It tells us that in his other book, in alio libro, the text names her as Matilda, Matildi. For instance, on one page a Latin note appears in the margin beside a rubric stating that the following letter is from ‘Thomas the Archbishop of Canterbury to Margaret Queen of the Sicilians’. Walter's notes highlight disparities between the two books. Margaret or Matilda? Cotton MS Claudius B II, f.
According to Michael Gullick, Walter probably worked on the manuscript over several years, in a self-directed campaign (‘A twelfth-century manuscript of the letters of Thomas Becket’, in English Manuscript Studies 1100–1700, 2 (1990), pp.
His heightened editorial interest in this text suggests he was keenly aware of the political importance of Becket’s letters, assembled only a few years earlier by Alan of Tewkesbury, and which laid out the murdered archbishop’s dispute with King Henry II (1154–1189).
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(We have recently digitised this manuscript as part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project, and it can be viewed in full on the British Library's Digitised Manuscripts site.) Walter’s notes compare the manuscript’s text to that of another rescension, which he calls his exemplar or the alius liber, the ‘other book’. Walter’s hand appears throughout an exceptionally early copy of the letters of Thomas Becket ( Cotton MS Claudius B II), dating to the 1180s, both in the main text and in the margins. He is known to us from his meticulous scribal work and the marginal notes that he made in surviving manuscripts. With little biographical information, is it possible to make personalities of the past feel closer? Studying Walter’s handwriting can actually take us a little bit further. And that is practically all we know of him. Just for funsies, take a look at a recent essay on Mental Floss about paleographers featuring Dr.There was once a scribe named Walter, a canon and deacon who lived at Cirencester Abbey in the latter part of the 12th century.
The spring 2022 semester brings a new group of students together to begin study in paleography and codicology.
The original folios and their transcriptions can be found on the side tab “Student Projects.” Coming soon we will have a tab dedicated entirely to the medieval documents in Special Collections.Īfter four very successful iterations of Latin Paleography at ISU, we have made the course ‘official’ as Latin 300, “Introduction to Paleography.” Students can only enroll with permission of the instructor and must have three semesters of Latin completed. On the ISU campus the project involves the Department of History, the School of Art, the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Milner Library, and Special Collections. ISU students have produced excellent transcriptions, and some translations, of the diverse manuscript folios in Milner Library’s Special Collections. Our collaborative approach extends into the classroom as the project presents opportunities for pedagogical innovations and research projects. The project is interdisciplinary in its very nature and invites the participation of scholars in fields such as art history, history, languages, literature, material culture, and library science.
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