aaronm , 8 days ago to medievodons

86 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican 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.
#Medieval #Medievodons #Histodons @bookhistodons @medievodons

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

aaronm , 14 days ago to medievodons

98 #Manuscripts were digitized by the #Vatican this week, because they don't care about #Thanksgiving 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

aaronm , 19 days ago to medievodons

#Byzantineodons Question for someone who knows #Greek #paleography far better than I do: How would you describe this hand? It looked minuscule from a distance, but close up the letterforms are way easier to read and more consistent across position...
(#Vatican Pal.gr.258 the text is Paulus Evergetinus Synagoge)
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aaronm , 21 days ago to bookhistodons

The #Vatican added 63 #Manuscripts 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

aaronm , 29 days ago to bookhistodons

76 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican 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

aaronm , 1 month ago to bookhistodons

59 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican 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