“Alright lads, it looks like we’ve got the element of surprise on our side. They’ll never know we’re coming” - 14th century, München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.gall. 16, f. 70v
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#942 W.M.M. Picken - A Medieval Cornish Miscellany. Phillimore & Co, London, 1999, 1st edition.
Only 11 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week21.html
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
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons
48 more #Manuscripts digitized by the #Vatican in the past week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week20.html
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
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons
Sir Edward the Infantile didn’t want to leave the castle grounds that night, so for what was likely the first time in recorded history, he covered his ears and employed the now infamous “LA-LA-LA, I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!” tactic - 14th century, Bodleian Lib., MS. Bodl. 264, f. 152v
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Release v4.1.0 erweitert unser Datenangebot erneut deutlich: großen Zuwachs verzeichnen wir unter anderem mit 2.500 KODs der Stadtbibliothek Trier, 850 Digitalisaten der UB Kassel und 451 Beschreibungen der Fürstlich Waldeckschen Hofbibliothek in Bad Arolsen.
Release Notes 
https://handschriftenportal.de/info/release-notes
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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
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!
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Cambodia’s Wat Phum Thmei Palm Leaf Library and the Resilience of Buddhist Texts (A free, 8-page article from 2021)
Tags: #Cambodia #Manuscripts
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/wat-phum-thmei-palm-leaf-library_menchaca-philip
The Open Buddhist University · Cambodia’s Wat Phum Thmei Palm Leaf Library and the Resilience of Buddhist TextsThe new digital resource will not only help preserve a priceless record of Cambodian society and history, but it will also provide modern readers access to a trove of Cambodian Buddhist literature, and bring the texts to the world by making new translations possible.
#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
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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
Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 6:00–7:30pm PT
Register to attend in-person or online: https://letterformarchive.org/shop/looking-back-with-rob-saunders-the-importance-of-material-culture/?utm_source=Mastodon
Sala Rusconi
In the Archiginnasio there is a room called the Sala Rusconi. Named after Pietro Giacomo Rusconi (1865-1916), it contains many rare and valuable books and manuscripts which were collected by him. These were donated to Bologna after the death of his wife Luisa Verzaglia in 1919 - as the couple had not had any children. You unfortunately cannot go into the room now but you can peek through the iron bar door from the Sala Stabat Mater.
The portrait you see over the door is Rusconi himself.
I wanted to give the photo the feel of an old-fashioned illustration to compliment the treasures and antiquities in this library.
(Per quelli che sanno un po' di dialetto bolognese, non trovate un po' ironico che ci sia una sala così piena di saggezza e storia e si chiama... Rusco... ni.
)
#photography #amateurphotography #painting #books #history #library #corridor #bologna #travel #lighting #dark #moody #knowledge #manuscripts #theatre #science #portrait #collection #architecture #italy #italia #citta #old #illustration #retro #university #urbanarchitecture #travel #europe
In the Archiginnasio there is a room called the Sala Rusconi. Named after Pietro Giacomo Rusconi (1865-1916), it contains many rare and valuable books and manuscripts which were collected by him. These were donated to Bologna after the death of his wife Luisa Verzaglia in 1919 - as the couple had not had any children. You unfortunately cannot go into the room now but you can peek through the iron bar door from the Sala Stabat Mater.
The portrait you see over the door is Rusconi himself.
I wanted to give the photo the feel of an old-fashioned illustration to compliment the treasures and antiquities in this library.
(Per quelli che sanno un po' di dialetto bolognese, non trovate un po' ironico che ci sia una sala così piena di saggezza e storia e si chiama... Rusco... ni.
)#photography #amateurphotography #painting #books #history #library #corridor #bologna #travel #lighting #dark #moody #knowledge #manuscripts #theatre #science #portrait #collection #architecture #italy #italia #citta #old #illustration #retro #university #urbanarchitecture #travel #europe
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
