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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

Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle East

Yay! I just noticed that my book is available for preorder. Use the code PUP30 for 30% off. Share with your librarian! Will ship on Jan 20, 2026 just in time for uhhhhh someone's birthday? Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

📬 In our November blog post, Jamie Wood, former BCDSS Guest Researcher and Prof. of History and Education at Lincoln University (UK), shares insights into the research he conducted during his stay in Bonn: buff.ly/XBlQiLo
#Intermediaries #Christianity #Visigoths
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Happy to report that our book 'Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050' has been published! It is Open Access, so you can read (or download) it here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Still a few more days to submit a paper to our subtheme, “Resistance and Refuge in the Medieval Mediterranean.” Whether in or about the Middle Sea, how could you resist?

Behold! A new prize of £500 for early career scholars of medieval church history (incl Crusades)

@medievalists.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social @nicmorton.bsky.social

Just published in open access: Early Modern Narratives of Islam across Europe: A Connected Memory: brill.com/display/titl...

Investiture of ʿAlī at the Ghadir Khumm, 16 March 632, in: Kitāb al-āthār al-bāqiya ʿan al-qurūn al-khāliya, copy by Ibn al-Kutubī, Ilkhanid Iraq/Iran, 1307–1308, today Edinburgh, University Library, MS Arab 161, fol. 162r.

AotW: Luke Yarbrough, 1014–1043: Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr on Christian Love for ʿAlī, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

*We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !*

#medievalists #medievalsky

Opened palimpsest codex (Leiden UL Or. 14236) with Syriac upper text and Armenian undertext. The upper text is written in black and red ink and decorated braided band patterns. There's also a fragment with Arabic on it between the two pages of the opened codex.

Mind-numbing how many layers of history there can be to a single manuscript page: Syriac upper text (10th c.), Armenian undertext (pre-10th c.), Arabic material used for binding (11-12th c.?), Coptic foliation in the margin (date?), modern foliation at the bottom. Image: Leiden UL Or. 14236, link ⬇️

Colleagues @lmumuenchen.bsky.social are hosting a workshop about medieval Arabic documents this November. Our advisory board member Prof Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge) will be teaching - it promises to be a fascinating time!

bit.ly/ArabicDocumentsWorkshop

#Arabic #documents #medievalsky

Coronation of John Tzimiskes (969), from: John Skylitzes, Synopsis of Histories, Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, Vitr. 26-2, fol. 159r (12th century; the famous 'Madrid Skylitzes‘)

AotW: Sebastiano Arona, 971: The 'Decretum Venetorum de abrogando Saracenorum commercie' Prohibits Venetians from Trading with Muslims, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

*We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !*

#medievalists #medievalsky

Two exciting new publications on Jewish theology in medieval Castile by Notre Dame’s own Jeremy Brown: ‘A World of Piety: The Aims of Castilian Kabbalah’ and ‘Light is Sown: The Cultivation of Kabbalah in Medieval Castile’ (with Avishai Bar-Asher). Can’t wait to read!

The Princeton Companion to Jewish Studies edited by Leora Batnitzky, Eve Krakowski, and Steven Weitzman. An authoritative guide to Jewish studies, reflecting the latest research in a diverse and flourishing field

The Princeton Companion to Jewish Studies is an authoritative guide to Jewish studies, reflecting the latest research in a diverse and flourishing field.

Available Oct 14 (9 Dec UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#JewishStudies

Nicopolis (Greek: NIKOOAIE); Beth.: CAOIOA); Jericho (Greek: lepıyw); Modiim (Greek: MOAEEIM); Lydda (Greek: AOAH); Bethoron (Greek: Belwpwv); Gibeon (Greek: TABAQN); Rama (Greek: PAMA); Coreae (Greek: KOPEOYZ); Maresha (Greek: MOPAZO); Azotos Paralos (Ashdod-Coast)

#MosaicMonday
The Madaba Map is part of a floor mosaic in the early #Byzantine church of Saint George in Madaba, #Jordan.

The Madaba #Map is of the Middle East, and it contains the oldest surviving original cartographic depiction of the Holy Land.

#Archaeology #History #art

The Syriac Legal Documents of the 3rd Century CE. By John F. Healey. Series: Supplement to Aramaic Studies, volume 20. Brill. 2025.

📢New release!

📜 John Healey presents a re-edition and translation of 3rd-century #Syriac legal parchments from Upper Mesopotamia, with extensive commentary. These documents constitute our earliest significant evidence of the Syriac language and script.

🔗 brill.com/display/titl...
#acrel #Aramaic

Our number one in-house medievalist! New necromancer's journal content coming soon, stay tuned.

Collectio CCCC capitulorum, The Collection in 400 Chapters - CUAPress Surviving in three ninth-century manuscripts, the collection of canon law known as the Collectio 400 capitulorum is a remarkable and understudied witness to...

I have yet to see the book myself, but the
‪@cua-press.bsky.social‬ website assures me that my edition of the Collectio CCCC capitulorum is now out! This early medieval collection of canon law has been with me for a very long and I am happy to see it published www.cuapress.org/978081323847... 1/2

Headpiece of a poem on death by Nazif Šušević (1860-1923), written in Bosnian and copied in Kosovo in 1939 CE. (NUB 00489)

Digitization & cataloging is complete for a subset of manuscripts, mostly in Arabic-script, at the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina in #Sarajevo. Further cataloging, generally of manuscripts in Cyrillic and Roman scripts, is ongoing. 



Learn more: hmml.org/collections/...

Law Beyond the Legal Renaissance: Rethinking Jurisdiction in the European central Middle Ages The introduction to this special issue lays out its approach to the phenomenon of jurisdiction during the European central Middle Ages. Rethinking jurisdiction, we argue, is key to understanding th...

What's wrong with 'legal pluralism'? Danica Summerlin and @ajt55.bsky.social explain: doi.org/10.1080/0144...

Volume 9 Issue 3 | Studies in Late Antiquity | University of California Press

New issue of Studies in Late Antiquity Vol. 9, No. 3 (2025) online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/3 @drewjakeprof.bsky.social @simchagross.bsky.social @annetteyreed.bsky.social @akjp89.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social The Ways that Never Parted: A Roundtable & more

Full-page depiction of a date palm in a copy of al-Jazūlī’s “Dalāʼil al-khayrāt,” a book of prayers for the Prophet Muhammad. Manuscript on paper, c.1700–1900 CE, written in Arabic. Aboubacar Ben Said Library, Timbuktu, Mali. (SAV ABS 06752)

🧵(1) A full-page depiction of a date palm in a copy of al-Jazūlī’s "Dalāʼil al-khayrāt," containing Sīrah literature and prayers for the Prophet Muhammad, in the collection of Aboubacar Ben Said Library, Timbuktu, Mali. (SAV ABS 06752: www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/...)

Shirt with Quran to protect wearer

Also in the exhibition, a talismanic shirt with the complete Quran, 16th-century.

Scribes, Not Just Authors: New Study Uncovers Editorial Brilliance in Medieval Syriac Manuscripts - Medievalists.net A new study analyzes nearly 1,000 Syriac manuscripts using digital tools to reveal how scribes shaped literary culture through excerpting—introducing a new metric, Excerpts Per Manuscript (EPM), to…

Scribes, Not Just Authors: New Study Uncovers Editorial Brilliance in Medieval Syriac Manuscripts www.medievalists.net/2025/04/scri... #medieval

Initial depicting Avicenna at the beginning of Bk 1 of Ibn Sina's (Avicenna) medical summa translated by Gerard of Cremona (circa 1113/4-1187 CE)

BL Harley MS 3744; Avicenna, The Canon of Medicine; Early 14th c-Early 15th c; Italy, N; f.6r

Astronomical Technology and Religious Practice in Islam “Astronomical observation is built into the most basic religious practices of the...”

The manuscript was copied near Diyarbakır in southeastern Anatolia in April 1759 and is now held by the Khālidī Library in Jerusalem. (AKDI 00987, fol. 78v)

Learn more about the intersection of astronomical technology and Islamic religious practice: hmml.org/stories/seri...

Was Europe Muslim? And Other Embarrassing Questions In assessing a century of scholarship on medieval Europe’s encounter with the Islamic world and the challenges it has faced, this brief essay turns to the neglected and dismissed work of Catholic c...

Hussein Fancy asks embarrassing questions: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ancient Wine A richly illustrated account of the story of ancient viniculture

Patrick E. McGovern's Ancient Wine is a richly illustrated account of the story of ancient viniculture.

Find the ebook for $2.99/£2.99—nearly everywhere you buy ebooks and audiobooks:

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Medieval History we’ve asked eight distinguished historians each to use an article from the journal’s first five years as a jumping off point to discuss historiographical trends. @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Hard to celebrate this particular July 4th, but this week I’ve been browsing the Latin-Arabic Glossary of the Mozarabs (MS Leiden, University Library, Cod. Or. 231) where Latin liberatus (‘to be free’) is rightly glossed as hurrīya (‘freedom’) 🎆

📢 New publication! July's 𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩 is now available at bit.ly/InvisibleEastQurans

🔍 Alya Karame looks at Qur'anic fragments from the Islamicate East that represent a turning point in the history of the Qur'an.

#documents #quran #firuzkuh #bamiyan