@pieterbeullens
PI of FitMA (Fluidity in the Medieval Aristotle) @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social and funded by @erc.europa.eu. Author of The Friar and the Philosopher. Medieval Greek-Latin translations of philosophy and science.
Appel à communications pour un colloque (9-10 septembre 2027 à l'université de Hambourg) dans le cadre du projet PhysioLab (ANR-DFG 2025-2028) qui vise à produire de nouvelles éditions, numériques et imprimées, des premières versions du "Physiologus".
Date limite de soumission : 31 mai 2026.
Deadline coming up in two weeks! Don't forget to submit your proposal! You know what? Better do it right now!
Fragments from a MS of the Gesta Dagoberti. The BM of Saint-Omer has several MSS of this text, originally from the abbeys of Saint-Bertin and Clairmarais (Saint-Omer, BM, 73)
arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/m...
bibliotheque-numerique.bibliotheque-agglo-stomer.fr/idurl/1/18030
It is 20th-c! It was not there when Heiberg made photographs of the MS in Jerusalem in 1906.
Join us on Thursday, live or online!
#PressRelease🗞️ A page long believed to have been lost from the Archimedes Palimpsest, one of the most important surviving manuscripts of antiquity, has been identified at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois, central France, by a CNRS researcher. 📜🔎
👉 www.cnrs.fr/en/press/los...
Ah ha! Finally @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social 's article with me on the Nux *by Ovid* (we claim) is in print!
Apart from the main finding (which I think is pretty big news), it seems very likely that Medieval Latin elegiac versification is markedly different from Classical ....
journal cover
Helios Vol. 52, No. 1,(2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56530 @projectmuse.bsky.social @rantyben.bsky.social @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social
Yup, the calligraphy was a dead giveaway, and the content confirms it: a pleito de hidalguía.
Incunable covered in a spectacular leaf from a late Spanish MS, possibly a chronicle (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, 8° Inc 2775.20)
resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB000144080...
@russfriedman.bsky.social
On this day in 1274, Thomas Aquinas died. His master piece, the "Summa theologiae" (here: IIa-IIae 29) was greatly appreciated by early book binders (Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Rq 75)
www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/...
New in Scriptorium (don't get fooled by the 2024 date)!
"An index of manuscripts in Lohr’s Latin Aristotle Commentaries" compiled together with Rod Thomson. Hopefully useful to those working on the medieval Aristotelian tradition. Not yet in OA, but possibly in DM! #philsky
doi.org/10.1484/J.SC...
Pretty 14th-c fragment from a MS of Dominican author Nicholas of Gorran's Commentary on the Pauline epistles (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 1685)
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object100612/en/
We are looking forward to the next lecture in the FitMA series on Thursday 12 March, featuring Michele Meroni: "The lexicon of animal behaviour in De anima commentaries from Paris and Oxford before the 1270s". Remote atttendance is possible!
hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/researc...
CfP on a marvelous topic, imho, especially because I organise the conference myself (with Sébastien Moureau): "Verbositas Arabica, implicatio Graeca, paucitas Latina. Multilingual Text Traditions in the Middle Ages (8th–14th Century)" (20–22 Jan 2027). #medievalsky
hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/researc...
Remains from a 10th-c MS of the Vita of Gregory the Great and the opening of book 2 of his Dialogues with the life of Saint Benedict. Very early witness of these texts. #medievalsky (Vendôme, BM, 193)
arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/m...
Here is the project description:
www.researchportal.be/en/project/a...
And now it has been formally confirmed! Our joint project can finally take off!
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𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗰 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗗 𝟭𝟳𝟬𝟬
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#Ptolemy #Astronomy #Astrology #ManuscriptStudies #Manuscripts #OpenAccess
An article about medieval Latin translations of philosophical texts and their readers' annotations! You know what? I am going to read this! #philsky
doi.org/10.3917/ahdl...
Rather: "just" a leaf from a breviary...?
1775 manuscript "by a simple individual living in a small hermitage" who collected and commented upon instructions for boys and girls. Bound in reused vellum with a lot of lisible text, sadly just seems to be a Bible page (Proverbs). 50€ est! www.interencheres.com/art-decorati...
En janvier 2026, un manuscrit exceptionnel est apparu sur le marché : une copie complète du “Dicta Chrysostomi” datant du XIIe siècle reconnu grâce à une publication de notre collègue Emmanuelle Kuhry (section latine).
A slow and sensual bibliophile striptease to reveal luscious leaves of canon law that served as original pastedowns (Trier, Stadtbibliothek, XY 350)
nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0...
Pastedowns from a MS of the Digesta. Passages about property rights. Let's see whether they contain something about academic publishing and scraping to train LLM's? (Paderborn, Erzbischöfliche Akademische Bibliothek, I 174)
nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:h...
Farbfoto, Ausschnitt einer reichverzierten Buchseite mit lateinischer Schrift. Darüber Textbanderolen: Constantinus Africanus / Die Revolution der Medizin des Mittelalters
Mohamed Quassiti @mqassiti.bsky.social forscht zum arabisch-lateinischen #Wissenstransfer. In seinem Gastbeitrag erzählt er die Geschichte von Constantinus Africanus, der als nordafrikanischer Migrant die Medizin des Mittelalters revolutionierte:
t1p.de/unun8
#Migration #Digitalisierung #Kulturerbe
Houd je maar klaar!
H/T @keesnoorda.bsky.social
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Did you miss the start of the FitMA lecture series? The recording of the first presentation by @jkeskiah.bsky.social is now online! Don't forget to check the events page for the upcoming lectures in March and April!
hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/researc...
With all due respect, but this seems like a rather narrow Anglophone view. It is clear to me that the Dutch word "pannenkoek" hints at the original etymology of πᾶν ἐν κουκκούματι, to be understood as "all in the pan"!