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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: TLRH | Middle English Manuscripts at Trinity
Description: Recorded June 1, 2021.
A celebration of John Scattergood's Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Middle English and Some Old English, organised by the Manuscript, Book and Print Cultures Research Theme in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub.
To over a million visitors a year, Trinity is synonymous with the Book of Kells, But that ninth-century Irish manuscript is only part of the story. Ranging in date from the fifth century to the sixteenth and in origin from across Western Europe, Trinity’s six hundred western medieval manuscripts contain languages from Latin and Greek to Old Irish, Welsh, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Pr...