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The Jena university library have digitised and made fully available the Jena Liederhandschrift, and important and rather fine collection of poetry, written in the 1330s. It does not, alas, contain any sensational pictures, but it's a high status manuscript nonetheless and nice to look at. There are also photos of the restoration process, which will interest anyone who's curious about how mediaeval books were put together or looked after, and a little video showing the restorers at work. Unfortunately the site is only in German, but the pictures at least are fairly self-explanatory.
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Mar. 4th, 2009 04:31 pmThis is unbelievably awful: Cologne city archives collapse into a hole in the ground. It is, in fact, a bigger disaster than the fire at Anna Amelia library. Four people are unaccounted for (at least), and it looks as if the archives themselves are a total loss (they poured concrete into the hole, in an attempt to shore things up. This includes a large number of mediaeval religious manuscripts relating to the Rhineland mystics, as well as stuff relating to Heinrich Böll.
... I know. It's rather monstrous to be concerned about that when people are probably dead, but all the same: the manuscripts are a very great loss, too.
... I know. It's rather monstrous to be concerned about that when people are probably dead, but all the same: the manuscripts are a very great loss, too.
Heads up for those in Oxford
Oct. 7th, 2008 10:16 amIf you're in Oxford and interested, Mary Shelley's manuscripts of Frankenstein are on display today and today only in the Divinity School in the Old Bodelian. You don't need to be a member of the university to go in and have a look.
*swears at library catalogue*
Jul. 3rd, 2007 11:17 amI hate OLIS. Not only did it insist that we have no books by Richard Southern, which was obviously untrue (as was demonstrated by looking for individual titles), but I also spent three quarters of an hour looking for an author who I only subsequently discovered was unlocatable on the system because some idiot had misspelled his name
Bah, say I.
Bah, say I.
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May. 12th, 2007 06:02 pmWhy do I always forget that the BL ordering system only works in office hours?
Ah well. At any rate, it looks like I'm going to have to pop up to London next Saturday. (Tuesday, the only other day that would have suited - indeed, would have been better, is too soon for the 48 hour ordering thing to work). Bother, that probably amounts to missing Doctor Who.
Such are the vissicitudes of life! It's less annoying than having to inter-library loan journals from Germany, which I'm also about to have to do...
Ah well. At any rate, it looks like I'm going to have to pop up to London next Saturday. (Tuesday, the only other day that would have suited - indeed, would have been better, is too soon for the 48 hour ordering thing to work). Bother, that probably amounts to missing Doctor Who.
Such are the vissicitudes of life! It's less annoying than having to inter-library loan journals from Germany, which I'm also about to have to do...
... and all that jazz.
Mar. 4th, 2007 12:20 amThis is a test of the WiFi ability of the Oxford Tube. I'm returning after a really frustrating trip to the BL (a wasted one, really), but on the other hand, an excellent afternoon and evening visiting the Hogarth exhibition and then seeing Chicago, which is in the (salty) popcorn category intellectually, but has some good music and, in this production, some very impressive dance numbers, even if the costumes did seem aimed squarely at the male section of the audience....
Oh, and the WiFi works well, but I think typing is making me sick, so I'll stop.
Oh, and the WiFi works well, but I think typing is making me sick, so I'll stop.
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Feb. 16th, 2007 11:04 amSometimes I really hate the Bodleian's e-journals platform. When for instance, they tell you that there's full text access to a journal, you then painstakingly hunt down the issue and article you want, click to download, and then the journal's publishers tell you you can't access it because you're not a subscriber.
*weeps*
Oh well, off to do it the old fahioned way. But I do wish they'd subscribe to more arts journals, online, when we seem to have unproblematic e-access to any number of trade publications, some of them on mindbogglingly obscure topics. I don't know what 'swot analysis' is, but every other journal on TD.net (the e-journal interface) seems to be one of these, for an astonishing range of companies.
*weeps*
Oh well, off to do it the old fahioned way. But I do wish they'd subscribe to more arts journals, online, when we seem to have unproblematic e-access to any number of trade publications, some of them on mindbogglingly obscure topics. I don't know what 'swot analysis' is, but every other journal on TD.net (the e-journal interface) seems to be one of these, for an astonishing range of companies.
