no new #MSS from this week, so we get the first of my two-week wrapup of 2021. This week is all about the system and code, next week will be all about the manuscripts.
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New episode of #imfmpod: tells me all about the most beautiful book of hours I've ever seen, aka MS Typ 213. We talk about the scribe and artist, books written over time, calendars, and so much more! Listen:
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Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. Paris is just off-screen
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It’s amazing how many people claim the Bible is literally historically true and have never read Psalm 114 🐏🐏🏔️🏔️
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It’s amazing how many who claim to follow Christ reject the teachings of Jesus in the gospels (because other select verses fit their ideological needs better). twitter.com/MarkHMcEntire/…
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52 MSS this week from the
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Includes 7 more Qurans, an 18th C Sistine Antiphonal and the usual sermons etc.
Scribal practice! Ott. lat. 175, a c. 1100 Consuetudines, still has the notes for the rubricator preserved on f.24r
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Only 32 #Manuscripts this week from wiglaf.org/vatican/2022/w
Includes a 1426 dated Missal, an early 12th C Missal with Beneventan neumes, 4 more Quran manuscripts and a Mass for 4 voices with the only important Kyrie, Eleison
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The evidence that these coins are fake – and thus that this “Sponsian” didn’t exist – seems overwhelming (see here).
But you’d never know it from the news coverage 🧵
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39 digitized #Manuscripts this week from wiglaf.org/vatican/2022/w
Includes a lot more early modern drama, a Beneventan Hagiography, a 9th C Priscian and much more!
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I'm beyond my knowledge of Arabic, in this text I see a bunch of stuff in addition to the vowels and main text. Anyone know what they are?
( Vat.ar.548 f.21r)
53 MSS digitized by
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including a girdle-book almanac, a lovely italian catalogue of saints, a lot of early-modern Italian drama, and the usual patristics and liturgical works
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My son: But dada, I have so many questions
Me: <Perhaps I can escape for a minute to the manuscripts>
My manuscript:
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Barb. lat. 569 f.16r
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Although damage means the enormous head is lacking to make a positive ID, this would appear to be an early depiction of preparing to play the harp
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Chappelle made a lot of excuses for Kanye and Kyrie Irving's antisemitism on SNL last night. I want to focus on one idea in particular, because it's prevalent far beyond these 3 Black entertainers.
"The Jews control Hollywood."
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Only 17 #Manuscripts from this week
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includes a 17th C Missal for a Barberini Cardinal, homilies of Origin, songs by Sidonius Apollinaris, and some 17th C Italian comedy
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Great to be back for an in-person lecture at the ! Tonight is : "Mass production and the parliamentary manuscript"
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48 #Manuscripts from the this week
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Includes a timely 4-part mass for All Saints (Nov-1), several commentaries, the 1st of a 4-vol set of Baldis de Ubaldis, an 18th C Abcedario pittorico, and more!
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Thanks to a scan of Canart's article "Les Papyri Grecs de la Bibliothèque Vaticane et du Musée Égyptien du Vatican", the four Greek papyri that the scanned last week have been identified. All are letters from one Ptolemy, son of Glaukais complaining about things.
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I joke that my process is "stuff it into MySQL and see what falls out". Today's data proves that the BAV has been uploading MSS mostly on Monday, and this is new for 2022. Compare these charts, day of the week uploads for 2021 and 2022. Note the Monday median
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Top 2 parts of a 4-part arrangement of "Placare, Christe, servulis", hymn for All Saints Day (today!), by Vincenzo de Grandis and found in Capp. Sist. 69 f.2v
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59 new #MSS from this week,
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Includes the first Greek Papyri from Pap. Vat. gr, a Missal from Avignon, Hrabus Marus' delightful De Laudibus S. C., a Beneventan Hymnal and the usual sermons, &c
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🧵📢ATTN ALL!
Our #antiracistcrafting team has completed our blanket & accessories for charity!
RAFFLE BEGINS TODAY & WILL RUN UNTIL MIDNIGHT NOV. 6 (PST).
The link to the raffle is in the next tweet w/ further details. Here are some pics of the finished products. Pls share!
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New example image for "a whole lot of abbreviations" just dropped
vat.lat 7195 f.1r
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Today in "neumatic styles that didn't last" we have a leaf of 12th C music from Siena (probably), Barb. lat. 543 f.169r
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A total of 52 #Manuscripts this week from
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Includes lots of patristics, the Office of St. Juvenalis of Narni, an Arabic Catholic Evangelia, Milton, translated into Italian, and more!
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_The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe... and Bishop Juvenal_ was the less successful followup novel to the original trilogy.
Barb. lat. 548
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I may not know a huge amount about Italian dialects, but this later addition feels Venetian to me.
Barb. lat. 523 f.VIIv
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41 new #Manuscripts this week from
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Contains a German alchemical work with diagrams, Platina's de Prinicipe from 1470, a Byzantine Menologium, and António Ferreira's Tragédia Amorosa..., the last a donation to Pope Francis
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Customer: and then you put the Greek word ὕλην in there
Scribe: But I don't know Greek
C: meh, fake it
S: Done and done! "yann" is it
Barb. lat. 546 f.1r
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Customer: Draw a guy and label his parts.
Scribe: How should I label them
C: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ whatever you want
S: WHATEVER??
C: Sure!
S: Dark World it is!
C: Wait...
S: TOO LATE, IT'S A SATAN HOLE NOW AND FOREVER
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Dear 19th C binder who trimmed this manuscript: You suck! I hope you punishment in Hell involves your feet being cut off by a demon who "just wanted to make you a little more even"
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#MedievalTwitter Paleography question. Between "Opusculu[m] and "Bernardi" there's a word that looks like it reads "du[...]pni". Any thoughts?
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The added 60 new #Manuscripts this week
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Includes some 14th C Hebrew, a glossed Pauline Epistles, a 14th C Beneventan script Rituale, Aquinas contra Gentiles, and the earliest witness to Ambrosian chant, from Montecassino
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Me: "Doctors have terrible handwriting" is such a modern meme
Pal. Lat. 1269: "Have some 16th C prescriptions"
Me: .... oh
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Sauron is actually home now and I can get some stuff for you to borrow for some reason
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Type “Sauron is actually” into your phone and let it decide who or what Sauron actually is
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I saw "Kyrie" trending alongside and thought he must have posted an interesting opinion on the legacy of liturgical Greek in the Ordinary of the Latin mass. I was most disappointed to learn it was only in relation to an absurd antivax NBA guy.
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New today from , well new in color anyway, Ott. Lat. 3, which has some beautiful flyleaves from a Beneventan/Ambrosian antiphonal
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39 MSS from for the 39th week of 2022!
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Includes a 1459 Psalter/Hymnal, al-Ṣūfī on the Fixed Stars, a 17th C Office of the Holy Blood, several works by Antonii Uccelli and a Hebrew biblical commentary. #MedievalTwitter
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I haven't a _clue_ how to describe this hand, but it's still probably easier to describe it than to read it.
The minuscule reminds me of Humanist hands that emulate Greek Minuscule. The volume is Yeshayah ben Mali's Expositio Psalterii.
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