Homo Modernus
@homomodernus.bsky.social
A Carolingian scholasticus lost in the 21st century. Your humblest narrator. Manuscripts, texts, controversies. Mostly Latin, some Old High German and early Romance, too. 📚📜 Glosses.
🦊 Multa novit vulpes, verum echinus unum magnum.
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🦊 Multa novit vulpes, verum echinus unum magnum.
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🌳EDOTOR: YES🌳
Proudly encoded my first stemma in Edotor with the help of ChatGPT🤩. Never again drawing a stemma in Word or draw.io. The edition of this presumably Hiberno-Latin treatise will hopefully come out next year. I hope you will like it! 📜
#medievalsky
Proudly encoded my first stemma in Edotor with the help of ChatGPT🤩. Never again drawing a stemma in Word or draw.io. The edition of this presumably Hiberno-Latin treatise will hopefully come out next year. I hope you will like it! 📜
#medievalsky
October 1, 2025 at 6:21 AM
🌳EDOTOR: YES🌳
Proudly encoded my first stemma in Edotor with the help of ChatGPT🤩. Never again drawing a stemma in Word or draw.io. The edition of this presumably Hiberno-Latin treatise will hopefully come out next year. I hope you will like it! 📜
#medievalsky
Proudly encoded my first stemma in Edotor with the help of ChatGPT🤩. Never again drawing a stemma in Word or draw.io. The edition of this presumably Hiberno-Latin treatise will hopefully come out next year. I hope you will like it! 📜
#medievalsky
🧐 The beginning of the rhythm Ante saecula et mundi principio of Theodfrid of Corbie (c. 650) is copied in Beinecke 389, f. 131v.
📜 As there are 4 known MSS and this one is 9th c., could be interesting for someone like Francesco Stella.
🔗 collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2008...
#medievalsky
📜 As there are 4 known MSS and this one is 9th c., could be interesting for someone like Francesco Stella.
🔗 collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2008...
#medievalsky
May 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🧐 The beginning of the rhythm Ante saecula et mundi principio of Theodfrid of Corbie (c. 650) is copied in Beinecke 389, f. 131v.
📜 As there are 4 known MSS and this one is 9th c., could be interesting for someone like Francesco Stella.
🔗 collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2008...
#medievalsky
📜 As there are 4 known MSS and this one is 9th c., could be interesting for someone like Francesco Stella.
🔗 collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2008...
#medievalsky
🥳 Very glad to say that the digital edition of glosses to Etymologiae (book I) is now finally updated and complete 🎉
👏 Thanks to my @huygensknaw.bsky.social colleagues Peter Boot and Rob Zeeman
🔗 db.innovatingknowledge.nl/edition/#lef...
#medievalsky #digitalhumanities #digitalediting
👏 Thanks to my @huygensknaw.bsky.social colleagues Peter Boot and Rob Zeeman
🔗 db.innovatingknowledge.nl/edition/#lef...
#medievalsky #digitalhumanities #digitalediting
May 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🥳 Very glad to say that the digital edition of glosses to Etymologiae (book I) is now finally updated and complete 🎉
👏 Thanks to my @huygensknaw.bsky.social colleagues Peter Boot and Rob Zeeman
🔗 db.innovatingknowledge.nl/edition/#lef...
#medievalsky #digitalhumanities #digitalediting
👏 Thanks to my @huygensknaw.bsky.social colleagues Peter Boot and Rob Zeeman
🔗 db.innovatingknowledge.nl/edition/#lef...
#medievalsky #digitalhumanities #digitalediting
📜Check out this beautiful diagram of the movement of the Sun from 📕Bern, Burgerbibliothek 87.
🔗 www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/bbb/0087/...
#medievalsky
🔗 www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/bbb/0087/...
#medievalsky
March 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
📜Check out this beautiful diagram of the movement of the Sun from 📕Bern, Burgerbibliothek 87.
🔗 www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/bbb/0087/...
#medievalsky
🔗 www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/bbb/0087/...
#medievalsky
🏺How exciting to find Etymologiae inscribed on a slate tablet 😍
This one was excavated in 1894 at the abbey of Villers-la-Ville in the southern Netherlands, dated to the 13th century, 2/2, now in the KBR Brussels. Contains bits of book IV on medicine 🩺
🔗 uurl.kbr.be/1559692
#medievalsky
This one was excavated in 1894 at the abbey of Villers-la-Ville in the southern Netherlands, dated to the 13th century, 2/2, now in the KBR Brussels. Contains bits of book IV on medicine 🩺
🔗 uurl.kbr.be/1559692
#medievalsky
March 13, 2025 at 6:46 AM
🏺How exciting to find Etymologiae inscribed on a slate tablet 😍
This one was excavated in 1894 at the abbey of Villers-la-Ville in the southern Netherlands, dated to the 13th century, 2/2, now in the KBR Brussels. Contains bits of book IV on medicine 🩺
🔗 uurl.kbr.be/1559692
#medievalsky
This one was excavated in 1894 at the abbey of Villers-la-Ville in the southern Netherlands, dated to the 13th century, 2/2, now in the KBR Brussels. Contains bits of book IV on medicine 🩺
🔗 uurl.kbr.be/1559692
#medievalsky
📕 I am glad to see that this volume to which your humble narrator contributed is finally out in Open Access. Enjoy!
🔗 punctumbooks.com/titles/the-a...
#medievalsky
🔗 punctumbooks.com/titles/the-a...
#medievalsky
March 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
📕 I am glad to see that this volume to which your humble narrator contributed is finally out in Open Access. Enjoy!
🔗 punctumbooks.com/titles/the-a...
#medievalsky
🔗 punctumbooks.com/titles/the-a...
#medievalsky
📜Working on no less of a scholar than Manno of Saint-Oyen, here annotating Aldhelm's Riddles in Vatican, BAV, Reg. Lat. 2078 with snippets from the Etymologies.
🦫 fol. 128r: the riddle about the beaver is glossed with Etym. XII 2.21
🔗 digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg...
#medievalsky
🦫 fol. 128r: the riddle about the beaver is glossed with Etym. XII 2.21
🔗 digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg...
#medievalsky
February 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
📜Working on no less of a scholar than Manno of Saint-Oyen, here annotating Aldhelm's Riddles in Vatican, BAV, Reg. Lat. 2078 with snippets from the Etymologies.
🦫 fol. 128r: the riddle about the beaver is glossed with Etym. XII 2.21
🔗 digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg...
#medievalsky
🦫 fol. 128r: the riddle about the beaver is glossed with Etym. XII 2.21
🔗 digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg...
#medievalsky
🧐Has anybody noticed this Hebrew word in Cambridge, Trinity College, B.15.33 (10th c., England, Isidore's Etymologiae)?
📄 I cannot find any mention of it in the literature. Would be glad to know if anyone wrote about it.
🔗 mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...
#medievalsky
📄 I cannot find any mention of it in the literature. Would be glad to know if anyone wrote about it.
🔗 mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...
#medievalsky
February 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
🧐Has anybody noticed this Hebrew word in Cambridge, Trinity College, B.15.33 (10th c., England, Isidore's Etymologiae)?
📄 I cannot find any mention of it in the literature. Would be glad to know if anyone wrote about it.
🔗 mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...
#medievalsky
📄 I cannot find any mention of it in the literature. Would be glad to know if anyone wrote about it.
🔗 mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...
#medievalsky
🤩 Great news: Codices Vossiani Latini are now available Open Access and IIIF compatible.
🔗 www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01...
#medievalsky
🔗 www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01...
#medievalsky
February 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🤩 Great news: Codices Vossiani Latini are now available Open Access and IIIF compatible.
🔗 www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01...
#medievalsky
🔗 www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01...
#medievalsky
🙈 At yesterday's DELM meeting, I volunteered to lead the 'funerary' WG. Join if you are:
📜In charge of a DB project about to end
📜Facing the end of funding and wondering what comes next
📜Maintaining a DB past its active funding cycle
📜Wondering how to retire a DB
🧟Hunting zombie DBs
#medievalsky
📜In charge of a DB project about to end
📜Facing the end of funding and wondering what comes next
📜Maintaining a DB past its active funding cycle
📜Wondering how to retire a DB
🧟Hunting zombie DBs
#medievalsky
December 14, 2024 at 6:23 AM
🙈 At yesterday's DELM meeting, I volunteered to lead the 'funerary' WG. Join if you are:
📜In charge of a DB project about to end
📜Facing the end of funding and wondering what comes next
📜Maintaining a DB past its active funding cycle
📜Wondering how to retire a DB
🧟Hunting zombie DBs
#medievalsky
📜In charge of a DB project about to end
📜Facing the end of funding and wondering what comes next
📜Maintaining a DB past its active funding cycle
📜Wondering how to retire a DB
🧟Hunting zombie DBs
#medievalsky
❓ Where do you go when you want to publish OA critical edition of a medieval text these days? Especially if you want to avoid Brepols 😖
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
December 11, 2024 at 12:22 PM
❓ Where do you go when you want to publish OA critical edition of a medieval text these days? Especially if you want to avoid Brepols 😖
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
📅THE 2ND DELM MEETING
DELM aims to connect researchers building/managing DBs concerned with Latin manuscripts before c. 1200. It provides a forum for discussing issues around standardisation and data sharing.
🕐 13 December 2024, 2-5 PM CET
🚩 Zoom
🔗 delm-net.github.io/meetings.html
#medievalsky
DELM aims to connect researchers building/managing DBs concerned with Latin manuscripts before c. 1200. It provides a forum for discussing issues around standardisation and data sharing.
🕐 13 December 2024, 2-5 PM CET
🚩 Zoom
🔗 delm-net.github.io/meetings.html
#medievalsky
DELM: Meetings
delm-net.github.io
December 8, 2024 at 8:14 AM
📅THE 2ND DELM MEETING
DELM aims to connect researchers building/managing DBs concerned with Latin manuscripts before c. 1200. It provides a forum for discussing issues around standardisation and data sharing.
🕐 13 December 2024, 2-5 PM CET
🚩 Zoom
🔗 delm-net.github.io/meetings.html
#medievalsky
DELM aims to connect researchers building/managing DBs concerned with Latin manuscripts before c. 1200. It provides a forum for discussing issues around standardisation and data sharing.
🕐 13 December 2024, 2-5 PM CET
🚩 Zoom
🔗 delm-net.github.io/meetings.html
#medievalsky
📜THIS FRAGMENT OF THE ETYMOLOGIAE📜
Many thanks to David Ganz for unearthing it. It is certainly a sibling of the Isidore fragment they have at Cornell. Should they be told, in case they want to buy it?
I wish I had spare 16,000$ 💰
#medievalsky
🔗 www.abebooks.fr/servlet/Book...
Many thanks to David Ganz for unearthing it. It is certainly a sibling of the Isidore fragment they have at Cornell. Should they be told, in case they want to buy it?
I wish I had spare 16,000$ 💰
#medievalsky
🔗 www.abebooks.fr/servlet/Book...
November 19, 2024 at 11:15 AM
📜THIS FRAGMENT OF THE ETYMOLOGIAE📜
Many thanks to David Ganz for unearthing it. It is certainly a sibling of the Isidore fragment they have at Cornell. Should they be told, in case they want to buy it?
I wish I had spare 16,000$ 💰
#medievalsky
🔗 www.abebooks.fr/servlet/Book...
Many thanks to David Ganz for unearthing it. It is certainly a sibling of the Isidore fragment they have at Cornell. Should they be told, in case they want to buy it?
I wish I had spare 16,000$ 💰
#medievalsky
🔗 www.abebooks.fr/servlet/Book...
📕 A NEW CATALOGUE OF MEDIEVAL MAPPAE MUNDI 📕
I have been looking forward to the publication of Patrick Gautier Dalché's catalogue for a while. Just a pity it is not OA and costs 600+ E.
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
#medievalsky
I have been looking forward to the publication of Patrick Gautier Dalché's catalogue for a while. Just a pity it is not OA and costs 600+ E.
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
#medievalsky
October 16, 2024 at 7:59 AM
📕 A NEW CATALOGUE OF MEDIEVAL MAPPAE MUNDI 📕
I have been looking forward to the publication of Patrick Gautier Dalché's catalogue for a while. Just a pity it is not OA and costs 600+ E.
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
#medievalsky
I have been looking forward to the publication of Patrick Gautier Dalché's catalogue for a while. Just a pity it is not OA and costs 600+ E.
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
#medievalsky
📜E-CODICES UPDATE📜
24 new manuscripts from Swiss collections are now online 🥳
Include a 9th-century Physiologus.
#medievalsky
🔗 e-codices.ch/en/list/all/...
24 new manuscripts from Swiss collections are now online 🥳
Include a 9th-century Physiologus.
#medievalsky
🔗 e-codices.ch/en/list/all/...
October 15, 2024 at 5:47 AM
📜E-CODICES UPDATE📜
24 new manuscripts from Swiss collections are now online 🥳
Include a 9th-century Physiologus.
#medievalsky
🔗 e-codices.ch/en/list/all/...
24 new manuscripts from Swiss collections are now online 🥳
Include a 9th-century Physiologus.
#medievalsky
🔗 e-codices.ch/en/list/all/...
🥳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
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
September 23, 2024 at 7:31 AM
🥳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
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
📜JOIN US IN TWO WEEKS FOR A COLLOQUIUM ON MEDIEVAL EXCERPTION PRACTICES📜
2-4 October 2024, Universite de Montpellier
🔗 Zoom will be available
➡️ crises.www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/node/191458
Full programme available now
#medievalsky
2-4 October 2024, Universite de Montpellier
🔗 Zoom will be available
➡️ crises.www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/node/191458
Full programme available now
#medievalsky
September 17, 2024 at 6:31 AM
📜JOIN US IN TWO WEEKS FOR A COLLOQUIUM ON MEDIEVAL EXCERPTION PRACTICES📜
2-4 October 2024, Universite de Montpellier
🔗 Zoom will be available
➡️ crises.www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/node/191458
Full programme available now
#medievalsky
2-4 October 2024, Universite de Montpellier
🔗 Zoom will be available
➡️ crises.www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/node/191458
Full programme available now
#medievalsky
📜 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
ℹ️ More info and programme at: www.irht.cnrs.fr/fr/agenda/co...
#medievalsky
June 14, 2024 at 8:41 AM
📜 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
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
🔗Here is more about the project: scribemus.unipv.it
May 6, 2024 at 5:12 AM
✍️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
🔗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
#medievalsky.
www.uni-goettingen.de/en/digital+p...
Successful applicants to the summer school will receive free accommodation. Contributions towards travel costs are also on offer
#medievalsky.
www.uni-goettingen.de/en/digital+p...
April 29, 2024 at 2:51 PM
✍️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
#medievalsky.
www.uni-goettingen.de/en/digital+p...
Successful applicants to the summer school will receive free accommodation. Contributions towards travel costs are also on offer
#medievalsky.
www.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
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
April 22, 2024 at 6:47 AM
📖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
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, #medievalsky
www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/...
www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/...
April 20, 2024 at 3:39 PM
📜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, #medievalsky
www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/...
www.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
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
April 17, 2024 at 6:19 AM
🖼️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
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
Reposted by Homo Modernus
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
@litteracarolina.mastodon.online & partners in libraries & universities across Europe incl. @ercb2c @brad_dan @CharlotteDenoel @LieveWatteeuw @bodleianlibs @BLMedieval
April 11, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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
@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
The manuscript belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps. Was split into two parts in the 19th century and circulated separately. Now reunited. Happy ending!
#medievalsky
April 15, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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
The manuscript belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps. Was split into two parts in the 19th century and circulated separately. Now reunited. Happy ending!
#medievalsky