The Ductus Software  

Posted by MeganH

I've been looking at the Ductus Paleography software.

It covers one or two scripts (National Hands II: Merovingian B Minuscule and Corbie AB Minuscule, anyone?) in each Session in the course, with Gothic scripts covered in two Sessions (yay, go Gothic script!)

Each session is a screen or two of summary. Click on the manuscript pages to be transcribed to get paleographical summaries of them, and be able to magnify them.

And a wacking great list of books to be referenced as part of each session.

I've built the required book list for the two Gothic Scripts Sessions - it's now my "Paleography Book Wish List". It's fun window shopping books!

Since I'm intending (or already am?) making a serious study of the Gothic scripts this doesn't bother me. I'll get the books eventually. And I imagine that most of the books would cover the rest of the course as well. Although a small part of me is going "Yowsers!".

Professor Muir does mention in the introduction that
Greetham's Textual Scholarship: An Introduction and Bischoff's Latin Palaeography, are the bare minimum, so I could get away with just those.

He also mentions
" The program has an embryonic electronic library that when fully developed will offer synopses of a corpus of essential articles for users working either independently or in an environment where a wide range of paleographical reference material is not readily available......updates regularly available".

I'm so looking forward to this!

This entry was posted on Thursday, December 28, 2006 at 8:20 AM . You can follow any responses to this entry through the comments feed .

2 comments

Hee hee hee...I've created a monster :) :) :) One thing I've found with computer-based materials is that you really do need to look up and out the window for a while to let your eyes readjust to reality (I do a lot of reading from help files, PDFs and the like). Luckily my office overlooks the bush on Black Mountain here in Canberra, so there's actually something nice to look at.

December 29, 2006 at 1:46 AM

Well, you've seen my 'treehouse'.
Reading from a computer isn't a problem anymore - after years of it, I print anything that's lengthy now. I'm getting allergic to computers. Much prefer paper. Who would have ever thought?

December 29, 2006 at 4:44 AM

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