AaronM
@aaronm.bsky.social
I dissect calendars in Books of Hours and keep a close eye on the Vatican Library, sometimes in that order.
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Only 13 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Contains: Ge'ez liturgy, obsequious Barberini poetry, a text on how to build and use a clock, poetry by Il Porcellio, commentaries on Aristotle, and more
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Contains: Ge'ez liturgy, obsequious Barberini poetry, a text on how to build and use a clock, poetry by Il Porcellio, commentaries on Aristotle, and more
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 47 of 2025
Only thirteen manuscripts were digitized in the past week. Despite the small numbers, the recent pattern of distributions was maintained: Barb.lat led with five, Comb and Ott.lat added four each.
T...
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November 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Only 13 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Contains: Ge'ez liturgy, obsequious Barberini poetry, a text on how to build and use a clock, poetry by Il Porcellio, commentaries on Aristotle, and more
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Contains: Ge'ez liturgy, obsequious Barberini poetry, a text on how to build and use a clock, poetry by Il Porcellio, commentaries on Aristotle, and more
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
If anyone has access to the 2015 fascimile of the Officiolum of Francesco da Barberino, and would be willing to do me a favor, it would be much appreciated.
November 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
If anyone has access to the 2015 fascimile of the Officiolum of Francesco da Barberino, and would be willing to do me a favor, it would be much appreciated.
46 new #Manuscripts went online from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes: Ge'ez imagery, 17th C Barberini stuff, 18th-19th C Sistine music, classics, a spanish illustrated work on machines and _more_
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Includes: Ge'ez imagery, 17th C Barberini stuff, 18th-19th C Sistine music, classics, a spanish illustrated work on machines and _more_
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 46 of 2025
A total of forty-six manuscripts were completed in week 46 of the calendar year. The distribution is not quite what we have seen recently, Barb.lat continues to be the largest collection, adding seve...
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November 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
46 new #Manuscripts went online from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes: Ge'ez imagery, 17th C Barberini stuff, 18th-19th C Sistine music, classics, a spanish illustrated work on machines and _more_
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Includes: Ge'ez imagery, 17th C Barberini stuff, 18th-19th C Sistine music, classics, a spanish illustrated work on machines and _more_
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Reminder that this is happening (eek!!) on Monday. There is no online option, but hopefully this will lead to more work on the absolute batshittery of this manuscript
For those lucky enough to be local to the Cambridge MA area, I will be giving a lunch talk on November 17th that I think of as "This Manuscript is too Fucked-up to be Real, but it is!"
medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/mahind...
#MedievalSky
medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/mahind...
#MedievalSky
Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar: Collations | Medieval Studies @ Harvard
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November 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Reminder that this is happening (eek!!) on Monday. There is no online option, but hopefully this will lead to more work on the absolute batshittery of this manuscript
I would actually love to see some AI homework failures from the sciences.
My encounters with AI generated by students have been exclusively on writing assignments & the mainstream moral panic has been about the college essay.
I encourage you to ask a science or social science colleague about the graphs, charts, & diagrams they've been receiving. 😳🫣🤢
I encourage you to ask a science or social science colleague about the graphs, charts, & diagrams they've been receiving. 😳🫣🤢
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I would actually love to see some AI homework failures from the sciences.
A much more exciting week brought 76 #Manuscripts online at the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a glossed Priscian, a bunch of 17th C Barberini stuff, a pile more Ge'ez, many Cicero, Iñigo de Mendoça's Spanish _Vita Christiana_, and MORE
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Includes a glossed Priscian, a bunch of 17th C Barberini stuff, a pile more Ge'ez, many Cicero, Iñigo de Mendoça's Spanish _Vita Christiana_, and MORE
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 45 of 2025
A total of seventy-six manuscripts were digitized this past week. Barb.lat, with twenty-nine, and Ott.lat with twenty-eight, contributed the majority of the volumes, following recent patterns. A full ...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
A much more exciting week brought 76 #Manuscripts online at the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a glossed Priscian, a bunch of 17th C Barberini stuff, a pile more Ge'ez, many Cicero, Iñigo de Mendoça's Spanish _Vita Christiana_, and MORE
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Includes a glossed Priscian, a bunch of 17th C Barberini stuff, a pile more Ge'ez, many Cicero, Iñigo de Mendoça's Spanish _Vita Christiana_, and MORE
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Eleven #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a text on the Barberini Lyre, more papal writings, Caesar's Wars (several), some Neo-Latin, a catalogue of printed books... and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians
Includes a text on the Barberini Lyre, more papal writings, Caesar's Wars (several), some Neo-Latin, a catalogue of printed books... and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 44 of 2025
Eleven total manuscripts were digitized in the past week. These consisted of six from Barb.lat, four from Ott.lat, and a single volume, a 17th C catalogue of printed books, from Vat.lat.
To the right...
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November 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Eleven #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a text on the Barberini Lyre, more papal writings, Caesar's Wars (several), some Neo-Latin, a catalogue of printed books... and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians
Includes a text on the Barberini Lyre, more papal writings, Caesar's Wars (several), some Neo-Latin, a catalogue of printed books... and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians
Only 5 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
A Bussula, a Virgil, Ceasare della Riviera's Magical World of the Heroes, Herodian's History in Latin, and a legel compendium... that's it!
#Medievalsky #Skystorians
A Bussula, a Virgil, Ceasare della Riviera's Magical World of the Heroes, Herodian's History in Latin, and a legel compendium... that's it!
#Medievalsky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 43 of 2025
Another extremely quiet week with only five manuscripts digitized. Four of them were from Ott.lat, and the remaining one was another Bussula, a type of election record, from Barb.lat.
To the right...
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October 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Only 5 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
A Bussula, a Virgil, Ceasare della Riviera's Magical World of the Heroes, Herodian's History in Latin, and a legel compendium... that's it!
#Medievalsky #Skystorians
A Bussula, a Virgil, Ceasare della Riviera's Magical World of the Heroes, Herodian's History in Latin, and a legel compendium... that's it!
#Medievalsky #Skystorians
For those lucky enough to be local to the Cambridge MA area, I will be giving a lunch talk on November 17th that I think of as "This Manuscript is too Fucked-up to be Real, but it is!"
medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/mahind...
#MedievalSky
medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/mahind...
#MedievalSky
Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar: Collations | Medieval Studies @ Harvard
medieval.fas.harvard.edu
October 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
For those lucky enough to be local to the Cambridge MA area, I will be giving a lunch talk on November 17th that I think of as "This Manuscript is too Fucked-up to be Real, but it is!"
medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/mahind...
#MedievalSky
medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/mahind...
#MedievalSky
38 new #Manuscripts this week from the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes an oration by Ubaldi, a part of an Atlantic Bible, some crazy heraldry, Cassian on Monks, Ethiopic, Classics and more
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Includes an oration by Ubaldi, a part of an Atlantic Bible, some crazy heraldry, Cassian on Monks, Ethiopic, Classics and more
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 42 of 2025
In total thirty-eight manuscripts were digitized this week. The recent pattern has remained, Ott.lat was the largest fond with twenty manuscripts and Barb.lat was the next largest, with ten. The res...
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October 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
38 new #Manuscripts this week from the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes an oration by Ubaldi, a part of an Atlantic Bible, some crazy heraldry, Cassian on Monks, Ethiopic, Classics and more
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Includes an oration by Ubaldi, a part of an Atlantic Bible, some crazy heraldry, Cassian on Monks, Ethiopic, Classics and more
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
@lisafdavis.bsky.social I assume you've seen this, but I would be remiss in not making sure
October 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
@lisafdavis.bsky.social I assume you've seen this, but I would be remiss in not making sure
I'm usually pretty meh about the provenance of manuscripts, and in general about 16th C printed books... But Ott.lat.1902 is the copy of Copernicus that was owned, read, an annotated by Tycho Brahe, and has his notes about orbital mechanics bound in at the end. digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott...
October 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I'm usually pretty meh about the provenance of manuscripts, and in general about 16th C printed books... But Ott.lat.1902 is the copy of Copernicus that was owned, read, an annotated by Tycho Brahe, and has his notes about orbital mechanics bound in at the end. digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott...
Back to speed with 56 new #Manuscripts this week from the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025.... Includes a glossed Valerius Maximus, the Alexandreis, 17th c poetry, Plautus, Decretals, Ovid, a 13th C Roman de Brut, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 41 of 2025
A total of fifty-six manuscripts were digitized during the past week. In a statistical anomaly, two fonds, Barb.lat and Ott.lat, brought in the same number of manuscripts, twenty-six for each. The r...
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October 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Back to speed with 56 new #Manuscripts this week from the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025.... Includes a glossed Valerius Maximus, the Alexandreis, 17th c poetry, Plautus, Decretals, Ovid, a 13th C Roman de Brut, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Only 5 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Consists of a Ge'ez Book of Hours, a commentary on Aristotle, Nonius Marcellus' De compendiosa doctrina (his only surviving work), Seneca's Tragedies and a vol of Papal stuff
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Consists of a Ge'ez Book of Hours, a commentary on Aristotle, Nonius Marcellus' De compendiosa doctrina (his only surviving work), Seneca's Tragedies and a vol of Papal stuff
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 40 of 2025
An extremely quiet week, with only five manuscripts digitized. Of these four are from the Ott.lat collection, and the final one is from Comb.
To the right is f.3r from Ott.lat.1713, a 14th C manusc...
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October 5, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Only 5 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Consists of a Ge'ez Book of Hours, a commentary on Aristotle, Nonius Marcellus' De compendiosa doctrina (his only surviving work), Seneca's Tragedies and a vol of Papal stuff
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Consists of a Ge'ez Book of Hours, a commentary on Aristotle, Nonius Marcellus' De compendiosa doctrina (his only surviving work), Seneca's Tragedies and a vol of Papal stuff
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Only 16 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican were digitized in the past week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a lot of Ge'ez liturgy, 3 volumes of poems by Aurelio Amalteo, a report from the Venetian ambassador to France, Papias' dictionary, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Includes a lot of Ge'ez liturgy, 3 volumes of poems by Aurelio Amalteo, a report from the Venetian ambassador to France, Papias' dictionary, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 39 of 2025
Only sixteen manuscripts were digitized in the past week. Unusually the largest number, fully half, came from the Comb collection This collection of primarily Ethiopic liturgical manuscripts came fro...
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September 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Only 16 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican were digitized in the past week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a lot of Ge'ez liturgy, 3 volumes of poems by Aurelio Amalteo, a report from the Venetian ambassador to France, Papias' dictionary, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Includes a lot of Ge'ez liturgy, 3 volumes of poems by Aurelio Amalteo, a report from the Venetian ambassador to France, Papias' dictionary, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
47 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican were digitized this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes another Sanvito-rubricated work, Beneventan fragments, Diaries, Classics, Philosophy, Strozzi's _Eroticon_, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Includes another Sanvito-rubricated work, Beneventan fragments, Diaries, Classics, Philosophy, Strozzi's _Eroticon_, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 38 of 2025
A total of forty-seven manuscripts were digitized in the past week, which is slightly above average when comparing to recent weeks. Also in-line with the patterns of recent weeks, the most manuscripts...
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September 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
47 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican were digitized this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes another Sanvito-rubricated work, Beneventan fragments, Diaries, Classics, Philosophy, Strozzi's _Eroticon_, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Includes another Sanvito-rubricated work, Beneventan fragments, Diaries, Classics, Philosophy, Strozzi's _Eroticon_, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Only 3 #Manuscripts digitized by the #Vatican this past week. www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Two 17th C Miscellanies and a 19th-20th C register of .... something Papal
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Two 17th C Miscellanies and a 19th-20th C register of .... something Papal
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 37 of 2025
Concluding the end of almost the quietest possible week where anything happened, three manuscripts, all part of the Vat.lat collection, are newly online.
To the right is f.329r of Vat.lat.10843, whi...
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September 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Only 3 #Manuscripts digitized by the #Vatican this past week. www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Two 17th C Miscellanies and a 19th-20th C register of .... something Papal
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Two 17th C Miscellanies and a 19th-20th C register of .... something Papal
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
33 new #Manuscripts were put online by the #Vatican last week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a nice humanist Cicero, a less-nice Caesar, an unknown collection of charters, Macrobius, Satires, and much Leonardo Bruni!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Includes a nice humanist Cicero, a less-nice Caesar, an unknown collection of charters, Macrobius, Satires, and much Leonardo Bruni!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 36 of 2025
Another week done, another thirty-three manuscripts digitized. As is becoming the current pattern, the majority of these, twenty-one, came from the Ott.lat collection. An interesting detail is that i...
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September 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
33 new #Manuscripts were put online by the #Vatican last week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a nice humanist Cicero, a less-nice Caesar, an unknown collection of charters, Macrobius, Satires, and much Leonardo Bruni!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Includes a nice humanist Cicero, a less-nice Caesar, an unknown collection of charters, Macrobius, Satires, and much Leonardo Bruni!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
A quiet 33 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
including a glossed Boethius, more Ge'ez, some Epistles, some classics, a tragedy by a Cardinal, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystoriane
including a glossed Boethius, more Ge'ez, some Epistles, some classics, a tragedy by a Cardinal, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystoriane
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 35 of 2025
A total of thirty-three manuscripts were digitized this week, to conclude summer. Following recent patterns, the largest contributor was Ott.lat, with thirteen, followed by Comb and S.Maria.Magg, each...
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September 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM
A quiet 33 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
including a glossed Boethius, more Ge'ez, some Epistles, some classics, a tragedy by a Cardinal, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystoriane
including a glossed Boethius, more Ge'ez, some Epistles, some classics, a tragedy by a Cardinal, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystoriane
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"Anxious" is the first word I included in my "AI" dictionary! It came from a paragraph I had to cut from an article I published, which was way over the word limit. Here's the cut paragraph:
August 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
"Anxious" is the first word I included in my "AI" dictionary! It came from a paragraph I had to cut from an article I published, which was way over the word limit. Here's the cut paragraph:
I've added my comment. I'm not sure if it will change anything, but it's a small amount of effort to try
For those justifiably concerned/angry about this, there's a way to make your voices heard. Public notice and comment on this proposed rule goes through Sep 27
Go to this link and click "Submit a public comment" at the top: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Go to this link and click "Submit a public comment" at the top: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
August 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I've added my comment. I'm not sure if it will change anything, but it's a small amount of effort to try
I thought they were still on vacation, but the #Vatican added 12 #Manuscripts this week
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a c.861 Gregory's Regula leads, with another Papal diary, a theological and a medical miscellany, Priscian, Pier Paolo Vergerio, even an antipope.. and more
#MedivalSky #skystorians
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a c.861 Gregory's Regula leads, with another Papal diary, a theological and a medical miscellany, Priscian, Pier Paolo Vergerio, even an antipope.. and more
#MedivalSky #skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 34 of 2025
No manuscripts were digitized last week and only twelve this week, due to the summer holidays. The overwhelming majority of them, nine or 75%, are from Ott.lat. The rest are one each from Barb.lat, ...
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August 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I thought they were still on vacation, but the #Vatican added 12 #Manuscripts this week
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
a c.861 Gregory's Regula leads, with another Papal diary, a theological and a medical miscellany, Priscian, Pier Paolo Vergerio, even an antipope.. and more
#MedivalSky #skystorians
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
a c.861 Gregory's Regula leads, with another Papal diary, a theological and a medical miscellany, Priscian, Pier Paolo Vergerio, even an antipope.. and more
#MedivalSky #skystorians
Due to the summer vacation, no new #Manuscripts were digitized by the #Vatican in the past week
August 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Due to the summer vacation, no new #Manuscripts were digitized by the #Vatican in the past week
A reasonably strong 75 #Manuscripts were added by the #Vatican this past week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week32.html
Includes several incunabula hybrids, several Ge'ez liturgicals, Petrarch, 12th C Priscian, illuminated Ovid, legal texts, papal-adjacent docs and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorian
Includes several incunabula hybrids, several Ge'ez liturgicals, Petrarch, 12th C Priscian, illuminated Ovid, legal texts, papal-adjacent docs and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorian
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 32 of 2025
A much more active week brings seventy-five new manuscripts online. Breaking the pattern of recent weeks, Ott.lat contributed thirty-two this week, the most active fond. Both Barb.lat and S.Maria.Ma...
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August 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
A reasonably strong 75 #Manuscripts were added by the #Vatican this past week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week32.html
Includes several incunabula hybrids, several Ge'ez liturgicals, Petrarch, 12th C Priscian, illuminated Ovid, legal texts, papal-adjacent docs and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorian
Includes several incunabula hybrids, several Ge'ez liturgicals, Petrarch, 12th C Priscian, illuminated Ovid, legal texts, papal-adjacent docs and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorian
My GPT has a Mohs smartness of 9.2. Only diamonds are smarter
“Nah, man. My GPT is THIRTEEN RICHTER SCALE smart.”
“Bro, bro, bro: my GPT is SEVEN MICHELIN STAR smart.”
August 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
My GPT has a Mohs smartness of 9.2. Only diamonds are smarter