Capturing Words with a Net of Love: 1000-year-old Scribbles as a Case Study

1. Capturing Words with a Net of Love: 1000-year-old Scribbles as a Case Study ◄ ► ► Haruko Momma Haruko Momma University of Toronto

2. Part 1: Scribbles in Action

3. One of the Shortest ScribblesCambridge, University Library Ii.4.6 Fo (or Foh) Cambridge, Univ. Library Ii.4.6. (s. xi), fol. 145

4. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 9, and London, British Library, Cotton Nero E.i Læt. Oferhef. Foh.

5. Part 2: Scribbles in Junius 11

6. Gérard Genette, Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation

7. Junius 11, page 3Her se hælend gesceop helle heom to wite. ‘Here the Savior created hell as their punishment’ ◄

8. Junius 11, page 3 x x / x x / / x xx / x Her se hælendgesceophelleheom to wite. [Here the Savior created hell as their punishment.]

9. Junius 11, page 2‘Prayer’ Scribble ►

10. Junius 11, page 2‘Prayer’ Scribble ►

11. Part 3: Scribbles as Performance

12. British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. v, fol. 19 God me helpe. [May God help me.]

13. British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. v, fol. 28v God helpe minum handum. [May God help my hands.] British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. v, fol. 28v

14. A Scribble as a Request/Command (illocutionary) Writ þus. [Write thus.]

15. A Scribble as a Command (illocutionary??) Writ þus oððe bet oððe þine hyde forlet. [Write thus or better or give up your skin.]

16. Part 4:Interoperability

17. Junius 11, page 98 healftrym<e>t [half page]

18. Junius 11, pages 98 and 99‘Half-page’ Scribble in its Manuscript Context

19. From DOE flōd

20. From DOE flōd

21. ge·cwed-rǣdnes “Here is the spoken agreement made manifest to thee.”

22. Breamore Archway“Here is the spoken agreement made manifest to thee.”

23. Conclusions

24. The following slides have been omitted from the 15-minute version.

25. Not included in the 15-minute versionBodleian, Auct. F. 4. 32 Her segð hu se halga apostol paulus lærð ælcum mæssepreoste þe godes folce to lare byð gesett. [It says here how the holy apostle Paul teaches each mass priest who is appointed for the instruction of God’s people.]

26. Not included in the 15-minute versionBodleian, Auct. F. 4. 32 Her segð hu se halga apostol paulus lærð ælcum mæssepreoste þe godes folce to lare byð gesett.

27. Not included in the 15-minute versionBodleian, Auct. F. 4. 32 Her segð hu se halga apostol paulus lærð ælcum mæssepreoste þe godes folce to lare byð gesett. Þæt he beo wær. [He should be aware of it.]

28. London, British Library, Royal 7 C. iv Elde me is bestolen on er …. Ne mæg ic geseo before me….

29. Poema Morale Elde me is bestolen an, er ic hit iwiste: ne mai ic isien biurore me vor smeche ne uor miste. [Old age has stolen on me before I knew it. I cannot see before me for smoke or for mist.] Digby Version, Stanza 9

30. London, British Library, Royal 7 C.(interlinear gloss, xi; scribble, xii/xiii)

31. A Scribble as a Request (illocutionary) And ic bidde ðe þæt þu me writ þas VII uers and send me. [And I ask you to write these seven verses for me and send them to me.]

32. DOE ‘hād’ definition 2:‘[male or female] sex, either sex’ Swa swa God gesceop on sawle and on lichaman ge <wæpmen> ge wifmen, and geworhte hi to men, and he ægðerne had eft syððan alysde, swa he eac on Domesdæg of deaðe hi arærð, ge weras ge wif. [Just as God created in soul and body both male and female persons, and wrought them to human beings, and afterwards he redeemed either sex, so will he also resurrect them from death on Doomsday, both men and women.]

33. From DOE hād

34. From DOE hād