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Transcribing a Sermon, Illuminating a Manuscript

I needed some transcripts with music in them. So, I grabbed the Thanksgiving Sermon and I've been transcribing the sermon of James A. Farmer Jr. Along the way, I've been thinking of monks copying and illuminating manuscripts, and this parallel feeling of doing something similar with modern technology.

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July 30, 2021

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I’m a technologist, librarian, writer, and father currently working in the Libraries at Boston College.

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