The Latin text of Eusebius of Emesa, Sermon 1. www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/...

The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield. Painted tap (First Picture Book, 1970)

Starting work on the Latin homelies of Eusebius of Emesa; plus diagnosing a slow browser. www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/...

Added to e-Clavis: Manuscripta apocryphorum ~ London, British Library, Or. 678 (15 c.) feat. the Egyptian collection of apocryphal acts. www.nasscal.com/manuscripta-...

Three men named Eusebius, and their Latin sermons. History brought them together - can scholarship tell them apart? Eusebius of Emesa, Eusebius of Alexandria, and Eusebius Gallicanus. www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/...

There are many worthier subejcts, but I'm going to nominate Cardell "Scum" Goodman (1649?-1699), whose deplorable career reads like half a dozen Blackadder episodes rolled into one.

hagiography friends: are saints often referred to as the mother or father of a martyrium?

[New Post] AD 126 – Hadrian spends the year in Rome and dedicates the Templum Divorum #Hadrian1900 followinghadrian.com/2026/05/04/a...

This is great! Also, how to support an academic: - read their papers - cite their articles and books - tell your friends and students about their work - include their work in your reading lists and syllabi - ask your library to buy their books - tell them you liked their work or that it was helpful

www.getty.edu/publications... Did you know...The Getty Museum has a Virtual LIbrary with over 300 books and publications available FREE for reading and downloading (as pdf, epub)? Here is one of the latest on ancient glass published in 2025 1/2

24 #Manuscripts from #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Includes books on forts, on the city of Rome, religious devotion, indexes of manuscripts, commentary on logic, origins of Lombards, Satires and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Photographs of the ruins of a submerged Roman fort in Felixstowe, Suffolk, and links to drone footage of the site! www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/...

A file with an English translation of the 174 "Letters" of Procopius of Gaza now online. It's just a working tool using Google Translate, but it might help you find your way around the text if you need to work with it. www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/...

We know that Arabic translations of lost Greek texts have been found at Mashhad in the past.... but... where's that? www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/...

This and that from my chair in front of the computer. www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/...

Blogpost about an important challenge for any Carolingian reformer: what do you do when asked to write a moral treatise by the second-dodgiest magnate at Louis the Pious' court? magistraetmater.wordpress.com/2026/04/25/m...

Our early Latin medicine project is still doing its Manuscript of the Month blog - here is Jeff Doolittle on a fragment of the Old Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms cemlm.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/04/24/2... #medievalsky

The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years. Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?) Distributed physical copies matter.

A drawing of the Column of Arcadius in Constantinople in 1559. www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/...

🧵(3) The availability of these manuscripts improves access to the modern Middle East manuscript collection of Paul Sbath (1887–1945), whose collection was divided between the Vatican and his native Aleppo upon his death. HMML Reading Room (vhmml.org) now has 477 Salem collection objects.

🧵(1) Digitization & cataloging is complete for 41 manuscripts in the collection of the Fondation Georges et Mathilde Salem in Aleppo, Syria. The collection includes texts by a variety of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish authors on topics ranging from medicine to grammar to poetry and literature.

A bit of background to the new find of 30 lines of Empedocles in a Cairo papyrus. www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/...

This is such a lovely, clear image - fantastic detail 🙂

Some bibliographical notes on the earliest Greek description of Islam, in John Damascene "On Heresies". www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/...

Only a few more days left for the early bird discount!

Happy Easter! - Have a text and translation of Eusebius Gallicanus, Homily 12 (De Pascha 1). Just a snippet, but not in English before, I think. www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/...

The article has a lot more on why Christie’s was so eager to please Epstein and the valuation and fate of the Hercules: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma.... But to me the most important info is that provenance info can be vastly less certain than it seems from the catalog listing.

Sermons of Eusebius of Emesa preserved in an ancient Latin translation - starting to read about these. www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/...

Finally made the connection between Imperial #Aramaic לחן 'temple servant', feminine לחנה,* and Biblical and later Aramaic לְחֵנָה 'concubine', 'wench' or something like that. * That's 𐡋𐡇𐡍 and 𐡋𐡇𐡍𐡄 for my fellow Unicode freaks

Visiting the Steiff Museum today! 🧸 When Margarete Steiff made her first little elephant in 1880, she unknowingly sparked a global phenomenon: the world of plush toys. Born in 1847 and living with the effects of polio, Margarete defied expectations of her time to found what became...🧵1/2 📷 me

'Twas on the Monday morning the postman came to call... www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/...

btw I have a student who wants to build documentation and resources for cypriot arabic, she's very determined and has already started unearthing a lot of stuff but if anyone here has contacts in the remaining community or is interested in collaborating, please drop me a dm 🐦🐦

48 #Manuscripts digitized this week by the #Vatican, www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... includes a bunch of Coptic biblical fragments, Classics, Bede, and early date for William of Moerbek, liturgical commentary and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

A Medieval Coptic translator was confronted with a dilemma: the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is not attested in his exemplar. He visited archives in Cairo & Damascus to collect its versions in Coptic, Syriac, Greek, &Arabic. what did he find? Join his facinating journey in this new article

One of my favourite pseudo-Diogenes aphorisms comes from this papyrus: "Diogenes the Cynic philosopher, seeing a small town with large gates, said shut the gates in case the city escapes!"

A remarkable archaeological discovery beneath the waters of Lake Neuchâtel! In November 2024, the remains of a Roman cargo ship, dating 1st c. AD, was discovered. The wreck contained hundreds of pottery vessels, Spanish olive oil amphorae, tools and weapons, including the #sword shown here. 🧵1/2 🏺

Don't want to criticise the author or this article, but one should probably not publish with MDPI: www.predatoryjournals.org/news/list-of...

The Cotton Genesis (Cotton MS Otho B VI, 5th century) was left barely legible after the Ashburnham House Fire in 1731. Multispectral imaging on the MS has now uncovered texts and images unseen for hundreds of years. Join us at our upcoming conference to learn more. events.bl.uk/events/multi...

Our new article is part III of "At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France" by Ilyes Mechentel (@unibe.ch). In part III, Ilyed explores why Arabic Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) adoption lags behind Latin scripts despite achieving technical parity. Read more on our website!

Want to read a watermark but there’s too much text on it? Then use the magic eraser. It’s really simple: you upload a photo and the image appears without the ink. #siteoftheweek

Perhaps the #Vatican was at the #MAA2026 this past week, as they only added 10 #Manuscripts www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... includes 3 volumes of cameos, 4 Ge'ez, a library catalogue, a cosmography, and more #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Useful real-world thread on AI translation and why you must not simply accept whatever it pumps out.

And here's a quick transcription and translation that I did myself. Again, give it a look before scrolling.

#ReliefWednesday - Tufa relief featuring a sculpted bas-relief scene of Mithras Tauroctonos. From Transylvania, once part of the Roman province of Dacia, dated to the 2nd-3rd century AD. National Museum of Transylvanian History, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

What would be the best Latin dictionary for reading an author like Cassiodorus? He seems a little late for Lewis and Short, but a little early for most medieval Latin dictionaries?

a solid 66 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... a ton more Ge'ez, medicine, the tragedy Crispo, ancient cameos, classics, chronicles, specula and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

AotW: T. Rudolph, 1098: The Anonymous Crusading Account of the Gesta Francorum Describes the Muslim Mother of Kürbuġa as Counsellor, Scholar, and Prophetess, TMH 2.2 (2020), doi.org/10.18148/tmh.... *We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !* #medievalists #medievalsky

Good news that the digitised Beowulf manuscript has survived the digital equivalent of the Cottonian Library fire, the British Library cyberattack of 2023