On Monday morning (that is, September 9), I had an adventure beyond a geek’s wildest dreams. In Cambridge for a couple of weeks to do endangered alphabets research, I went to the Cambridge University Library and, casting around for somewhere to start, I asked Frank in the Manuscripts Reading Room for a couple of books […]
Let’s face it, even the name sounds like a genus of dinosaur: Glagolyticus paleographus. In fact, showing my usual oceanic ignorance, I didn’t even include the Glagolitic script in the original Endangered Alphabets exhibition because I thought it was extinct. All this changed because of an intervention from a most unlikely source: Will Shortz, the […]
