{"id":233,"date":"2014-01-29T14:59:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T14:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estoria.bham.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2019-05-09T15:09:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T14:09:36","slug":"a-solar-eclipse-whilst-transcribing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/2014\/01\/29\/a-solar-eclipse-whilst-transcribing\/","title":{"rendered":"A solar eclipse whilst transcribing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst transcribing Folio 55v of E2, I was hugely surprised when suddenly the sun became dark, for an hour or so. No, there wasn&#8217;t a solar eclipse here in Birmingham (although the weather&#8217;s so miserable and dull today it may as well be!). I was in fact lucky enough to read about one in the 10th century recorded within the Estoria!<\/p>\n<p><em>[&#8230;] Et en aqeul dia assi como cuenta la Estoria\u00a0<strong>escurescio el sol<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong>Et duro le la escureza quanto podrie ser una ora<\/strong>. [&#8230;]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2014\/01\/Screen-shot-2014-01-29-at-14.26.42.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-234 size-full\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2014\/01\/Screen-shot-2014-01-29-at-14.26.42.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-01-29 at 14.26.42\" width=\"648\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2014\/01\/Screen-shot-2014-01-29-at-14.26.42.png 648w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2014\/01\/Screen-shot-2014-01-29-at-14.26.42-300x102.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2014\/01\/Screen-shot-2014-01-29-at-14.26.42-250x85.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It would have been an astounding (and perhaps terrifying) thing to witness centuries ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-235\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2014\/01\/Solar-eclipse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-235 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2014\/01\/Solar-eclipse.jpg\" alt=\"Solar eclipse 07-03-1970 (NSO\/AURA\/NSF)\" width=\"660\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2014\/01\/Solar-eclipse.jpg 660w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2014\/01\/Solar-eclipse-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2014\/01\/Solar-eclipse-250x168.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Solar eclipse 07-03-1970 (NSO\/AURA\/NSF)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst transcribing Folio 55v of E2, I was hugely surprised when suddenly the sun became dark, for an hour or so. No, there wasn&#8217;t a solar eclipse here in Birmingham (although the weather&#8217;s so miserable and dull today it may as well be!). I was in fact lucky enough to read about one in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/2014\/01\/29\/a-solar-eclipse-whilst-transcribing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A solar eclipse whilst transcribing&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-day-to-day-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}