haha i'm glad they were popular with someone lol, they don't usually get many notes. almeno tu as well is way less popular than everyone who already knows it thinks it is :D
about the manuscripts: i've loved the middle ages since i was a teenager, but i got seriously into manuscripts at uni. basically, i got a degree in them lol. my favorite is the lindisfarne gospels, but it's a very obvious choice. it's gorgeous though, so i don't care. i want everyone to love it. i had the absolute pleasure of seeing it for real (it's at the british library) and i got so emo. i also have a very soft spot for the chi rho page from the book of kells--hugely famous, but it's the first manuscript i saw and it made me fall in love with them. also gorgeous: the codice trivulziano 1083, which contains dante's comedy with stunning illustrations. also the vaticano latino 3195, containing petrarca's canzoniere--so precise, tidy, so easy to read. to learn more about manuscripts you can definitely go to museums, but i also read a lot of books. there's a very active community of philologists and medievalists on twitter and i share their tweets very often. some of them are also on tumblr, and i reblog their stuff too, but tumblr right now is what it is lmao.
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about the manuscripts: i've loved the middle ages since i was a teenager, but i got seriously into manuscripts at uni. basically, i got a degree in them lol. my favorite is the lindisfarne gospels, but it's a very obvious choice. it's gorgeous though, so i don't care. i want everyone to love it. i had the absolute pleasure of seeing it for real (it's at the british library) and i got so emo. i also have a very soft spot for the chi rho page from the book of kells--hugely famous, but it's the first manuscript i saw and it made me fall in love with them. also gorgeous: the codice trivulziano 1083, which contains dante's comedy with stunning illustrations. also the vaticano latino 3195, containing petrarca's canzoniere--so precise, tidy, so easy to read. to learn more about manuscripts you can definitely go to museums, but i also read a lot of books. there's a very active community of philologists and medievalists on twitter and i share their tweets very often. some of them are also on tumblr, and i reblog their stuff too, but tumblr right now is what it is lmao.