#marginalia blogging

[spindrifters]

holy shit pinterest coming through with the marginalia reference photo this is god tier

#it's THEM wtf #marginalia blogging #wolfstar #sirius black #remus lupin #I love you pinterest homepage #the 70s hair is sending me

[clericofathena]

in small forgotten things // notes from a book i studied for my class on the history of printing

#studyblr #study blog #study aesthetic #early modern history #early modern period #early modernism #seventeenth century #light academia #light academic aesthetic #dark academia #romantic academia #academia #academia aesthetic #marginalia

[scribefindegil]

is ur url a silmarillion/lotr reference? it reads like an elf name

It is LotR, although not an elf! Findegil was the Gondorian scribe responsible for the most important copy of the Red Book in Tolkien's fictional manuscript transmission tree!

(The conceit is that LotR is a "translation" of an in-universe manuscript written by Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam, but because Tolkien was a medievalist he couldn't stop there and also had to invent the provenance of the "extant" manuscript copies. The "original" Red Book has been lost, but an exact copy known as the Thain's Book was made and brought to Gondor at Aragorn's request (where it was heavily annotated and had all the Elvish corrected, lol), and Findegil's manuscript is a copy of that, written 172 years after the destruction of the Ring.)

#conversations #it's about the Gondorian marginalia #even though i am not and never really have been A Tolkien Blog #the url stays because it conveys the very important fact that i am an insane manuscript culture nerd #even when the manuscripts in question do not actually exist

[findasongblog]

Find A Song about strangers becoming friends after a memorable night

Marginalia - Dances You Absorbed

The song starts with a curious whistle like a ringtone, calling the listener in for a memorable night spent with strangers who will soon be friends. An uplifting house beat, and catchy chorus keep the good vibes flowing all night.

Added to FAS Spotify playlist electronic/electro pop/synth pop.

via Musosoup

#music #music blog #indie music #alternative music #electro pop #Marginalia #Dances You Absorbed #memorable #indie #alternative #find a song

[birds-and-manuscripts]

Benvenuti! Settle in, grab a codex to explore — just be careful with some of the leather-bound ones, and don’t be too rough with the unfired clay tablets.

My name’s Gaia, I’m a history student at university, and this is the place to stash pictures of codices and rambles about writing material history. Stick around to find out more about paper and inks and all the stuff we still use or don’t use anymore to write down important information such as shopping lists, laws, insults, etc.

Informative posts can be found under #history chirp, they should come out every week or two and cover a variety of topics. If you want to ask for a specific topic or have any questions, the ask box is open.

I hope you have fun!

#blog intro #history #manuscript #marginalia #codicology #history blog

[honeyglot]

i’ll officially be migrating my blog to @caintooth!

details tomorrow after i sleep lol

#marginalia #new blog

[florilegia-or-what-you-will]

I am all about starting as I mean to go on, ergo, Snail Duel.

#Or snuel #if you will #I did consider writing a proper introductory post where I explained my intentions for this blog #but you know what they say #a picture paints a thousand words #and the textbook doesn't have any of that good good medieval marginalia #so I simply must create my own #florilegia

[moa-sting]

tfw one of my characters is meant to be very attractive but given that they are inhabiting the body of another character who I feel bad sexualizing it’s this weird push/pull. Granted that’s kind of the point/part of his character development of “Ok at what point is this body I’m commandeering for a while and parted with the previous owner on relatively good terms can be considered Mine rather than His?”

...and then having his romantic relationship be kind of weird bc Wu Wei met the body as a child but Xiu Chan inhabiting the body as an adult.

#qiao blogging #the duality of me drawing zhao rui: handsome sad boy #xiu chan: THE SEXIEST POSES EVER #i should post qiao marginalia sometime

[a-book-of-creatures]

Hey tumblr we need to have a talk about something I noticed.

Specifically going by tags attached to images I’ve blogged or reblogged, there seems to be a misconception that marginalia means “any quirky medieval art”.

It’s not.

Marginalia is anything in the margins of a text.

The ones that will get posted on tumblr will more often than not be quirky drawings, but they also include notes, annotations, scribbles, and whatever else. The quirky drawings just happen to get a lot of press on here because, well. They’re quirky drawings.

For instance, see this image here of a platanista (river dolphin) chomping down on an elephant’s trunk?

This is not marginalia! This is a full-fledged illustration. It’s within the text (Liber natura rerum, Thomas de Cantimpré, Librairie de Valenciennes Ms 0320). It illustrates the entry on Platanista.

This is what it looks like in context.

But you know what are marginalia? Let me circle them for convenience.

Know the difference. It won’t save your life but it will make you more popular at a medievalist conference.

#medieval #marginalia #liber de natura rerum

[chaifloat]

stray words captured in oxford

#spotted! #first post material? #i love these images such a big fan of marginalia #like a little web weaving #what a way to inaugurate a blog #mypost #myphotos #oxford #chaotic academia #light academia #marginalia #web weaving #literature

[spindrifters]

while we're pouring one out for aspec/demi sirius

“Stop that,” he says again, voice low, almost dangerous, grey eyes and cheekbones sharpened to a flint. “You don’t get to do that. Martyr yourself on whatever cross you like, Remus, but you don’t get to tell me who I get to love. Alright? That. That’s not yours. That belongs to me, and you don’t get to decide.” His heart drops into his gut. “What?” he whispers. Sirius reaches out and cradles him by the jaw, a hand under each ear, eyes burning, and Remus doesn’t know if he’s angry—he thinks he is—but it’s more than that. And Remus thinks he may have swallowed his own throat, too, by now, if he’s heard right. “Maybe I’m the broken one, really,” Sirius snaps, all the conviction of his eighteen years behind it, “because I don’t think about sex. Not really. Not like that. Not unless there’s the person first, and then it’s all just them. So if that’s what you need, if that’s what you want, we will get there. Because I want that if it’s with you. We’re capable of too much else not to manage it someday. But in the meantime, you do not get to tell me I shouldn’t want to be with you. That is mine. Alright?”

(x)

#sirius black #wolfstar #remus lupin #marginalia blogging

[livelivefastfree]

Alda posted some art and got me thinking about this blog again so here are some cool burners and increasingly unhinged Marginalia Mikes

#Motorcity #Mike Chilton #Julie Kane #Dutch Gordy #Texas (motorcity) #Chuck (motorcity) #Art Is Hard #Life Ruiner #He Scream At Own Car #The Queen #TEXAS!!! #Robot Aesthetic #hey guys??? he's mimk chiltom U_U #does Texas understand what's being explained to him??? no absolutely not lol. is he about to start chopping at the hologram. yes. #but in his defense chuck just said ''the shape isn't a shape it's a concept think about it like a physics problem and work backwards' #which makes sense to him and like four other people in Detroit but is otherwise essentially useless magical nonsense gobbledygook

[film-in-my-soul]

The Death of Translation | 10,968 | landwriter / @landwriter

Summary: One day, in spring, he comes to the Inn. Hob looks up and he’s there, and the relief is blinding. He thinks tu m’as manqué, fuck, because you were missing from me feels more true than I missed you ever has. English missing was ruined for him the moment he learned the French way of it. Longing is meant to be a reflexive verb. It would be a bad faith translation, even for him. He tells himself this is why he doesn’t say it. He thinks at last, and that’s a doable one. So he smiles, says, “You’re late.”

Please see below for more recommendations!

Five Times Dream of the Endless Proposed to Hob Gadling (+ One Time He Didn’t) | 2,402 | softestpunk / @softest-punk

Summary: Every century, Dream proposes to Hob. Every century, Hob refuses.

aulon raid | 2,457 | Moorishflower / @moorishflower

Summary: The New Inn is as close to a church as Hob can build, a monument to stories, a tribute to dreams. He has a baseball bat, 600 years of fighting experience, and an anthropomorphic representation of dreaming to impress. In other words, no neonazis allowed.

Dream of a thousand kisses | 6,335 | fellshish / @fellshish

Summary: Dream wants his reunion with Hob to go perfectly after their big fight so he visits Hob’s dreams to rehearse the moment. During one of those practice dreams, Hob suddenly kisses him.

an immortal's guide to contrition | 6,619 | trellomonkey

Summary: “I’ll win him over,” he says, resolute. “I’ll woo him.” In 1889, Hob Gadling has a falling out with his friend. He spends the next century coming up with a way to make it up to him.

Make Me Immortal With A Kiss | 8,611 | WyvernQuill / @wyvernquill

Summary: He doesn’t know why he does it. It’s perhaps the biggest mistake of all his 500 years on God’s green earth. But in that strange, treacle-slow moment on the wet street with the rain falling around him, with His Stranger’s arm shaking under his fingers - God, has he ever even laid hands on him before? Hob can’t recall - it seems like the only obvious course of action. Hob grabs him by the lapels of his black coat and drags him into a desperate, needy kiss.

the Endless marginalia | 11,210 | LydeNicoKITE / @nicolodigenovas

Summary: Dream was… different than what he’d expected. Sure, he was eloquent, a bit standoffish, slightly snobbish, endlessly knowledgeable about literature and history and, not surprisingly, dead languages. This all fit the image Dream conveyed in interviews and public appearances. But he also had a weird passion for unusual pets —he once kept a raven as personal companion, then was too heartbroken by her passing to find a worthy successor—, wrote down his dreams because ‘that’s where ideas come from’, tended to trust horoscopes too much, and was so competitive when playing cards he did not hesitate to cheat his way to victory.

sweet devotion, gentle hope | 12,369 | winterbucky (WinterLadyy)

Summary: When a strange woman sometime in the 17th century tells Hob he's a High Priest, it doesn't take him all that long to figure out which God he serves - what else could his Stranger be but a God? That settled, he spends the next decades making sure their temple (the White Horse) is perfect, that his God knows Hob is devoted. So when his Stranger doesn't show up for their 1989 meeting, Hob doesn't take it laying down. Instead, he uses all the knowledge he collected over the years to summon his God into his temple - thus, saving Dream from Burgess, albeit unknowingly. What follows is a series of adventures as Hob joins Dream on his quest to find his tools. They may even discover something new about their relationship on the way.

the gift of hindsight | 13,733 | itsthechocopuff

Summary: What if, when they meet in the twenty-first century, Hob is a little more human, a little slower to forgive, and Dream a little more cognizant of how one should treat centuries-old friends, though no more socially competent?

Inspire in Me, the Desire in Me | 14,850 | ElloPoppet

Summary: It’s the right day, but the year is all wrong, and Dream suspects that there’s something else not quite right even before he finds himself standing in front of the shuttered remains of the White Horse Tavern. Still, he’s chilled in a way he’s not accustomed to feeling, reminiscent of the hopeless, free-falling frost that climbed up his spine and inside his gut the day he was meant to meet Hob when he was imprisoned. And that’s what it is, he realizes, this cold feeling. Hopelessness. Should Dream seek him out, would Hob welcome him as a friend, or turn his shoulder as he would on an intruder? It’s what he would deserve, Dream muses as he’s preparing to turn heel from the tavern’s closed gates, even though as he’s resigning himself to shame he’s also gearing up to make this his next mission, his next purpose: to find Hob Gadling.

Black Coffee | 17,133 | Darci

Summary: He almost misses the table in the back corner. Far from the front windows and veiled by a thin curtain of ivy, a single table calls to Hob from across the cafe. It's only when he approaches the corner that Hob realises that table is occupied. Small wonder he missed this detail the first time; the man seated at the table is dressed entirely in black, and he's looking down at an open book so Hob can only see a shock of black hair. Still, there's nowhere else to sit, and apparently none of the students are inclined to share a table with a man who looks like a raven in human form. Hob clears his throat and puts on his best smile. "Excuse me, would you mind if I shared your table?"

Radio Silence | 17,151 | Moorishflower / @moorishflower

Summary: Ten years ago, the world ended all at once. It ended in flour. In rye. In the sound of pancake mix being opened in the morning, and the beep of the rice cooker, and the scent of fresh bread. And on the afternoon of June 13th, 2013, former novelist Dream Endeles finds a still-working portable radio and intercepts a distress call.

For Want of Caution | 20,663 | mayanpaw

Summary: Hob Gadling was not by nature a cautious man but even he knew the value of keeping track of those who would be too… intrigued by his condition. In 1926, a chance conversation in a bar alerts Hob to the fact that Roderick Burgess has captured another immortal, one that sounds eerily similar to his friend.

the space that’s in between (every page, every chord, every screen) | 26,293 | im_not_corrupted / @im-not-corrupted

Summary: Before, Hob Gadling never believed he’d be unfortunate enough to love someone who’d never love him back. He’s never coughed up flowers before, and he’s willing to bet he never will. After 1789, Hob Gadling dreams of his Stranger, realises a few things about himself, and coughs up his first flower petal.

Tidings of Comfort and Joy | 55,441 | Xx_vergil_xX

Summary: December 19th, 1334 – Sir Morpheus Oneiros Endelēas and his sister, Teleute de Morte Endelēas, participate in the King's annual Christmas hawking competition. Sir Morpheus, scouring the woods in pursuit, comes across three women – a maiden, a mother, and an old crone – who offer him a strange ruby amulet, a journey to the future, and a Christmas quest whose details are a little fuzzy. With only a warning that his failure will doom him to a lifetime in the future, Sir Morpheus is suddenly thrown smack into Nottingham, 2022. December 19th, 2022 – Hob Gadling, a high school history teacher in Nottingham, driving his son, Robyn, and family friends Rose and Jed Walker, to the opening of the town's Christmas castle, hits a medieval knight with his car. Hijinks ensue.

nurse my pride, throw in a please | 58,371 | OrangeChickenPillow

Summary: Hob is a patient man, and Dream is a stubborn one. Or a stubborn something, considering Hob still doesn't quite understand what exactly he is. In fact, there isn't much he does know about his stranger, and even less about his stranger's family -- so Hob certainly hadn't expected his friend's sister to waltz on into The New Inn asking if he had any apples and telling him that she was in town for work that "luckily" didn't involve him. And, naturally, he also hadn't seen it coming when she told him that his stranger needed his help. But if Hob had learned anything in his unnaturally long life, it was that things never went quite how you were expecting them to -- and sometimes you wound up breaking into a rich magician's basement to get your friend back.

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#dreamling #dream/hob #dreamling reclist #reclist #fanfic reclist #the sandman reclist

[trans-cuchulainn]

Do you know anywhere I can read about parchment practices of the middle ages?

raymond clemens + timothy graham's introduction to manuscript studies starts with a section about writing supports that covers parchment manufacture and other writing surfaces before going on to talk more about how manuscripts and books were constructed and assembled

the irish hand by t. o'neill is a nice introduction to irish manuscripts but to be honest it's more focused on specific books rather than their production and on writing systems more widely. it's a nice one for seeing glimpses of marginalia and notes written inside books though

here's a blog post about decorating flaws in parchment to make them part of the page. the BL has a number of posts on their conservation blog about working with medieval parchment and the various preservation challenges it can pose. this is however mostly looking at them from a modern conservation perspective rather than a medieval creative perspective

here's a useful overview of parchment with close-up pictures. the other pages on this site look like a good place to start with learning about making and using manuscripts in general.

unfortunately this is primarily not a topic i learned from books/written sources so my reading recommendations are a bit thin on the ground

#i'm a triple threat of former calligrapher former librarian and former academic medievalist lmao i've learned shit from practice #probably the only topic where my knowledge significantly outweighs my ability to give book recommendations ngl #answered #dagmarsverker #parchment problems

[fulcrumstoried]

So as a continuation of my previous post, here's the translation efforts!

I start off with the singular marginalia, noting down all those little symbols in the corners of the pages - we're probably going to have to come back to this.

Then the first passage and its translation provide us with our first set of alphabet substitutions.

[Also, I'll be using the tag '#candela obscura code' so that I don't junk out the normal tags, and so it's easily followable on my blog!]

#candela obscura code #also i'm sorry but i'm not certain how to do image id with these? #if anyone has any advice or wants to do it #feel free cause im v bad at describing symbols #just ask my destiny fireteam svdbsdv #critical role #candela obscura #candela obscura spoilers

[insidemyfavoritemanuscript]

Episode 9: Zoe and Mac from The Maniculum Podcast!

In Episode 9 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Lindsey and Dot chat with Zoe and Mac from the Maniculum podcast, where they suggest ways to adapt medieval texts for TTRPG’s (tabletop roleplaying games). We talk about marginalia, games, and Mac takes us for a dive into the Rutland Psalter. We also talk to Zoe about her storytelling for Pentiment, a medieval adventure video game by Obsidian Entertainment.

Listen here, or wherever you find your podcasts.

If you enjoyed this episode, you can listen to Dot and Lindsey over on The Maniculum Podcast! We talked about digital humanities, book history, and the secrets of women. Find links to listen here: https://www.themaniculumpodcast.com/episodes

Below the cut are page images and further reading from our conversation.

The Maniculum Podcast

The Maniculum Podcast on Tumblr

Pentiment

Book Historian Plays Pentiment! (Allie Alvis Pentiment play through)

Ludohistory Pentiment Playthrough Playlist on YouTube

Perna (oyster) - Der naturen bloeme - Jacob van Maerlant - KB KA 16 - 108v (via Wikimedia Commons)

Sebhat the Ethiopian scribe relates the story of Lazarus in Pentiment (via Obsidian on Twitter)

Saint George and the Dragon, UPenn LJS 102 f. 71r, early 20th century Ethiopian manuscript

British Library Add MS 62925, The Rutland Psalter

f. 14r

Close-up of bottom of 14r

Close-up of top of 14r

f. 57r

Close-up of bottom of f. 57r

f. 88v

Close-up of bottom of 88v

Betsy Chunko-Dominguez (2016) “Playing on Timbrels”: the margins of the Rutland Psalter, Word & Image, 32:1, 131-141, DOI: 10.1080/02666286.2016.1146540 (PDF here)

f. 67r

Close-up of bottom (heh) of f. 67r

f. 66v

Close-up of bottom of f. 66v

How the opening of ff. 66v-67r would approximately appear

The Luttrell Psalter on the BL Website

The Luttrell Psalter film, mentioned at this point in the podcast, is embedded at the end of this post.

Susan Kim and Asa Mittman, Inconceivable Beasts: The ‘Wonders of the East’ in the Beowulf Manuscript. ACMRS, 2013. (Download PDF here)

British Library blog post on Cotton Tiberius B v

Maniculum D23 posts

f. 87v

Close-up of bottom (heh) of f. 87v

f. 64r

Close-up of bottom of f. 64r

Close-up of top of f. 64r

The Book of Kells

f. 88r

Close-up of bottom of f. 88r

f. 16r

Close-up of bottom (heh) of 16r

(I promise I’m not doing this on purpose)

[Images in the 170s]

f. 5v, Calendar page for October

Close up of Scorpio zodiac sign

f. 3v, Calendar page for June

Close-up of Cancer Zodiac sign

f. 78v

Close-up of f. 78v.

f. 70v

Close-up of f. 70v

Further reading on The Rutland Psalter:

Chunko-Dominguez, Betsy. “‘Playing on Timbrels’: The Margins of the Rutland Psalter.” Word & Image (London. 1985), vol. 32, no. 1, 2016, pp. 131–41 (PDF)

Morgan, Nigel. “The Artists of the Rutland Psalter.” The British Library Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, 1987, pp. 159-185 (PDF)

Luttrell Psalter Film on YouTube:

#medieval #manuscript #imfm #imfmpod #podcast #psalter #rutland psalter #marginalia #ttrp #pentiment #luttrell psalter #video games