tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post8319500985866493125..comments2024-03-28T09:53:22.549-05:00Comments on Unlocked Wordhoard: Slate and CakesDr. Richard Scott Nokeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348275071082514870noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-63069689550961030322007-07-25T07:32:00.000-05:002007-07-25T07:32:00.000-05:00Not as far as I know, alas, or I wouldn't have gon...Not as far as I know, alas, or I wouldn't have gone scanning stuff that may or may not be copyright still. Most of them are a lot less thrilling than the one I scanned though. As well as the references in <A HREF="http://tenthmedieval.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/stone-gothic/" REL="nofollow">my post</A> you can also look for I. Velázquez Sorriano (ed.), <I>El Latín de las pizarras visigóticas</I> (Madrid 1988), 2 vols, which has texts of all of them including the ones found (a few) since the edition by Canellas. As far as I know the only images are in Gómez Moreno's study. Sorry!<BR/><BR/>You may be able to tell from this that it is fairly easy to miss the work on these documents, because as far as I know that's it! Although Roger Collins does touch briefly on them in "Literacy and the Laity in Early Medieval Spain" in R. McKitterick (ed.), <I>The Uses of Literacy in Early Mediaeval Europe</I> (Cambridge 1990), pp. 109-133 at pp. 127-133.<BR/><BR/>Not really sure for whom I'm spouting references now but there they all are for the robots to find :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-54568766124856497782007-07-24T14:00:00.000-05:002007-07-24T14:00:00.000-05:00John, whose blog I know check regularly, makes a g...John, whose blog I know check regularly, makes a good point. Those of us who are Anglo-Saxonists in particular ought to be checking for stone and other media for the transmission of texts: we know all too well of the Ruthwell Cross, Bewcastle Cross, Franks Casket and some of us even know about Rune stones. <BR/><BR/>Question for John: are there online images of the tablets?theswainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-70563638309644859382007-07-24T11:39:00.000-05:002007-07-24T11:39:00.000-05:00This is an area of paleography/codicology that I d...This is an area of paleography/codicology that I don't really know anything about. Fascinating!Dr. Richard Scott Nokeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01348275071082514870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-76471958610948782792007-07-24T08:17:00.000-05:002007-07-24T08:17:00.000-05:00I need to come to some kind of policy statement ab...I need to come to some kind of policy statement about the identity of 'The Blogger' at tenthmedieval! I never intended it to be a secret--my <A HREF="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~jjarrett/index.html" REL="nofollow">homepage</A> is linked from it after all, and I comment elsewhere under my own name without worrying about it; also, I regularly link to <A HREF="http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins/staff/jaj20.html" REL="nofollow">my own work</A>, and yet had never actually said it out loud on the blog by the time someone else called me anonymous. I shall try and work out whether the obscurity I seem to have created is worth keeping.<BR/><BR/>But anyway, just to clarify, when I say that most of the extant Visigothic charters are like this because they're from two well-represented archives, it's the 'most' that I'm qualifying. I quite agree that the medium is the reason they survived, though in one of the caches cases it was also stuffed in a cave and forgotten about... The reason 'most' are like this is because there's almost no <B>parchment</B> survival, so anything that survives in bulk immediately counts as 'most'. I don't think that 'most' charters <B>were</B> like this, though it's interesting that some things that definitely count as charters were. It's just that the real bulk is all gone. Professor Muhlberger is quite right to compare the <I>Tablettes Albertini</I> though, that's exactly the same sort of culture and the same level of administrative documentation.<BR/><BR/>Hmm. People look for lost medieval documents in book-bindings; maybe we should also be looking on church roof slates...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-69773557055815251042007-07-23T19:49:00.000-05:002007-07-23T19:49:00.000-05:00I think there might be stone tablets from Roman No...I think there might be stone tablets from Roman North Africa -- Tablettes Albertini?<BR/><BR/>I'm wrong -- they are wood.<BR/><BR/>See them here:<BR/>http://www.danstopicals.com/albertini.htmSteve Muhlbergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18136005762428407135noreply@blogger.com