Maria Vittoria Comacchi

FYI: the flyleaf has been used for a significant number of notes, not necessarily related to the codex itself (eg, a rent annotation). The (maybe) cryptographic note is upside down.

Scholars working in #manuscriptstudies, I need some help with an annotation. Is the one faded a cryptographic? Any suggestions? The annotation is on the verso leaf of the last flyleaf of a mid-14th C codex (an exemplar of William of Ockham’s Expositio in libros Physicorum copied by an Italian hand)

The Hebrew annotation appears on the last folio, close to a sort of index of a part of the codex. On the same folio there is another Hebrew annotation (an alphabet), which in my opinion was written by a different hand. The ms entered the Assisi library in/before 1381

Thanks 🙏 The manuscript was copied in the late 13C century mainly by a scribe from northern Italy. It contains commentaries by Ibn Rushd on Aristotle, in the Latin translation by Michael Scot, and Aristotelian texts

Thanks 🙏 I usually work only with printed Hebrew books, and this annotation proved too much of a puzzle

I am working on a Medieval (late 13th C.) Latin translation of Ibn Rushd. I found this annotation in Hebrew on the last folium. Can someone help me with this? Might it be a Latin hand writing in Hebrew? Thanks 🙏

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Thanks 🙏, I couldn’t really read the first word!

Thanks! I’ll try to use the Wood’s lamp for the first word.

Someone who can help me with this annotation? It opens a Medieval manuscript containing a Latin translation from Arabic (the marginalia was written when the binding was restored). Many thanks!

Friends and colleagues in intellectual history and the history of philosophy: don’t miss the CFP for Lexicon 2026 (deadline for submissions Dec 30, 2025). The journal is peer-reviewed, diamond open access, and welcomes a broad range of topics across both fields! lexicon.cnr.it/ojs/index.ph...

Today! Join online the co-editors Beatrice Falcucci, Emanuele Giusti, and Davide Trentacoste who will discuss the Mediterranean as a space of connectivities and disconnections with Francesco Montuori and me!

Unfortunately, I couldn't fly to Boston this year, but don't miss the panels I organized with David M. Reher and Marcus Keller at #RenSa25! If you're curious to learn more about the Ottoman idea of Europe and the European historical imaginary of the Ottoman Empire, join our panels this Saturday!

Today on Zoom!

#skystorians it’s time for the last seminar of my 3-year Marie Curie project. This Friday, January 31, 3.30 PM (Italy time), join me, Edgar Omar Rodriguez Camarena, and Alberto Fabris, to discuss about New Spain and urban space in the 16C on Zoom ➡️
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Actually, the only word I couldn’t (and still cannot) understand is the third since it’s a first name. The annotation reads: ex libris Pu?y Petit. But thanks for your help!

Here’s: Argomento: Zoom meeting invitation - Riunione Zoom di Maria Vittoria COMACCHI - History and Epistemology of Geography - December 2024
Ora: 17 dic 2024 03:30 PM Roma

Entra nell'incontro in Zoom
unive.zoom.us/j/85624349215

ID riunione: 856 2434 9215

Today!

Unfortunately I cannot record the presentations, but I’ll ask the speakers if they will share their papers (or if they’re gonna publish them)

Next Tuesday Dec 17 at 3.30 PM (Italy time), you’re welcome to join me online on Zoom (or in Venice, if you’re there) to explore cosmographical developments and different concepts of space with Prof Tessicini and Prof Sgarbi. Event will be in English. Write me for the Zoom link.

#skystorians any suggestions for someone who’s outside the French academy (I was a visiting student in Paris during my PhD and one of my advisors is French) and wants to apply for the MCF habilitation (section 17 Philosophy and 22 Modern History)? Is an interdisciplinary research profile well seen?

Hi #skystorians, happy to see new faces! I’m an intellectual historian and early modernist, working on trans-regional and cross-linguistic exchange in the Mediterranean region. Love to know more about your research! This is one of the authors I’m working on, G. Postel (also studying Judah Abarbanel)

I have created a "starter pack" for intellectual history, broadly construed, composed of historians, philosophers, political theorists, literary scholars, & more! Sorry for those I missed & cannot add (limit 150), but do reply, like, & share this post so that people can find you!
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Any help will be very much appreciated

It’s been a while but I need some help: can you read this ex libris? I have some difficulties and many doubts

On my way to Frankfurt for the EMoDiR workshop “Rethinking religious otherness” where I’ll discuss Postel’s perception of Islam and Islamic radical sects. Happy to share my ideas with this cohort of scholars and listen to other research. You might join us on Zoom!

Unexpected exhibition at the MET Museum on Manet and Degas, their friendship and rivalry. Surprised by their works reproducing and renewing Renaissance art

And if any of you is interested in the MSCA postdoctoral programme and want to apply in the next future, I’ll be more than happy to share with you my application and research experience 2/2

This week at IU we celebrate the work of international scholars, students, and professionals on campus during the International Education Week. I’m happy to be part of this celebration tomorrow at the J-1 Scholar Symposium. I’ll share my experience as a Marie Curie fellow in the US 1/2

Pleased that the panels on transregional Renaissance(s) organized with Matt Hermane and the roundtable on Ottoman-European relationships organized with David the Reher have been accepted at the RSA in Chicago! And also the panel on Isaac Abarbanel I’ll chair (organized by Guido Bartolucci)! #RenSA24