If you need some New Years reading, may I suggest the latest issue of Fragmentology? My article on in situ fragments in Beinecke incunabula is in excellent company alongside tasty reads by @pieterbeullens.bsky.social and @lisafdavis.bsky.social 😊🤩🎉 #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts

Excited that my article "Hanc te volo diligentiam adhibere. Late-Medieval Fragmentary Instructions on Housekeeping" came out in Fragmentology. It is a really fascinating document on housekeeping, not my expertise at all. Looking forward to reading your reactions #medievalsky doi.org/10.24446/dpf5

Fragmentology VIII (2025) is live. This is our biggest issue yet! doi.org/10.24446/qxs0 With studies of individual fragments and entire traditions, from the end of Antiquity through the present! All three eras: pre-medieval, medieval, and post-medieval!

Bifolium from a MS of sermons in a stylish 14th-c hand, used as book cover. The anonymous text "in annuntiatione" is also found in @labnf.bsky.social, lat. 3495, 12420, and 16463 (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, 8° Inc 4709.40) resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0001D1320...

Bifolium from a MS of Galen's commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorosims in the Latin version that circulated under the title of Articella (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 868) digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object99024/en/

Today, I saw this 15th-c breviary from Grammont (Geraardsbergen) at the exhibition "Avoir sa peau" in Bouvignes (until Sunday 4 Jan). From the collection of Maredsous abbey #medievalsky dinant.be/event/exposi...

The covers of this printed Ars notaria (Venice, 1574) were taken from a MS of the Sermons on Isaiah by Origen in Jerome's Latin translation (Gent, UL, BIB.ACC.030625) books.google.be/books?id=x4R...

MS waste from a commentary on Genesis. Writing elegant and unusual! The leaves show signs of the corrosive effects of the ink that was used (@unihalle.bsky.social, Hs.-Abt. Ink A 15) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:g...

The Plantin archives: the gift that keeps on giving. An #earlymodern ledger for expenses on ‘white paper’ for the printing office with printed binder’s waste on its spine & a #medieval Vulgate Bible fragment as its cover. 😍 Happy holidays everybody! #rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜

Palaeographic suggestions? This boxed letter is found in a late-12th c Aristotelian MS. Did someone see a similar use? I have an idea about its meaning, but I cannot remember anything of the kind (MS Avranches, BM, 221, f. 13r)

Enkele weken geleden hadden we hierover een fijn gesprek (dank je voor de koffie, Jona)! Leuk om vast te stellen dat de studie van de middeleeuwse Latijnse #Aristoteles ook voor de #oudheidkunde relevant kan zijn! #wetenschapscommunicatie #interdisciplinair #Nijl

Join our team, @mideastmedieval.bsky.social, @imems.bsky.social & colleagues at #IMC2026. Explore #fragmentology from methodology applied to manuscripts, case-studies on textile fragments or pieces of relics; Latin to vernacular; early to late medieval; East to West. #medievalmonday #medievalsky

Medieval French fragment from a MS of the anonymous 13th-c Roman de Marques de Rome, with a storyline situated in ancient Rome. Not in the JONAS database @irht-cnrs.bsky.social (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 1767) digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object100770/en/

New volume of Methodos Vol. 25 (2025) journals.openedition.org/methodos/10599 @openedition.bsky.social Les mathématiques médiévales dans le monde latin @medphiljournals.bsky.social

💡 De nieuwe onderzoeksprojecten fundamenteel onderzoek werden toegekend 👉 www.fwo.be/nl/resultate... We wensen alle onderzoekers veel succes 👏

Just dropped: my project "Aristotle on Soul and Senses. Exchanges between Latin and Greek transmissions of De anima and De sensu" (EXDADS) with Lisa Devriese and Klaus Corcilius (Tübingen) got funding from @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social and @dfg.de! www.fwo.be/media/kounrb...

How I am looking at the upcoming week: a long list of (numbered) quaestiones. Quire guard from a MS table of contents used in Stadtarchiv Dessau-Roßlau, Anhaltische Landesbücherei, ALW *Georg 547 nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:g...

I give you Dr Ben Nagy

Five printed booklets containing the voices for a series of Latin motets, appropriately covered in the remains of a MS of medieval music (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, 55 Depos SA 375) resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB00020AB20...

Having spent 2 weeks coughing day and night, some fitting fragments (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 487-8): Constantinus Africanus, De morborum cognitione et curatione & Viaticum digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object98313/en/ digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object98316/en/

Update. The French 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 (#cnrs) is canceling the #webofscience and encouraging its affiliates to use #OpenAlex. It cancelled #scopus last year. https://www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cnrs-breaking-free-web-science #clarivate #elsevier #france #opensource #wos

L'étude des fragments est une branche à part entière de la philologie depuis plusieurs années. Le projet @fragmentarium.bsky.social a pour but de répertorier tous les fragments trouvés, en Europe et ailleurs, et dans toutes les langues. fragmentarium.ms

I thought that this is a very good book, and I reviewed it accordingly in The Medieval Review! Short opinion about not too long a book! scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/ind...

Heavily rubbed leaf with traces of use as a book cover. From a MS of the Latin encyclopaedia by Bartholomew the Englishman - Bartholomaeus Anglicus (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 860) digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...

Bifolium from a breviary used as cover. "Conditor alme siderum" is sung at Vespers during Advent (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, 4° Om 1935<a>) resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0001BC830...

The market has turned the tables! This item is advertised as two in-situ manuscript leaves, which happen to have a printed book between them. Auction descriptions used to all but ignore pastedowns and other waste - now they realise there's money in them!

« Nous allons investiguer les sciences occultes dans le monde arabo-musulman mais aussi grec-oriental » (Pr Godefroid de Callataÿ, UCLouvain) Le Prix en Sciences humaines Ernest-John Solvay (un des prix Quinquennaux du FNRS) revient au Pr Godefroid de Callataÿ, chercheur à l'Institut des…

In good news today, our four Medieval Fragments sessions have been accepted!! #imc2026 So happy we’re back for a second year of fragmentary goodness. @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Sing yourself through the day! (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Hg 1650<a>) resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB000218BC0...

The deadline to submit an abstract for our HellBel conference is approaching too! "New Ancient Greek Literature: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies" (Leuven, 8-10 July 2026) www.dalet.be/CfP_HellBel_...

The cover of an Aristotle edition preserves strips from a MS of the Legenda aurea. Passages from the life of S. Caecilia, whom the Church celebrated last Saturday (Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Rq 91) www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/...

Pastedown patchwork: two bifolia from a collection of material for sermons, similar to the ones by Stephanus de Borbone or Humbertus de Romanis; some canon law; and a snippet from a pastoral work. No identifications, so your Monday puzzle! (Karlsruhe, BLB, Ba 100) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:b...

New online and listed by @aaronm.bsky.social: MS BAV, Ott. lat. 1816 contains the "Conclusiones Metaphysice" by Franciscan author Gonsalvus Hispanus (+ 1313). He was a teacher of John Duns Scotus. After his academic career, he became Minister General of his order. digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott...

The top estimate of 300 € for this early-12th or even late-11th c MS was passed... by 84,700 €. The market is always right, as some say...

Editors' Choice: New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI! – CDH@Princeton cdh.princeton.edu/news/2025/11...

Let's start the day with some music! (@unihalle.bsky.social, AB 175274) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:g...

Sermon by Bede, probably from a lost homiliary, in an elegant hand. This leaf survived as a book cover (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Ee 710-234) resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB00006D0B0...

Bifolium from a breviary used as cover material for a printed book (@unihalle.bsky.social, Cb 2246) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:g...

Some pastedowns from a typically glossed canon law manuscript, a.o. provisions about priests' testaments (Paderborn, Erzbischöfliche Akademische Bibliothek, I 118) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:h...

One book, two very different pastedowns. Leaf from a MS of the Breviarium in psalmos (Ps 107), attributed to Augustine or Jerome or Anonymous (Migne 26). And an attractive leaf from a later prayer book (Trier, Stadtbibliothek, G 1057) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0...

Petrus Pictor, popular poet from St Omer on the border of 12th-c Flanders and France, wrote rhyming Latin hexameters (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 2849 & 1721 - also 1717-20) digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object102907/en/ digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object100688/en/

In the new #openaccess companion on student notes from Latin Europe (@leuvenup.bsky.social), our own Lorenz Demey, together with collaborators, contributes a chapter arguing that student notes hold great promise as sources for intellectual #history 👇 lup.be/book/student... #HPS #earlymodern #philsky

More @hsprtl.bsky.social: bifolium from the Expositio on Aristotle's Rhetoric (book II) by Aegidius Romanus aka Giles of Rome (Schloßmuseum Sondershausen, Lat. lit. 2 a) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:u...

I correct myself: Albert is quoted in a glossary similar to the Derivationes by Ugoccione da Pisa (like other fragments from the same MS in the collection)! @hsprtl.bsky.social

Noticed in the newest versions of @hsprtl.bsky.social: fragment from Albert the Great's commentary on Aristotle's Meteorologica (II,1) (Schloßmuseum Sondershausen, Lat. lit. 1 c) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:u...

stylometry of scribal abbreviations is barely touched, and I think it has huge potential

𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆, 𝟭𝟲𝟲𝟬–𝟭𝟴𝟯𝟬 Edited by Brecht de Groote, Lieve Jooken, Sonja Lavaert & Guy Rooryck More info: bit.ly/4ntQjaJ #Translation #Literature #C18 #History

Colophon in red ink from a recycled unidentified MS by Johannes Gredinger, completed on the “feria vi” after the feast of S. John “ad portam Latinam” (12 May?). The exact year is masked by the book’s spine label (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Cs 6738) resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB000157260...

Leaf from a Carolingian (10th c?) herbal text, possibly some variant on Dioscorides, heavily rubbed (Hundisburg, von Alvenslebensche Bibliothek, Alv. Le 97) @unihalle.bsky.social nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:g...

Research funds are scarce & competition is fierce. A recent paper by @andreasdeblock.bsky.social & colleagues explores how this competition shapes science—its practices, risks & ethics—and proposes ways to make funding fairer & more effective👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #AcademicSky #HPS #scipol 🧪