The View From Kalamazoo

Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts
“The Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts encompasses more than 60,000 searchable entries of manuscripts written before 1600 and consisting of five or more leaves. This database is intended to be a powerful tool in:

• Locating and identifying information about particular manuscripts.
• Establishing the history and provenance of manuscripts.
• Aggregating descriptive information about specific classes or types of manuscripts.

It includes bibliographic information culled from approximately 4,000 catalogues issued by 400 dealers and auction houses since the early nineteenth century. This data is supplemented by entries from inventories and catalogues of private and institutional libraries. With twenty-nine searchable fields, it provides broad access to manuscripts through a range of discrete descriptive (i.e., vendor, catalogue name or number, item number, price, etc.) and physical (leaves, size, illuminations, etc.) properties. Multiple references to the same manuscript are cross-referenced to facilitate the tracking of individual manuscripts. The database is updated and augmented periodically on an ongoing basis.”

I don’t know that I can express clearly enough how much I dislike the smell of bluelines. CfP rolling right along…

And an additional note to Friday’s post about tile: I have a bunch* of 8X8 bathroom tile, now, too – windsurf. Good thing because I want so badly to pull everything off the walls and re-plumb the main bath I can hardly stand it.

*in this case, a bunch is about 100 tiles.

I edited the other post to include direct links to the 12X12 tile colors. I have mostly taupe, with a little over 50% of that number the ebony, and less than 20% the stipple, so I need to get some graph paper out and plan, plan, plan.