Uninvolved in the conclave, the #Vatican libraries digitized 58 #manuscripts
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week19.html
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!
@bookstodon @medievodon #Medieval #Medievodons
Library of Congress Acquires Major #Photography and Manuscript Collection Documenting the Chicano Movement
(via LOC) https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/library-of-congress-acquires-major-photography-and-manuscript-collection-documenting-the-chicano-mov/s/9a890608-a6e9-4b76-8447-d111e4609758 #libraries #manuscripts
I would be remiss not to mention the passing earlier this year of Francis Newton, emeritus professor of classics at Duke University, two weeks shy of his 97th birthday.
Francis was one of the most eminent palaeographers of his generation, and he remained active and engaged up to his passing, continuing to publish and attend conferences well into his 90s. But in addition to his scholarship, he was gentleman, kind and attentive to anyone asking advice, and especially encouraging to younger scholars.
#manuscripts #palaeography #FrancisNewton #Beneventan
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/newsobserver/name/francis-newton-obituary?id=57695694
No new pope yet, but the work digitizing #Vatican #Manuscripts continues with 28 new manuscripts last week
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week18.html
Includes a 14th C Codex of Justinian, two Bussulas, some polyphonic masses, Aesop, a Demosthenes translated by Bruni (autograph?) and more!
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons
#913 Andrew Cook (ed) - Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, Vol XIV, No 62, Autumn 1979. The British Records Association, London. #Archives #Archivists #BritishRecordsAssociation #Medieval #Manuscripts #BookOfTheDay
When you really need people to know where the best bit of the text is located - mid-15th century, Avignon, Bibliothèque Ceccano - 1094, f. 195v
@MedMilMedicine #Manuscripts #humour #humor
Unknown scribe, Horae Beata Virgo Maria, Italy, 1510.
This book of hours in a humanist hand is one of the oldest manuscripts at Letterform Archive. It’s also one of the first books founder Rob Saunders collected. Learn why, at our first 10th Anniversary Symposium salon:
Looking Back with Rob Saunders: The Importance of Material Culture
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Probably due to Passover cooking, the #Vatican only digitized 27 #Manuscripts this week
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week16.html
Includes 2 italian Boethius', documents on Würzburg, 19th C liturgical music, a glossed Aeneid, some signed Humanist texts and more!
@medievodons @bookhistodons #Medieval #Medievodons
"Remember Gevork, who drew this horse with his own hand, on […?] December 1735, on the day known as Friday. Amen."
"Յիշատակէ գէվորքի որ այս ձիս գիրեց ուր ձեռամբէ թվին ռ՟ ճ՟ ձ՟ դ՟ ին Դկտէբէրին ծ՟ բ՟ ին [?] օրէ յորբաթ կօչի ամէն:"
#Ottoman #Armenian #manuscripts @earlymodern
Manuscript sold for €300 is now attributed to Cyrano de Bergerac – but questions remain about the play’s authorship
French researchers recently published an edition of a previously unknown 17th-century French play that they argue could be attributed to the French satirist and dramatist Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac.
By Alisa van de Haar
Illustration depicting the constellation Draco, from manuscript Ms Persian 373, late 17th to early 18th century AD. Collection: Wellcome Library, London.
@archaeologyart #astronomy #Persian #manuscripts #hsitory
A quietish week, only 36 #Manuscripts from the Vatican https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week15.html
Includes a 13th C NT, 11th C Menologium, more 17th C papal stuff, Sistine Diaries and Ethiopic liturgy. Several humanistic texts, including one by one Raniero Fioravanti, an early 16th C Venetian about whom I know nothing except his name and arms.
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons
I 
requests to #edit new #manuscripts from #physician-#researchers for whom I’ve edited in the past. Today’s email: “Your #professional perspective and #language #expression #skills have always been highly admirable. With your help, this article can be further refined and made more appealing.”
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Our @erc.europa.eu Beasts to Craft team led by Élodie Lévêque uncovered the true identity of mysterious hairy covers on #medieval #Cistercian #manuscripts - they're ...
“… Silence will not protect #science. … One … response has been to obscure or rebrand ‘controversial’ areas like #diversity … to avoid scrutiny. … #Researchers are considering and being asked to make changes to #language in #grants and #manuscripts.” https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/114967
A solid 63 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week14.html
Includes some v old Kufic Quran leaves; several legal texts, some #neolatin works; more 17th C Papal texts, Ethiopic texts, Sistine diaries, and classics; a 12th C glossed Priscian and more!
@medievodons @bookhistodons #Medieval #Medievodons
Nächtlicher Einblick in die digitale Handschriftenforschung: Entdecken Sie Inhalte, Konzept und Recherchemöglichkeiten des #Handschriftenportal – beim 'Markt der Möglichkeiten' in der @bsbmuenchen zur ersten Nacht der Bibliotheken.
Marktstand geöffnet: 18:00–22:00
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Weitere Informationen 
https://www.bsb-muenchen.de/nacht-der-bibliotheken#c26618
@overholt According to the story, there are 40 or so surviving manuscripts of this text. While I do find fascinating this photographic technique to re-create what the manuscript looked like (and the technique has been used on other manuscripts), I also kept thinking about all those texts for which we have one surviving copy (or none), and how hopefully we might find even rarer gems inside these Renaissance bindings.
Due to the Annunciation(March 25) this week, only 12 #Manuscripts added by the #Vatican https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week13.html
includes a skinny Ovid, a redecorated Augustine, a 9th C MS, more 17th C papal stuff, 2 Ge'ez liturgical volumes and more!
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodon
