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nickthelemming

Weird

Feb 22, 2007 15:30

About 4 or 5 years ago, when I was a l'il undergrad, I was awarded a Sun Angel research award at ASU to do a paper on the Waldensians. This morning I received an email from the head of the Religious Studies dept at ASU that had been forwarded back and forth between about a dozen people. Apparently someone had emailed the religious studies dept to ( Read more... )

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my_tw0_cents February 22 2007, 22:06:20 UTC

I don't have any info on MS 1053, but I had to comment because the convoluted email thread thing was so amusing :) I love beaurocracy!

faulxbourdon February 22 2007, 23:42:09 UTC

Which one is MS 1053? It's not that tiny book of hours, is it?

nickthelemming February 23 2007, 00:36:29 UTC

No, it's a collection of English laws - Magna Carta, Carta de foresta and about 40 others. When Townsend gave it to us he said "and good luck with that one. You'll need it."

jitterbug_jump February 23 2007, 07:26:16 UTC

Holy crap! They really were wanting to get ahold of it, huh?
crazy.

MS 1053 Thomas Fisher anonymous February 25 2007, 18:53:42 UTC

Hey Nick ( ... )

Re: MS 1053 Thomas Fisher nickthelemming February 26 2007, 12:41:03 UTC

Thanks Christian!

I'd gotten most of that info myself (though I'll look up Faye and Bond too). There's also "occasio" on one of the framed windows by the look of it. I googled the prvde, Lucrecia etc stuff, and got a reference to an article in The Library journal, entitled something like "German Bindings in the Aberdeen University MSS collection" which is why I thought it might be German, but I can't get hold of the article. Curses!