It's a very open community! Info at iiif.io/get-involved/ and you can request invitations to the Slack at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Still no Bodmin/Padstow Gospels though 😪

Sir G. Carteret, Mr. Coventry, and I by invitation to dinner to Sheriff Maynell’s, the great money-man.

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 hcommons.org.

Hey @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social Do you do any Gothic language stuff? If so, any recs for where to start learning Gothic? I’ve tried Lambdin’s Intro to Gothic before and gotten a few chapters in, but was frustrated because I couldn’t find a key anywhere to check my work on the exercises.

Hagiographical material embedded in random early modern Scandinavian breviaries? Here's how to find it! www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/...

Favorite entry in the 9th-century catalogue of the library at Bobbio: "some Scottish (Irish?) book translated into Latin" (librum quendam Latine Scotaicae linguae)

Pro-tip for faculty who are more trusting than me: any time anyone tells me to do something verbally, I always send an email to them right after saying "For my memory, just to recap our conversation a few minutes ago, you asked me to do X. Please let me know if I misunderstood." Paper👏trail👏ALWAYS!👏

By special request: A Safaitic-Greek bilingual inscription, demonstrating the transcription of interdentals and all other sorts of fun things. @bnuyaminim.bsky.social @maartenkossmann.bsky.social @lameensouag.bsky.social Find more: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...

Searching for a Chrysostom quote: and the mysteries of the "Liturgy of the Hours." www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/...

For #ReliefWednesday we've gone down, down, deep under the C12 basilica of #SanClemente in #Rome, to find a little taste of post- #DomusAurea luxury in a #ceiling of low #relief #stucco from the end of the reign of #Domitian or perhaps the brief interval of #Nerva. #AncientBluesky 🏺

For fun, the fuller context (Mainz 224, verso, ll. 6-9) runs: /ayıg kılınč kılmıš yalŋok-lar ätöz kodsar, tamudakı ud bašlıg yäk-lär [käli]p üzütin ärklig han-ka [t]ägürür-lär/ "If people die having committed evil deeds, ox-headed demons in hell come and convey their souls to Yama." …

digventures.com/2019/07/grav... 👀

Random thoughts, mostly useless, about how we make a critical apparatus. www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/...

Some bibliographical notes on the Hexameron (Commentary on the Six Days of Creation) of Jacob/James of Edessa (d. 708). www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/...

📷 @ipswichmuseums.bsky.social ums & @colmuseums.bsky.social. There's an interesting paper on these pendants at Research Gate: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

#RomanFortThursday Burgh Castle is a #Roman #Saxon Shore fort, built in the 3rd century overlooking Breydon Water and the outlet of the River Waveney. The #Romans built a trapezoidal fort here sometime between AD 260-280. #Archaeology #Military #History #architecture

Did Origen promote the Nicene definition of the homoousion? A catena suggests that he might have done. But is it Origen? www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/...

The last known inscription made in #Egyptian hieroglyphs was carved #OnThisDay in AD 394 🏺 #Archaeology The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom depicts the god Mandulis, accompanied with a text hoping the inscription will last forever. It seems the engraver got their wish 1/2 📷Olaf Tausch / CC BY-SA 3.0

“More important than the technological change, perhaps, is the change in a social permission structure.”

Three monumental statues were recovered from the seabed of Abu Qir Bay, Egypt'’s first such underwater operation in 25 years. english.ahram.org.eg/News/551647.... 🏺 #archaeology

Forgot to add the link to that Humanist MS online: portail.biblissima.fr/fr/ark:/4309...

I am not at all familiar with the textual tradition of Sidonius, but maybe those who are could weigh in. @rogerpearse.bsky.social? The Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana MS has "silere me" and a slightly different word order. For the 2nd gap, this scribe wasn't worried about a missing word, but...

Bodleian Library MS Laud Lat. 104, from the 1st ½ of the 9th c., is an important witness to the tradition. It is, happily, a lovely MS to read, in script, layout, and state of preservation, though it is imperfect (lacking some leaves). MS here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/f347...

Today is the feast of Sidonius Apollinaris, d. in the late 5th c. I hadn't really been paying attention since admiring his poetry as an undegrad and was surprised how many MSS of his works there are. Let's look at some copies of his letters.

‪I now have permission to say that this was Peter Kidd, @mssprovenance.bsky.social - thank you! Very much going above and beyond.

Still stuck at my desk, but making good progress with the Life of St Botolph. www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/...

Digitization & cataloging is complete for the 35 Ethiopic manuscripts microfilmed at the Austrian National Library in Vienna, including Aethiop. 16 (HMML project number 24994), which is of particular importance to the study of the Ethiopic Bible. Learn more: hmml.org/collections/...

For #MosaicMonday this fantastic photo of a mosaic (and a lovely fish 🐟) that was discovered in the submerged ruins of #Roman Baiae. Photo: Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei

The Bavarian State Library now finally allows taking images of manuscripts in the reading room. Yesterday I was trying to get an idea of the watermarks of some recently added Christian Arabic (and Coptic) material.

Today is #WorldPhotographyDay 📷, a wonderful opportunity to remind scholars in Classics that all my photographs of archaeological sites and museums are available on Flickr under the Creative Commons licence. 👉 flickr.com/photos/carol...

Deeply grateful to a colleague who photographed pages from two mss for me at the weekend. You know who you are. Thank you!

You really don't know a text until you collate it with the manuscripts, word by word. Our neat printed editions conceal as much as reveal. You get to *feel* the scribe as you see his mistakes.

I've just had to unfollow someone interesting because they were posting and reposting some dreadful, but ultimately petty and meaningless, rage-bait politics. Hate doing that. Hope they'll stop soon.

It's summer and I need to get outside away from the PC. But first, what I've done on the computer... 😂 www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/...

Recently published: OA translation by @shahansean.bsky.social and Stephen Shoemaker of Strategius of Mar Saba, "The Capture of Jerusalem by the Persians in 614 CE" (isac.uchicago.edu/research/pub...) #MedievalSky

Gädlä Abunä Täklä Haymanot (Life of Täklä Haymanot) 17th century, -Monastery of Gunda Gunde, Ethiopia. #randomxt

For #ReliefWednesday a depiction of a hydraulis – a water organ with a keyboard and pipes, the supply of air was created by water pressure. The instrument on the terracotta relief found in Trier is flanked by gladiators, a retiarius and a secutor. Water organs were used in... 🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

Peterborough Cathedral had manuscripts from Peterborough Abbey on site until the 70s (when they were transferred to @theul.bsky.social) and I’d be surprised if e.g. Westminster Abbey, Durham Cathedral etc. have no mss from their medieval monastic houses in their libraries today

Deeply hilarious thread of posts.

Or you get HMS Black Joke. Baltimore Clipper captured by the RN Anti-Slavery patrols in 1827 running slaves. Commissioned into Navy as poacher-turned-gamekeeper with a mixed British/African crew. Spent the next 5 years freeing thousands as arguably the most effective anti-slavery ship in service.

Hack to make Proquest 'Ebook Central' actually functional for academic work >

The Lord's Prayer in Greek at the end of this manuscript, probably in the hand of Abbot (Bishop) Dorbbene of Iona (d.713 CE) Schaffhausen, Stadtbibliothek, Gen. 1; Adamnanus de Iona, Vita Columbae; between 688 CE and 713 CE; Ireland; p.137 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

Three Anglo-Saxon hermits of Thorney Abbey - a translation of their "Life". www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/...

Another happy manuscript discovery: all the files from the 2010 digitization of the St. Chad Gospels by the University of Oklahoma/Lichfield Cathedral project have been CC licensed & made available for batch download at lichfield.ou.edu/cc-download! #medievalsky #paleography #insularart

I'll use this occasion of frustration to re-up my thread from a couple of months ago about how to hack your way to reasonaly hi-res images you can download from the BL's IIIF viewer: bsky.app/profile/cari... The way you get to MSS from the landing page has changed, but the rest seems still to work.

If you want to download an image from the British Library website for use in a publication with a print-run of 30,000, they want to charge you £100,000 (+£2,000 VAT). That's £4 per copy. For a single image. I can't tell if that's for real, or if their new brand website is already broken.

Nope.

Fun at Finchale Priory, Co. Durham, using geospatial survey data and some digital 3D wizardry. We've installed some brand-new interpretation panels on site. Free Entry. #DigitalHeritage #DigitalReconstruction #3D #HistoricalReconstruction #GeospatialData #GeospatialHeritage #Blender3D

It's summer, ok? I can't get much done. www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/...