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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 28/06/2026

also, it's an unspoken rule of the universe when you come across a manuscript like this, some early modern or victorian reader evidently thought the same at some point and cut out one of them lmao. rip to this 'o', i bet you were beautiful.

A missing decorated initial from Bern, Burgerbibliothek, 207, fol. 186v, cut out at some point.

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 28/06/2026

the decorated initials in Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 207 are just mind-blowing. what a gorgeous manuscript

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 17/04/2026

v happy to have the game sticker accompany my Etruscan boar vessel now, too

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 11/04/2026

opened this up only intending to briefly flip through… and then consumed about 7 essays back to back. excellent stuff

A hand holding a book entitled ‘The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope’ above a desk

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 12/11/2025

strongly considering cross-stitching 'LET THE LANDTHIEVES DO THEIR WORST!' & hanging it next to the HMO license in my gaff

A poster issued by the Irish National Land League reading: 'THE LAND WAR! NO RENT! NO LANDLORDS GRASSLAND. Tenant Farmers, now is the time. Now is the hour. You proved false to the first call made upon you. REDEEM YOUR CHARACTER NOW. NO RENT UNTIL THE SUSPECTS ARE RELEASED. The man who pays Rent (whether an abatement is offered or not) while PARNELL, DILLON &c..
are in Jail, will be looked upon as a Traitor to his Country and a disgrace to his class. No RENT, No Compromise, No Land-
lords' Grassland, Under any cireumstances. Avoid the Police, and listen not to spying and deluding Bailiffs.
NO RENT! LET THE LANDTHIEVES DO THEIR WORST!
THE LAND FOR THE PEOPLE!'

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 04/09/2025

anyway Cicero’s tears are a great bday pressie thank u e-pistulae

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 04/09/2025

i know this is a v important day in everyone's calendars. of course, you've all been waiting eight years for...... my 29th bday

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 01/09/2025

tfw you get on the 11pm train and you see these lads

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 01/09/2025

none of these words are in the bible (complimentary)

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 15/07/2025

me when a medieval scribe makes an eye-skip error vs when i make one

Two images of Gordan Ramsay: in the first, he hugs a child and comforts them by saying 'Oh dear, oh dear. Gorgeous', versus in the second, he looks furious and shouts 'You fucking donkey' at someone out of frame.

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 23/06/2025

i just want an excuse to buy micro-sunglasses and another maxi skirt, okay

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 22/04/2025

after living here for almost 10 years I had no idea I was walking past Edmond Haley’s house and former observatory every day

A picture of a stone wall with a slate memorial plaque with “Edmond Halley 1656-1742” engraved on it and a gilded gold illustration of Haley’s comet. The famous Oxford bridge of sighs is in the background.

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 19/04/2025

normal emails, part of my normal job

An email from the Vatican Library:
"Vatican Apostolic Library
Vatican City, April 19, 2025

Subject: Active account

CONGRATULATIONS !!
The account has been successfully registered and activated."

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 28/03/2025

2. the mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, v sad but now intrigued to learn more about the historical setting

A picture of a book called The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 19/03/2025

a reminder of world events affecting the field: a notice in Van Hamel’s 1941 edition of immrama that the preface couldn’t be attached because communication was “impossible” due to “war conditions” (the German occupation of the Netherlands began in May the previous year)

The plain title page of Van Hamel’s edition of immrama, published in Dublin in 1941

An inserted note printed in red in the same Immrama book, reading “Owing to war conditions having unfortunately made it impossible to communicate with the Editor, this volume is issued without the Preface he would have provided and the Glossary he had prepared, but which had not been set up. Professor Van Hamel's Introductions to the various tales will, it is believed, make sufficiently clear the method adopted by him in constructing the text, which has had the benefit of his revision in proof.”

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 18/03/2025

an actual photo of me trying to read this 16th century scribbled genealogy of Elizabeth I

An orange cat held up by its owner while on a beach. The wind is making the cat scrunch its face into the grumpiest expression you could possibly imagine.

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 13/03/2025

me when it says “I just need to confirm your identity 🧐” and i have to send a scan of my passport into the ether of this third-party platform

Hayoa Miyazaki, cigarette in mouth, leans back in his chair with his glasses pulled off in one hand and his other hand pressed against his head, a look of utter despair and defeat on his face.

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 03/03/2025

referencing the rave Gandalf in order to explain the old irish deictic particle in class tomorrow

'Deictic' comes from Greek δεικνυμι meaning 'I show; therefore deictic particles show something. If you were pointing out a man wearing a full Gandalf costume breakdancing in the middle of the crowd at a concert, you'd poke your friend in the ribs, point, and say 'Wow, look at that guy. The deictic particle gets that pointing something out' sense across: it's stronger than just the word 'that' on its own.

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 03/03/2025

i *love* how Mahmood Kooria's 'Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean' opens. it continues for another page, presenting the book's analysis as a sea voyage itself

Imagine. Yourself. In a ship. In a premodern port. A time before steam engines and satellite systems would propel and guide the ships. Entirely dependent on sails and winds.
On the deck. Waving adieu to all the loving and loved bodies and minds. Slowly the shore and land become an imagination, like your memory. No idea when or where you will land next, because land itself becomes a notion. Water is your reality. Wind is your engine. Stars are your guide.

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 01/03/2025

opening a c# project i haven’t touched in over a year which has a bunch of compiler errors i left unresolved

Gandalf looking around Moria confused saying “I have no memory of this place…”

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 21/02/2025

always love to find a little guy in the margins (Bodleian, MS Add. A. 61 fol. 36r)

A small sheep in the margins of a manuscript of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s De Gestis Britonum, with a mandible (a hand) pointing at it as if to say “Lo! A sheep!”

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 26/01/2025

spent yday sketching at the pub which was a perfect way to spend a Saturday night

A picture of an art anatomy book with pictures of faces and proportion guides on the left hand side; my sketchbook with some of these studies drawn out on it; all on a wooden table in a pub with a pint of beer in the top right corner

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 19/01/2025

something, something, the word 'to kill' being one of the best attested forms in ancient/medieval languages

A verb table for the Old Irish verb 'marbaid' (meaning 'to kill'), showing the imperative forms and listing 'Kill! Let he/she/it kill! Let us kill' etc in the table

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 10/01/2025

1. saint of bright doors, what a delight

A picture of the cover of Saint of Bright doors by Vajra Chandrasekera; a wooden door with orange painted decoration surrounded by a silhouetted cityscape and a yellow background which has fragments of ceramic tiles in the corners

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 09/01/2025

we all have an emotional support dead famous guy and who he is says a lot about you

A stele picturing a pig being run over by a chariot drawn by horses (which kind of look more like goats)

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 07/01/2025

appropriate to the UK weather this week: marginal note at the top of Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 16 (An Leabhar Breac), in the middle of a biblical tract 'Snechta fuar f[or] lar i[n]diu' 'Cold snow upon [the] ground today' www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_2...

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 29/12/2024

new resolution for 2025

An image of a medieval warrior with a helmet with the following text overlaid: “pick your battles. Pick fewer battles than that. Put some battles back. That’s still too many battles.”

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 14/12/2024

small comforts as we enter the last 48 hours before viva: i can finally use tiny little owl post-its i bought years ago

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 13/12/2024

i found a wool scarf on vinted with a design based on the lindisfarne gospels (or a similar manuscript) and i’ve never bought anything so quickly. it must have been from the gift shop from the 70s, at least before it split into the British Library and Museum

A vintage wool scarf with red, yellow, blue and white designs in the style of the initials and decoration from the Lindisfarne Gospels or some other medieval manuscript

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 05/12/2024

the last cicero letter to hit my inbox after years of being subscribed to the e-pistulae substack: woof. open.substack.com/pub/epistula...

a screenshot of a sub stack page which sent out letters of cicero on the day they were written: this is a fragment which is the last recorded letter of Cicero to Octavian, consisting of only “Remember your promises.”

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 03/12/2024

“oooohhhh no, oh noooo, i made a hundred mistakes in duolingo this year” get on my fucking level

A screenshot of Duolingo year in review saying I made 1109 mistakes this year

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 02/12/2024

printed the thesis to comb through it before the viva… making it all feel very very real suddenly

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 27/11/2024

there's still a *little* bit of funkiness in how some of the abbreviations are displayed, due to my own rustiness with XML, silly mistakes, or hiccups with unicode, but hopefully they will be ironed out soon! here are the main ones I've spotted so far...

A screenshot of the text where two different words 'sath(i)rn' ('Saturday') and 'si(n)' ('that') don't have a space between them

A screenshot showing an abbreviation mark accidentally displayed in the text where it should just represent expanded abbreviations

A screenshot where the unicode used for representing a superscript 'a' displays an error instead

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 27/11/2024

i have also linked up each sentence in the transcription and the translation, so they both become highlighted in grey when hovered over: this should help readers quickly find and check things in the text!

A screenshot of the transcription and translation columns, showing the same sentence in each highlighted in grey

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 27/11/2024

this is what it looks like in XML itself: you can also download the XML files from the webpage above to have a look at how I encoded the text

A screenshot of the text as encoded in XML, focusing on how the word 'garb' was encoded.

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 27/11/2024

the TEI standard allows for a lot of granularity in representing the text, so I was able to provide a truly diplomatic transcription, representing abbreviations as they appear in the manuscript, as well as one with expanded abbreviations! hover over any words in blue to see the former.

The word 'garb' is circled in the image of the manuscript, and an arrow is drawn between it and the transcription of the text. A small pop-up window has appeared over the word in the transcription, which represents a truly diplomatic transcription of the word including the abbreviation for 'ar' (an 'a' with a long descender and a line drawn through it)

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 27/11/2024

on top of that, I also wanted to produce an edition which reflected the abbreviations used in the manuscript itself. so you can view the image of the manuscript, my transcription, and my translation, all side-by-side.

A screenshot of the website linked in the first tweet of this thread. It shows a page with four columns: one with a manuscript image, one with a diplomatic transcription of the writing on the manuscript, one with a translation, and one with metadata about the manuscript

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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · 27/11/2024

the editor of the published edition tried to represent all of these differences through using different columns and footnotes on virtually every word with variant readings which... created a mess like this. and there's often quite a few transcription or translation errors mixed in