Phil Heron 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

We're all set for our booksale tomorrow 📚📚 📚📚 Saturday 20th April, 10am - 3pm! Non-members welcome! bit.ly/3U8Mmvs

Repairing our 540-year-old Travels of Sir John Mandeville! 📕

@JPRidgeway @ZevHandel On page XXII of Vogelsang’s Introduction to Classical Chinese, he states that it was “The linguist Lü Shuxiang”.

Could someone point me to the source of the quip to the extent that Zhu Xi, appearing in front of Confucius, would not be able to understand a single word because of the language changing completely? Did @ZevHandel post something in this vein?

@ZevHandel @JPRidgeway On page XXII of Vogelsang’s Introduction to Classical Chinese, he states that it was “The linguist Lü Shuxiang”.

@JPRidgeway It wasn’t me.

In a 2nd blog post exploring how the Stein collection's Dunhuang corpus was shaped, Mélodie Doumy focuses on several of the artworks and manuscripts extracted from the ‘miscellaneous’ bundles: idpuk.blogspot.com/2023/07/shapin…

Super happy to announce our sponsorship of a scholarship for a Ukrainian designer to participate in the @ilovetypography academy ‘Introduction to Cyrillic Type Design’ course taught by @aleksamul this August & September. ilovetypography.com/academy/intro-…

A pleasant day in the library ahead

The shaved fields of North Yorkshire

My favourite font.

Auch die 21 Akten der Turfan-Expeditionen sind jetzt @CrossAsia @sbb_news online. Für die Seiten/Aktenstücke wurden die erwähnten Orte & Personen erfasst & Schlagwörter etc. vermerkt. Zur Präsentation: sbb.berlin/ap0te3; zum Projekt: sbb.berlin/37igbn.

Out in the local woods.

An interesting article on multilingualism.

IDP turns 29 today! 🎂 🥳 In the past year alone, our Projects have added 20,000 images to our free online database, bringing the total to over 580,000. And with a new website launching soon, we are excited to make these #SilkRoad resources even more accessible to all.

All Museum für Asiatische Kunst exhibitions are at last completely open! A second Silk Road Gallery around the reconstructed Kizil Cave 123, Himalayan art and Southeast Asian Art opened to the public today together with new areas of the Ethnological Museum humboldtforum.org/de/programm/ev…

@LitteraCarolina Just a note, but Fountains Abbey is in the centre of England, quite a way from the coast, so the sealskin would have had a reasonably long journey from wherever it was sourced. I would guess from the east cost, perhaps from the area around Whitby Abbey.

Brexiters now worry about the judgment of history. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog analyses the recent spate of Brexiter anxiety about Brexit realities, the conundrum this poses for Johnson, and why it matters so much to Brexiters - and to all of us: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2022/01/brexit…

Looking forward to this …

RT if you feel really terrified about the political direction our country is heading in. I’m curious to see how widespread this feeling is.

@TiroTypeworks Brackets, square brackets, and curly brackets.

Seeking a common collective term for () [] {} and similar. In math typesetting, we call them delimiters, but I am wondering what term would be more intuitively understandable in the context of typical text and users?