Roger Pearse

Your query rang a faint bell, and then I realised that I'd seen this happen before at some major research library. We'll see this one again, I'm sure, at other libraries.

Fixed!

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Working fine: webggc.oclc.org/cbs/DB=2.37/...

Thank you!!!

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 6 of 2026 A solid showing this week, with fifty-five manuscripts digitized, forty-six of those were uploaded on Friday. The vast majority, forty-four, came from the Ott.lat fond. The bulk of the remaining came...

Another "dump it all on friday" week of #manuscripts from the #vatican
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
Includes medical works, a lot of Bruni, classics, papal stuff, history of Venice, stuff I don't understand, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

Notes on Sylvester I, Patriarch of Antioch (d. 1766) Sylvester was a Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch in the 18th century, so rather out of our period of history.  His accession in 1724 led to a schism, creating the Greek Catholic Church, as a portio...

So who was this "Sylvester Patriarch of Antioch" guy anyway? Greek Orthodox, apparently, and important in the history of printing in Arabic.

www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/...

What a pity that it's paywalled.

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

Deeply appreciated the article on Isidore of Pelusium. Great topic introduction.

I've just run the Italian translation of the letters of Procopius of Gaza (6th century sophist) through Deepseek. Might post the results with a disclaimer, maybe a few footnotes. How else would any normal person get any idea about this guy?

Thank you!! These look fascinating!

Early Arabic Printing in the East Early Arabic Printing in the East is a peer-reviewed book series publishing the research results of the project "Early Arabic Printing for the Arab Christians. Cultural Transfers between Eastern Europ...

Sorry about that, here you have the right URL: www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/eape-...

That's precisely it.

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Impressive!

Six volumes from the De Gruyter series "Early Arabic Printing in the East" showcased on top of a round table during the 57th Cairo International Book Fair.

Three books being displayed on a book table during the 57th Cairo International Book Fair.

Ioana Feodorov and the archimandrite Policarp Chițulescu presenting nine volumes of the De Gruyter series "Early Arabic Printing in the East"

Ioana Feodorov and the Octavian-Adrian Negoiță presenting nine volumes of the De Gruyter series "Early Arabic Printing in the East"

📷 A few shots of the TYPARABIC team at the 57th Cairo International Book Fair. The presentation focused on our #openaccess series Early Arabic Printing in the East (www.degruyterbrill.com/eape-b/html), but you might also spot a few familiar titles on display.

Bis vor einigen Jahren waren die beiden von hinten beleuchtbaren Altäre für Sol und Luna aus dem Mithräum von #Mundelsheim wunderschön, das #Mithras- Relief von #Fellbach flankierend, präsentiert
- im römischen Lapidarium im NeuenSchloss #Stuttgart, das inzwischen leider geschlossen ist. #Römer

📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
💻 Junicode: The Font for Medievalists
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📲 Get the latest release here: github.com/psb1558/Juni...
©️ Open Font License and free for all to use

And they've done it on their own terms, in a way that is remarkably astute and ought to be model for publishers cooperating with open access.

"The way in which the ÖAW have done this makes instantly obsolete the lists of volumes available elsewhere online. In a sense, they have taken back control of their own series, and drawn traffic back to their own site." #openaccess

All the CSEL series PDFs up to 2010 made open-access Something wonderful has happened over in Vienna.  We all know of the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (CSEL) series of critical Latin texts of the fathers.  This began back in 1866, and th...

Downloading the CSEL volumes from the publisher website. Some very clever thinking going on over there in Vienna.

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The register of Sylvester patriarch of Antioch (d.1766): Manuscript 210 of the Missionary Society of Saint Paul in Harissa Further to Alex Hourani's work on the new Maronite Chronicle, he has also done work on a much more recent Christian Arabic manuscript: I think you will be interested in my article, "The register of ...

An index with selected transcriptions of an unpublished collection of letters of Sylvester, patriarch of Antioch (d.1766) during the Ottoman period.

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Alex Hourani's translation of the latter half of the new "Maronite Chronicle of 713" now online! The discovery of a new Syriac Chronicle (in Arabic translation) and publication in Medieval Worlds 23 (2025), pp.155-167 by Adrian Pirtea caused Alex Hourani to upload a transcription, as I reported i...

The new Maronite Chronicle of 713 - draft English translation by Alex Hourani of the second half now online!

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That's extraordinary! What on earth are they doing?!

Is it perhaps that the public is not the customer for whom these books are made? Rather the research library is their customer?

I see you mean the Dutch repo. I've posted a query to their BlueSky account and also via their contact page. That can't be intentional.

@kb.nl Accessing your catalogue over the web brings up a login screen. That can't be intentional, surely?

Is the Dutch KB manuscript catalogue meant to require a login? Rather surprising.

www.kb.nl/onderzoeken-...

Manuscript catalogues requiring logins is pretty awful.

Happy St Cyril and Methodius Day! May you all invent lots of lovely alphabets today.