🧐 The beginning of the rhythm Ante saecula et mundi principio of Theodfrid of Corbie (c. 650) is copied in Beinecke 389, f. 131v. 📜 As there are 4 known MSS and this one is 9th c., could be interesting for someone like Francesco Stella. 🔗 collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2008... #medievalsky

🥳 Very glad to say that the digital edition of glosses to Etymologiae (book I) is now finally updated and complete 🎉 👏 Thanks to my @huygensknaw.bsky.social colleagues Peter Boot and Rob Zeeman 🔗 db.innovatingknowledge.nl/edition/#lef... #medievalsky #digitalhumanities #digitalediting

📜Check out this beautiful diagram of the movement of the Sun from 📕Bern, Burgerbibliothek 87. 🔗 www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/bbb/0087/... #medievalsky

🏺How exciting to find Etymologiae inscribed on a slate tablet 😍 This one was excavated in 1894 at the abbey of Villers-la-Ville in the southern Netherlands, dated to the 13th century, 2/2, now in the KBR Brussels. Contains bits of book IV on medicine 🩺 🔗 uurl.kbr.be/1559692 #medievalsky

📕 I am glad to see that this volume to which your humble narrator contributed is finally out in Open Access. Enjoy! 🔗 punctumbooks.com/titles/the-a... #medievalsky

📜Working on no less of a scholar than Manno of Saint-Oyen, here annotating Aldhelm's Riddles in Vatican, BAV, Reg. Lat. 2078 with snippets from the Etymologies. 🦫 fol. 128r: the riddle about the beaver is glossed with Etym. XII 2.21 🔗 digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg... #medievalsky

🧐Has anybody noticed this Hebrew word in Cambridge, Trinity College, B.15.33 (10th c., England, Isidore's Etymologiae)? 📄 I cannot find any mention of it in the literature. Would be glad to know if anyone wrote about it. 🔗 mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B... #medievalsky

🤩 Great news: Codices Vossiani Latini are now available Open Access and IIIF compatible. 🔗 www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01... #medievalsky

🙈 At yesterday's DELM meeting, I volunteered to lead the 'funerary' WG. Join if you are: 📜In charge of a DB project about to end 📜Facing the end of funding and wondering what comes next 📜Maintaining a DB past its active funding cycle 📜Wondering how to retire a DB 🧟Hunting zombie DBs #medievalsky

❓ Where do you go when you want to publish OA critical edition of a medieval text these days? Especially if you want to avoid Brepols 😖 #medievalsky

📅THE 2ND DELM MEETING DELM aims to connect researchers building/managing DBs concerned with Latin manuscripts before c. 1200. It provides a forum for discussing issues around standardisation and data sharing. 🕐 13 December 2024, 2-5 PM CET 🚩 Zoom 🔗 delm-net.github.io/meetings.html #medievalsky

📜THIS FRAGMENT OF THE ETYMOLOGIAE📜 Many thanks to David Ganz for unearthing it. It is certainly a sibling of the Isidore fragment they have at Cornell. Should they be told, in case they want to buy it? I wish I had spare 16,000$ 💰 #medievalsky 🔗 www.abebooks.fr/servlet/Book...

📕 A NEW CATALOGUE OF MEDIEVAL MAPPAE MUNDI 📕 I have been looking forward to the publication of Patrick Gautier Dalché's catalogue for a while. Just a pity it is not OA and costs 600+ E. www.brepols.net/products/IS-... #medievalsky

📜E-CODICES UPDATE📜 24 new manuscripts from Swiss collections are now online 🥳 Include a 9th-century Physiologus. #medievalsky 🔗 e-codices.ch/en/list/all/...

🥳DATABASE UPDATE🥳 Glad to announce that the Innovating Knowledge DB was updated over the weekend. Now contains 507 pre-1000 manuscripts of Isidore's Etymologiae (up from 496). Check out the new manuscript images, links and overall new info on manuscripts 🔗db.innovatingknowledge.nl #medievalsky

📜JOIN US IN TWO WEEKS FOR A COLLOQUIUM ON MEDIEVAL EXCERPTION PRACTICES📜 2-4 October 2024, Universite de Montpellier 🔗 Zoom will be available ➡️ crises.www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/node/191458 Full programme available now #medievalsky

📜 Join us next week in Milan or virtually for the second round of the Parallel Lives of the Classics and the Fathers ℹ️ More info and programme at: www.irht.cnrs.fr/fr/agenda/co... #medievalsky

✍️Your humblest narrator has been offered a one-year fellowship in Latin Palaeography in the ERC project SCRIBEMUS. Scribes of Musical Cultures. Decoding Early Technologies of Music Writing in Latin Europe (ca. 900–1100). 🔗Here is more about the project: scribemus.unipv.it

✍️There is still time to apply: Summer School in Digital Palaeography that takes place at the University of Göttingen. Successful applicants to the summer school will receive free accommodation. Contributions towards travel costs are also on offer #medievalsky. www.uni-goettingen.de/en/digital+p...

📖ISIDORE NO. 504 After a long deliberation, I have included this early 11th-c. manuscript into the IK dataset. Other, even slightly more recent manuscripts are also included. 📚Wolfenbüttel, HAB, Guelf. 2 Weiss. (11th c., in., Wissembourg) 🔗https://diglib.hab.de/mss/2-weiss/start.htm #medievalsky

📜This 14th-century Isidore is for sale at Doyle auction house in New York. If you have spare 5,000 $, it can be still yours, #medievalsky www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/...

🖼️A SNIPPET FROM THE CIRCLE OF JOHN THE SCOT ERIUGENA🖼️ A folio (67v) from Paris, Bibliotheque Mazarine, MS 561 containing John's translation of the exposition of Maximus Confessor with notes from individuals from his scholarly circle. In the bottom margin his Irish assistant, i2. #medievalsky

Exciting news! @ERC_Research grants #ERCAdG to INSULAR MSS in the Age of Charlemagne (€2.5m). Our team includes @litteracarolina.mastodon.online & partners in libraries & universities across Europe incl. @ercb2c @brad_dan @CharlotteDenoel @LieveWatteeuw @bodleianlibs @BLMedieval

An Isidore from a private collection that shall not be named. First experience collaborating with a private collector. Very positive. The manuscript belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps. Was split into two parts in the 19th century and circulated separately. Now reunited. Happy ending! #medievalsky

🤩IT IS OFFICIAL: THERE ARE 500 EMA ISIDORES🤩 Have been stuck on 499 surviving + identified pre-1000 copies of Etymologies for a long time. Yesterday found this darling🥳 📜Paris, BnF, Lat. 6288 (10th c., 2/2, Moissac) 🔗https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9066980z #medievalsky

✍️Check out the Summer School in Digital Palaeography in Göttingen. 📄Applications are accepted until the end of April. ❓More info at: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/684265.html #medievalsky

📜Check out this detailed TO map from a 12th-c. copy of Isidore's Etymologies (Aix-en-Provence 25, p. 293) 🏔️It is uncommon to see so many geographical labels for regions and water bodies ❓Can you guess where was it made based on the relative density of toponyms?

🕐There is still some time to submit a proposal for Biblissim-IA conference in Paris. ✍️If you work on applications of AI to palaeographic subjects, this is a conference to attend in 2024 📅Deadline: 5 February biblissim-ia-2024.sciencesconf.org

👇JOB OFFER IN GÖTTINGEN👇 ➡️The project Manuskripte digital lesen lernen is looking for a manuscript specialist to help develop a digital teaching tool. ➡️The job is part-time for two years (1 Apr 2024 - 31 Mar 2026) ➡️Apply before 5 February via obp.uni-goettingen.de/de-de/OBF/In... #medievalsky

📯There is still time to join us this week at the colloquium Vies paralleles des Classiques et des Peres latins au Moyen Age 📅31 January - 2 February 🚩Paris AND online (just write to the organisers) 📄The full programme is here: www.irht.cnrs.fr/fr/agenda/co... #medievalsky

🤩CRAFTING DOCUMENTS PROJECT LAUNCH🤩 If you are interested in medieval relic labels, parchment and ink production, this project is officially launching in Oxford. 📅2 February, 3-4 PM GMT 🚩Oxford and Zoom #medievalsky

🤩GREAT SEMINAR ON PARCHMENT PRODUCTION🤩 📜Changes in production of parchment during one millennium: 4th-14th centuries 🧑‍🏫Jiří Vnouček, Conservator of parchment, paper & bookbinding The Royal Library 🕰️2 February, 16:00 CET ❗Write to organisers for hybrid access #medievalsky

Join us on 31 January - 2 February at IRHT for this colloquium on the parallel lives of Classical and Patristic texts. You can also join remotely if you write to the organisers. Program available at: www.irht.cnrs.fr/fr/agenda/co...

📄The program of the seminar for quantitative codicology and the sociology of the book at Sorbonne📄 You can also join remotely #medievalsky

🖼️Picture of the day is this full-page Saint Jerome portrait in manuscript Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 1332, fol. 1v (8th c., ex., Salzburg) #medievalsky

#MedievalChickens! Just what #MedievalSky needed. "We first shotgun sequenced 995 archeological chicken samples excavated from more than 140 western Eurasian archeological sites." Impressive geographical distribution of samples! www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

📜Glad to see this fragment-palimpsest on e-codices.ch😍 ✍️Upper script: 12th-c. Beneventana, the Urbarium of the Church of Salerno ✍️Lower script: 10th-c. Beneventana, Isidore's Etymologiae 🧐Your humblest narrator provided the detailed description www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/searchres...

📜Here is a fuller picture of that wonderful 9th-century Isidore fragment that surfaced in Boston Public Library. It's a reminder that new 9th-century find are possible, especially among fragments. search.digital-scriptorium.org/catalog/DS3314 #medievalsky

📜Christie's has a new auction of autograph letters and manuscripts. Nothing medieval but some 16th-17th c. interesting scientific journals 🔭 Check out this sketchbook of Johann Rudolph Halter of Basel (1627-1628) onlineonly.christies.com/s/alphabet-g...

A new fragment of the Etymologiae just surfaced on Digital Scriptorium 2.0. Dated to 11th c. Crazy! I am quite fine with dating it to 9th c. Anyone wants to share their palaeographic opinion? Boston, Public Library, H.41.8 (endleaves) search.digital-scriptorium.org/catalog/DS3314

🤩This new exhibition in the MET looks really great🤩 Africa & Byzantium shows the African connections with and influences on Byzantine culture. Great topic! #medievalsky

Peripleo looks like an interesting mapping tool for manuscript researchers. LOD-compliant. A tutorial is being offered on Monday as a part of Linked Past conference. Won't be making it, but maybe someone else may. linkedpasts.hcommons.org

Friends and foes, a bit od a deja vu, but JHNR just moved: jhnr.uni.lu ➡️ jhnr.net 📚 The special issue on network analysis in manuscript studies can now be found at: jhnr.net/9/volume/9/i... Great that individual articles have now their own DOI 🥳 #medievalsky

🦷Medieval ode on a rotten tooth🦷 "Having lost a tooth, I was forced to write this verse, Behold, the rotten tooth fell out of our [mouth?], It bore a lot while I ate, eaten it has perished." Paris, BnF, n.a.l. 1448, fol. 214v #medievalsky

This history + DH position at CEU looks good. Applications due on 31 January 2024

🧐 Friends and foes, join me next Wednesday at 12 CET for a virtual Lunchtime Lecture about annotated manuscripts, unruly glosses, and how network analysis can help us untangle organic (read complex) corpora of glosses.

🔍Interesting quia abbreviation. Has anyone seen something similar? 📜Vatican, BAV, Reg. Lat. 1687, fol. 51r #medievalsky

📕Book recommendation📕 📖If you are ever curious about the development of script in early Bohemia, Dalibor Havel published this great book last year. 📖I read the earlier Czech version and it was really great to get under my hood. www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/book/10....

📄 This is great! Andre Bouwman put together and hyperlinked the complete inventory of medieval Western manuscripts held by the Leiden University Libraries. ☺️ This is going to be everyone's entry point to the collections from now on.

😍 This online course in Hebrew Palaeography by Jusith Olszowy-Schlanger. And you can take it for free as an auditor. Just a pity it does not seem to be on offer ATM.