E. K. Rand on being a humanist

British Library, Add MS 47678, containing some Cicero letters with explanatory glosses, from around 800 AD.

The American classicist and palaeographer Edward Kennard Rand (1871-1945) is one of those philologists who, having authored more than 200 publications, doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. There is a one in German, which only serves to show the disc…