08-05-2017, 07:52 PM
-JKP-
re 'tragic stories'... One concerned manuscripts purchased from Baghdad (during the Caliphate) by people in India and Sri Lanka and which were among those collected by an Englishman in the late 19thC, only to have the ship founder.
I've mentioned it a couple of times, most recently as note 12 in a post called 'Clear Vision 6: Notes' (5th.Nov.2016)
Koen - We've already had a few thread-splits about the Trinity College MS (and maybe the way the thread evolved means it should be in imagery, not codicology and palaeography), but would it be too much to have a separate thread again to discuss the Greek-Hebrew section with its unprecedented and apparently non-European plants? The conversation so far as been about the usual Latin European texts, to which that section is evidently not related.
I'd like to talk about its differences from the Latin works - and maybe learn more about those 'plant stones'. I've never heard of them before, and no-one I've spoken to has, either. Have you?
re 'tragic stories'... One concerned manuscripts purchased from Baghdad (during the Caliphate) by people in India and Sri Lanka and which were among those collected by an Englishman in the late 19thC, only to have the ship founder.
I've mentioned it a couple of times, most recently as note 12 in a post called 'Clear Vision 6: Notes' (5th.Nov.2016)
Koen - We've already had a few thread-splits about the Trinity College MS (and maybe the way the thread evolved means it should be in imagery, not codicology and palaeography), but would it be too much to have a separate thread again to discuss the Greek-Hebrew section with its unprecedented and apparently non-European plants? The conversation so far as been about the usual Latin European texts, to which that section is evidently not related.
I'd like to talk about its differences from the Latin works - and maybe learn more about those 'plant stones'. I've never heard of them before, and no-one I've spoken to has, either. Have you?