August 5, 2006

Texts

Domesday Book online (via Cronaca):

As of today, Domesday Book, the oldest public record held at The National Archives, is brought into the 21st century through Domesday Online, the organisation´s latest digitisation project.

The website, provided by The National Archives' DocumentsOnline service, also contains useful information about the history of this 920-year-old document. It was commissioned in 1085 by William I who conquered England after the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

Sobering thought for the day: two per cent of those surveyed in a Guardian poll thought that the Domesday Book was Dan Brown's latest novel (via Shopiere).

Classic Illustrated Zoologies and Related Works, 1550-1900 at the NYPL Digital Gallery, and images from Il Bestiario Barocco: The Feather Book by Dionisio Minaggio, digitalised by McGill (via Plep).

Joan of Arc Primary Sources posted online by the Historical Academy for Joan of Arc Studies. But don't visit just yet; this was posted on Metafilter and with all the hits they must be getting, their bandwidth is maxed out.

Mister Aitch writes:

I WRITE in praise of miscellaneity, and in particular of assortment and variousness in books; of motley volumes; of mixed-up, impure works which nevertheless accord with the mess & disorder of nature, of life.

Unedited version of On the Road to be published (via random Walks). Geez, I thought the one I read was the unedited version.

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