Every episode of Inside My Favorite Manuscript podcast, co-hosts Dot, a special collections curator, and Lindsey, a self-described huge nerd, sit down with someone who works closely with manuscripts and talk about the ones they love the most, and why.
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Episode 22: Laura Estill on Dramatic texts, Commonplace books, and Profane & debauched atheists
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In Episode 22 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Dot and Lindsey talk with Laura Estill about Bodleian MS Sancroft 29. Archbishop of Canterbury William Sancroft (1617-1693) was an avid reader and collector of extracts from various works. MS Sancroft 29 is one of many manuscripts in his hand that survives; it is a dramatic commonplace books, that is,…
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Episode 21: Yvonne Seale and Heather Wacha on cartularies, the long life of manuscripts, and the Premonstrantensian Order
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In Episode 21 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Dot and Lindsey sit down with Yvonne Seale and Heather Wacha to talk about Soissons, Bibliothèque municipale, 0007, aka the Cartulary of Prémontré. Prémontré was the parent house of the Premonstratensian Order, an the cartulary contains legal documents related to the house and its holdings. In our con…
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Episode 20: Paul Dilley on Papyrus, Manichaeism, and Multispectral Imaging
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In Episode 20 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Dot talks with Paul Dilley about one of the Medinet Madi Coptic Manichaean Codices. These seven papyrus manuscripts dating to the 4th and 5th centuries were discovered in Egypt in 1929, and they tell the story of a religion that was intended to draw from Christianity, Buddhism, Gnosticism, and other r…
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Episode 19: Elizabeth Fredericks on the Orkney Islands, the author’s process, and a very special bingo card
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In Episode 19 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Dot and Lindsey chat with Elizabeth Fredericks about the manuscript for George Mackay Brown’s novel Greenvoe. The manuscript, which is now at the University of Edinburgh, was written on sometimes random bits of paper, and offers a fascinating look into the author's process for writing his first novel.…
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Episode 18: Olivia Baskerville on the Great Survey, the Greek New Testament, and the history of England
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In Episode 18 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, we have a two-fer! Dot and Lindsey chat with Olivia Baskerville about her two favorite manuscripts: The Domesday Book and the Codex Sinaiticus. The Domesday Book, completed in 1086, documents a tax survey taken of most of England and parts of Wales after the Norman Conquest, while Codex Sinaiticus is …
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Episode 17: Kathryn Maude on politics, the queen as evangelist, and the 11th century Encomium Emmae reginae
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In Episode 17 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Dot and Lindsey chat with Kathryn Maude about the 11th century Queen Emma, who was married to and had children with both the English king Æthelred the Unready and his successor the Danish king Cnut the Great. The resulting political situation was complicated, and the Encomium Emmae reginae can help us…
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Episode 16: Alex West on the poetry of ascetics, Sundanese, and palm leaf manuscript culture
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In Episode 16 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Dot sits down with Alex West to talk about Bodleian Library MS Jav. b.3. (R), the only surviving copy of the Sundanese poem Bujangga Manik (written ca. 1500). We start with the story, a tale of an ascetic who travels around the island of Java searching for spiritual transcendence, and along the way we…
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Episode 15: Jo Koster on prayer, manuscript digitization, and women’s literacy in the middle ages
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In Episode 15 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Dot chats with Jo Koster about women’s literacy in the later middle ages, focusing on women as writers and consumers of prayer. We focus on Bodleian Holkham Misc. 41, a prayerbook written by a woman for her religious community, but our conversation ranges into issues of manuscript digitization and the…
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Episode 14: Aaron Macks on medieval calendars, the beauty of simplicity, and manuscripts as data
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In Episode 14 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Dot chats with Aaron Macks about Harvard University, Houghton MS Typ 213, a gorgeous book of hours written and illustrated in Italy towards the end of the 15th century. We talk about the scribe and artist, the illuminations, the calendar, and discuss the practicalities of working with manuscripts as d…
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Episode 13: Maja Bäckvall on the Prose Edda, funky Norse illustrations, and the MCU Thor movies
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In Episode 13 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Lindsey and Dot chat with Maja Bäckvall about Uppsala University DG 11, one of four surviving copies of the so-called Prose Edda written by Snorri Sturluson in the 1220s. The Uppsala copy was made in Iceland in the first quarter of the 14th century. We talk about what exactly the Prose Edda is, how th…
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Episode 12: Becky Pratt-Sturges on hunting rituals, hunting dogs, and the labor of manuscript digitization
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In Episode 12 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Lindsey and Dot chat with Becky Pratt-Sturges about BNF Français 616, a 14th century hunting manual. This is a bloody episode with frank discussion of animal death, so be prepared! We talk about hunting rituals, how dogs participated in the hunt, and the amazing life of Gaston Phébus, the person who w…
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Episode 11: Stephen Hopkins on Old English poetry, Biblical stories, and Nipples
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In Episode 11 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Lindsey and Dot chat with Stephen Hopkins about Junius 11, one of the four surviving Old English poetic codices. We talked about a lot of things, including Genesis A & B, the strangeness of an Old English Exodus, horror, and nipples (yes, nipples!), and we laughed more than we have in a while. Complet…
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Episode 10: Sarah Burke Cahalan on upside-down text, a topless terra, and BEES
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In Episode 10 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Lindsey and Dot chat with Sarah Burke Cahalan about EXULTET ROLLS. These objects, created during a 300 year period in the south of Italy, are used one day a year: during Easter Sunday. Our conversation ranges from the format of the rolls, to candles, to Mother Earth, to BEES. Complete show notes are o…
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Episode 9: Mac and Zoe from The Maniculum Podcast on Marginalia, Pentiment, and The Rutland Psalter
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In Episode 9 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Lindsey and Dot chat with Zoe and Mac from the Maniculum podcast, where they suggest ways to adapt medieval texts for TTRPG’s (tabletop roleplaying games). We talk about marginalia, games, and Mac takes us for a dive into the Rutland Psalter. We also talk to Zoe about her storytelling for Pentiment, a …
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Episode 8: Eric Johnson on manuscript fragments, Ohio, and the ethics of collecting
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In Episode 8 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Lindsey and Dot chat with Eric Johnson about two manuscript fragments from his own collection. We talk about the ethics of collecting fragments, Ohio’s place in the history of book breaking, and how manuscripts were used - both in their own time and through their afterlives. Complete show notes are on …
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Episode 7: Brandon Hawk on Old English, an audience of women, and why it’s called The Vercelli Book
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In Episode 7 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Lindsey and Dot chat with Brandon Hawk about The Vercelli Book, one of the four major surviving manuscripts containing Old English literature. We talk about the sermons, the poetry, the possible audience, Celtic inspiration in what decoration there is, and why it’s called the Vercelli Book. Complete sh…
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Episode 6:Emily Friedman on Fiction, Fan Fiction, and Writing for a Community
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In Episode 6 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Dot sits down with 18th century literary scholar Emily Friedman to talk about manuscript novels in the long 18th century. We talk about several different books, many written as gifts, and most written by women. You shouldn’t be shocked to hear that our conversation veers into discussions of fan fiction…
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Episode 5: Sonja Drimmer on Hieroglyphs, the wonder of creativity, and the Abduction of Ganymede
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In Episode 5 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Dot and Lindsey chat with art historian Sonja Drimmer about British Library Royal MS 12 C iii, an early 16th century manuscript that purports to be a guide for translating Egyptian hieroglyphs but in reality is so much more than that. Complete show notes are on our blog: https://tinyurl.com/imfm-episod…
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Episode 4: Michelle Margolis on Studious Women, Colorful Margins, and a Curious Bath
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In Episode 4 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Lindsey and Dot talk to Michelle Margolis about a 15th century Haggadah manuscript from Germany. We spend some time talking about how many women are present in the illustrations, and why that might be. We look at some of the other illustrations, which include a hunt, and a very interesting bathing scen…
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Episode 3: Megan Cook on Chaucer, Weird Spelling, and the Long History of GG
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In today's episode we talk to Megan Cook, professor of English and book historian, as she shares with us Cambridge University Library MS Gg.4.27.1., a 15th century English manuscript that represents one of the earliest attempts to collect Chaucer's complete works. The book had a long history after its creation, and we talk about that as well. Compl…
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Episode 2: Lisa Fagin Davis on a Fragment, a Forgery, and a Fiend
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In our second episode, we talk to manuscript scholar Lisa Fagin Davis about three of her favorite manuscripts, all of which happen to be in the collections of the Beinecke Library at Yale University: The Gottschalk Antiphonary, now a collection of fragments (Beinecke MS 481.51) Epistolary, Cistercian Use, a 15th century manuscript with substantial …
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Episode 1: Allie Alvis on Bindings, Tattoos, and Cute Little Guys
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In today's episode we talk to Allie Alvis, cataloger and bookseller, as she shares with us two manuscripts she loves from the Hunterian Collection at the University of Glasgow: The Hunterian Psalter (MS Hunter 229), a gorgeous and exquisitely illustrated 12th century psalter, and John Lydgate's Life of Our Lady (MS Hunter 232), a 15th century colle…
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Inside My Favorite Manuscript is a new podcast. Join Dot and Lindsey as they talk to people who work with medieval manuscripts (and other types, too) about their favorite manuscript and why they love it. The first full episode will arrive on November 15. Be sure to subscribe wherever you find your podcasts! Blog posts for each episode will be poste…
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