Favorite library: Bibliotheca Incognita

Sometimes, it is so so helpful going back to my notes. Other times:

Hot off the presses: New edition of the Latin works of Elizabeth Jane Weston (with vocabulary and commentary for students). Do you want the book but not want to pay for it? PDF is free: pixeliapublishing.org/westonia/

🎓Call for Papers🎓 A longtime friend of and contributor to the SNLS, Dr Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social, is organising a symposium on “Teaching with Ovid,” with a call for papers open until 16 January 2026! See the flyer below and follow the link for more information: shorturl.at/RiviU

Had a book published before mid-2021? Take 5 minutes to see if it's listed here and if so another 5 to enter info. And look up your grandma's book, the book of your friend, etc. and let them know

Have you been bereft without MLGB3? It was the essential and much-used online listing of extant books from British medieval libraries. Those good people @bodleian.ox.ac.uk have been working away and have just re-launched it, with the promise of more in the year ahead: mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

This is just a bunch of fake news

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

The yearly update of the Supplementa tertia (v. 6.7) is out! Additions and corrections to the three published volumes of Aristoteles Latinus Codices, with plenty of hyperlinks to digital images! If you know or own other MSS of the medieval Latin Aristotle, please reach out! doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Happy Monday! A reminder that we're seeking new committee members for Ceræ's 13th volume, including editors, a social media manager, and a fundraising officer. Postgraduate students welcome! See link below for details: ceraejournal.com/2025/10/02/c... #medievalsky #academicsky #earlymodernsky

Booklist found in a will from 837 CE. Kind of notable that the daughters are all given books (the sons too, though that's less notable).

My book's not in there...and I'm actually a little offended?

I've gotta say, it would be hard to live up to a name like Exsuperius. (from Gallagher and Meade "Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity")

Not gonna lie-- catching news like this is one of the main benefits of bluesky for me.

Poster's madness? More like imPOSTER syndrome!

Look what came in the mail today! Another goodie to share with my manuscripts course that starts next week. #medievalsky

In one of my classes we were just talking about the bit of Exodus where the Israelites were worshipping the golden calf. (There had been an allusion to it in a text we're reading.) Anyways, apropos of nothing, several different companies are now offering an AI Jesus:

I have deleted my account using this workaround.

Deleted my academia[dot]edu account, which I should have done years ago. A quick thread on leaving academia (the site!). 1/4

Seasons of the year poster in Classical Latin! What season is your favorite? Recognize any English words from these? Get the design here: www.habesnelac.com/paid-downloa... Sign up for our ***excellent classes*** here: habesnelac.com/courses

Books they stole from me include all my Terra Ignota novels, my two nonfic histories, my dissertation, all my published academic articles & book reviews, & several of my scholarly book chapters; basically everything with a digital version. They really did pirate *everything* that’s online in any way

Digital Neo-Latin Studies conference-- registration deadline is tomorrow.

Call for applications: Endangered Archives Programme eap.bl.uk/applicants

Galen's medical theories may be out of date, but it turns out that not much has changed about academic writing. (-from "On the Order of my Books" trans. Singer)

Mihi placet!

"If some god strikes me down on the wine-dark sea..." -Odyssey 5.221 (trans. Wilson)

"Anything you can find of Homer, Menander, Euripides, Aristophanes...." -an apparent wish-list from third-century Egypt PSI.Laur.inv.19662v (Images from R. Otranto "Antiche liste di libri su papiro")

A really interesting new piece with implications for gender, class, and the Latin language in Quattrocento Italy.

Booklist for the 10th century library at Bobbio. Among the various categories: "Books We Have But Can't Find" (de libris quos non reperimus sed habemus)

(rubbing my greedy little hands together)

Happy Birthday to Claudia Severa! Born on this day in the late first century CE. She wrote a birthday invitation to her friend, Sulpicia Lepidina, which survives among the Vindolanda tablets. #classicssky

Favorite entry in the 9th-century catalogue of the library at Bobbio: "some Scottish (Irish?) book translated into Latin" (librum quendam Latine Scotaicae linguae)

The Ancient Books Website ancientbooks.papyrology.org

Well, in a concession to aging, I have made a new addition to my dictionary-lectern. A magnifying glass.

Just about ten years now in the making: The IE-CoR database paper has finally been published. C. Anderson, M. Scarborough, [ ... 96 further authors ... ], R. Gray & P. Heggarty. 2025. The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Dataset. Scientific Data 12:1541.

BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

OR: First Officer Will Riker in one of those time-travel episodes.

One month left to apply for our travel fund! Are you doing research in #earlymodern #bookhistory or print culture? The Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and Plantin-Moretus Museum offer a Nottebohm Fellowship. Apply before Oct. 1st! Details: consciencebibliotheek.be/en/fellowshi...

Tolle, lege!

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

Want to work with the FitMA-team? Here is your chance! Join our great project and get paid for it! Two postdoc positions open! #classicsky #medievalsky #philsky www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

"It would not be hard to set up a tent, he thought." Me, at the start of any writing project.

Really interesting piece on Suetonius. Did he write a "De Viris Illustribus"? Maybe not? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A new Cambridge Element volume on Linear A by Ester Salgarella, free to download for a limited window - grab it now! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

(Reading the wikipedia page for "Cornelia, mother of the gracchi"): Rejected Ptolemy, uh huh, scolded Gaius, sure..."Cornelia also serves as the feminine personification of the state of Ohio" wtf????

I first read Lucretius in the doorstop edition of Leonard/Smith. Looking back at it now, I still love the look/feel of the book, but those notes are.... a little digressive? (Spenser's Fairie Queene???)

This image by Bartolomeo Barloccini is of the Secessio Plebis where the Plebs had enough of Roman Patrician Power. To persuade the Plebes to return, Livy recounts the speech of Menenius Agrippa that we read and discuss in today's episode of LAC: Audite! open.spotify.com/episode/2dma...

Looking forward to new titles in the Experrecta Series (student editions of Latin texts written by women):

The International Dunhuang Programme provides access to images, information and educational resources on manuscripts, printed material and other objects from locations along the Eastern Silk Roads via its online platform.

The road to fig compote: