What did he eat to cause that dream?

AI hallucinating its own usefulness.

s. xvi1?

Aachen not agree more.

+ So the long absence of an online catalogue of mss is a disaster for scholarship - some research has simply to be paused - but it does remind us that using it was never sufficient as the sole method of searching.

Except let's not be starry-eyed about the former online catalogue. Terrible for searching by shelfmarks, capricious in what it would find with any one search term. Of course, it was dependent on digitisations of print catalogues themselves variable in quality. +

Well, forbidden fruit --> guilt...

TYPO: Dr Phoebe MACINDOE @saims.bsky.social

And from Cecilia Sideri (University of Warwick) on 'A paper war: the manuscript tradition of Roberto Valturio's De re militari'. Tuesday, 25th November at 5:30pm. Online and in person.

We will be hearing from Phoebe Mcinode of St Andrews on 'Mind the Gap: how manuscript silence speaks volumes'

Back up - that is a relief. And a reminder of how reliant we have become to be of this amazing resource: thank you, @archive.org

Exciting range of wall-paintings, some original, some restored, some provided in the twentieth century.

BIG margins.

But only if it is not raining.