on our way. Ægir was well-disposed towards us. Jǫrmungandr remained silent.

[gatsbygal]

yay i was tagged by @theolgalax and @vaynglory - thank you y’all!  :D

Rules: bold which trope you prefer (or, in some cases, maybe just hate the least!) out of each of the following pairs:

slow burn or love at first sight

fake dating or secret dating

enemies to lovers or best friends to lovers  

‘oh no there’s only one bed’ or long-distance correspondence

hurt/comfort or amnesia

fantasy au or modern au

mutual pining or domestic bliss

smut or fluff

canon-compliant or fix-it

reincarnation or character death

one-shot or multi-chapter

kid fic or road trip fic

arranged marriage or accidental marriage

high school romance or middle-aged romance

time travel or isolated together

neighbors or roommates

sci-fi au or magic au

body swap or genderbend

angst or crack

apocalyptic or mundane

i dunno who to tag!! uhhhhh @snadwich @thaliatimsh @neveth @victorianrobot @siglum (oh my god i always blank when it comes to tagging people... if you follow me, consider yourself tagged!!)