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Visiting the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge today, taking in (you guessed it) yet more Statuta Angliæ — including one which features this rather unhappy little fellow. 😕
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Decorated initials: notorious site of interspecies struggle since the 11th century. 😱
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Back in Cambridge University Library today, taking in more medieval common .
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35 digitized by the this week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week22.html includes a lot of music, some more unidentified German, De reparatione Lapsi by both Chrysostom and Bacharius, some faded 9th C endleaves and More!
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A Page of 18th C music from Chig.Q.VII.169 f.1v

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A in one of the of Pembroke College, Cambridge (now held at Cambridge University Library).
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In which Georgi Parpulov explores the question “To Whom Do Belong?” https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/to-whom-do-manuscripts-belong/
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A golden initial like a tiny in one of Cambridge University Library’s medieval English statute books. 🌞
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Announcing the publications of THIRTEEN more digital editions and translations in the Poetry in Facsimile project:

• Christ I (Exeter Book)
• Lord's Prayer II (CCCC 201)
• Exeter Riddles 71-80 & 82

That's now nearly 24,000 lines / 76% of the OE poetic corpus edited to digital facsimile.

See these and 270+ other editions here: https://oepoetryfacsimile.org

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Lovely portrait of a woman tucked away in a Statuta Angliæ manuscript from Cambridge University Library.
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‘M’ for the Merry Month of May in a Cambridge University Library statute book.
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Only 19 digitized by the this week, perhaps due to Pentecost
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week20.html
Includes a 17th C polyphonic liturgy, a Humanist Civitate Dei, several volumes of sermons, part of a Speculum Historiale and several German.... books (uncatalogued and unidentifiable by me)
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Capp.Sist.99 f.20v. The start of a polyphonic Te Deum, the page has 3 blocks of 2 staves each, each starting with a large initial T

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Looking at with my students today. This is a stunning frontispiece from @subugoe Cod MS arab. 190, containing the Kitāb al-wāfīya fi šarḥ al-kāfīya from 1478, collated with the author’s own copy. @historikerinnen @medievodons @histodons

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33 were digitized this week by the https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week19.html
Including a glossed Bible, more 17th c music, some 19th C manuscript catalogs with "interesting" decoration, Palestrina, German, and more!
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f.2r from Capp.sist.632, a 19th C catalogue with weird border decorations

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Please share the information about the below as widely as you can - this is a course for the general public, which is super rare!

"Join Dr Manuel Muñoz in a one-day overview of Iberian late-medieval books at the London International Palaeography School. We will explore the evolution of book scripts between the 13th and the 15th centuries, and we will discover what makes late-medieval Iberian unique."

https://ies.sas.ac.uk/london-international-palaeography-school/course-descriptions/books-documents-late-medieval-spain

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Not as quiet, with 31 from the digitized this week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week16.html
Includes 2 copies of Cyril of Alexandria (one 10th c), a lovely Caesar's Wars, an 18th C copy of a mass by Scarlatti, and more!
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A page of batarde text in a large block with floral borders on all 4 edges from Ott.lat.1736 f.1r.

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I’ve put a starter Zotero bibliography I share with students online: https://palaeography.hypotheses.org/1025. It’s now shareable and editable by everyone.

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Quiet week, only 13 from the https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week15.html
Many 16th C works, a poem by Laevinus Torrentius with dedication to Pius V, some judicial stuff, and one lone Greek volume
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A page of highly abbreviated 14th C latin from f.2r of Barb.lat.1454

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