Quote of the day

[rymenhild]

I will not be adding my own equivalent of soup rings to any medieval manuscripts: no one would let me rest a coffee cup on Morgan M690, nor would anyone allow me to do what one earlier owner of the book did--take out a pencil and draw large, full-folio portrait heads on the flyleafs. One worships at the altar of the manuscript; one does not doodle on it.

~Siân Echard, "House Arrest: Modern Archives, Medieval Manuscripts." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30:2 (2000), 189.

Comments

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

At the moment, I was just looking for references to a specific manuscript I might be studying this summer. I like her Arthurian Narratives in the Latin Tradition very much, though.