Reading Manuscripts Roundtable: Irish Minuscule
The RMR is a group that meets roughly monthly to try and practice reading period hands. No experience is needed, nor is any knowledge of Latin, though it does tend to help. This month we will be working on Irish Minuscule, and maybe cursive if we have the time. These are members of the Insular family of scripts, used in Ireland pre-1000(ish).
Specifics
- Date: April 19th
- Time: 1:00pm will start the online call, but we probably won’t really start working until closer to 1:30
- Location: Google Meet online. Link/invite to be provided directly, please contact Master Gun∂ormr(me) or Duchess Thyra Eiriksdottir
- Who is welcome: Anyone! We are specifically targeting this at people with little or no experience with the hand, or reading period manuscripts at all
The image below is f.52r from the Book of Armagh, now held in the collection of Trinity College, Dublin as MS 52.
