From ac41de961379f0cfbd35c01f9971dbaaec8b3d19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Senji Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:24:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Reply --- .../Correspondences/AreaLoreGreeceBooks.mdwn | 30 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) diff --git a/Chronicle/Downtime/Correspondences/AreaLoreGreeceBooks.mdwn b/Chronicle/Downtime/Correspondences/AreaLoreGreeceBooks.mdwn index d0ca705b..eed71a3a 100644 --- a/Chronicle/Downtime/Correspondences/AreaLoreGreeceBooks.mdwn +++ b/Chronicle/Downtime/Correspondences/AreaLoreGreeceBooks.mdwn @@ -86,6 +86,35 @@ From Alexios to Claudine, December 1218 >Suitable letters of credit are attached, and I remain at your service. +[Claudine will return to the covenant a few weeks later. She has purchased +the Barcelona lot in consortium with *Carles of Jerbiton* at a cost to us of +15 pounds. He will be making copies and then sending the originals on to +Cambridge during Summer 1219. A little later she will pass on to Alexios a +letter she has recieved from Carles] + +From Carles of Jerbiton, January 1218 + +> Claudine of Stonehenge, +> +> [*various flowery greetings and small talk*] +> +> I have catalogued the contents of the chest, and within it there +>are: +> +> * *Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας* by Aeschylus, the third play of a trilogy; one scroll +> * *Ὀρέστεια* by the same author, a complete trilogy, three scrolls +> * The first three scrolls of *Ἱστορίαι* by Herodotus, entitled Clio, Euterpe, Thalia +> * *Ἡ μετάφρασις τῶν Ἑβδομήκοντα* (the Septuagint) in small writing on six large scrolls. Unilluminated +> * *Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη* (the New Testament) likewise, in three large scrolls +> * *Αφορισμοί* by Hippocrates, seven scrolls +> * *Σκέψεις από τα Πεδία* (Reflections from the Fields) by Artoud of House Criamon, three scrolls +> * One scroll apparently of household accounts +> +> Yours, Carles + +[The two part of the bible are in Koine Greek, which for simplicity I'm going to call Romalic] +[Artoud's book is a notorious (in Thebes) tractatus on Magic Theory disguised as a pastoral verse. Georgios/Alexios had a copy in Constantinople but Alexios hadn't read it] + From Alexios to Georgios, December 1218 > To his revered pater, Georgios of Bologna, Alexios sends his greetings and respects. @@ -108,4 +137,5 @@ From Alexios to Archmage Mathieus, January 1218 >I hope and trust that this would not be of inconvenience to you and remain your humble servant. +[Mathieus will say that he would be delighted to offer Alexios hospitaility on two occasions] -- 2.30.2