thanks to Riccardo Strobino we now have the Abu Bishr Matta Arabic source for the poetics aligned at the section level to the Greek as well as the Moerbeke's Latin -- and a Greek treebank.

Our team at KU Leuven is organizing a Workshop on Letters & Epistolary Culture in Syriac Christianity at the Oxford Patristic Studies Conference (2–6 Aug 2027). We will be happy to receive proposals for papers by 30 June 2026 ([email protected]). Details in the attached file.

Figured out why Greenblatt's The Swerve sold so well: it's cake. One of those illusion cakes. Try opening a copy. You can't, because it's cake! No Lucretius, only frosting.

Reused in a binding: paper MS leaf from a commentary (anonymous?) on Albert of Orlamünde's Philosophia pauperum (Hannover, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek, Ms XXIII, 932) digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=1...

Interesting trace of craftsmanship! Leaf with an unfinished initial, sketched in detail but not coloured. Recycled as pastedown in the binding of another MS. digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/index.php?id...

Leuke digitale ontmoeting: fragment van het "Boek van den houte", ooit toegeschreven aan Maerlant, bewaard als makulatuur in een MS uit het uiterste noorden van Duitsland! (Stadtarchiv der Hansestadt Stralsund, MS 975) www.digitale-bibliothek-mv.de/viewer/ppnre...

Two 14th-c bifolia from an Arabic astronomical treatise translated in Latin (Haly Abenragel, De iudiciis astrorum) recycled as pastedowns, one of them now detached from its board (@ubleipzig.bsky.social, MS 894) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:b...

Join us for tomorrow's CLPS seminar: Karen Van den Bosch and Griet Galle will present a new framework and its application for comparing philosophy curricula across fourteen countries and regions worldwide: hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #philsky #edusky #academicsky

Intriguing! Within the same MS binding, two bifolia from different MSS of Thomas Aquinas's commentary on Aristotle's De anima III were recycled. Watch the initials! And the layout of the second one!? (Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt, Dep. Erf., CA 2° 193) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:u...

Sold today for £ 700.

Join us for the last FitMA lecture before the Summer break in person in Leuven or online anywhere. On Thursday 21 May (10-11.30 AM), Marek Gensler and Monika Mansfeld will present their work on 14th-century Aristotelian commentator Walter Burley. For details and link: hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/researc...

Anthology from Aristotle's zoological works in the Latin translation by Michael Scot. Not identical with the one in Vat. lat. 3010, nor with any other florilegium that I have seen. (@ubleipzig.bsky.social, MS 1291) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:b...

Ze is terug! Vorig jaar verminkt door verkeersvandalen, na revalidatie vrolijk op haar vaste stek. standbeelden.be/standbeeld/1...

On the market next week: leaf from a MS of Aristotle's Metaphysica (book I) in Latin by William of Moerbeke. Clearly recovered from a book binding. Apparently from a collection in which it was "F645" (see note in pencil top right).

The latest lecture in our FitMA series is on line! Our very own Tilke Nelis guides you on a tour of medieval readings of Aristotle's De anima: how did different Latin versions convey Aristotle's meaning to the medieval readership? #philsky #medievalsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x8H...

Saw an AI bro refer to "brain-only writers" lol

Leaves from a breviary recycled as pretty cover! Initial P shining through from the invisible verso. (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Xx 820) resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB000144190...

MS @ubleipzig.bsky.social, Rep. I 36b, is an early copy of Servius' commentaries on Vergil. In its binding, it preserves a few (unnoticed?) bifolia from a commentary on Lucan's Civil War. Watch out for the ligatures! nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:b...

Join us for the last FitMA lecture before the Summer break in person in Leuven or online anywhere. On Thursday 21 May (10-11.30 AM), Marek Gensler and Monika Mansfeld will present their work on 14th-century Aristotelian commentator Walter Burley. For details and link: hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/researc...

Leaf from a MS of Galen's Ars medica (or Ars parva) in the anonymous medieval Greek-Latin translation. @svanimpe.bsky.social will like! (@ubleipzig.bsky.social, MS 400) #histmed #medievalsky nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:b...

Cryptic piece of university history: announcement of a public disputation by magister Stephen! "Magister Step<hanus>... Cras in principio <hore>... disputabit questi<onem>... excedens omni sa... humani generis..." (from the binding of @ubleipzig.bsky.social, MS 683) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:b...

Tilke Nelis from our own FitMA team is next in line to present in our lecture series. She will talk about textual fluidity in MSS of Aristotle's De anima that contain multiple Latin versions. Register now to attend online next Thursday 2 PM Brussels time! hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/researc...

Tilke Nelis from our own FitMA team is next in line to present in our lecture series. She will talk about textual fluidity in MSS of Aristotle's De anima that contain multiple Latin versions. Register now to attend online next Thursday 2 PM Brussels time! hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/researc...

(Almost) unique in @ubleipzig.bsky.social MS 798: the front pastedown preserves a column of a dietary calendar (Aug-Dec) only known from @labnf.bsky.social lat. 10448. The rest of the bifolium comes from a treatise on fertility reminiscent of "De secretis mulierum". nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:b...

This MS of the Sachsenspiegel hides half a bifolium from a lost MS of Aristotle's De anima, arguably the philosopher's mostly widely read treatise in the medieval Latin West (@ubleipzig.bsky.social, MS 949) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:b...

The rear pastedown in a MS of a commentary on Aristotle's Ethics was recycled from a copy of ... the commentary on the same text by Thomas Aquinas. The front pastedown contains an unidentified text. (@ubleipzig.bsky.social, MS 1447, rear pastedown) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:b...

Time to register until tomorrow if you want to attend remotely! All welcome!

Manuscrit d'Avicenne en vente interencheres.com/art-decorati...

Happy publication day to Ryan Gregg for his new book Beached Whale Images in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp Symbols of Humanity’s Dominion over the Earth www.routledge.com/Beached-Whal...

In next week's FitMA lecture, Justin Winzenrietz (University of Tübingen) will talk about one of the oldest Greek manuscripts of Aristotle's works, which is a unique witness of his "De anima". Remote attendance is possible! hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/researc...

It is labelled with a query as "Commentary on Aristoteles Latinus, Ethica Nicomachea" @fragmentarium.bsky.social: bifolium from a MS of the commentary on Aristotle's Ethics by Thomas Aquinas! (@ubleipzig.bsky.social, Fragm. lat. 43) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:b... fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-e...

Revised entry Aristotle’s Biology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) by James Lennox & Mariska Leunissen plato.stanford.edu/entries/aris...

Strips from a MS of the commentary on Aristotle's De sensu et sensato by Thomas Aquinas, used to line the quires of another MS (@ubleipzig.bsky.social, MS 232) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:b...

Het kon ook erger dan enkel een bloedneus zoals in dit handschrift van de Rijmkroniek van Holland (Den Haag KB 128 E 3): Johanne de Eyll hoert dit boeck toe, dye dit boock vynt geh hem weder om godt, oft dye duivel steckt inden poet

Another broken MS of Thomas Aquinas's commentary on the Gospel of John. Remains of a bifolium and a folium, recycled as flyleaves (@ubleipzig.bsky.social, MS 4) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-0012-161432

Flyleaves in an elegant hand taken from a MS of Thomas Aquinas's Commentary on the Gospel by John. Some nice probationes pennae, too! (@ubleipzig.bsky.social, MS 5) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-0012-159588

The Exsultet, traditionally sung at tonight's Easter vigil, on a leaf from an elegantly written MS, now recycled as a book cover (Trier, Stadtbibliothek, Ad 104) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0...

Excited for this, tomorrow!

Basel imprint of Homer's works in Greek with a Latin translation. Pasted onto the cover are leaves from Thomas Aquinas's commentary on the Gospel of John, passages from the Passion (Halle, Marienbibliothek, P 3.3 2°) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:g...

Flyleaves taken from a Carolingian MS of the Easter office with angry faces, used in an Augustine MS (Vendôme, BM, 140) arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/m...

Earliest dated translation by William of Moerbeke! What was he doing in Nicea in 1260? "Alexandri Afrodisiei expõ libri metheorologicorum Ar' translata de Greco in Latinum apud Niceam urbem Grecie anno xpi 1260°" (BAV, Ott. lat. 2165, f. 1r) H/T @aaronm.bsky.social digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott...

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

According to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026, the Institute of Philosophy @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social is ranked 29 in the world and 3 in continental Europe. H/T @mperale.bsky.social www.topuniversities.com/university-s...

Multiple layers of annotations of a leaf from a MS of Priscian, showing traces of earlier use in a book binding (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 1347) digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object99943/en/

Wikipedia gems. Bekker Numbering: an entire entry devoted to the citation of Aristotle's works. With a picture of August Immanuel Bekker from Gudeman's Imagines Philologorum. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekker_...

Next week, we welcome our colleagues from @uclouvain.bsky.social who will present the challenges of studying and editing the fluid traditions of medieval #alchemy. Join us on Thursday 2 April in person or online! Details about the FitMA lectures and remote attendance: hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/researc...

Recycled leaves from a Biblia glossata, a wonder of medieval textual study and book production (Arras, Médiathèque de l'Abbaye Saint-Vaast, 158 [180]) arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/m...

Five days left to send in your proposals!

Lorsque le volume est arrivé, il est apparu que des fragments d’un texte littéraire médiéval avaient été collés sur les plats de reliure. Grâce à l’aide de @remcosleiderink.bsky.social , ces fragments difficilement lisibles ont pu être identifiés : il s’agit d’extraits du ‘Conte du Graal’ !

Bifolia from a MS on paper of Gregorius Magnus's Expositiones in Iob pasted onto the boards of a printed psalter (Halle, Marienbibliothek, P 1.6) @unihalle.bsky.social nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:g...