Scholarship Is Magic
Jun. 22nd, 2016 11:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilightponyIt's been a while since I've heard from Moondancer. Today I got a notebook, two scrolls and a letter. The notebook was mostly full of descriptions of items recovered or found in the tomb she and Professor Clarity Quest are studying, and the scrolls contained transcriptions of sentence fragments from two of the scrolls Moondancer has been trying to read.
In her letter, Moondancer filled me in their progress. They have two papers that are in the review process and pending publication. One is a description of the tomb and why it's probably the final resting place of Epona. The other focuses on the transcription and analysis of the gold scrolls. But they are also working on other papers, such as a report on the restoration, analysis and overview of the subject matter contained in paper scrolls. Moondancer will also be submitting a paper on the Haycartes method as an equinologists' tool in restoration and gentle handling of fragile documents. She tells me in the letter that she is learning to detect, map and transcribe metal based inks from burnt scroll fragments! Now that can't be easy.
There's a museum exposition of Professor Quest's find in the works. Moondancer wrote that the Cultural Equinology Museum in Canterlot has space available and the lead curator is champing at the bit to put Professor Quest's artifacts on display. This is going to be huge.
Now the next bit Moondancer wrote was really exciting: it seems that Haycartes also restores a document as it's read! The more a Haycartes spell is used to read a document, the more clear a previously faded text becomes, and the more the stains and discoloration gets wiped away. With the surge in popularity for Haycartes reading in Canterlot, Professor Quest wants to encourage ponies visiting the exposition to read the scrolls, and thus clean them!
In her letter, Moondancer filled me in their progress. They have two papers that are in the review process and pending publication. One is a description of the tomb and why it's probably the final resting place of Epona. The other focuses on the transcription and analysis of the gold scrolls. But they are also working on other papers, such as a report on the restoration, analysis and overview of the subject matter contained in paper scrolls. Moondancer will also be submitting a paper on the Haycartes method as an equinologists' tool in restoration and gentle handling of fragile documents. She tells me in the letter that she is learning to detect, map and transcribe metal based inks from burnt scroll fragments! Now that can't be easy.
There's a museum exposition of Professor Quest's find in the works. Moondancer wrote that the Cultural Equinology Museum in Canterlot has space available and the lead curator is champing at the bit to put Professor Quest's artifacts on display. This is going to be huge.
Now the next bit Moondancer wrote was really exciting: it seems that Haycartes also restores a document as it's read! The more a Haycartes spell is used to read a document, the more clear a previously faded text becomes, and the more the stains and discoloration gets wiped away. With the surge in popularity for Haycartes reading in Canterlot, Professor Quest wants to encourage ponies visiting the exposition to read the scrolls, and thus clean them!
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