aaronm, to medievodons
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Question for someone who knows 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...
( Pal.gr.258 the text is Paulus Evergetinus Synagoge)
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matthieucassin,
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@aaronm @medievodons classic Greek hand of the 15th century, manuscript subscribed by a Manuel. It's indeed minuscule.
See https://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/notices/cote/65990/
and in particular the two publications of Harlfinger quoted there

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@aaronm

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…

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59 from the 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

Julianoe,
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@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 ;)

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@aaronm @bookhistodons @medievodons If I'm not mistaken, the color illustration from the Russian Psalter is of St. Maximus the Greek. You can't miss him due to the bushy beard! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximus_the_Greek

aaronm, to bookhistodons
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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

jqheywood,
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@aaronm @bookhistodons @medievodons oooh. nice

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74 new from the 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

Virginicus,
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@aaronm @bookhistodons @medievodons Heroic effort on the alt-text. Now I’m trying to figure out why one of the heads doesn’t have a crown. The idea that it’s an allegory for social inequality seems far-fetched. 😀

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@aaronm @bookhistodons @medievodons Oh, there's an imaginary armorial of famous women at the end of the Lull! So interesting! Some jewish ones too... I wonder what the source was. https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2019/10/the-nine-worthy-women.html

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45 new from the 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.
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A page of Humanist script with elaborate borders on all four sides of Livy's

chronohh,
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@aaronm @bookhistodons @medievodons Wonderful.
Can you configure your CORS settings to support FAIR principles? Thx in advance.

aaronm, to medievodons
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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 Ott.lat.607 f.1r)

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@aaronm @medievodons
In my opinion, Pico’s writing is easier to read than Aquinas’. It has been seriously argued that the distinctive characteristics of Aquinas’ hand indicate that he was left-handed…

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I think I have found my favorite mastodon account ever…

aaronm, to medievodons
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Is using a 'z' as an abbreviation sign something seen commonly? This source, Capp.sist.163 is the first place I've seen it.
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litteracarolina,
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@aaronm @bookhistodons @medievodons Could this be simply an epigraphic variant of the 3-shaped abbreviation for “que, quae” seen in medieval MSS?

JeffreyJDean,
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@litteracarolina @aaronm @bookhistodons @medievodons
Yes, I’m sure that’s right. (This MS is an old friend; I worked with it in person in 1980–82.)

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54 from the 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, to bookhistodons
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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
@medievodons @bookhistodons #Medieval #Medievodons

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, to medievodons
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The added 63 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!
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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, to medievodons
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Because there were 103 added this week at the , 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, to bookhistodons
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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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Ott.lat.386 (great shelfmark) has some flyleaves from a Homilarium in Bari-type Beneventan script. @medievodons

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

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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.








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