Spare a talent

As per my previous blog (no, not email), I said that I would be writing a blog to help students find and look at manuscripts. This blog has been written to specifically copy information I am going to provide to students in a "conversational workshop" which is part of the UQ Classics and Ancient History Society's Curiosities and Conversations series and give participants in the workshop access to the various links. While some of the statements regarding the availability of critical editions are specific to UQ, the vast majority of what I have written and linked to is available to anyone. I decided to devote this last session of the year to this topic instead of a text because a student made enquiries as to how manuscripts might be located and whether I might help them at some point. I suggested that we could discuss the issue of manuscript studies at the next session and this was well received.  So why the disclaimer in my title? Well, I was never taught any of this stuff