Pieter Beullens

Colophon in red ink from a recycled unidentified MS by Johannes Gredinger, completed on the “feria vi” after the feast of S. John “ad portam Latinam” (12 May?). The exact year is masked by the book’s spine label (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Cs 6738)
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You should probably upload this to Fragmentarium for future reference. Was nearly an article instead of a thread...

stylometry of scribal abbreviations is barely touched, and I think it has huge potential

Would be interesting (for someone else!) to study the evolution over time in the other MSS!

𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀
𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆, 𝟭𝟲𝟲𝟬–𝟭𝟴𝟯𝟬
Edited by Brecht de Groote, Lieve Jooken, Sonja Lavaert & Guy Rooryck

More info: bit.ly/4ntQjaJ

#Translation #Literature #C18 #History

The Berlin colophon of the binding fragment is a significant addition to the prosopography of medieval German scribes. It would be great if someone (different from me) could identify the original text of the MS and find out the year in which it was copied! #medievalsky

Gredinger’s name is also found in the colophon of a German calendar from 1428 (StAN, Reichsstadt Nürnberg, Handschriften 425, f. 17r)
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The gradual he wrote for the church of Saint Lawrence in Nuremberg is dated 1421 (Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in Bayern, Nürnberg, G2/ NbgStLor 3, f. 236v)
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Gredinger was a Dominican friar and scribe whose name is known from colophons of at least five other carefully dated MSS. Nuremberg City Library’s Cent. I,30 and III,28 are dated 1415 and 1416 (Nürnberg, STN, Cent. I,30, f. 175r)
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Colophon in red ink from a recycled unidentified MS by Johannes Gredinger, completed on the “feria vi” after the feast of S. John “ad portam Latinam” (12 May?). The exact year is masked by the book’s spine label (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Cs 6738)
resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB000157260...

Leaf from a Carolingian (10th c?) herbal text, possibly some variant on Dioscorides, heavily rubbed (Hundisburg, von Alvenslebensche Bibliothek, Alv. Le 97) @unihalle.bsky.social
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Great "discovery"!
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Screenshot of a PNAS article titled “The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds,” authored by Gerald Schweiger, Adrian Barnett, Peter van den Besselaar, Lutz Bornmann, Andreas De Block, John P. A. Ioannidis, Ulf Sandström, and Stijn Conix. Edited by Neil Shubin. Published December 2, 2024, in volume 121, issue 50, article e2407644121.

Research funds are scarce & competition is fierce. A recent paper by @andreasdeblock.bsky.social & colleagues explores how this competition shapes science—its practices, risks & ethics—and proposes ways to make funding fairer & more effective👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #AcademicSky #HPS #scipol 🧪

A small riddle for your Sunday amusement. Are these binding leaves in Lower German? A Bible translation or commentary? For more text, follow the link! (@unipaderborn.bsky.social, Th 1477)
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The fragment was added to the Handschriftencensus.
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Apparently, it belonged to the same MS of which 2 fragments were earlier found in Naumburg!

Ah, de sedisvacatio van 1268-71! Levert mij nu mooi werk op!

Finally, from a German Bible, printed in 2° (GW 4303) in Nürnberg by Anton Koberger, and dated 17 February 1483 (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Oq 7241)
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Also unnoticed: leaves from the Decretum Gratiani, printed in Strassburg in 1484 (GW 11368). Pretty initials! (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Bn 3056)
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Not only MSS were used in early book bindings, incunabula leaves were recycled, too. Here is a short anthology! First, from the Corpus iuris civilis printed in Rom, 1476 (GW 7678). Only 15 copies are known! (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Dq 8880)
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Hendrik Conscience. Un tuffo in una delle biblioteche più affascinanti del mondo - ArtsLife Fondata nel 1481 grazie alla donazione di 41 libri, la biblioteca Hendrik Conscience di Anversa è una delle più antiche del Belgio

An enthusiastic article about the Hendrik Conscience Library in the Italian arts blog ArtLife: artslife.com/2025/10/26/h...

the best use of digital resources in medieval studies, by far, has been the simplest, namely the widespread digitisation of and free internet access to manuscripts in large numbers

Fragments from a MS of later Latin poets: Eugen of Toledo, Fulco of Beauvais, Hildebert of Lavardin, Marbodus of Reims. Who sees more? (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 2819-27)
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I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

@apache.be you rule 🖤

Ari? 😔

I know my place in the order...

Really? 😒

Cover of Forum Philosophie International 73: The Challenges of Populism (edited by the Association Internationale des Professeurs de Philosophie; publisher: LIT Zürich). The title appears in three languages—English, German, and French. Below the title is a cartoon showing two political scenes: on the left, a politician (next to a bodyguard) asks “Do you want clientele politics…” while addressing a small, serious audience; on the right, the same politician continues, “…or populism for everyone?” while cheerfully engaging with an enthusiastic crowd. Cartoon by Jan Tomaschoff.

In the context of our present global juncture, philosophers are examining the rise of populist movements & their threats to democratic values. Griet Galle & colleagues have edited a trilingual collective volume addressing these issues. Check it out! 📙👇 lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-6... #philsky #polphil

Excerpt of article proofs, reading: A Stylometric Reassessment of the (Pseudo?) Ovidian Nux REBECCA MENMUIR AND BEN NAGY Abstract This article reproposes that the elegy known as the Nux is a genuinely Ovidian poem, written during Ovid’s relegation in the early first century CE. The poem's.

The proofs, as they say, are in the pudding, and I am pudding in some proofing time today. Expecting some disagreements but it's been so fun to work on this. And brilliant and humbling to work with @rantyben.bsky.social!

This #FragmentFriday is found in De Thiende (1585), a groundbreaking #mathematical book by Simon Stevin, introducing the decimal separator (now , or . ) for fractions. It has a 19th century library binding, but retains the medieval parchment wrappers it was originally bound in.
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Looks like a planning three years ahead?!