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From: Ms B M Cook <[log in to unmask]>
[quoting me]
>> on your next visit, you could razor blade out a few choice folios of the
Old English Hexateuch (Cotton, Claudius B. iv):
http://ariadne.org/cc/etampes/et-style/hex3rb-r.jpg
> Chris,
> DEEPLY as I esteem you, I am not prepared to run before you into hell.
> You are speaking to a (retired) librarian!
goodness.
talk about going to Hell --the Standards of this list have definitely fallen
below that of the High Standard of Standardness which we have all come to
expect.
where's the ListMommie when we need her?
> I know some booksellers have disbound books to sell the plates - and I avert
my eyes in horror.
> I have had to acquire books on loan, photocopy the plates and have these
tipped in to the library's mutilated copy.
not just "booksellers" (don't get me started on *those* greedy bastards), but
the former Fine Arts librarian here at Indiana was fond of telling the tale of
an undergraduate art history student who happily clipped quite a few plates
out of books to illustrate her term paper.
when Braced with the Offense she claimed (apparently sincerely) that she had
no idea that doing such a thing was "wrong."
so, waddayagoinnado?
in any event, not to worry, in the case of Cotton, Claudius B. iv, there's a
very nice, complete, full size facsimile available:
Dodwell, C. R. and Peter Clemoes, eds. The Old English illustrated Hexateuch:
British Museum Cotton Claudius B. IV. Copenhagen, 1974. (Early English
manuscripts in facsimile, v. 18)
so it would be no problemo at all for the Library Scientists at the BL to just
tip in any folios which you might have liberated from the ms --all they'd have
to do is razor out the missing plates from the facsimile.
>>failing to acquire leaves of the OEH, though i doubt if he has anything
unusual to say about him, if you find yourself in the presence of Henriquez
again, please remember Bernie's little Henry
>> Prince Henry of France, son of Louis the Fat, younger bro. of Louis the
Kid, converted to Clairvaux by Bernie in 1146; after three years became Bishop
of Beauvais, then AB of Reims till his death in the early '70s, whose quite
extensive correspondance with Alex 3 survives in a single late c. 12
manuscript which i'm playing with the idea may have been assembled with a
view to trying him out for Sainthood Status, so he might just have made it
into a Menologionist-type collection.
> I will certainly make a note to check this: do you have a date of
(commemoration of) death?
is this how Henriquez is organized?
how curious.
or, perhaps that's Standard Procedure for Monologionae.
> Was he declared "Blessed" at any time ?
not to my knowledge.
i don't think that his case (if there ever was a case at all) ever got that
far.
i was going to float the rather complex (and quite tenuous) question of Henry
D. France's possible candicacy for sainthood on the list anyway, and will do
so soon, starting a seperate string (since it is a near certainty that
Henriquez does not mention him at all).
c
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