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My GPT has a Mohs smartness of 9.2. Only diamonds are smarter

Interesting that they're relisting the "part printed, part manuscript" volumes on the MS side now. I've never bothered to pay attention to the Incunable side, but a lot of the last week or so have been hybrid volumes

I think that qualifies as praiseworthy

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 31 of 2025 A quiet week, even by the recent pattern of quiet weeks, brings only ten digitized manuscripts online. These included three each from Barb.lat and Capp.Sist, two from Ott.lat, and one each from S.Mari...

Only 10 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Inc. 19th C Palestrina MS copies, a Mass setting in print by Borja, 17th C papal records, a 14th c Missal, some Orations, Sonnets Madrigals, and a bit more!
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yeah, the marginal notes in the calendar are very English and, along with the added dates, seem to match the signature of "John Birnie of Broomhill" at the end of December

f.2v from Smith College Codex 274. It contains the second part of the calendar from February, with evidence of the KL on recto being excised and later replaced

The calendar is medium-filled (211) and error prone, with an interesting red/blue/gold, but not complete, color pattern. A later hand added day numbers. On 5 of the months the KL was excised, and later replaced, making the top few entries on the verso difficult to read (see f.2v below)
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f.34r from Smith College Codex 274. The start of a psalm, a large miniature of King David kneeling with his harp before him and an elaborate border. Four lines of text in a gothic hand starting with a 3-line illuminated D

The first Hours from @smithcollege.bsky.social has been added, Codex 274 - www.cokldb.org/p/v100/ms/905
From Rouen, it has multiple later additions, including a Tallis motet, that point to English ownership. There's some evidence of cutting
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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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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 29 of 2025 Only twenty-eight manuscripts were digitized this past week. We are back to the recent pattern, with eighteen of the manuscripts coming from Barb.lat. Four each came from Capp.Sist.Diari and Ott.lat...

Only 28 #Manuscripts from the #vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a bunch more 17th C pop stuff, 4 more Sistine diaries, a book on hunting, a 13th C Passionale and more!
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 28 of 2025 Only four manuscripts were digitized this week, and all on Friday. Although far too small a sample to prove a pattern, two of the manuscripts were from Barb.lat, and one each from Capp.Sist and Ott.l...

Only 4 #Manuscripts this week from the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Contains: stuff about 16th C Ecclesiastical Hungary, the case for canonization of Philip Benizi, a musical setting of Psalm 149, and a 1705 dissertation on the Column of Antonius Pius.
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 27 of 2025 The 27th week of the year, this week, is when I learned in 2018 of the passing of Jean-Baptiste Piggin (@jbpiggin), who started the work of tracking the BAV digitizations, and continued it, by hand, f...

only 34 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
including a ton of musical volumes, more about Barberini popes, a printed missal, an Arabic christian medical miscellany and more!
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And there’s a good Brazilian bakery just two blocks away!

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 26 of 2025 For the first full week of summer, forty-nine manuscripts were digitized. As one might have expected, the largest contributors were Capp.Sist, adding twenty-three, and it's subcollection Capp.Sist.Di...

49 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
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Including a ton more from the Cappella Sistina, both archival and diaries, a vol of 10th C sermons, Ausonius (including the wedding cento!), a map of the roman forum and more
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That's what I thought, but on things like this I'm never sure if there's another roman city that I'm just not familiar with

Sanity check me, this is a plan of Rome, with some sort of elaborations overlaid on the Forum, right? (#Vatican Chig.P.VIII.25.pt.A)

I see it a bit differently. No developer has worked on a 75 year old codebase, few have worked on > 20 years. They are used to "this was hacked together yesterday, and has all sorts of duct-tape", because almost all software is like that. Something that has been refined over generations...

I don't have the original text on hand, but I wonder if there's anything relevant in "the Debate of Ganymede and Helen". She makes a lot of disparaging comments about his ass

It's not the only opera he wrote. These are just the ones that the Vatican has, and has digitized

www.wiglaf.org/vatican/adho...

According to the catalogue it's _L'Innocenza difesa nella rappresentazione di S. Bonifacio, Dramma musicale in tre atti_. Giulio Rospigliosi was a dramatist and playwright before becoming pope, so it's not _totally_ unexpected, but I don't know much more about it

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 25 of 2025 An extremely quiet week this week, with only thirteen manuscripts digitized. With such a small number discerning patterns is more fraught, but the top collections were Barb.lat and Capp.Sist, contribu...

Only a bare 13 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a few more late musical volumes from the Sistine, some papal briefs, a musical about St. Boniface written by pope Clement IX, and more
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 24 of 2025 A total of thirty-eight manuscripts were digitized this week. Following the recent pattern, the vast majority were from Capp.Sist, which added twenty-one, and a further eight from it's sub collection...

38 #Manuscripts digitized from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Mostly in the Cappella Pontificia archives (music!) and the diaries of the puntatore (now >75%). Otherwise a 18th C Megillat Esther, a Glagolitic breviary, printed, Persian poetry, and more
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I love it when a custom tool gets developed and then tossed out into the wider world. Now I just need to get back to transcribing my crazy bible

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 23 of 2025 The library picked up the pace this week with sixty-seven manuscripts digitized, fifty in a single day. Unsurprisingly, given recent weeks, the bulk of those came from the Cappella Sistine collection...

67 #Manuscripts digitized by the #Vatican last week
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Mostly Sistine Choir, including music, regulations, and more diaries. In addition three Persian works, one more Ge'ez, 2 vol. letters of Urban VIII, Alain de Lille, and a bit more
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For a while a crop of his face was my social-media icon. Not a lot of images of Aaron out there...

Hold up, there’s a new sheriff in town??

I got my proposal in before the deadline. I mean it was about 2 hours, but that still counts!

They just extended the deadline for 2026 proposals. You've got 5 days to submit!

When they said “everybody was kung fu fighting” they meant everybody.