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Patristics, texts & transmissions, ancient history.
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog
A modern controversy brings to light a passage in pseudo-Epiphanius, Praises of the Theotokos.
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Pseudo-Epiphanius, "Or. de Laid. Deip."
An email today enquiring what is the work of Epiphanius (d. 403) which is referred to below, by A. Liguori in the Italian edition of Le glorie di Maria (1839), p. 359: Ma benchƩ Maria sin dacchƩ fu ...
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/12/15/pseudo-epiphanius-or-de-laid-deip/
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The 174 letters of the sophist Procopius of Gaza (early 6th century) to his friends are really very charming. One of them even found its way among the letters of St Jerome. There is a beautiful Italian translation by Federica Cicciolella.
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Jerome and the letters of Procopius of Gaza
Among the few untranslated letters of St Jerome, Epistle 150 is a very short item which is completely spurious.Ā This is because it is from Procopius of Gaza, the late 5th-early 6th century sophist.Ā ...
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/12/11/jerome-and-the-letters-of-procopius-of-gaza/
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Lisa Fagin Davis
6 days ago
Look what my awesome
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Library Science students did! This year, we studied a manuscript broken in the 1980s (likely by Ferrini, but we don't know for sure). It's generally known as the Hours of St. Alexis because many of the roundels illustrate scenes from his Vita...
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Matthew Holford
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#DigiBodAdvent
day 3. Everybody loves fragments, and St John's have digitized a whole collection for you (MS. 235). Here are nos 72, Augustine In Evangelium Iohannis, and 18, "unidentified scholastic philosophy" š
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How many letters of St Jerome remain untranslated? Surprisingly few!
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How many letters of St Jerome remain untranslated into English?
In my last post, I gave a few notes on the letters of St. Jerome, which number 154 in the Hilberg edition in theĀ Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum series, vols.54, 55 and 56.Ā It seems that...
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/12/09/how-many-letters-of-st-jerome-remain-untranslated-into-english/
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Helen Day
9 days ago
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar Window 7 āFrostā Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
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Peter Kidd
23 days ago
Last weekend I resumed blogging and have done another post today; I hope to maintain a weekly schedule. The two new posts concern illuminated leaves from the collections of Victor Goldschmidt and Count Stroganoff.
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Carin Ruff
8 days ago
This is the feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, d. 397. šÆļø BNF lat. 1732 is an early-8th-c. Uncial MS of several of his works. The headings to the various items have lovely colors and some fun beasties. The Uncial is very mannered: look at the loops on those As!
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If we want to read the Letters of St Jerome, where do we start?
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The letters of St. Jerome
The Letters of St. Jerome (CPL 620), who died in 420 AD, are one of the great collections of ancient letters.Ā Inquiring, it seems that Quasten'sĀ Patrology vol. 4 (ed. Angelo di Berardino) still give...
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/12/06/the-letters-of-st-jerome/
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Notes on the 1505 Hereford Breviary.
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The Hereford Breviary ā Roger Pearse
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Back to St Botolph. Can I ever escape this project?
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From my diary ā Roger Pearse
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Duncan Mackay
17 days ago
A pair of gold armbands from the Colchester Fenwick hoard, buried before Boudicaās attack in AD60. As the Roman last stand took place where Colchester Castle now sits, the owner may have perished where their jewellery is now displayed
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#FindsFriday
#BoudicaFriday
#Echolands
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Antiquity Journal
18 days ago
It wasn't all wretched though. These documents record a religious festival (possibly the oldest written evidence for a midsummer celebration in England) at the fort, where beer, wine, pork, fish sauce and more was consumed! Learn how Roman fish sauce was made in Antiquity š
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Ulla Rajala
19 days ago
El Deir fortress (El Munira monastery), Roman fortress in Kharga oasis, Egypt. It was built at the very end of the third century AD. It is surrounded by a Roman cemetery.
#RomanFortThursday
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Adam Bremer-McCollum
18 days ago
Images of the manuscript, a scroll over 14ft long in Manichaean script, are available at
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Collection object "Or.8212/178" ⢠Manichaean manuscript, Xwastwanift
manuscript, ink on paper
https://idp.bl.uk/collection/192566F9732149E7B230100C6362D516/
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Nina Willburger
20 days ago
This stunning head is part of a life-sized, free-standing sculpture and exemplifies an idealized portrayal of a ruler. This head has been attributed to Pharaoh Amasis (570-526 BC), who ascended to the throne through a military revolt. His rule then brought a new era of peace to the country. š· me šŗ
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History Clippings
19 days ago
The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries! They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
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Dr Jo Ball
21 days ago
A mummy portrait from
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Egypt, depicting a bearded young man dressed in a white tunic with dark red stripes. We don't know his name, but he probably lived & died towards the end of the C2nd AD, & may well have been a soldier in life šŗ
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Duncan Mackay
25 days ago
Brrrrrrrrrr š„¶
#RomanFortThursday
(John Kenney 1959)
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Had to buy an academic book today. Couldn't find a PDF, didn't think an interlibrary loan would do much any time soon. But luckily all the ex-review copies are unsold, so it was cheap. Hurrah for selling off review copies!
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From my diary
I posted yesterday about a number of breviaries containing the āLifeā of St Botolph in abbreviated form. A kind commenter drew my attention to a publication unknown to me ā Englisā¦
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Still trying to finish up the text and translation of the Life of St Botolph. Today... three breviaries containing versions of the Life spring out at me, from where they were hiding. One in Nidaros/Trondheim, one from York, one from Hereford. Aaarrgh!
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Breviaries, breviaries, is there no end of them?
Yesterday I finally located an image online of the page of the Botolph legend from a manuscript in Norway, in Bergen University Library, to be precise.Ā Today I collated that with Folcardās &ā¦
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/11/18/breviaries-breviaries-is-there-no-end-of-them/
27 days ago
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Richard Ovenden
28 days ago
Good to see the problems facing our colleagues
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being raised here by
@hetanshah.bsky.social
(of
@britishacademy.bsky.social
). If this had happened in France it would be considered a national problem to be urgently addressed!
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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
https://www.cityam.com/the-british-library-is-in-crisis-why-does-nobody-care/
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Any help gratefully received to transcribe the Life of St Botolph from a Swedish breviary. I've done what I can (included) but the script is a bit beyond me.
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Howās your paleography? Two pages from a medieval breviary
Iāve had a go at transcribing the āLifeā of St Botolph from this medieval breviary, but frankly my paleography is not great.Ā Would anyone else like to have a go, or a bit of one?ā¦
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/11/17/hows-your-paleography-two-pages-from-a-medieval-breviary/
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Life and the pursuit of happiness in the Roger Pearse world.
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From my diary
I had a tooth out on Monday so had to convalesce.Ā That, together with some very dull grey weather, has been perfect for working at the PC.Ā Itās been a productive week. I finished translatinā¦
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30 days ago
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Maarten Kossmann
about 1 month ago
People do not talk enough about the fact that the Neo-Punic translation of Latin Imperator is a loan from Numidian (Lepcis Magna Neo-Punic 14: mynkd, Numdian MNKDH)
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Does a Georgian translation of a work by Barsabas contain the earliest mention of the Trinity? Probably not.
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Barsabas of Jerusalem ā the earliest witness to the Trinity?
In the Iviron monastery on Mt Athos, there is a Georgian manuscript (shelfmark: Athos Iviron 11) which contains a work with the title, āThe Word of Saint Barsabas, Archbishop of Jerusalem, abā¦
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/11/05/barsabas-of-jerusalem-the-earliest-witness-to-the-trinity/
about 1 month ago
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Got to supervise the students.
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PDFs and the perils of āIāll get one of my students to do it.ā
I was hunting around the web for an article from an Italian encyclopedia, when I struck lucky.Ā All twelve volumes had been digitised to PDF, and they were available to download from Archive.org.Ā ā¦
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about 1 month ago
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Well, there aren't any. Probably. Not before the 9th century.
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Ancient Homilies for All Saints Day?
November 1st is All Saints Day ā the day in the Roman Catholic church calendar on which all the saints not otherwise commemorated are remembered.Ā Itās also known as All Hallows Day in ā¦
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/11/04/ancient-homilies-for-all-saints-day/
about 1 month ago
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Got an English translation of some German handbook? Better check the footnotes in the original - the translation may not contain them, or be transcribed correctly.
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You cannot trust the footnotes in English translations of German handbooks!
Today is All Saintsā Day, and I have been looking at the entry for this in the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, and attempting to learn some real history about the origins of the meā¦
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about 1 month ago
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English translation of pseudo-Chrysostom homily on Easter now online (CPG 4408).
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Ps.Chrysostom, āHomilia in sanctum paschaā (CPG 4408) now online in English
The Greek text CPG 4408, āHomilia in sanctum paschaā, is one of quite a number of homilies on Easter attributed to John Chrysostom.Ā According to the most recent editor this one is not ā¦
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/10/31/ps-chrysostom-homilia-in-sanctum-pascha-cpg-4408-now-online-in-english/
about 2 months ago
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Just banged out a perfectly decent English 9 page translation of a pseudo-Chrysostom homily on Easter in a couple of hours this evening. So I'm feeling very proud of myself. My secret? Start with a nice modern French translation...
about 2 months ago
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Tracking down "Tantum ergo sacramentum":
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The Latin hymn āTantum ergo sacramentumā, and its 19th century translation by Edward Caswall
In yesterdayās post, there was a reference to a Latin hymn beginning ātantum ergo sacramentum,ā whose English translation misled Knoxās schoolboy.Ā At the time I knew nothinā¦
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/10/29/the-latin-hymn-tantum-ergo-sacramentum-and-its-19th-century-translation-by-edward-caswall/
about 2 months ago
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Dr Crom
about 2 months ago
#ReliefWednesday
- One of the pieces I so wanted to see when I first went to Venice a while back was the 'Tetrarchs', the statue group looted from Constantinople in 1204... But it was behind scaffolding, so this was the best shot I could get! Even so it was fabulous to get so close to it!
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Less Latin than we thought: an anecdote by Ronald Knox.
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An anecdote on āliving Latinā by Ronald Knox
There is a 1923 book titled āChurch Latin for Beginners: An Elementary Course of Exercises in Ecclesiastical Latinā by Miss J. I. Lowe (online here) which contains two prefaces, as wellā¦
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/10/28/an-anecdote-on-living-latin-by-ronald-knox/
about 2 months ago
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Helen Day
about 2 months ago
When I came across these images in an old book, I had to double-check they werenāt by a Ladybird artist. Theyāre not - but are so cheery I have to share them anyway. 1/2
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Carin Ruff
about 2 months ago
Unrelated to Proclus: one of the first texts in this codex is a "Lamentatio de calamitatibus in Cypro insula, a. 1191, sub Richardo, AngliƦ rege," by Neophytus the monk. De Re Militari's site has a translation:
deremilitari.org/2013/04/conq...
"England is a country beyond Romania on the north..."!
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Carin Ruff
about 2 months ago
Unrelated to bombycin: a lot of the texts have very pretty shaped or tapering layouts at their ends. Here's the end of the text just before Proclus's letters.
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Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
2 months ago
New open-access publication: Discover how a multidisciplinary approach helped identify and contextualise three QurʾÄnic parchment fragments from the University of Münster collection, revealing their shared origins in an Umayyad Qurāan:
www.nature.com/articles/s40...
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From fragments to text and ink: a scientific and historical study of an Umayyad QurāÄn - npj Heritage Science
npj Heritage Science - From fragments to text and ink: a scientific and historical study of an Umayyad QurāÄn
https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-025-02028-8
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Looking up stuff in Gregory of Nyssa. Bibliography yeah.
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A thought on the GNO edition of Gregory of Nyssa
Yesterday I received an email asking if I could locate the Greek text for a passage in a translation from a work by Gregory of Nyssa, and complaining that it wasnāt obvious what theĀ Patrologiā¦
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/10/03/a-thought-on-the-gno-edition-of-gregory-of-nyssa/
2 months ago
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Reading the Latin bible of Ps. 1:1 raises questions.
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Thoughts on Psalm 1:1 in Latin ā āpestilentiaeā?
One of the useful features of Bible Gateway is the parallel versions, and if you use it with the Latin Vulgate and the Douay-Rheims, it is useful indeed.Ā Here it is for Psalm 1. Beatus vir qui nonā¦
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/10/01/thoughts-on-psalm-11-in-latin-pestilentiae/
3 months ago
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Marijn van Putten
3 months ago
Now available on Wordpress!
phdnix.wordpress.com
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Ennius
3 months ago
30th September is the feast of St Jerome who is here depicted as translator of the Psalms
#StJerome
BnF MS Latin 1152; Psalter of Charles the Bald; 9th century (between 842 CE & 869 CE); School of the Palace of Charles the Bald; f.4r
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Warwick History Post-Doc Club
3 months ago
Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
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Adam Bremer-McCollum
3 months ago
a string of Middle Persian ordinals in Gr. BundahiÅ”n, 3.7 (ed. Cereti in FS Emmerick): /nazdist asmÄn ud dudÄ«gar Äb, sidÄ«gar zamÄ«g, ÄahÄrom urwar, panǰom gÅspand, Å”aÅ”om mardÅm ud haftom ÄtaxÅ”/ "1st the sky, 2nd water, 3rd the earth, 4th plants, 5th small livestock, 6th people, and 7th fire"
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mia ridge
3 months ago
It's a very open community! Info at
iiif.io/get-involved/
and you can request invitations to the Slack at
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Get Involved
IIIF is a set of open standards for delivering high-quality, attributed digital objects online at scale. Itās also an international community developing and implementing the IIIF APIs. IIIF is backed ...
https://iiif.io/get-involved/
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Colleen Curran
3 months ago
Still no Bodmin/Padstow Gospels though šŖ
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Samuel Pepys
3 months ago
Sir G. Carteret, Mr. Coventry, and I by invitation to dinner to Sheriff Maynellās, the great money-man.
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Nick Posegay
3 months ago
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at
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Stephen Bryan
3 months ago
Hey
@phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social
Do you do any Gothic language stuff? If so, any recs for where to start learning Gothic? Iāve tried Lambdinās Intro to Gothic before and gotten a few chapters in, but was frustrated because I couldnāt find a key anywhere to check my work on the exercises.
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Hagiographical material embedded in random early modern Scandinavian breviaries? Here's how to find it!
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How to locate the āLifeā of a specific saint (Botolph) in random early modern breviaries
While trying to finish up the St. Botolph material, I came across a sentence in a fascinating article about St Botolph in Scandinavia. This referred to Scandinavian breviaries which might contain aā¦
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/09/13/how-to-locate-the-life-of-a-specific-saint-botolph-in-random-early-modern-breviaries/
3 months ago
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