In next week's FitMA lecture, Justin Winzenrietz (University of Tübingen) will talk about one of the oldest Greek manuscripts of Aristotle's works, which is a unique witness of his "De anima". Remote attendance is possible!
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It is labelled with a query as "Commentary on Aristoteles Latinus, Ethica Nicomachea" @fragmentarium.bsky.social: bifolium from a MS of the commentary on Aristotle's Ethics by Thomas Aquinas! (@ubleipzig.bsky.social, Fragm. lat. 43)
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Revised entry Aristotle’s Biology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) by James Lennox & Mariska Leunissen plato.stanford.edu/entries/aris...
Strips from a MS of the commentary on Aristotle's De sensu et sensato by Thomas Aquinas, used to line the quires of another MS (@ubleipzig.bsky.social, MS 232)
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Het kon ook erger dan enkel een bloedneus zoals in dit handschrift van de Rijmkroniek van Holland (Den Haag KB 128 E 3): Johanne de Eyll hoert dit boeck toe, dye dit boock vynt geh hem weder om godt, oft dye duivel steckt inden poet
Zo krijg je een fruitmand aan boekvloeken bij elkaar!
Bloedneus kon natuurlijk het gevolg zijn van een peer, maar dit is absoluut een mooie parallel, Remco!
Ik vraag me af of er geen woordspel met "peer" bedoeld wordt. Als "en" de ontkenning is, gaat het misschien niet om fruit!
Another broken MS of Thomas Aquinas's commentary on the Gospel of John. Remains of a bifolium and a folium, recycled as flyleaves (@ubleipzig.bsky.social, MS 4)
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Flyleaves in an elegant hand taken from a MS of Thomas Aquinas's Commentary on the Gospel by John. Some nice probationes pennae, too! (@ubleipzig.bsky.social, MS 5)
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The Exsultet, traditionally sung at tonight's Easter vigil, on a leaf from an elegantly written MS, now recycled as a book cover (Trier, Stadtbibliothek, Ad 104)
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Excited for this, tomorrow!
Basel imprint of Homer's works in Greek with a Latin translation. Pasted onto the cover are leaves from Thomas Aquinas's commentary on the Gospel of John, passages from the Passion (Halle, Marienbibliothek, P 3.3 2°)
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Flyleaves taken from a Carolingian MS of the Easter office with angry faces, used in an Augustine MS (Vendôme, BM, 140)
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Earliest dated translation by William of Moerbeke! What was he doing in Nicea in 1260?
"Alexandri Afrodisiei expõ libri metheorologicorum Ar' translata de Greco in Latinum apud Niceam urbem Grecie anno xpi 1260°" (BAV, Ott. lat. 2165, f. 1r) H/T @aaronm.bsky.social
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Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities
According to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026, the Institute of Philosophy @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social is ranked 29 in the world and 3 in continental Europe. H/T @mperale.bsky.social
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Multiple layers of annotations of a leaf from a MS of Priscian, showing traces of earlier use in a book binding (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 1347)
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Wikipedia gems.
Bekker Numbering: an entire entry devoted to the citation of Aristotle's works.
With a picture of August Immanuel Bekker from Gudeman's Imagines Philologorum.
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Next week, we welcome our colleagues from @uclouvain.bsky.social who will present the challenges of studying and editing the fluid traditions of medieval #alchemy. Join us on Thursday 2 April in person or online! Details about the FitMA lectures and remote attendance: hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/researc...
Recycled leaves from a Biblia glossata, a wonder of medieval textual study and book production (Arras, Médiathèque de l'Abbaye Saint-Vaast, 158 [180])
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Five days left to send in your proposals!
Lorsque le volume est arrivé, il est apparu que des fragments d’un texte littéraire médiéval avaient été collés sur les plats de reliure.
Grâce à l’aide de @remcosleiderink.bsky.social , ces fragments difficilement lisibles ont pu être identifiés : il s’agit d’extraits du ‘Conte du Graal’ !
Bifolia from a MS on paper of Gregorius Magnus's Expositiones in Iob pasted onto the boards of a printed psalter (Halle, Marienbibliothek, P 1.6) @unihalle.bsky.social
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I am sort of in between peaks. Or I am not a philosopher, which would also be a valid point of view.
The MS of the week is RIA MS 23 P 7, the Annals of the Four Masters. Two full sets of the annals were prepared and are now divided into multi-volume sets. This volume covers the period AD 1500-1616 and is believed to be part of the Louvain set, which was made to take back to the Irish College there.
Two leaves from a MS of Johannes de Blanasco's (Jean de Blanot) Libellus super titulo Institutionum, glued as pastedowns to the front boards of MSS from St-Martin abbey, Sées (Alençon, Médiathèque de la communauté urbaine, 15 & 136)
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Yesterday, this tiny fragment of Robert #Grosseteste 's Latin version of the Greek commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (book X) was auctioned for 500 €. Another leaf from the same MS went under the hammer in the same rooms a few years ago.
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Let's start Friday the 13th with some soft 12th-c background music! Fittingly pasted onto the boards of an incunable Ars moriendi (Dresden, SLUB, Ink.749m.4)
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