Iron gall ink was the most popular form of ink for writing medieval manuscripts, so we, a group of medieval literature students, made some of…
Tag: Hargrett fragments
This semester, I have the fun job of putting together three cases for an exhibit in the Special Collections Library at UGA. The Hargrett Rare…
Well, a bit. At the end of last semester, the good people at the Teaching the Codex blog – a blog on teaching manuscript studies…
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…
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…
Science and Humanities. At first glance, these subjects seem to be unrelated and located on opposite ends of the academic spectrum. I initially believed this…
Medieval manuscripts are a “niche interest” in the academic world. Even within the realms of English, history, and art, these beautiful, hand-written documents largely go…
This is the week we’ve been waiting for all semester: the week when Dr. Alice Hunt of UGA’s Center for Applied Isotope Studies brings a…
We’re doing something a little different in this year’s Hargrett Hours class: we’re undertaking a service project for the Special Collections Libraries. One of UGA’s…