Mark Saltveit

The Book of Kells by Victoria Whitworth - Out Today!

The Book of Kells is probably the most famous manuscript in the world – and Victoria Whitworth's masterly treatment offers something new.

Get your copy here! - https://bit.ly/48HEVnQ

You checked it out, I see! I would have thought it was library use only.

Yes, indeed. Also some nice majuscule on fol. 80v.

Voila:

A photograph of Eden Robins' novel Remember You Will Die, which rests on a black metal shelf next to a small glass vase full of greenery: red berries, green and white flowers, and a shaggy sprig of foliage.

“Profoundly mistrustful of her own legacy, Dante Pellegrino would have hated this belated obituary. But then again, such remembrances are not for the dead at all. They are for the living—the living now and the living to come. Remember us, we whisper into the ears of the future. Our mistakes have made you possible.” from Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins

🌟 Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 🌟 Remember You Will Die traces the lives of artists, activists, scientists, and more as they intersect with the existence of a yearning AI. Eden Robins weaves a polyphonic narrative that is intergenerational, art-filled, and subversive.

YouTube video by U of T CMS Lisa Fagin Davis: "The Materiality of the Voynich Manuscript"

Ok, people, here's my @utoronto.ca Medieval Studies #Voynich lecture! I've got BIG NEWS to report about the potential original structure of the manuscript. Check it out! (new material starts around minute 14) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH28...

Poster for a talk at city college NY that reads, “Stripmining History: How the 'Al' Industry Extracts the Past & What Scholars in the Humanities Can Do to Stop It IN-PERSON & VIA ZOOM OCTOBER 16 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM | NAC 6/316 Universities and museums have recently begun partnering with technology firms like Google, Microsoft, and Meta, who have promised that their Al products will enhance both historical research and accessibility to historical collections. These promises, however, are not supported by the reality of what computer vision-a foundational branch of Al-can achieve. This talk provides an introduction to computer vision's origins in military surveillance, an overview of its development under late capitalist regimes of exploitative micro-labor, and an orientation to how computer vision works. This vision has relied on extracting history, and Drimmer argues that it is the responsibility of scholars in the humanities to be knowledgeable about the forms this extraction takes. Sonja Drimmer Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst”

Next week in NY! Would love to see folks come out. www.ccny.cuny.edu/calendar/rif...

The provenance of the Edinburgh Martial

Thanks! Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv . 18.3.1, right? The following article mentions "a late eleventh-century probatio pennae on the final folio as from a chant for the feast of St. Lambert, whose cult was most fervent in the Diocese of Liège."
www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publicati...

Any interesting glosses or pen trials in the Martial?

John le Carré talks Join us for a series of talks on John Le Carré, to tie in with the new exhibition at the Weston Library

This Friday 10th October 15:30-16:45 in the Weston Library, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow Federico Varese & co-curator Jessica Douthwaite will give a talk on their @bodleian.ox.ac.uk exhibition on John Le Carré visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/lecarre #JohnLeCarré #SpySky

Bill Gates: $106B | Microsoft: $3.9T
Jeff Bezos: $232.5B | Amazon: $2.3T
Larry Page: $204.2B | Google: $2.84T
Mark Zuckerberg: $243.5B | Meta: $1.8T

Can someone please explain why on earth we’re paying the power & water bills for their data centers?

White House Doctor: Trump Has Far More Bones Than Any Prior President

White House Doctor: Trump Has Far More Bones Than Any Prior President https://theonion.com/white-house-doctor-trump-has-far-more-bones-than-any-prior-president/

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago (RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

Faith groups have filed suit against DHS for violating their 1st and 4th amendment rights, arguing that by targeting faith-based demonstrators "with violence," ICE agents are enacting a policy that “substantially burdens their exercise of religion” and violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

If you're new to the Warring States manuscripts, I published a piece with my colleague Li Yumeng which introduces the *Kongzi said and *Zhongni said manuscripts. And it's open access!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Northern Crusade has failed!!

Today is a big day for the Dievturība (native faith) movement in Latvia, as Latvia becomes the first country in Europe to enshrine the place of its pagan religion in law

Job! Judaic Studies & the Medieval/Renaissance Center at Binghamton are looking for a Talmud/Medieval Rabbinics specialist! I have long been part of the Med/Ren group myself and I can vouch it is very active, supportive, and functional. Good people!

binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

It might actually be just you. I mean, they're both literal movie stars. And De Caprio was great in One Battle After Another.

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

@andyhilkens.bsky.social
Hello! I saw a reference to the mailing list for TeTra seminars. Is that mailing list different than following tetraseminar on Bsky? I'd like to be on the list. Thx!

‘Stay true to yourself – and fly closer to the sun’: what I’ve learned from 50 years of rejection As a writer, I have been rejected thousands of times, and it initially led to shock, denial and anger. Then I accepted it. Here’s what you can gain from doing so too

"When you get down to it, rejection can do you a favour. It forces you to face objective reality. You find out, perhaps contrary to your longstanding expectations, that an entire universe exists outside your own head and the opinions of others might matter as much as yours."

Still time to sign up!

Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments: The Destruction and Reconstruction of Medieval Books Much of what is known about the past often rests upon the chance survival of objects and texts. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the fragments of medieval manuscripts re-used as bookbindings...

I do recommend this book for a start: www.routledge.com/Nordic-Latin....

Also this one: novus.no/products/102....

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg in 1959 – Photo by John Cohen

On This Day in History: October 7, 1955
Allen Ginsberg gave the first public reading of “Howl” at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. Kenneth Rexroth emceed while Jack Kerouac worked the crowd with a wine jug and shouts of encouragement. The reading helped ignite the Beat scene.

A black cat curled up against a taupe sheet sniffs suspiciously at Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats

A long-haired gray cat, stretched along the back of a blanket-covered blue sofa, sniffs curiously at Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats

A copy of the new edition of Searoad, which has a cover detailed with stylized streaks of blue that turn into mountains and waves below the title, rests crookedly (oops) on a blue plush background.

🎉 Happy pub day to both Book of Cats and the newly reissued Searoad!

We will work on obtaining photo evidence of Pard with his latest bookish appearance, but in the meantime here are Bat (who matches the book) and Ziti (who is more curious about it).

Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.

Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Not an actual Calvin & Hobbes comic, but pretty funny just the same! And, in case you didn't already know how far gone I actually am, the Voynichese text in the last panel is from folio 15v... (h/t @theefantomas.bsky.social) #Voynich

Probably my favourite long late antiquity piece of art. The so-called "palimpsest" fresco in Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome shows consecutive layers of paintings from the sixth century (Mary as empress of heaven) all the way to the seventh and early eight century. The level of detail is just amazing.