SJLahey , to medievodons
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Spent today looking at in St John’s College (Cambridge) Library’s Rare Books Reading Room—a wonderful space (📷 1: St John’s Chapel). This manuscript (📷 2) belongs to a group I discussed in my uOttawa MA thesis (sup.: Andrew Taylor); how amazing to see it in person.
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Photo of a detail of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 53 recto in Cambridge, St John’s College, manuscript A.7. 21 lines of French copied in black ink, in a precise, spiky hand, with the first 14 lines indented to accommodate an enormous decorative initial ‘E’ for ‘Edward’ (for this is England’s King Edward II). The letter is rendered in blue and white atop a black-painted square densely packed with fine, scrolling filigree vines in gold. At centre, superimposed atop the letter, is a painting of a king, his long brown hair and beard just beginning to grey beneath his golden crown. Clad in a pink, ermine-trimmed cloak over a vermilion robe, he sits enthroned—golden sceptre in one hand, golden orb in the other—gazing at the adjacent text with an expression of deep suspicion. Can the scribes be trusted? Only time will tell.

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The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu
The Quest for the Storied City and the Race to Save Its Treasures

Two tales of a city: The historical race to reach one of the world's most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend.

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86 new from the this week
http://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2023/week48.html
Includes 5 (!) copies of Goro Dati's La Sfera, a bunch more Greek, many 16th and 17th C "Disputations" from the Barberini collection, a very narrow copy of Statius' Thebais, a Book of Hours and some maps of Henry Stevenson Jr.
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A page from Chig.M.VII.148 f.17r. It contains three stanzas of Italian poetry in black ink, with section titles in red on the left and a large picture of a tower on the right, decorated in red wash

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Check out version v1.3.0 of our edition of Alice Thornton's Books. We have a new search function for people and places. Links that go to our partial release are live (others show up but are currently disabled). We also have some sample bios up for the 14 people named in the first 22 pages of her 'Book of Remembrances'. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/entities/

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We have also added more detail on the site about Alice Thornton's four manuscript books, especially her 'Book of Remembrances' which is where the 103pp of the partial release are from
https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/
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Neil Ker Memorial Fund - DL 10 Jan 2024

Aim: to promote the study of Western medieval MSS, esp. those of British interest: investigation of their production, readership and use

https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/neil-ker-memorial-fund/

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aaronm , to medievodons
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98 were digitized by the this week, because they don't care about http://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2023/week47.html
Includes a ton more Greek works, including an illuminated John of Damascus, a post-Byzantine Greek Ordo, a Latin Rituale, more Russian psalter volumes, more Henry Stevenson Jr, and a poignant Ferrial Psalter made in Constantinople in 1452
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A full page miniature of John of damascus, seated with halo left, teaching a bunch of students standing right. From pal.gr.242 f.3v
A page of black minuscule greek, with water damage to the top 5 lines from Pal.gr.225 f.117v

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The added 63 this week
http://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2023/week46.html
Lots of Greek, one unidentified Syriac text, Johannes Andreae's Hieronymianus, Boethius, Russian Old Believer works and more!
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f.12r from Reg.lat.1638. This has several lines of Caroline minuscule at the top and several more at the bottom. in the middle is a horizontal diagram of musical intervals

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Aujourd'hui, séance du séminaire Manuscrits en Méditerranée @IRHT_CNRS par Anne Weddigen, "Sur la tradition manuscrite des diagrammes dans les traités musicaux grecs et latins", sur place @campuscondorcet ou en ligne (me contacter)

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SJLahey , to bookhistodons
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I have found my True Love, and it is this miniature, Mohawked, axe-wielding maniac and their, uh… [hound? horse? rabid hedgehog? (whatever it is, I’m here for it)] scribbled by some medieval or early modern kid in a Cambridge University Library legal manuscript. ! 🪓🤺

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76 new from the this week
http://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2023/week45.html
Includes more from the Pal.gr backlog, a 16th C Rituale, Chrysoloras' Erotemata decorated like a cheap Ghent-Bruges Book of Hours, a 12th C Symmachus, Boccaccio in Greek, a French cartulary and .... Henry Stevenson Jr!
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f.1r from Reg.gr.163. There are leaf borders on all four sides and a large capitol letter Ε. The text is widely spaced greek with latin glosses

SJLahey , to bookhistodons
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Pay attention! This is the important bit—right here.

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aaronm , to bookhistodons
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59 from the this week
http://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2023/week44.html
Continuing to be mostly Pal.gr, including a 9th C ps-Dionysius, and 11th C Greg of Naz, and a lot of post-Byzantine stuff. Elsewhere part 1/4 of a Russian Psalter, Cartularies for Orleans, a Calabrian Martyrology and more!
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P.I.O.slav.43 f.1v. A large miniature depicting a russian orthodox saint standing at an altar with three icons behind it. There is a small block of text at the bottom
A large page of 11th C greek minuscule from the Sermons of Gregory Nazianzus, Pal.gr.402 f.1v. There is a large title block in the middle with gold text in a quadrafoil. The main text starts below with a large initial Α, and there is scholia in a smaller hand on the top, right and bottom

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