AaronM

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!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

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
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
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?

@harvard.edu's Houghton Library has a copy of that too! id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/9900933...

@maklelan.bsky.social Have you done an episode on the very end of Genesis (Parshah Vayechi in the Jewish reckoning, chapters 47-50 or so)? The "blessings" are so weird and layered that it might make a good analysis topic

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 1 of 2026 Only five manuscripts were digitized this week, all from the Ott.lat collection. To the right is f.288v from Ott.lat.644, one of the approximately thirteen surviving manuscripts of the Dux neutrorum,...

Only 5 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
A Livy, a Virgil, a work on grammar and rhetoric, an Avvisi from 1650 and Maimonides in Latin
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

Slightly diminish a band:

10pm Oil

What do we know about the printing technology? Specifically my interest is in what the type was made of, if we know, and if it was mass produced.

I can try to work something out, but I store the dates as relatively unstructured data, so it could be "1525" or it could be "1525-1535" or it could be "16th C" or even "14th C, 15th C, 1275" for manuscripts of several parts

Statistical wrapup on the 2025 digitization work on #Vatican #Manuscripts. No pretty letters or illuminations, just cold facts and some unattractive graphs.
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 52 of 2025 Despite Christmas coming in the middle of the week, the Vatican got in two digitizing days and added seventeen manuscripts this week. It was an unusual distribution with eight, the largest fraction, ...

Many factors delayed the last MS report of 2025, but the #vatican did manage 17 #Manuscripts last week
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Much Ge'ez, strange narrow MS, Arabic stories, Sistine Music and more.
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

An examination of gambling under the monarchy of the ancien regime in the long 18th century:

Thank you, the database has been updated. Is there any way to query PhiloBiblon via API, or the like? I'd love to get the list of Vatican MS into my DB so I can know when to cross-link the entries

Just a note of clarification, the Vatican has two different departments, the Archives and the Library. I only pay attention to the library (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana/BAV) which has manuscripts, not to the Archives (Archivio Apostolico Vaticano, formerly the Archivum Secretum Vaticanum).

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 51 of 2025 A total of forty-one manuscripts were digitized in the past week, perhaps the last working week of 2025. This week's distribution was all over the place, Capp.Sist contributed the most with eleven. F...

41 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes more Ge'ez, poems sucking up to Barberinis, lotsa Sistine music by Palestrina, Biordi, et al, some classics, an Exultet Roll in use, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

That would be an interesting Dadaeaque project. Take hallucinated citations and force the genAI to create the paper. See if the fake papers cite each other in some sort of web of lies

It was a good reminder for me to figure out which volume it was. I'll make sure to add it to the notes on the volume so everyone knows!

Paléographie musicale : fac-similés phototypiques des principaux manuscrits de chant grégorien, ambrosien, mozarabe, gallican : Macquereau, André, 1849-1930 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : In... Les éditeurs varient

This MS is extremely well studied, probably because it was published in Paleographie Musicale 14 in 1931. So not only was a printed facsimile out in the world, but PM indexes things, so it's easier to work with than many similar volumes
archive.org/details/palo...

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 50 of 2025 In total twenty-three manuscripts were digitized this week. The breakdown across the collections is Ott.lat, Capp.Sist, and Comb, with eight, seven, and six contributions, respectively. The last two...

The year starts to wind down, but the #Vatican still digitized 23 #Manuscripts www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes Sistine scrap paper, 18th C and Ge'ez liturgy, 15th C copies of Cicero, Averroes, Diogenes Laertius, Vegetius, and more! (not much more)
#MedievalSky #HistorianSky

It reminds me of the "fold down the tab" pledge cards I've seen at Yom Kippur services

if it makes you feel better, I did handouts for my last talk in LuaLaTex. I was hoping for something a little ... less effort, particularly since the journal I'm targeting does not accept .tex submissions

#HistorianSky and #MedievalSky I need advice. What is a good Mac-compatible word/text processor for writing articles? I've grown to hate MS Word, but I like the Zotero integration. I want an application, not an online thing (eg. not Google Docs).

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 49 of 2025 Only nine manuscripts for the first week of December. They came solely from Ott.lat, with seven, and Barb.lat, with the remaining two. To the right is f.6r from Ott.lat.1903, an autograph copy of Ant...

Only 9 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes Sonnets, a Chronicle of Venice, a Chronicle of Burgundy by Molinet, Delfino's _Le Cleopatra_, Cicero, legal commentary, Antonio da Rho's autograph of _Dialogues against Lactantius_, etc.
#MedievalSky #Skystorians