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aaronm , to medievodons
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Back to full speed, 79 new from the this week
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week24.html
a lot of 17th and 18th C music, some c. 1701 Sistine stuff, more German and more Avvisi ( a complex early sort of journalism https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3609 )
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A page with a large miniature at top and three lines of music on 4-bar staves. Text is a roman hand. from Capp.sist.390 f.2r

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56 new from the this week

https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week23.html

Includes a 15th C Petrarch, Dati's La Sfera (with the Tower), a 16th C Arabic Diatessaron, many song books from Chigi, a 16th C Ge'ez Gospel, some early Greek, a Maronite Office... and more!
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A page of 16th C arabic from Borg.ar.250, f.2r. It has a decorated headpiece and gold flower borders
A page of Italian poetry in a humanist hand, three stanzas of 8 lines each, starting with a large capitol. To the right is a drawing of a large tower. From Barb.lat.4048, f.18r

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Back in Cambridge University Library today, taking in more medieval common .
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aaronm , to medievodons
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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

SJLahey , to medievodons
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A in one of the of Pembroke College, Cambridge (now held at Cambridge University Library).
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SJLahey , to medievodons
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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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aaronm , to medievodons
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49 from the were digitized this week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week21.html
Including a bunch of Coptic fragments, more 17th C music, both secular and religious, lots of law manuscripts, and more German.... stuff
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A page of 14th C legal text, there is a central text in two columns with commentary around it, and several sets of marginal in interlinear glosses. Barb.lat.1494 f.1r
A page of 17th C music with a large miniature at top right from Chig.Q.VI.76, f.1r

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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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SJLahey , to bookhistodons
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Lovely portrait of a woman tucked away in a Statuta Angliæ manuscript from Cambridge University Library.
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SJLahey , to bookhistodons
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Biblically-accurate ? 👀
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‘M’ for the Merry Month of May in a Cambridge University Library statute book.
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aaronm , to medievodons
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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

litteracarolina , to medievodons
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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

aaronm , to medievodons
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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

aaronm , to medievodons
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Because I fixed a bug in the code, 115 were tracked as new from the this week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week18.html
The load time for the Vat.lat page had exceeded my timeout for the last 7 weeks, this has been fixed! There's a lot of papal history, including several Scrutini, sermons, commentary, satirical poems, Thomas Aquinas in Terza Rima, Beneventan music, coins and more!
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A page of the Litany of Saints from a Pontificale, Ott.lat.330, f.71v. Each line starts with a penwork initial, the name of the saint, and ends with the abbreviation "or"
a large coat of arms for Innocent XIII surrounded by cherubs. From Vat.lat.10790
A page from a Beneventan-style lectionary, Borg.lat.339 f.51r. This page has 10 lines of Beneventan text with heightened, but not staffed, neumes above, and a large initial I on the left side

aaronm , to medievodons
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Another slow week from the with only 13 added
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week17.html
Includes 2 volumes of a multi-part Quran, a well-loved glossed Institutiones, several other law texts and more!
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f.23r from Barb.lat.1441, a 14th C glossed copy of Justinian's Institutiones. It has 2 columns of text in the middle with glosses on all four sides.

litteracarolina , to medievodons
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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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aaronm , to medievodons
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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.

litteracarolina , to medievodons
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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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aaronm , to medievodons
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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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Exciting news! @erc has awarded an worth €2.5m to Insular in the Age of Charlemagne. Our team includes
@litteracarolina.mastodon.online & partners in libraries & universities across Europe, including the ERC Beasts2Craft project, Prof. Daniel Bradley, Dr. Charlotte Denoël at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Dr. Lieve Watteeuw, @BodleianLibraries, and the British Library.

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dohanian , to medievodons
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Can anyone recommend some things to read about how people (in any culture) used to find information among manuscript miscellanies when those miscellanies didn’t have tables of contents? Anything in English, French, , or Turkish would work. @histodons @medievodons @librarians

aaronm , to medievodons
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For some strange reason the was not very active scanning this week 🤔 https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week13.html
Some of the missing Pal.lat volumes got uploaded, one more 17th C musical volume and a bunch of Judicial works. @bookhistodons @medievodons

A page of Latin text written possibly in Vienna with a decorative heraldic device at bottom. There are three lines of rubric at top and the main text starts with a 4-line A in red. Pal.lat.675 f.1r

hsprtl , to medievodons German
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🔎 Viel mehr als nur Scans: Impulsvorträge und Podiumsdiskussion zu im Rahmen eines -Projekts digitalisierten Greifswalder und der Rolle des am 18. April, um 18:00 Uhr, im Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald.

👉 Die Veranstaltung soll live als Zoom-Meeting übertragen werden. Weitere Informationen: https://www.wiko-greifswald.de/programm/allgemeines/veranstaltungskalender/veranstaltung/n/viel-mehr-als-nur-scans-die-digitalisierung-der-mittelalterlichen-greifswalder-handschriften-und-das-neue-handschriftenportal-als-zentrale-plattform-fuer-die-wissenschaft-188995/

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