Category: AntCom Materials

A remote past still alive

La Región: diario independiente, de intereses generales, de noticias y avisos: Año 54 Número 16707 - 1963 septiembre 29 (Galiciana database) https://biblioteca.galiciana.gal/gl/inicio/inicio.do

In an early medieval visionary text, The Journey of Trecenzonius (10th century), the narrator describes how he wanders along a remote and deserted region at the end of the known world, Gallaecia. After the Muslim conquest, everything has been destroyed, but the old Roman lighthouse of Brigantium still stands. He goes to the top, where… Continue reading A remote past still alive

Don’t judge a book by its cover… or maybe do?

Cover of Ciceronianvm Lexicon Græcolatinum, Paris 1557: In the picture on the left, a fragment can be seen with the naked eye under the layer of paper, inside the back cover of the volume. The scan on the right makes it readable.

Spring 1969. A special delivery comes to Odense from Naevsted, a town of medieval origins southeast of Zealand. 40000 books formerly in the possession of Herlusfholm, a four-century old boarding school, are unloaded at the newly founded Syddansk Universitet, which had just welcomed the first students two years before. A treasure trove, which would become… Continue reading Don’t judge a book by its cover… or maybe do?