🥳DATABASE UPDATE🥳 Glad to announce that the Innovating Knowledge DB was updated over the weekend. Now contains 507 pre-1000 manuscripts of Isidore's Etymologiae (up from 496). Check out the new manuscript images, links and overall new info on manuscripts 🔗db.innovatingknowledge.nl #medievalsky
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📜 Join us next week in Milan or virtually for the second round of the Parallel Lives of the Classics and the Fathers ℹ️ More info and programme at: www.irht.cnrs.fr/fr/agenda/co...#medievalsky
✍️Your humblest narrator has been offered a one-year fellowship in Latin Palaeography in the ERC project SCRIBEMUS. Scribes of Musical Cultures. Decoding Early Technologies of Music Writing in Latin Europe (ca. 900–1100). 🔗Here is more about the project: scribemus.unipv.it
✍️There is still time to apply: Summer School in Digital Palaeography that takes place at the University of Göttingen. Successful applicants to the summer school will receive free accommodation. Contributions towards travel costs are also on offer #medievalskywww.uni-goettingen.de/en/digital+p...
📖ISIDORE NO. 504 After a long deliberation, I have included this early 11th-c. manuscript into the IK dataset. Other, even slightly more recent manuscripts are also included. 📚Wolfenbüttel, HAB, Guelf. 2 Weiss. (11th c., in., Wissembourg) 🔗https://diglib.hab.de/mss/2-weiss/start.htm #medievalsky
📜This 14th-century Isidore is for sale at Doyle auction house in New York. If you have spare 5,000 $, it can be still yours, #medievalskywww.invaluable.com/auction-lot/...
🖼️A SNIPPET FROM THE CIRCLE OF JOHN THE SCOT ERIUGENA🖼️ A folio (67v) from Paris, Bibliotheque Mazarine, MS 561 containing John's translation of the exposition of Maximus Confessor with notes from individuals from his scholarly circle. In the bottom margin his Irish assistant, i2. #medievalsky
Exciting news! @ERC_Research grants #ERCAdG to INSULAR MSS in the Age of Charlemagne (€2.5m). Our team includes @litteracarolina.mastodon.online & partners in libraries & universities across Europe incl. @ercb2c @brad_dan @CharlotteDenoel @LieveWatteeuw @bodleianlibs @BLMedieval
An Isidore from a private collection that shall not be named. First experience collaborating with a private collector. Very positive. The manuscript belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps. Was split into two parts in the 19th century and circulated separately. Now reunited. Happy ending! #medievalsky
