Merciful in the face of death: #otd 1075 Anno II of Cologne died. Shortly before his death, he lifted the ban on the rebels in his city. His bones can be found today in the Anno shrine in the Michaelsberg Abbey Church. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
Teaching #palaeography means I keep discovering new manuscripts week to week - like this gorgeous eleventh-century one from Italy, written in Beneventan script.
#Byzantineodons Question for someone who knows #Greek#paleography far better than I do: How would you describe this hand? It looked minuscule from a distance, but close up the letterforms are way easier to read and more consistent across position...
(#Vatican Pal.gr.258 the text is Paulus Evergetinus Synagoge) @medievodons#Medievodons
It’s definitely minuscule, as distinct from uncial or any other type of Greek script. What distinguishes it is a relative absence of ligatures; most late-medieval Greek scribes used them heavily, but a few in the 15th century had a lighter touch. Wendelin da Spira and Nicolas Jenson based their Greek types on the latter variety, but Aldus chose the former…
“Here is nothing missing, but a cat urinated on this during a certain night. Cursed be the pesty cat […].And beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come.”.
Am loving Booksnake (https://tally.so/r/3qGPkY), a new app - currently in beta testing - for viewing #IIIF-enabled original documents as if they were virtually lying on a surface of your choice.
Here is the #Psalter of Queen Isabella of England (https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667782/#) from the Library of Congress. I was very pleased that I could leaf through the book while it was lying there, and zoom in/out! @medievodons@histodons
This looks very cool. I'd love to know if it'll be fully open source -- the NEH grant seems to imply that it will at least be partially opened up (https://apps.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx?f=1&gn=HAA-287859-22), but then they say "patent pending" on the website, which is typically incompatible with a wider open source release. I also didn't find a GitHub repo or anything like that.
Executed with his own sword? #otd 1336 Arnold III of Uissigheim died. His gravestone in the church of St. Laurentius in Uissigheim shows that he was beheaded; an inscription, now lost, is said to have stated that this was done with his own sword. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons@histodons
#otd 1444 Władysław III, King of Poland, Hungary and Croatia, died in the Battle of Varna. His mortal remains were lost. He is commemorated by this symbolic tomb (20th century) in Wawelburg Castle in Krakow. #medieval @medievodons #medievaldeath Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
@aaronm@bookhistodons@medievodons Just wanted to say I'm really happy to see people working with ancient manuscripts on this network :)
Thanks for sharing ! and for using hashtags that allowed me to find you ;)