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RUMBALLS! This is kind of awesome... from one of our rare MS catalogers.

Just thought I'd share today's discovery. In a late 13th century manuscript that Silvia is working on she found the following colophon at the end.

"Expliciunt decretales per manus Gerdrudis que solebat ludere cum nudis."

Essentially:

"Here end the Decretals (written) by the hands of Gertrude, who was accustomed to playing with nude people."

(Gertrude spells her name with a "d" instead of a "t" -- in case you thought that was a transcription error.)

Interestingly this scribe is a she, which is not too common...not to mention that she felt it important to mention that she used to spend her time with the disrobed!

"Here end the Decretals (written) by the hands of Gertrude, who was accustomed to playing with nude people."

I love this so much. New tag line.

An early case of a snarky tagline.

She came out to tell me about it first, and ended with, "God, I love the 13th century!"

I miss library work. But tech support is a worthy calling, too. I guess.

Go Gertrude!

Just in case anyone was wondering, artichoke garlic hummus is the bomb-digetty.

Just in case anyone was wondering.

I don't believe you. Please send me some so that I can verify these outrageous claims.

You like The Matrix sequels. I don't know that we can trust your judgement on the goodness vs. non-goodness of hummus in this variety.

However, because I adore you and you have kick-ass hair, I shall send you some posthaste via router.

shoves hummus into router

Oh, look, Aimee frelled up the internet again.

fetches pita bread