Homo Modernus

🌳EDOTOR: YES🌳
Proudly encoded my first stemma in Edotor with the help of ChatGPT🤩. Never again drawing a stemma in Word or draw.io. The edition of this presumably Hiberno-Latin treatise will hopefully come out next year. I hope you will like it! 📜
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🧐 The beginning of the rhythm Ante saecula et mundi principio of Theodfrid of Corbie (c. 650) is copied in Beinecke 389, f. 131v.
📜 As there are 4 known MSS and this one is 9th c., could be interesting for someone like Francesco Stella.
🔗 collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2008...
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🥳 Very glad to say that the digital edition of glosses to Etymologiae (book I) is now finally updated and complete 🎉

👏 Thanks to my @huygensknaw.bsky.social colleagues Peter Boot and Rob Zeeman

🔗 db.innovatingknowledge.nl/edition/#lef...
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📜Check out this beautiful diagram of the movement of the Sun from 📕Bern, Burgerbibliothek 87.

🔗 www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/bbb/0087/...
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🏺How exciting to find Etymologiae inscribed on a slate tablet 😍

This one was excavated in 1894 at the abbey of Villers-la-Ville in the southern Netherlands, dated to the 13th century, 2/2, now in the KBR Brussels. Contains bits of book IV on medicine 🩺

🔗 uurl.kbr.be/1559692
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📕 I am glad to see that this volume to which your humble narrator contributed is finally out in Open Access. Enjoy!

🔗 punctumbooks.com/titles/the-a...
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📜Working on no less of a scholar than Manno of Saint-Oyen, here annotating Aldhelm's Riddles in Vatican, BAV, Reg. Lat. 2078 with snippets from the Etymologies.

🦫 fol. 128r: the riddle about the beaver is glossed with Etym. XII 2.21

🔗 digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg...
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🧐Has anybody noticed this Hebrew word in Cambridge, Trinity College, B.15.33 (10th c., England, Isidore's Etymologiae)?

📄 I cannot find any mention of it in the literature. Would be glad to know if anyone wrote about it.

🔗 mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...
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🤩 Great news: Codices Vossiani Latini are now available Open Access and IIIF compatible.
🔗 www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01...
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🙈 At yesterday's DELM meeting, I volunteered to lead the 'funerary' WG. Join if you are:
📜In charge of a DB project about to end
📜Facing the end of funding and wondering what comes next
📜Maintaining a DB past its active funding cycle
📜Wondering how to retire a DB
🧟Hunting zombie DBs
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Sadly, it is Latin

❓ Where do you go when you want to publish OA critical edition of a medieval text these days? Especially if you want to avoid Brepols 😖
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📅THE 2ND DELM MEETING
DELM aims to connect researchers building/managing DBs concerned with Latin manuscripts before c. 1200. It provides a forum for discussing issues around standardisation and data sharing.

🕐 13 December 2024, 2-5 PM CET
🚩 Zoom
🔗 delm-net.github.io/meetings.html
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I sent them a line, but I don't think they will be buying this one

📜THIS FRAGMENT OF THE ETYMOLOGIAE📜
Many thanks to David Ganz for unearthing it. It is certainly a sibling of the Isidore fragment they have at Cornell. Should they be told, in case they want to buy it?

I wish I had spare 16,000$ 💰
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🔗 www.abebooks.fr/servlet/Book...

📕 A NEW CATALOGUE OF MEDIEVAL MAPPAE MUNDI 📕
I have been looking forward to the publication of Patrick Gautier Dalché's catalogue for a while. Just a pity it is not OA and costs 600+ E.
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
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📜E-CODICES UPDATE📜
24 new manuscripts from Swiss collections are now online 🥳
Include a 9th-century Physiologus.
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🔗 e-codices.ch/en/list/all/...

🥳DATABASE UPDATE🥳
Glad to announce that the Innovating Knowledge DB was updated over the weekend. Now contains 507 pre-1000 manuscripts of Isidore's Etymologiae (up from 496). Check out the new manuscript images, links and overall new info on manuscripts
🔗db.innovatingknowledge.nl
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📜JOIN US IN TWO WEEKS FOR A COLLOQUIUM ON MEDIEVAL EXCERPTION PRACTICES📜
2-4 October 2024, Universite de Montpellier
🔗 Zoom will be available
➡️ crises.www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/node/191458
Full programme available now
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📜 Join us next week in Milan or virtually for the second round of the Parallel Lives of the Classics and the Fathers

ℹ️ More info and programme at: www.irht.cnrs.fr/fr/agenda/co...

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✍️Your humblest narrator has been offered a one-year fellowship in Latin Palaeography in the ERC project SCRIBEMUS. Scribes of Musical Cultures. Decoding Early Technologies of Music Writing in Latin Europe (ca. 900–1100).

🔗Here is more about the project: scribemus.unipv.it

✍️There is still time to apply: Summer School in Digital Palaeography that takes place at the University of Göttingen.

Successful applicants to the summer school will receive free accommodation. Contributions towards travel costs are also on offer
#medievalsky.

www.uni-goettingen.de/en/digital+p...

📖ISIDORE NO. 504
After a long deliberation, I have included this early 11th-c. manuscript into the IK dataset. Other, even slightly more recent manuscripts are also included.

📚Wolfenbüttel, HAB, Guelf. 2 Weiss. (11th c., in., Wissembourg)
🔗https://diglib.hab.de/mss/2-weiss/start.htm
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📜This 14th-century Isidore is for sale at Doyle auction house in New York. If you have spare 5,000 $, it can be still yours, #medievalsky

www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/...

🖼️A SNIPPET FROM THE CIRCLE OF JOHN THE SCOT ERIUGENA🖼️

A folio (67v) from Paris, Bibliotheque Mazarine, MS 561 containing John's translation of the exposition of Maximus Confessor with notes from individuals from his scholarly circle. In the bottom margin his Irish assistant, i2.
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A detail from BL Add MS 40618 f21v showing an illumination of a saint holding a book, with the letters ERC on the cover.

Exciting news! @ERC_Research grants #ERCAdG to INSULAR MSS in the Age of Charlemagne (€2.5m). Our team includes
@litteracarolina.mastodon.online & partners in libraries & universities across Europe incl. @ercb2c @brad_dan @CharlotteDenoel @LieveWatteeuw @bodleianlibs @BLMedieval

An Isidore from a private collection that shall not be named. First experience collaborating with a private collector. Very positive.

The manuscript belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps. Was split into two parts in the 19th century and circulated separately. Now reunited. Happy ending!
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🤩IT IS OFFICIAL: THERE ARE 500 EMA ISIDORES🤩
Have been stuck on 499 surviving + identified pre-1000 copies of Etymologies for a long time. Yesterday found this darling🥳

📜Paris, BnF, Lat. 6288 (10th c., 2/2, Moissac)
🔗https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9066980z
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✍️Check out the Summer School in Digital Palaeography in Göttingen.

📄Applications are accepted until the end of April.

❓More info at: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/684265.html

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📜Check out this detailed TO map from a 12th-c. copy of Isidore's Etymologies (Aix-en-Provence 25, p. 293)

🏔️It is uncommon to see so many geographical labels for regions and water bodies

❓Can you guess where was it made based on the relative density of toponyms?