Once again, the end of the semester has snuck up on us like a steam train in need of a tune-up, and we’re all scrambling…
Manuscripts at UGA
The third and final part of Literature in the Library has been spent studying the ingredients, formulas, and processes that went into creating the pigments…
If you’re like most people, you probably would not expect to walk into a college English class and hear the students throwing around phrases like…
[written by undergraduates Alexandra Carlsrud and Abraham Johnson] Throughout this past semester, our studies on medieval manuscripts have led us to some far-out places. We’ve…
By: Nicole Todd and Roma Parikh Our literature in the library class gets up to many surprising and challenging tasks throughout the semester, which Dr.…
For the third unit of our class, Literature in the Library, we have been testing and analyzing pigment spots in medieval manuscripts. Using a portable…
We love medieval manuscripts, and can’t help but be interested in the lives of the people who created them. I mean, that’s the point of…
There are days that I feel like Gandalf in The Fellowship of the Ring, searching, sifting through information for days with only a little to…
It’s relieving when things start to fall into place. Up until now, the research I’ve been working on has felt like the beginning of a…
By Roma Parikh Raw sienna is a yellow-brown pigment classified as an earth pigment, originally sourced from Siena, Italy,…