{"id":45046,"date":"2023-07-08T19:44:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T18:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=45046"},"modified":"2023-07-08T19:44:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T18:44:53","slug":"20th-century-annotations-in-the-margins-of-a-darmstadt-manuscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2023\/07\/08\/20th-century-annotations-in-the-margins-of-a-darmstadt-manuscript\/","title":{"rendered":"20th century annotations in the margins of a Darmstadt manuscript"},"content":{"rendered":"

This evening I was looking at a manuscript – specifically Darmstadt 344, written in the 3rd quarter of the 11th century (catalogue here<\/a>, online here<\/a>).\u00a0 I have a PDF of the manuscript – sadly monochrome, but quite readable – and I started to look for what is “chapter 14” of the life of St Nicholas, which ought to be in here somewhere.\u00a0 A few miracle stories appeared, and I started adding bookmarks for each.\u00a0 And then…<\/p>\n

… then I rubbed my eyes, and wondered.\u00a0 For there were Arabic numbers against each miracle story!\u00a0 Very familiar numbers!<\/p>\n

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Because these are the BHL numbers for each miracle story – the identification number in the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina<\/em>.\u00a0 This was published in 1900.\u00a0 So these are modern.<\/p>\n

It’s not a surprise to find medieval or early modern marginalia.\u00a0 But who on earth in 1900 thought that it was appropriate to write on the manuscript itself?!\u00a0 Some scholarly twit or other, evidently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This evening I was looking at a manuscript – specifically Darmstadt 344, written in the 3rd quarter of the 11th century (catalogue here, online here).\u00a0 I have a PDF of the manuscript – sadly monochrome, but quite readable – and I started to look for what is “chapter 14” of the life of St Nicholas, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[1075],"class_list":["post-45046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-manuscripts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}