AaronM

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

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 48 of 2025 A total of twenty-three manuscripts were digitized in the past week. Unusually Capp.Sist contributed the most, with eight manuscripts digitized. Following that were the expected fonds, Ott.lat with s...

Only 23 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Petrarch, Sistine Music, Cicero, Suetonious, Arnold de Villanova, Aristotle, Ge'ez liturgy and amulets, and a Fransiscan Missale... and more
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 47 of 2025 Only thirteen manuscripts were digitized in the past week. Despite the small numbers, the recent pattern of distributions was maintained: Barb.lat led with five, Comb and Ott.lat added four each. T...

Only 13 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Contains: Ge'ez liturgy, obsequious Barberini poetry, a text on how to build and use a clock, poetry by Il Porcellio, commentaries on Aristotle, and more
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

I’m most interested in the calendar, if there even is one. I can’t seem to even find a list of the contents

If anyone has access to the 2015 fascimile of the Officiolum of Francesco da Barberino, and would be willing to do me a favor, it would be much appreciated.

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 46 of 2025 A total of forty-six manuscripts were completed in week 46 of the calendar year. The distribution is not quite what we have seen recently, Barb.lat continues to be the largest collection, adding seve...

46 new #Manuscripts went online from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes: Ge'ez imagery, 17th C Barberini stuff, 18th-19th C Sistine music, classics, a spanish illustrated work on machines and _more_
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

Reminder that this is happening (eek!!) on Monday. There is no online option, but hopefully this will lead to more work on the absolute batshittery of this manuscript

I would actually love to see some AI homework failures from the sciences.

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 45 of 2025 A total of seventy-six manuscripts were digitized this past week. Barb.lat, with twenty-nine, and Ott.lat with twenty-eight, contributed the majority of the volumes, following recent patterns. A full ...

A much more exciting week brought 76 #Manuscripts online at the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a glossed Priscian, a bunch of 17th C Barberini stuff, a pile more Ge'ez, many Cicero, Iñigo de Mendoça's Spanish _Vita Christiana_, and MORE
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

I keep all my books tracked in LibraryThing and i delight in seeing the "how many other users have this book counter". I have a bunch of books as "one other person" and I always wonder if it's the same person... and if I know them somehow

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 44 of 2025 Eleven total manuscripts were digitized in the past week. These consisted of six from Barb.lat, four from Ott.lat, and a single volume, a 17th C catalogue of printed books, from Vat.lat. To the right...

Eleven #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a text on the Barberini Lyre, more papal writings, Caesar's Wars (several), some Neo-Latin, a catalogue of printed books... and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Two columns, uncial a, per abbreviation … I know dating from a single image is hard but that does not feel earlier than the the very tail of the 9th c

Two columns, uncial a, per abbreviation … I know dating from a single image is hard but that does not feel 9th c

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 43 of 2025 Another extremely quiet week with only five manuscripts digitized. Four of them were from Ott.lat, and the remaining one was another Bussula, a type of election record, from Barb.lat. To the right...

Only 5 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
A Bussula, a Virgil, Ceasare della Riviera's Magical World of the Heroes, Herodian's History in Latin, and a legel compendium... that's it!
#Medievalsky #Skystorians

I mean I'm also giving a new paper there, so I'm not sure if that's a pro or a con

If you’re coming to the MAA in March I can do a short-form reprise

For those lucky enough to be local to the Cambridge MA area, I will be giving a lunch talk on November 17th that I think of as "This Manuscript is too Fucked-up to be Real, but it is!"
medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/mahind...
#MedievalSky

As a side note of ... interest? When Bruno died in 1101, a mortuary roll was sent around to at least 178 Monasteries and other foundations, at least from Capua to Malmsbury, so they knew/could pray for him. The original is lost, but we have a 16th C copy of much of it.

Massive traumatic insane AWS outage. It's so bad that the tools people use to debug their outages, which run in AWS, are all down too. I took a long lunch

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 42 of 2025 In total thirty-eight manuscripts were digitized this week. The recent pattern has remained, Ott.lat was the largest fond with twenty manuscripts and Barb.lat was the next largest, with ten. The res...

38 new #Manuscripts this week from the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes an oration by Ubaldi, a part of an Atlantic Bible, some crazy heraldry, Cassian on Monks, Ethiopic, Classics and more
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

Thank you for the more recent scholarship, I'll update my notes

A four panel calvin and hobbs cartoon where he's asking his father to read him the Voynich manuscript at bedtime. It ends with Calvin saying "Wow the story was different that time" and Hobbes speaking Voynichese

@lisafdavis.bsky.social I assume you've seen this, but I would be remiss in not making sure

I'm usually pretty meh about the provenance of manuscripts, and in general about 16th C printed books... But Ott.lat.1902 is the copy of Copernicus that was owned, read, an annotated by Tycho Brahe, and has his notes about orbital mechanics bound in at the end. digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott...

Gothic, above top line

Or for the other side of the wall

MUMPS runs in AWS

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 41 of 2025 A total of fifty-six manuscripts were digitized during the past week. In a statistical anomaly, two fonds, Barb.lat and Ott.lat, brought in the same number of manuscripts, twenty-six for each. The r...

Back to speed with 56 new #Manuscripts this week from the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025.... Includes a glossed Valerius Maximus, the Alexandreis, 17th c poetry, Plautus, Decretals, Ovid, a 13th C Roman de Brut, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

"Forgot to renew the SSL Cert" is one of the top 5 causes of inarticulate screaming by sysadmins!

A distant friend does a dance wearing a burning hat as wedding entertainment... Though not, sadly, to Midnight Oil