Leeds book haul

Illuminated Books in Hungary, by Ilona Berkovits. Plenty of color plates; I don't know much about Hungarian illumination but enough of the plates had distinctive enough motifs that I decided it was worth getting.

A Medieval Latin-english Dictionary: Based on a Set of Unpublished 15th Century Manuscripts by Florent Tremblay. I've often bemoaned the lack of existence of a Renaissance Latin dictionary. This isn't quite that, but it does fill a niche and I expect it will have some glosses that other dictionaries don't.

Domesday Names: An Index of Latin Personal and Place Names in Domesday Book by K.S.B. Keats-Rohan and David Thornton. This had been on my "to buy" list for some time now.

Boethius by John Marenbon. I've found the Anselm book in the same series to be extremely interesting and useful and since I'm hoping to work on Boethius's De Hypothecisis Syllogismis in the near future, figured it would be useful to have this one on hand too.

Trades and Crafts in Mediaeval Manuscripts by Paticia Basing. Just couldn't pass it up.

The Place-Names of Bute by Gilbert Markus. Only ~2 weeks off the press!

Saracenic Heraldry by L.A. Mayer. A classic on the subject.

The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy ed. by Norman Kretzmann et al. This was my big score for the conference. I'd borrowed Benedikt's copy for about 6 years, but when we moved I had to return it to him. I've been looking for my own copy for quite some time, but it's often really expensive. I got this one for 35GBP!

Royal Beasts by H. Stanford London. About the badges of the royal family of England.

Pilate in Caledonia: The Chronicle of the Birth of Pontius Pilate in Fortingall by Neil Hooper. A short little piece of fiction written by the friend of the guy who published the Bute book; it was only a few pounds so I got a copy for fun.

a good day is when

Gwen doesn't wake up before 6:00 and between midnight and 7:00pm she gets 10 hours of sleep (so that she gets ~14.5-15 total each day).

Today, she woke up at 7:30am. She then had a 2.5 hour morning nap. Her first afternoon nap has already lasted an hour.

*bliss*

I have no idea how long it will last, but I'm loving it for today! I don't know if this makes any difference, but her new mattress was delivered while we were in Leeds, and last night I swapped out the old one for the new one, and since we now have sheets that fit the mattress, I also removed the Moses basket mattress (which she had been sleeping on on top of the old mattress that came with the bed), and upgraded her blankets from receiving blankets to one of the quilts she got at Christmas, from my in-laws long-time neighbors down the street Clara and Dale. Maybe the new bed is more comfortable? Maybe it's just different? Either way, it's one more step to growing up. Next we'll have to lower the crib once she discovers how to pull herself up onto her feet, which I expect won't be too long from now...