This doesn't help identify the owner, but here's another example:

www.google.co.uk/books/editio...

I used to fly to a sunny beach and read books for 2 weeks each summer. Then I realised I could read the books at home and not have to tramp through 2 airports. Sorry Heathrow, you've lost my trade because you make the experience horrible. And home is really nice.

Actually I've also found them in various physical auction sales as well, such as this one, which was at Bassenge, 6 Oct. 2020, lot 1012

All the examples I've saved are from eBay, from 2017 onwards, with the exception of the attached, which is at Portland University (it is perhaps "MSS 5409").

The script is essentially 'Spanish', but I suspect that the book was made in/for a Spanish mission somewhere like the southern US or Mexico.
(Though this is just a suggestion -- it's well outside my area of competence!)

How interesting! I had never felt sure about whether the decoration was contemporary, or added later; your fol. 143 suggests that it is contemporary! The surprising emphasis given to the feast of St Peter's Chains is a strong clue to the dedication of the church that commissioned it.

On the other hand, he didn't *invent* the word, so perhaps it was his informant who got the word wrong, not him. And I suspect it would not have been easy to check/verify the correct spelling in 1940s Ohio. (And it probably didn't even occur to him that he needed to.)

Oh yes. She's relentless.
She's also had the blog wiped from Archive.org

My blog is currently available, but it will not be long before Crazy Carla gets it pulled, yet again, claiming harassment. (Google have reviewed it several times, and found no harassment).
Print out, or save as a PDF, anything you may need to refer to.

No, the blogs have been removed by Google in response to repeated claims (we can guess by whom) that they represent harassment.
Each time I appeal, the blogs are reinstated, and then another harassment claim is made, ... ad nauseam

Things like this do not appear for sale very often ...

www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...

Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.

Auct.

You may be surprised to learn (as was I) that many people think "the 11th-century" is the same as "the 1100s". (Despite the fact that they know they are in the 21st century, in which each year begins with "20" not "21").

Turning a sc/roll into a codex has at least two good practical reasons: for ease of handling, and to provide a protective binding. I can't think of a practical reason for doing the opposite.

I can imagine other transformations of format, though, such as binding single-sheet documents as a codex.

It would either require the original codex to only be written on rectos or versos, or for the resulting roll/scroll to be turned over at the end of each page to read the text continuously. Neither makes sense to me, unless each page had a discrete unit of non-continuous text (e.g. short prayers?)

That‘s the spirit.

God forbid the BL should make MS availability known or its catalogue more user-friendly. It's almost as if they don't want users.

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

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The full ruling (in German) can be read or downloaded here: entscheidsuche.ch/view/CH_BVGE...

It is very long and detailed, but there is a summary at the end.

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For Carlo Rossi's imaginative interpretation of the same court ruling, see:
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Spoiler alert: she did nothing wrong, and everyone else is to blame.

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Affäre um Zürcher Professorin landet vor Richtern Eine internationale Internet-Gemeinde bringt eine Mittelalter-Forscherin zu Fall – und fördert einen Skandal zutage, der unter Schweizer Akademien seinesgleichen sucht.

«Scientific misconduct»: Affair surrounding Zurich professor ends up in court

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Selbstplagiat: Ex-Professorin der Universität Zürich unterliegt vor Gericht Die Forscherin hatte aus eigenen Arbeiten abgeschrieben, ohne dies kenntlich zu machen. Es ist das vorläufige Ende einer skurrilen Affäre.

«Massive scientific misconduct»: Former professor at the University of Zurich loses in court

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Plagiatsurteil gegen frühere UZH-Professorin: «Schwerster Fall wissenschaftlichen Fehlverhaltens» Der Schweizerische Nationalfond forderte Fördergelder wegen angeblich nicht korrekt zitierter Passagen zurück. Das Urteil bestätigt «massives Fehlverhalten» bei zwei ihrer Publikationen.

Plagiarism verdict against former University of Zurich professor: Massive scientific misconduct

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Breviary. You can tell by the rubrics. Some are just 'R' or 'V' for responsories and versicles; others on the front cover are 'lectio viij' and 'lectio ix' (Matins lessons 8 and 9); then 'Ad l. an.' (i.e. Ad laudes, antiphona), 'Ad iij cap.' (the capitulum at Terce); 'coll' for collects, and so on.

When I see cars parked like that I assume they belong to anglers, who want access to the nearby river. These ones don't bother me, as they are not blocking pedestrian/cycle paths.

"Among old master drawings [in Seilern's collection] there were thirty by Rembrandt, nine by Watteau, six by Michelangelo, three by Dürer and one each by Bellini, Mantegna and Leonardo."

"... sometimes he came from his farm in Buckinghamshire in a wooden-bodied Austin Hereford shooting brake, a favourite pig sitting upright in the passenger seat beside him ..."

Having enjoyed the first, I am now reading the second volume of Brian Sewell's autobiography. It includes these startling details about Antoine Seilern:

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What I want is a TV documentary channel entirely devoted to documentaries with no quick-cut montages of everything about to happen, which don't give a fuck about keeping my attention, presented by extremely knowledgeable people in a terrible mood who have no interest in trying to make me like them.