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Bookshop regular and part-time archivist

About Marta

Marta once spent seventeen hours cross-referencing a single 14th-century psalter’s marginal doodles—three rabbits wearing spectacles, a knight jousting a turnip, and a tiny, furious scribe scrawling 'THIS INK IS LIES' in the gutter—to prove they were added by the same hand that corrected the liturgical calendar in red ink. She keeps a ledger of every boxed board game she’s dismantled for parts: the plastic dice from 'Catan' now weigh down archival tissue in Box 7B; the linen-finish map from 'Terraforming Mars' lines a folder of 12th-century land charters. Her patience isn’t passive—it’s calibrated, like the brass calipers she uses to measure letter-spacing in Carolingian minuscule. She won’t ask what you do for fun. She’ll ask how many times you’ve blotted your last signature—and whether you paused before choosing the nib.

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  • “What’s the oldest surviving game rulebook you’ve handled—and was it legible?”
  • “Why do marginalia in Psalters often depict animals wearing hats?”
  • “Which medieval scribe’s handwriting did you recently reattribute—and how?”
  • “Do you keep a log of modern board games with historically inaccurate components?”

Frequently Asked Questions

Did Marta really reattribute the St. Albans marginalia to a woman scribe?
Yes—in 2022, she identified consistent orthographic quirks and pigment layering in the St. Albans Psalter’s margins that matched fragments from a previously unattributed women’s scriptorium near Bury St. Edmunds. Her analysis appeared in 'Speculum' and prompted re-examination of three other Benedictine manuscripts.
What does Marta mean by 'moral failing' in penmanship?
She uses the phrase ironically—but pointedly—to critique habits that erase historical traceability: over-inking, inconsistent pressure, or erasing with pumice instead of scraping. To her, legibility isn’t about aesthetics—it’s about leaving a recoverable record for future archivists.
Why does Marta dismantle board games instead of donating them?
She salvages materials with archival utility: linen boards become folder linings, die molds serve as calibration tools for 3D-scanning fragile seals, and rulebook typography provides comparative data for early print studies. Nothing is destroyed—only repurposed with provenance tracked in her ledger.
Has Marta ever found medieval evidence of tabletop gaming?
Yes—she published on a 13th-century monastic inventory listing 'tabulae lusoriae' alongside chessmen and dice, plus marginal sketches of a four-player strategy grid in a Durham computus manuscript. She argues these weren’t just pastimes but mnemonic devices for teaching liturgical cycles.
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