Roger Pearse

From fragments to text and ink: a scientific and historical study of an Umayyad Qur’ān - npj Heritage Science npj Heritage Science - From fragments to text and ink: a scientific and historical study of an Umayyad Qur’ān

New open-access publication: Discover how a multidisciplinary approach helped identify and contextualise three Qurʾānic parchment fragments from the University of Münster collection, revealing their shared origins in an Umayyad Qur’an:
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A thought on the GNO edition of Gregory of Nyssa Yesterday I received an email asking if I could locate the Greek text for a passage in a translation from a work by Gregory of Nyssa, and complaining that it wasn’t obvious what the Patrologi…

Looking up stuff in Gregory of Nyssa. Bibliography yeah.

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Well done!

Thoughts on Psalm 1:1 in Latin – “pestilentiae”? One of the useful features of Bible Gateway is the parallel versions, and if you use it with the Latin Vulgate and the Douay-Rheims, it is useful indeed.  Here it is for Psalm 1. Beatus vir qui non…

Reading the Latin bible of Ps. 1:1 raises questions.

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Now available on Wordpress!

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30th September is the feast of St Jerome who is here depicted as translator of the Psalms
#StJerome
BnF MS Latin 1152; Psalter of Charles the Bald; 9th century (between 842 CE & 869 CE); School of the Palace of Charles the Bald; f.4r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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a string of Middle Persian ordinals in Gr. Bundahišn, 3.7 (ed. Cereti in FS Emmerick):

/nazdist asmān ud dudīgar āb, sidīgar zamīg, čahārom urwar, panǰom gōspand, šašom mardōm ud haftom ātaxš/

"1st the sky, 2nd water, 3rd the earth, 4th plants, 5th small livestock, 6th people, and 7th fire"

Thank you!

It's a very open community! Info at iiif.io/get-involved/ and you can request invitations to the Slack at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Still no Bodmin/Padstow Gospels though 😪

Is this slack available to the plebs, or only certain domains? That sounds like an interesting discussion.

I'm sure that I speak for many a user in some remote place when I say that this is very encouraging. Thank you.

"You plonker, Rodney"

The Danes must have laughed their heads off.

My new Academia likeness

"The Mysterons: sworn enemies of Earth. Possessing the ability to recreate an exact likeness of an object or person. But first, they must destroy..."

My new Academia likeness...

Sir G. Carteret, Mr. Coventry, and I by invitation to dinner to Sheriff Maynell’s, the great money-man.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

De incarnatione, c. 45, 5.

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It would appear to be by David Adam, "The cry of the deer", 1987.

Hey @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social Do you do any Gothic language stuff? If so, any recs for where to start learning Gothic? I’ve tried Lambdin’s Intro to Gothic before and gotten a few chapters in, but was frustrated because I couldn’t find a key anywhere to check my work on the exercises.

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I feel that PDFs of manuscripts and early editions are an essential research tool. You just can't do this via any online browser, and you shouldn't need to.

How to locate the “Life” of a specific saint (Botolph) in random early modern breviaries While trying to finish up the St. Botolph material, I came across a sentence in a fascinating article about St Botolph in Scandinavia. This referred to Scandinavian breviaries which might contain a…

Hagiographical material embedded in random early modern Scandinavian breviaries? Here's how to find it!

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Favorite entry in the 9th-century catalogue of the library at Bobbio: "some Scottish (Irish?) book translated into Latin" (librum quendam Latine Scotaicae linguae)

Pro-tip for faculty who are more trusting than me: any time anyone tells me to do something verbally, I always send an email to them right after saying "For my memory, just to recap our conversation a few minutes ago, you asked me to do X. Please let me know if I misunderstood." Paper👏trail👏ALWAYS!👏

Curious weathering. But that headland is incredibly exposed.

By special request: A Safaitic-Greek bilingual inscription, demonstrating the transcription of interdentals and all other sorts of fun things. @bnuyaminim.bsky.social @maartenkossmann.bsky.social @lameensouag.bsky.social

Find more:
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“A virgin, a tree and a death were the symbols of our defeat.” – a Chrysostom quote? A correspondent wrote to me, asking if I knew the source of the following patristic quote.  It is found in many places on the web, in longer or shorter versions, and attributed to Chrysostom, but w…

Searching for a Chrysostom quote: and the mysteries of the "Liturgy of the Hours."

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VAULTED STUCCO CEILING, C. 90-100 CE. DOMUS OF SAN CLEMENTE We are in a wealthy domus of the late Flavian or early Antonine era which was built on the site of a house destroyed in the Great Fire of 64 CE after this land was returned to private use following its incorporation in the grounds of the Domus Aurea. Only part of the domus has been excavated, including a summer triclinium, semi-buried and decorated with coral to simulate a cave, which was transformed along with the rest of the house into a Mithraic cult centre in the C3. This room, directly in front of the triclinium/Mithraic banqueting hall, still has its delicate C1 stucco ceiling, once richly painted. It is a series of framed squares around a rectangle, at back, with a stucco bird or flower in each square. The rectangle seems to have a candelabrum at its centre. Further toward us, a large square is framed with hexagons, each with a flower at the centre. This must have been a magnificent ceiling in its time.

For #ReliefWednesday we've gone down, down, deep under the C12 basilica of #SanClemente in #Rome, to find a little taste of post- #DomusAurea luxury in a #ceiling of low #relief #stucco from the end of the reign of #Domitian or perhaps the brief interval of #Nerva. #AncientBluesky 🏺

For fun, the fuller context (Mainz 224, verso, ll. 6-9) runs:

/ayıg kılınč kılmıš yalŋok-lar ätöz kodsar, tamudakı ud bašlıg yäk-lär [käli]p üzütin ärklig han-ka [t]ägürür-lär/

"If people die having committed evil deeds, ox-headed demons in hell come and convey their souls to Yama."

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