My new favourite sentence in a scholarly publication: 'we have arrived at a rather complete state of chaos'. (Dobbie, Manuscripts of Caedmon's Hymn, 1937)
Colleen Curran
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Sermone nitidus. Early Insular, Irish, British, Breton, Cornish, Welsh and wider Palaeography & Manuscripts. I love the letter g.
![The OMT edition states: 'On the other hand, as he matured, William [of Malmesbury] came to regret the amount of time he had spent in researching and writing history.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xnvg5vtrgaowa47qfkxhwihj/bafkreiannleqoqz2zy3rsbivhniknp3tfwwimfhmealsuwfudm4553uk7a)
![In Eleanor Shipley Duckett's 1951 monograph, 'Alcuin: Friend of Charlemagne', she claims that '[i]t would be tedious to list all the names of Alcuin's correspondents, clerical, monastic and lay, in his native land.' And that is precisely what I am currently doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xnvg5vtrgaowa47qfkxhwihj/bafkreihj4vlegctltspwq47cpkdwdplzj4qaineimdd6m2y77z57cmy2re)
