This post[Cross-posted from BenjaminCrowder.com for somewhat obvious reasons.]
For my Middle English class today we visited Special Collections. I’ve been there several times before (we went there five or six times for my History of the Book class last winter semester, and I’d been there a couple of times before that), but seeing 500-year-old books is always a treat. :)
Just before class, I’d been proofing Phantastes, and was thus in a bookmaking mood. It will come as no surprise, then, that as soon as class got out I ran to my computer at work and made this:
It has many flaws, of course (primarily the fact that it’s actually legible, hang it all! ;)), but it’s a start. I’m tempted to make a Riverglen Press blackletter Bible (or at least New Testament or the Psalms or something). Very tempted.
The bit in the screenshot is Isaiah 2 and 3, which I chose because (go figure) Isaiah 2:2 says “in vertice montium.” It shouldn’t be hard to guess which blog of mine was named after that. :)
