Statistical wrapup on the 2025 digitization work on #Vatican #Manuscripts. No pretty letters or illuminations, just cold facts and some unattractive graphs. www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Many factors delayed the last MS report of 2025, but the #vatican did manage 17 #Manuscripts last week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Much Ge'ez, strange narrow MS, Arabic stories, Sistine Music and more. #MedievalSky #Skystorians

41 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Includes more Ge'ez, poems sucking up to Barberinis, lotsa Sistine music by Palestrina, Biordi, et al, some classics, an Exultet Roll in use, and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

The year starts to wind down, but the #Vatican still digitized 23 #Manuscripts www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Includes Sistine scrap paper, 18th C and Ge'ez liturgy, 15th C copies of Cicero, Averroes, Diogenes Laertius, Vegetius, and more! (not much more) #MedievalSky #HistorianSky

#HistorianSky and #MedievalSky I need advice. What is a good Mac-compatible word/text processor for writing articles? I've grown to hate MS Word, but I like the Zotero integration. I want an application, not an online thing (eg. not Google Docs).

Only 9 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Includes Sonnets, a Chronicle of Venice, a Chronicle of Burgundy by Molinet, Delfino's _Le Cleopatra_, Cicero, legal commentary, Antonio da Rho's autograph of _Dialogues against Lactantius_, etc. #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Only 23 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Petrarch, Sistine Music, Cicero, Suetonious, Arnold de Villanova, Aristotle, Ge'ez liturgy and amulets, and a Fransiscan Missale... and more #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Only 13 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Contains: Ge'ez liturgy, obsequious Barberini poetry, a text on how to build and use a clock, poetry by Il Porcellio, commentaries on Aristotle, and more #MedievalSky #Skystorians

If anyone has access to the 2015 fascimile of the Officiolum of Francesco da Barberino, and would be willing to do me a favor, it would be much appreciated.

46 new #Manuscripts went online from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Includes: Ge'ez imagery, 17th C Barberini stuff, 18th-19th C Sistine music, classics, a spanish illustrated work on machines and _more_ #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Reminder that this is happening (eek!!) on Monday. There is no online option, but hopefully this will lead to more work on the absolute batshittery of this manuscript

I would actually love to see some AI homework failures from the sciences.

A much more exciting week brought 76 #Manuscripts online at the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Includes a glossed Priscian, a bunch of 17th C Barberini stuff, a pile more Ge'ez, many Cicero, Iñigo de Mendoça's Spanish _Vita Christiana_, and MORE #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Eleven #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Includes a text on the Barberini Lyre, more papal writings, Caesar's Wars (several), some Neo-Latin, a catalogue of printed books... and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Only 5 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... A Bussula, a Virgil, Ceasare della Riviera's Magical World of the Heroes, Herodian's History in Latin, and a legel compendium... that's it! #Medievalsky #Skystorians

For those lucky enough to be local to the Cambridge MA area, I will be giving a lunch talk on November 17th that I think of as "This Manuscript is too Fucked-up to be Real, but it is!" medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/mahind... #MedievalSky

38 new #Manuscripts this week from the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Includes an oration by Ubaldi, a part of an Atlantic Bible, some crazy heraldry, Cassian on Monks, Ethiopic, Classics and more #MedievalSky #Skystorians

@lisafdavis.bsky.social I assume you've seen this, but I would be remiss in not making sure

I'm usually pretty meh about the provenance of manuscripts, and in general about 16th C printed books... But Ott.lat.1902 is the copy of Copernicus that was owned, read, an annotated by Tycho Brahe, and has his notes about orbital mechanics bound in at the end. digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott...

Back to speed with 56 new #Manuscripts this week from the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025.... Includes a glossed Valerius Maximus, the Alexandreis, 17th c poetry, Plautus, Decretals, Ovid, a 13th C Roman de Brut, and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Only 5 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Consists of a Ge'ez Book of Hours, a commentary on Aristotle, Nonius Marcellus' De compendiosa doctrina (his only surviving work), Seneca's Tragedies and a vol of Papal stuff #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Only 16 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican were digitized in the past week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Includes a lot of Ge'ez liturgy, 3 volumes of poems by Aurelio Amalteo, a report from the Venetian ambassador to France, Papias' dictionary, and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

47 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican were digitized this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Includes another Sanvito-rubricated work, Beneventan fragments, Diaries, Classics, Philosophy, Strozzi's _Eroticon_, and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Only 3 #Manuscripts digitized by the #Vatican this past week. www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Two 17th C Miscellanies and a 19th-20th C register of .... something Papal #MedievalSky #Skystorians

33 new #Manuscripts were put online by the #Vatican last week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Includes a nice humanist Cicero, a less-nice Caesar, an unknown collection of charters, Macrobius, Satires, and much Leonardo Bruni! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

A quiet 33 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... including a glossed Boethius, more Ge'ez, some Epistles, some classics, a tragedy by a Cardinal, and more! #MedievalSky #Skystoriane

"Anxious" is the first word I included in my "AI" dictionary! It came from a paragraph I had to cut from an article I published, which was way over the word limit. Here's the cut paragraph:

I've added my comment. I'm not sure if it will change anything, but it's a small amount of effort to try

I thought they were still on vacation, but the #Vatican added 12 #Manuscripts this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... a c.861 Gregory's Regula leads, with another Papal diary, a theological and a medical miscellany, Priscian, Pier Paolo Vergerio, even an antipope.. and more #MedivalSky #skystorians

Due to the summer vacation, no new #Manuscripts were digitized by the #Vatican in the past week

A reasonably strong 75 #Manuscripts were added by the #Vatican this past week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week32.html Includes several incunabula hybrids, several Ge'ez liturgicals, Petrarch, 12th C Priscian, illuminated Ovid, legal texts, papal-adjacent docs and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorian

My GPT has a Mohs smartness of 9.2. Only diamonds are smarter

Only 10 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Inc. 19th C Palestrina MS copies, a Mass setting in print by Borja, 17th C papal records, a 14th c Missal, some Orations, Sonnets Madrigals, and a bit more! #Skystorians #MedievalSky

The first Hours from @smithcollege.bsky.social has been added, Codex 274 - www.cokldb.org/p/v100/ms/905 From Rouen, it has multiple later additions, including a Tallis motet, that point to English ownership. There's some evidence of cutting #MedievalSky #Skystorians 1/2

another week, another 29 #Manuscripts digitized by the #vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Including plays by Sebastiano Baldin, Euclid, Ethiopic liturgy, dated and glossed Seneca, patristics, papal history, and Peñafort... oh my! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Only 28 #Manuscripts from the #vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Includes a bunch more 17th C pop stuff, 4 more Sistine diaries, a book on hunting, a 13th C Passionale and more! #Skystorians #MedievalSky

Only 4 #Manuscripts this week from the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Contains: stuff about 16th C Ecclesiastical Hungary, the case for canonization of Philip Benizi, a musical setting of Psalm 149, and a 1705 dissertation on the Column of Antonius Pius. #Skystorians #MedievalSky

only 34 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... including a ton of musical volumes, more about Barberini popes, a printed missal, an Arabic christian medical miscellany and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

49 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Including a ton more from the Cappella Sistina, both archival and diaries, a vol of 10th C sermons, Ausonius (including the wedding cento!), a map of the roman forum and more #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Sanity check me, this is a plan of Rome, with some sort of elaborations overlaid on the Forum, right? (#Vatican Chig.P.VIII.25.pt.A)

Only a bare 13 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Includes a few more late musical volumes from the Sistine, some papal briefs, a musical about St. Boniface written by pope Clement IX, and more #MedievalSky #Skystorians

38 #Manuscripts digitized from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Mostly in the Cappella Pontificia archives (music!) and the diaries of the puntatore (now >75%). Otherwise a 18th C Megillat Esther, a Glagolitic breviary, printed, Persian poetry, and more #Medievalsky #Skystorians

I love it when a custom tool gets developed and then tossed out into the wider world. Now I just need to get back to transcribing my crazy bible

67 #Manuscripts digitized by the #Vatican last week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Mostly Sistine Choir, including music, regulations, and more diaries. In addition three Persian works, one more Ge'ez, 2 vol. letters of Urban VIII, Alain de Lille, and a bit more #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Only 28 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Mostly musical works from the Cappella Pontifica, along with more diaries, an Arabic work on magic, glossed canon law, Greek poetry, Aquinas and a copy of the Chronicon Beneventanum. #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Only 11 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... The bulk are from the archives of the Cappella Pontificia. Withs one more Diary and a 16th C Russian Evangilary completing the week's work #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Today’s hagiography/paleography puzzler comes from #Houghton 2020hem-84. This is the start of the calendar for June, the first entry reads “Nicomedis & p….” But I cannot quite figure out the second name. Can’t be petri (see June 2), can’t be Pauli (wrong a)….? #MedievalSky

48 more #Manuscripts digitized by the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Includes a ton of Cappella Pontificia documents, some even about the Puntatore diaries in Capp.Sist.Diari, more Bussulas, Augustine on music, Ge'ez works and, topically, a Rule of St. Augustine #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Uninvolved in the #conclave, the #Vatican libraries digitized 58 #manuscripts www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Including a counterfeit 14th C Dante, a ton of 19th C music, more Sistine Diaries, occult tests, travel guides, glossed classics, Persian poetry and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

No new pope yet, but the work digitizing continues with 28 new manuscripts last week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Includes a 14th C Codex of Justinian, two Bussulas, some polyphonic masses, Aesop, a Demosthenes translated by Bruni (autograph?) and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians