trying to identify a past owner (i think) of a manuscript but this name is leading me nowhere - P. Comby, Combey, Cornby, Combeq, Cornbeg, etc etc etc... if anyone has any thoughts I'd be pleased to hear them

the day is nearly over so i think i can get away with saying i hate star wars

anyone have info on the east anglia-frisia connection nowadays? @dannybate.bsky.social maybe?

had my first experience doing inter-lingual communication in italian with a brazilian portuguese-speaking customer today, and found it went way better than i expected. as in, it basically worked, which has not been my experience with portuguese portuguese

2000 BC: i stg gilgamesh and enkidu were so huge 800 BC: achilles lifted a rock 20 warriors today could not budge 800ish AD: we have heard of the deeds of the spear-Danes in days gone by and honestly damn 2010s: we drank from the hose! 2020s: the internet didn't make us dumb like it did u losers

Kinda tired of the "historians will say they're close friends" meme. Babe, we've been screaming about how gay everyone is for *decades*. Funding for history keeps getting cut as a result. There are entire moral panics about it. You just haven't read any history since highschool.

juvenal is the prototype guy who's too online. read his stuff and it's like ok log off dude

when caroline minuscule got you reading 'thicc' like 'thia'

2000 BC: i stg gilgamesh and enkidu were so huge 800 BC: achilles lifted a rock 20 warriors today could not budge 800ish AD: we have heard of the deeds of the spear-Danes in days gone by and honestly damn 2010s: we drank from the hose! 2020s: the internet didn't make us dumb like it did u losers

hwæt! we gar-dena þeod-cyninga þrym gefrunon, hu þa æþelingas of þæm hose drancon ond hit dyd nælles hearm

BBC responds to interest in Cornish with new language podcast

And once again, Happy May Day

bayrische Polizei ruft 'Moin!' an die Norddeutsche am Nachbartisch

na seavas Salzburg, nächster Halt Deutschland

lead a group of anglo-saxon nuns relocating to denmark, copy important manuscripts, write a chronicle in which i mainly bitch about the food, vehemently oppose regular inspections from the bishop so he doesn't uncover my cellar of fine italian wine and all the lesbianism going on in the cloisters

LET ME TELL YOU JUST how fucking cool this is! Since 1950, maybe a dozen non-liturgical, non-biblical Latin Caroline manuscripts pre-950 have turned up on the market, except fragments of one or a few leaves. This is huge, literally (it's over 30cm by 25cm) and figuratively

um, I was actually shoplifting this formula milk to train my child, an LLM, about formula milk related content. that's actually legal, so you have to let me go now officer.

deutscher: ich hätte gerne einen apfelschorle kellner: opfelsoft gspritzt homma

ever compared a manuscript like this? (I did not cut it out - this leaf was loose in the volume and I restored it to its proper place) So: dimensions, layout, text including distinctive variants make this look extremely, extremely like this 9th-c. St Gall MS on screen - prob copied from it there!

ever compared a manuscript like this? (I did not cut it out - this leaf was loose in the volume and I restored it to its proper place) So: dimensions, layout, text including distinctive variants make this look extremely, extremely like this 9th-c. St Gall MS on screen - prob copied from it there!

als ich Kind war, war es immer als die Höhe des Anmaßens angesehen, sich von französischen Ausdrücken zu bedienen, aber jetzt sind wir von Anglizismenwapplern umgegeben und es ist Praxis, Französismen wieder einzuführen

cardinal: congratulations on your election as pope! what name will you take? other cardinal: i think calixtus cardinal: cool, which number calixtus? other cardinal: ...ca-lixTEEZ NUTS, BITCH

cardinal: congratulations on your election as pope! what name will you take? other cardinal: i think calixtus cardinal: cool, which number calixtus? other cardinal: ...ca-lixTEEZ NUTS, BITCH

Sorry I conflated your half-correct pop history post with the half wrong one it appeared next to, go ahead and talk about your awesome Internet win at the dinner table tonight.

Me: it's outrageous how the supermarket has moved all the crisps and biscuits and chocolate to the checkout aisle to promote unhealthy impulse buying! Also me: oh phew they've still got the vodka minis here too

and the front pastedown: the hinge is cracked, the front leaves lost and here in the middle we can see a bit of orange on a majuscule D - from a 9th-century vulgate of Genesis...

and here a clue: some marginalia in German...

hot take: Danish numbers are hated and feared by speakers of other languages (as they're weird and non-decimal: 50 is halvtreds (half-thrice (x20 implied)), 60 tres (thrice), etc.) but I get so confused and wont to skip when counting over 50 anyway I find having weird, distinctive names helpful

got the store to myself today so it's blasting led zep and working on a big honking medieval manuscript all day baby

got a notice this baby had arrived and went down and ripped it straight out of my colleague's hands before it was even unpacked! Jerome, Commentary on Isiah, probably early 10th-century 🤩

i apologise in advance

sliding into the dms (dulces margines)

can't believe when i took a vibrator into the manuscripts reading room in my clear plastic bag they were like 'i'm sorry ma'am, you'll have to leave that in the lockers outside', i mean what did they expect with all those hot manuscripts

in this account we are horny on main for manuscripts

got a notice this baby had arrived and went down and ripped it straight out of my colleague's hands before it was even unpacked! Jerome, Commentary on Isiah, probably early 10th-century 🤩

aldhelm's praise of virginitas implies aldhelm's praise of chadditas

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

The coolest thing I ever did in my brief musical career was playing lute in an early music ensemble for a Monteverdi piece (unfortunately not this one which is my favourite) and I wish I could do something like that again www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrNe...

tbh there are tons because i love being petty and judgemental but most commonly it's any harry potters, and i felt that way even before she became one of the world's leading bigots

...as though nothing could fall 💖 youtu.be/92yaPqmqs8g?...

on my way to budapest (first time!) and explaining to family in the uk who say 'you go abroad a lot' that it's like going from norwich to london only a fraction the price and with better trains

there is a specific type of guy who is Still Butthurt About Constantinople and he is one of most tiresome guys there is

i have just learnt of the existence of the Abbey of Poussay, so if you'll excuse me i'm just going to go be real mature about that for a moment

'Sir, this is a Wendi': scripting narrative limits of chivalric discourse of crusader-pagan encounters in the southern Baltic #fakepapertitles

morte al fascismo, libertà al popolo, viva l'Italia antifascista

i have just learnt of the existence of the Abbey of Poussay, so if you'll excuse me i'm just going to go be real mature about that for a moment

Olaus Verelius' Old Norse dictionary, published 1691 - the first by a non-Icelander, and part of the kickoff of Swedish Gothicism

'Chad and the Virgin: Marian Preaching in the Seventh-Century Mercian Mission' #fakepapertitles

Olaus Verelius' Old Norse dictionary, published 1691 - the first by a non-Icelander, and part of the kickoff of Swedish Gothicism

looking at some stuff by a guy who developed computers for the nazis in ww2 and he seems devoid of any moral reflection beyond 'i believed my invention was so important for the world that i didn't really think or care about anything else', which seems pretty much the attitude ai advocates have today