From my diary

The aftermath of the hack has taken a solid week to clean up.  But it is done.  Cross fingers, it won’t happen again, or not soon.  It’s not as if my little blog attracts enough traffic to be worth their while.  At least next time I will be better prepared.

This afternoon I have started looking at John Toy, English saints in the Medieval Liturgies of the Scandinavian churches, 2009, which has a section on St Botolph material.  He lists some 42 breviaries that contain readings from the Life of St Botolph.  Ouch.  I’ve also found that there is stuff in the York and Hereford breviaries, and no doubt others.

Today I located the Lund Breviary online, in Uppsala university, shelfmark C447, and downloaded it.  It is yet another scruffily written, hard to make out manuscript. There’s a long section of Botolph material, none of which I can read with ease.

I think it may be necessary to rule the breviaries “out of scope.”  There’s just too much material.  Possibly it needs a separate project to look at those, although really it’s for someone far more knowledgeable than myself to undertake.  The original idea was just to create an English translation of the medieval Life of St Botolph, remember.

But after a hard week, I think I shall bunk off and play a computer game or something!  Have a good weekend, everyone.