by Petra Hofmann (College Librarian) MS 80 is a student notebook written over 500 years ago, probably at the Sorbonne in Paris. The Englishman Thomas Paynell, the writer of this notebook, is believed to have studied there around 1507. The notebook originally started with an elaborate capital with flowers, animals, and monsters. Other than thisContinue reading “A Student Notebook”
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‘Impulse of Delight’: Paul Tod on MS17
In Trinity Term, the College invited me to write a short piece for the catalogue of the exhibition to mark the opening of the new Study Centre, describing two pages of the College’s manuscript MS17. This manuscript is a mathematical compilation, largely concerned with the methods needed for computing the date of Easter. The twoContinue reading “‘Impulse of Delight’: Paul Tod on MS17”