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I don't have an example of "Meart". Maart is a common Dutch variant tho...
www.cokldb.org/p/v100/saint...

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 8 of 2026 Ten manuscripts in total were added to the online repositories this week. These consisted of six manuscripts from Ott.lat, three from Comb, and a single volume from Barb.lat. To the right is p.7 fro...

Only 10 #Manuscripts this week from the #Vatican
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
some Ge'ez (including music), an Arbor Philosophiae, a Formularium, some classical works and more (not much more)
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Interestingly even in Dutch language calendars, Martin isn't rendered with the double-a. We've got Mertens and Mertiins and Martyns...
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Forgot to mention, this is June 8. There is an attested "St. Mark" on this date in Essen (western DE). Medard is the most common saint on that date. The calendar is in a weird French, so spellings are all a bit ... vibe

Anyone have a reading for this that isn't just "the scribe screwed up marc"? (BPL MS q.med 105 13th C Metz)

Great! If I might make a suggestion, it might be a good idea to disable “debug” mode so that it doesn’t leak so much info on errors. It was giving versions of python and Django and nginx… etc

would a proof count as a first, or is it before the first?

@medievallitura.bsky.social I think the Books of Duchesses site has crashed booksofduchesses.com, it's returning a bunch of DB connection failures.

Oooh not just manuscript waste, calendar fragment!

I have a soft spot for those, but I guess if there people out there who are _not_ building a massive Horae database….

We could have a second room for “Look what they did to my boy” manuscripts that might have looked nice originally, but….

Ok. So we’ve got to start with a taxonomy of meh. I see

- crummy parchment
- “gotta use it all” margins measured in microns
- scribal hands only a mother could love
- errrrors

I’m sure there are more!

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 7 of 2026 Only seventeen manuscripts were digitized in the past week. As is the current pattern, the vast majority, thirteen, were from Ott.lat. The rest consisted of a single manuscript from each of Barb.lat...

Before the blizzard
The flakes are yet to fall
Seventeen added
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
New from the #Vatican lots of classical Latin, Humanist translations, Francesco Filfelfo, Ge'ez sermons and more
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

Maybe this will force me to work on my slides for MAA.... maybe?

Probably never going to happen, sadly. The BAV is very committed to their "let's upgrade enough pixels to let people read it, but no more" process, and for them 5000px on the long side isn't bad!

a small crop from the calendar of a Book of Hours showing St. Francis receiving the stigmata. The kneeling saint is in an architectural frame with a small crucified Christ in the top right. Lines of red trace the connection between the wounds on the crucifix and Francis

Francis of Assisi, patron saint of marionettes
(Huntington Library, MS 1088 f.11r search.digital-scriptorium.org/catalog/DS9658)

But make sure to take your tallis off before going in the Skabbai toilet

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 6 of 2026 A solid showing this week, with fifty-five manuscripts digitized, forty-six of those were uploaded on Friday. The vast majority, forty-four, came from the Ott.lat fond. The bulk of the remaining came...

Another "dump it all on friday" week of #manuscripts from the #vatican
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
Includes medical works, a lot of Bruni, classics, papal stuff, history of Venice, stuff I don't understand, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

a 16th C cursive hand in 4 lines

@monicamedhist.bsky.social I know the 16th Century is too late for you, but I just noticed this line in a table of contents (BAV Ott.lat.2131)

Could we build an AI “reviewer 2”? It would really speed up breaking the spirits of young academics.

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 5 of 2026 On Friday of this week eighteen manuscripts were digitized, the only day of activity. Of those, sixteen were from Ott.lat, and one each from Chig and Vat.lat. At the right is f.121r from Ott.lat.215...

Since all of this weeks 18 #Manuscripts were uploaded by the #vatican on Friday, I'm a bit late
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
Many classics, a medical notebook, an Avvisi, Boccaccio and Poggio, texts on gems and art, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

When AI can read Merovingian Charters, I'll throw in the towel

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 4 of 2026 Only six manuscripts were digitized last week, all from the Ott.lat collection. At the right is f.33v from Ott.lat.2071, a composite manuscript of the 14th C. The first part, which includes this fo...

Inches of snow fell
More than the new #manuscripts
only six digitized

... from the #Vatican at least
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
Boccaccio, Ockham, Giles of Rome, Virgil, Bondio.. and more!
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I miss the Higgins, but I am glad the collection has a new home

Ott.lat.1508 seems to be medicinal. I also saw Averroes and might have gotten confused between his medical and his philosophical works

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 3 of 2026 A total of thirty-three manuscripts were digitized this past week. They came entirely from the Ott.lat, with twenty-five, and Barb.lat, with the remaining eight manuscripts. To the right is a page fr...

Before the snow fell
The #Vatican Library
Scanned 33 books

www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
Includes a c. 1200 glossed Virgil, a ton of classics, St. Anthony of Florence, medicine, Lorenzo Valla on Latin and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorian

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 2 of 2026 A total of thirty-seven manuscripts were digitized this week. These were split between Ott.lat, which added twenty-four, and Barb.lat which added thirteen. This brings the total number of manuscripts...

A solid 37 #Manuscripts added by the #Vatican last week
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
Includes a skinny Argonautica (San Vito rubrics!), a bunch of classics, papal and other ecclesiastical stuff, Plutarch translated by Bruni, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

A cat got him… thus is the fate for goats

First of 4 #BooksOfHours from my recent trip to @labnf.bsky.social This one is the unusual Use of Bayeux, with local saints, inc. Ragnobert on 5-16; Ravennus and Rasiphus on 7-23; Exuperius on 8-1, and only 2 errors. Due to BnF, no pics to post
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www.cokldb.org/p/v100/ms/389

31-line Indulgence - Wikipedia

The pope (Nick 5). Around the time he was preparing his Bible, Gutenberg printed the Plenary indulgence from Nicholas V, modernly called the "31-line Indulgence"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/31-line...

Do you know if this still accurate, to the best of our knowledge at least, for the origins of HIV?