Chris Celenza

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 40 of 2025 An extremely quiet week, with only five manuscripts digitized. Of these four are from the Ott.lat collection, and the final one is from Comb. To the right is f.3r from Ott.lat.1713, a 14th C manusc...

Only 5 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Consists of a Ge'ez Book of Hours, a commentary on Aristotle, Nonius Marcellus' De compendiosa doctrina (his only surviving work), Seneca's Tragedies and a vol of Papal stuff
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 38 of 2025 A total of forty-seven manuscripts were digitized in the past week, which is slightly above average when comparing to recent weeks. Also in-line with the patterns of recent weeks, the most manuscripts...

47 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican were digitized this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes another Sanvito-rubricated work, Beneventan fragments, Diaries, Classics, Philosophy, Strozzi's _Eroticon_, and more!
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 30 of 2025 Another week of digitizing concludes with twenty-nine new manuscripts, which seems to be the current pace. The largest collection continues to be Barb.lat, with eleven added. Following that was Ott....

another week, another 29 #Manuscripts digitized by the #vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Including plays by Sebastiano Baldin, Euclid, Ethiopic liturgy, dated and glossed Seneca, patristics, papal history, and Peñafort... oh my!
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♥️Ausonius♥️! Here is the MS in question: digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_S.M... The Cento nuptialis starts at the bottom of 42r. Also, I love this scribe's Ss.

Five Takeaways on Natural Philosophy - Arts & Sciences Magazine Illustration by Grace Toscano Last month, about 150 philosophers, scientists, and other thinkers gathered at a Baltimore hotel to discuss topics ranging

Natural Philosophy at Hopkins! Wonderful event; #ProudOfOurColleagues magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2025/06/five...

Susan Choi: ‘I Feel I’ve Read Nothing but Great Books Recently’

Go Prof. Choi! #ProudOfOurProfs: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/b...

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 20 of 2025 Mostly coming on Friday, a total of forty-eight manuscripts were added this week. More than half of these, twenty-six in total, came from the Capp.Sist archives, with ten more from Barb.lat. The res...

48 more #Manuscripts digitized by the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
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
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 19 of 2025 A total of fifty-eight manuscripts were digitized for the conclave/elevation week. Leading the pack this week was Capp.Sist with nineteen manuscripts, many being single volumes of multi-volume musica...

Uninvolved in the #conclave, the #Vatican libraries digitized 58 #manuscripts
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
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!
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Come and join us at @livesandletters.bsky.social to talk about #EarlyModern libraries! Two weeks to get your abstracts in! Check the website for full details, incl. how PhDs and ECRs can apply for funding to attend…

So proud to have co-written this newly published book w/my brilliant friend Anne E. Lester; I just remembered the book came into being largely b/c of an #NEH grant Anne received in 2020-2021, allowing us to follow up on our pandemic zoom calls together.
cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/a-c...

Founders’ Prize Submission Instructions The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy awards an annual prize of $500 for the best paper on medieval or renaissance philosophy by a younger scholar.  Eligibility is restricted to …

The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy awards an annual prize of $500 for the best paper on medieval or renaissance philosophy by a younger scholar.

Details here:

smrpblog.wordpress.com/founders-awa...

Sri Sarma discussing the graphs on the computer screen to a colleague.

Sri Sarma looking at computer screens while a colleague explains what she is seeing.

Sri Sarma and her team posing in front of their work spaces.

Sri Sarma standing in an office with desks behind her.

Bold ideas are born from real-world problems. Research turns them into solutions that change lives. At Johns Hopkins, biomedical engineer Sri Sarma’s NIH-funded research is improving how doctors understand and treat common neurological conditions. hub.jhu.edu/.../27/nih-f...

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Thanks to everyone who has kept me at the work and shared my vision about our purpose, now more than ever. Thanks especially to @guggfellows for seeing us!

Announcing the 2025 Guggenheim Fellows — Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has given Fellowships to exceptional artists, writers, scholars, and scientists, empowering them to pursue meaningful work under the freest possible conditions.

Congratulations to @marthasjones.bsky.social and David Yezzi on being named 2025 Guggenheim Fellows, @guggfellows.bsky.social. www.gf.org/stories/anno...

Molten martian core could explain red planet's magnetic quirks The planet's once-strong magnetic field appears to have been limited to its southern hemisphere, the apparent result of a fully liquid inner core that differs from that of Earth

Mars once had a magnetic field like Earth’s, but a new study co-authored by planetary scientist @planetsabine.bsky.social shows its molten core cooled unevenly, leaving the planet magnetically unstable. 🧲 hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/15/m...

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 15 of 2025 Another somewhat quiet week with a total of thirty-six manuscripts digitized. Unexpectedly Ott.lat contributed the largest fraction with twelve, followed by Barb.lat with ten and Capp.Sist.Diari with...

A quietish week, only 36 #Manuscripts from the Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
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, unknown to me
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Three Johns Hopkins researchers named AAAS fellows James Berger, Karen Fleming, and Gregory Kirk join an esteemed group of scientists, engineers, and innovators who have been recognized for their achievements across disciplines

Congratulations to biophysics professor @karenfleming.bsky.social on being elected a 2024 @aaas.org fellow for her work in molecular biophysics. 🎉 hub.jhu.edu/2025/03/27/2...

“Don’t rest on things that you believe—look in the world, listen to the data, listen to real, empirical sources of information,” says Jenann Ismael. 🎙️

"Looking at a tiny part of the brain in a mouse, we can understand how the brain learns, and we can make predictions about how the human brain might work," says @kishoreneuro.bsky.social. hub.jhu.edu/2025/03/19/b...

Great conversation about dark energy!

A photo of a painting called Six Tuscan Poets, an oil-on-panel painting by the Florentine visual artist and writer Giorgio Vasari, 1544.

🎧 Listen to a podcast w/ scholar of #Renaissance #history Chris Celenza on relevant historical antecedents to responsibly deal w/ information, today's risks of manipulating public opinion and more.

➡️ ideasroadshow.com/christopher-...

🗃️ #skystorians @chriscelenza.bsky.social 🏺 #Academicsky #Edusky

TONIGHT! www.loc.gov/item/event-4...

Flyer for summer Latin information. Details are at the link in this post.

Applications are open for the Summer Latin Program at the Centre for Medieval Studies, Toronto! Note that Basic Latin is online, a great opportunity for anyone who's been wanting to start Latin and doesn't have a local option. www.medieval.utoronto.ca/latin/summer...

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A square graphic shows a photo of an open page spread from a book by Petrarch, in which the columns of text on both facing pages have been crossed out by horizontal and diagonal pen lines. In the margin, a note in Latin states “est prohibitum” (“it is prohibited”). To the upper left of the image, white text over a black triangle in the corner reads “NEW COURSE.” At the bottom of the graphic, text in red and black on a white background reads “H-205 Censorship from the Inquisition to the Present, Taught by Ada Palmer, 3–8 August 2025 at the University of Chicago, First-Round Application Deadline: 7 March 2025.”

Announcing a new RBS course: H-205 "Censorship from the Inquisition to the Present," taught by @adapalmer.bsky.social, 3–8 August 2025 at the University of Chicago.

The first-round deadline to apply for H-205 is 7 March. For our complete Summer 2025 course schedule, see rarebookschool.org/schedule.

Book Review: ‘The Trouble of Color,’ by Martha S. Jones A new memoir by the historian Martha S. Jones combines a trenchant analysis of race and the historical record with a homage to other Black women scholars.

« In “The Trouble of Color,” Jones has done more than honor her family’s history; she reinscribes their story on the tablet of our collective imagination. »
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/b...

Martha S. Jones on the Trouble of Color By excavating her ancestral history, historian and memoirist Martha S. Jones invites readers to reflect deeply on their own family stories.

« If you have been misapprehended, mistaken or misunderstood for someone you are not…if you’ve heard that your family is too complicated, too out of bounds, confused or contradictory, this book is for you. » - MSJ #thetroubleofcolor
www.bookpage.com/interviews/m...

Human genome sequencing powers personalized, precision medicine A decades-long NIH-backed effort to map the human genome has advanced our understanding of genetic risk factors and human health

With NIH support, scientists from institutions around the world, including Johns Hopkins, were able to map the human genome, helping advance our understanding of genetic risk factors for diseases like cancer. 🧬https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/02/28/nih-funding-human-genome-rajiv-mccoy/

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 8 of 2025 A meagre total of twenty-four manuscripts were added this past week. Following the pattern of recent weeks, the bulk of these manuscripts, sixteen in fact, were from the Barb.lat collection. Additio...

Only 24 #Manuscripts this week from the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Mostly 17th C stuff from the Barberini family, but also some Ethiopic, a few more Sistine diaries, post-Byzantine Greek and a Spanish commentary on Pope Paul II...
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