aaronm, 6 months ago to bookhistodons

54 #Manuscripts from the #vatican this week http://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2023/week49.html
Lots of 17th C Latin stuff, more Russian Psalter volumes, some Greek grammar, ps-Dionysius and more!
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PIO Slav 44 f.1r. A page of russian text with a large title in red and some elaborate decorations at top and on the right side

aaronm, 7 months ago to bookhistodons

98 #Manuscripts were digitized by the #Vatican this week, because they don't care about #Thanksgiving http://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2023/week47.html
Includes a ton more Greek works, including an illuminated John of Damascus, a post-Byzantine Greek Ordo, a Latin Rituale, more Russian psalter volumes, more Henry Stevenson Jr, and a poignant Ferrial Psalter made in Constantinople in 1452
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A full page miniature of John of damascus, seated with halo left, teaching a bunch of students standing right. From pal.gr.242 f.3v
A page of black minuscule greek, with water damage to the top 5 lines from Pal.gr.225 f.117v

aaronm, 7 months ago to medievodons

#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)
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aaronm, 7 months ago to medievodons

The #Vatican added 63 #Manuscripts this week
http://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2023/week46.html
Lots of Greek, one unidentified Syriac text, Johannes Andreae's Hieronymianus, Boethius, Russian Old Believer works and more!
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons

f.12r from Reg.lat.1638. This has several lines of Caroline minuscule at the top and several more at the bottom. in the middle is a horizontal diagram of musical intervals

aaronm, 7 months ago to medievodons

59 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
http://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2023/week44.html
Continuing to be mostly Pal.gr, including a 9th C ps-Dionysius, and 11th C Greg of Naz, and a lot of post-Byzantine stuff. Elsewhere part 1/4 of a Russian Psalter, Cartularies for Orleans, a Calabrian Martyrology and more!
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P.I.O.slav.43 f.1v. A large miniature depicting a russian orthodox saint standing at an altar with three icons behind it. There is a small block of text at the bottom
A large page of 11th C greek minuscule from the Sermons of Gregory Nazianzus, Pal.gr.402 f.1v. There is a large title block in the middle with gold text in a quadrafoil. The main text starts below with a large initial Α, and there is scholia in a smaller hand on the top, right and bottom

aaronm, 8 months ago to medievodons

Because there were 103 #Manuscripts added this week at the #Vatican, the roundup it a bit late
http://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2023/week41.html
Includes serious work on getting Pal.gr uploaded, A nice 14th C illustrated Boethius, a Genealogy of the Princes of Moscow, a humanist Greek Proclus, and some 19th C antiquarians to round it out
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Ott.lat.2069 f.94v. A page of Boethius' De Musica with two columns of black Gothic text and an interval diagram at the bottom
p.1 from vat.gr.232. A copy of Proclus written between 1535 and 1549 by Iohannes Honorius. At the top there is a bar of blue and gold decoration over the author's name in gold. There is a block of minuscule greek and an elaborate coat of arms supported by mature putti at bottom.

aaronm, 8 months ago to bookhistodons

59 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
http://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2023/week40.html
Has a large number of Hebrew manuscripts, including a copy of al-Farabi's "mahiyyat al-nafs", many of the Pal.gr volumes finally added to the BAV repos, a 2 volume Atlantic Bible and, clearly, a text from Henry Stevenson Jr.
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a page of Hebrew semi-cursive with a single line larger in the 5th line. from vat.ebr.294 f.18r

aaronm, 8 months ago to medievodons

74 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
http://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2023/week39.html
Includes a Martyrology, Ramon Llull with diagrams, a very elaborate Fransiscan Antiphonal (well the pictures from it), some Russian pictures of ... something, a book of horse bridal drawings, Sallust, Lucan, and ..... Henry Stevenson, Jr.!
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A page of square neumes on 4 red stafflines starting with a large illuminated initial C. It is from Ross.1195 f.1r
A page of small circular diagrams in red and green ink with one larger diagram at bottom right. It is f.1v from Ott.lat.2347

aaronm, 9 months ago to bookhistodons

Me: Huh, this looks like it's different texts mushed together in one binding
BAV: You're 50% of the way there, we just didn't bother to bind them together, all shelved in a lump
(#Vatican Ferr.90)
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aaronm, 9 months ago to medievodons

#Vatican Ott.lat.386 (great shelfmark) has some flyleaves from a Homilarium in Bari-type Beneventan script. #Medieval #Medievodons @medievodons

aaronm, 9 months ago to bookhistodons

43 new #Manuscripts this week from #Vatican http://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2023/week36.html
Includes more Sallust, more Greek Hagiography, several histories including a Historia Langobardorum, a Pouillé for Sens and Troyes, some 19th c Russian liturgy, AND MORE
@bookhistodons #Medieval #Medievodons @medievodons

f.1r Ott.lat.1664, apage of 14th C gothic script with borders on all sides and an illuminated initial O

mundi, 9 months ago to religion

I'm trying to follow all the updates about the Pope's visit to Mongolia. (A country with less than 2,000 Catholics).
This photo really captured me and I'm not sure why.

#thepope
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#pope
#mongolia
#popefrancis
#catholic
#Catholicism
@religion
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aaronm, 10 months ago to medievodons

45 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
http://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2023/week30.html
Includes more 18th C music from the Cappela Giulia, more late 16th C antiquarian works from Octavia de Strada, two volumes of acts by Antipope Benedict XIII, Greek Liturgy, and the requisite volumes by Henry Stevenson Jr.
@bookhistodons @medievodons #Medieval #Medievodons

A page of Humanist script with elaborate borders on all four sides of Livy's

aaronm, 11 months ago to medievodons

49 new #Manuscripts added this week by the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2023/week29.html
Includes several Slavic liturgical works, a French Anonymous Chronicle, a nice Greek Gospel with cannon tables, several more 18th C mass settings from the Capella Giulia, some unidentified (by me) palm-leaf MS, an anatomically-correct kidney-initial, and more!
@medievodons @bookhistodons #Medieval #Medievodons

A page of Vatican Ott.lat.912 f.57v containing 2 columns of Middle French written in a batarde hand. There is a miniature at the top right of a bishop sitting with a writing board
A page of 18th music containing the Graduale for a mass for St. Giles. From Vatican Capp.Giulia IV.158 f.3v

aaronm, 11 months ago to medievodons

Medievalists: You see, Thomas Aquinas' ideas were so complex and revolutionary that he couldn't slow down to write clearly. That's why his handwriting is notoriously terrible
Humanists: So his bad handwriting means his ideas are the best?
M: Yup!
H: So just below Pico della Mirandola.... 😎
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(From #Vatican Ott.lat.607 f.1r)

aaronm, 11 months ago to medievodons

Phew, 112 #Manuscripts this week from #Vatican http://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2023/week28.html
Includes a LOT of 19th C antiquarians, several #BooksOfHours from Italy, 2 lovely Humanist volumes, a "get it right, dammit" volume of Polyphony, many Greek texts, an Ethiopian amulet scroll, some icky 19th C "White Man's Burden" art, and much much MUCH more
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f.2v from Capp.sist.163, a page of polyphony in blacknote notation. There is a border on all four sides and a 3-line miniature of Jeremiah at the top left.
f.1r from Vat.lat.5874, a copy of Benedicti Maffei's
f.1r from Ott.lat.855, a page of purple parchment with gold and silver text on it. The top is 4 lines of dedication in alternating silver and gold capitols with a large initial I. The Bottom is humanist script in gold starting with a 4-line Q

aaronm, 11 months ago to medievodons

Is using a 'z' as an abbreviation sign something seen commonly? This source, #Vatican Capp.sist.163 is the first place I've seen it.
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