Pieter Beullens
@pieterbeullens.bsky.social
PI of FitMA (Fluidity in the Medieval Aristotle) @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social and funded by @erc.europa.eu.
Author of The Friar and the Philosopher.
Medieval Greek-Latin translations of philosophy and science.
Author of The Friar and the Philosopher.
Medieval Greek-Latin translations of philosophy and science.
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The yearly update of the Supplementa tertia (v. 6.7) is out! Additions and corrections to the three published volumes of Aristoteles Latinus Codices, with plenty of hyperlinks to digital images! If you know or own other MSS of the medieval Latin Aristotle, please reach out!
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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The deadline to submit an abstract for our HellBel conference is approaching too!
"New Ancient Greek Literature: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies" (Leuven, 8-10 July 2026)
www.dalet.be/CfP_HellBel_...
"New Ancient Greek Literature: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies" (Leuven, 8-10 July 2026)
www.dalet.be/CfP_HellBel_...
www.dalet.be
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The deadline to submit an abstract for our HellBel conference is approaching too!
"New Ancient Greek Literature: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies" (Leuven, 8-10 July 2026)
www.dalet.be/CfP_HellBel_...
"New Ancient Greek Literature: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies" (Leuven, 8-10 July 2026)
www.dalet.be/CfP_HellBel_...
The cover of an Aristotle edition preserves strips from a MS of the Legenda aurea. Passages from the life of S. Caecilia, whom the Church celebrated last Saturday (Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Rq 91)
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November 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The cover of an Aristotle edition preserves strips from a MS of the Legenda aurea. Passages from the life of S. Caecilia, whom the Church celebrated last Saturday (Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Rq 91)
www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/...
www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/...
Pastedown patchwork: two bifolia from a collection of material for sermons, similar to the ones by Stephanus de Borbone or Humbertus de Romanis; some canon law; and a snippet from a pastoral work. No identifications, so your Monday puzzle! (Karlsruhe, BLB, Ba 100)
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November 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Pastedown patchwork: two bifolia from a collection of material for sermons, similar to the ones by Stephanus de Borbone or Humbertus de Romanis; some canon law; and a snippet from a pastoral work. No identifications, so your Monday puzzle! (Karlsruhe, BLB, Ba 100)
nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:b...
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New online and listed by @aaronm.bsky.social: MS BAV, Ott. lat. 1816 contains the "Conclusiones Metaphysice" by Franciscan author Gonsalvus Hispanus (+ 1313). He was a teacher of John Duns Scotus. After his academic career, he became Minister General of his order.
digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
New online and listed by @aaronm.bsky.social: MS BAV, Ott. lat. 1816 contains the "Conclusiones Metaphysice" by Franciscan author Gonsalvus Hispanus (+ 1313). He was a teacher of John Duns Scotus. After his academic career, he became Minister General of his order.
digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott...
digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott...
The top estimate of 300 € for this early-12th or even late-11th c MS was passed... by 84,700 €. The market is always right, as some say...
Bargain High Medieval manuscript in bad condition coming up in a week. Ridiculously low 200 euro est for the remaining 106 pages of this religious work in Carolingian minuscule. I haven't immediately been able to find which work it is exactly. www.interencheres.com/art-decorati...
November 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The top estimate of 300 € for this early-12th or even late-11th c MS was passed... by 84,700 €. The market is always right, as some say...
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New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI!
New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI!
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November 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Editors' Choice: New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI! – CDH@Princeton cdh.princeton.edu/news/2025/11...
Let's start the day with some music!
(@unihalle.bsky.social, AB 175274)
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(@unihalle.bsky.social, AB 175274)
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November 18, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Let's start the day with some music!
(@unihalle.bsky.social, AB 175274)
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(@unihalle.bsky.social, AB 175274)
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Sermon by Bede, probably from a lost homiliary, in an elegant hand. This leaf survived as a book cover (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Ee 710-234)
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November 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Sermon by Bede, probably from a lost homiliary, in an elegant hand. This leaf survived as a book cover (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Ee 710-234)
resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB00006D0B0...
resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB00006D0B0...
Bifolium from a breviary used as cover material for a printed book (@unihalle.bsky.social, Cb 2246)
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November 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Bifolium from a breviary used as cover material for a printed book (@unihalle.bsky.social, Cb 2246)
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Some pastedowns from a typically glossed canon law manuscript, a.o. provisions about priests' testaments (Paderborn, Erzbischöfliche Akademische Bibliothek, I 118)
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November 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Some pastedowns from a typically glossed canon law manuscript, a.o. provisions about priests' testaments (Paderborn, Erzbischöfliche Akademische Bibliothek, I 118)
nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:h...
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One book, two very different pastedowns. Leaf from a MS of the Breviarium in psalmos (Ps 107), attributed to Augustine or Jerome or Anonymous (Migne 26). And an attractive leaf from a later prayer book (Trier, Stadtbibliothek, G 1057)
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November 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
One book, two very different pastedowns. Leaf from a MS of the Breviarium in psalmos (Ps 107), attributed to Augustine or Jerome or Anonymous (Migne 26). And an attractive leaf from a later prayer book (Trier, Stadtbibliothek, G 1057)
nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0...
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Petrus Pictor, popular poet from St Omer on the border of 12th-c Flanders and France, wrote rhyming Latin hexameters (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 2849 & 1721 - also 1717-20)
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object102907/en/
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object100688/en/
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object102907/en/
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object100688/en/
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Petrus Pictor, popular poet from St Omer on the border of 12th-c Flanders and France, wrote rhyming Latin hexameters (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 2849 & 1721 - also 1717-20)
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object102907/en/
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object100688/en/
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object102907/en/
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object100688/en/
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In the new #openaccess companion on student notes from Latin Europe (@leuvenup.bsky.social), our own Lorenz Demey, together with collaborators, contributes a chapter arguing that student notes hold great promise as sources for intellectual #history 👇 lup.be/book/student... #HPS #earlymodern #philsky
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
In the new #openaccess companion on student notes from Latin Europe (@leuvenup.bsky.social), our own Lorenz Demey, together with collaborators, contributes a chapter arguing that student notes hold great promise as sources for intellectual #history 👇 lup.be/book/student... #HPS #earlymodern #philsky
More @hsprtl.bsky.social: bifolium from the Expositio on Aristotle's Rhetoric (book II) by Aegidius Romanus aka Giles of Rome (Schloßmuseum Sondershausen, Lat. lit. 2 a)
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November 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
More @hsprtl.bsky.social: bifolium from the Expositio on Aristotle's Rhetoric (book II) by Aegidius Romanus aka Giles of Rome (Schloßmuseum Sondershausen, Lat. lit. 2 a)
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I correct myself: Albert is quoted in a glossary similar to the Derivationes by Ugoccione da Pisa (like other fragments from the same MS in the collection)!
@hsprtl.bsky.social
@hsprtl.bsky.social
Noticed in the newest versions of @hsprtl.bsky.social: fragment from Albert the Great's commentary on Aristotle's Meteorologica (II,1) (Schloßmuseum Sondershausen, Lat. lit. 1 c)
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November 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I correct myself: Albert is quoted in a glossary similar to the Derivationes by Ugoccione da Pisa (like other fragments from the same MS in the collection)!
@hsprtl.bsky.social
@hsprtl.bsky.social
Noticed in the newest versions of @hsprtl.bsky.social: fragment from Albert the Great's commentary on Aristotle's Meteorologica (II,1) (Schloßmuseum Sondershausen, Lat. lit. 1 c)
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November 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Noticed in the newest versions of @hsprtl.bsky.social: fragment from Albert the Great's commentary on Aristotle's Meteorologica (II,1) (Schloßmuseum Sondershausen, Lat. lit. 1 c)
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stylometry of scribal abbreviations is barely touched, and I think it has huge potential
November 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
stylometry of scribal abbreviations is barely touched, and I think it has huge potential
Reposted by Pieter Beullens
𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀
𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆, 𝟭𝟲𝟲𝟬–𝟭𝟴𝟯𝟬
Edited by Brecht de Groote, Lieve Jooken, Sonja Lavaert & Guy Rooryck
More info: bit.ly/4ntQjaJ
#Translation #Literature #C18 #History
𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆, 𝟭𝟲𝟲𝟬–𝟭𝟴𝟯𝟬
Edited by Brecht de Groote, Lieve Jooken, Sonja Lavaert & Guy Rooryck
More info: bit.ly/4ntQjaJ
#Translation #Literature #C18 #History
November 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀
𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆, 𝟭𝟲𝟲𝟬–𝟭𝟴𝟯𝟬
Edited by Brecht de Groote, Lieve Jooken, Sonja Lavaert & Guy Rooryck
More info: bit.ly/4ntQjaJ
#Translation #Literature #C18 #History
𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆, 𝟭𝟲𝟲𝟬–𝟭𝟴𝟯𝟬
Edited by Brecht de Groote, Lieve Jooken, Sonja Lavaert & Guy Rooryck
More info: bit.ly/4ntQjaJ
#Translation #Literature #C18 #History
Colophon in red ink from a recycled unidentified MS by Johannes Gredinger, completed on the “feria vi” after the feast of S. John “ad portam Latinam” (12 May?). The exact year is masked by the book’s spine label (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Cs 6738)
resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB000157260...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Colophon in red ink from a recycled unidentified MS by Johannes Gredinger, completed on the “feria vi” after the feast of S. John “ad portam Latinam” (12 May?). The exact year is masked by the book’s spine label (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Cs 6738)
resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB000157260...
resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB000157260...
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Leaf from a Carolingian (10th c?) herbal text, possibly some variant on Dioscorides, heavily rubbed (Hundisburg, von Alvenslebensche Bibliothek, Alv. Le 97) @unihalle.bsky.social
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October 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Leaf from a Carolingian (10th c?) herbal text, possibly some variant on Dioscorides, heavily rubbed (Hundisburg, von Alvenslebensche Bibliothek, Alv. Le 97) @unihalle.bsky.social
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Research funds are scarce & competition is fierce. A recent paper by @andreasdeblock.bsky.social & colleagues explores how this competition shapes science—its practices, risks & ethics—and proposes ways to make funding fairer & more effective👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #AcademicSky #HPS #scipol 🧪
November 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Research funds are scarce & competition is fierce. A recent paper by @andreasdeblock.bsky.social & colleagues explores how this competition shapes science—its practices, risks & ethics—and proposes ways to make funding fairer & more effective👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #AcademicSky #HPS #scipol 🧪
The fragment was added to the Handschriftencensus.
handschriftencensus.de/25861
Apparently, it belonged to the same MS of which 2 fragments were earlier found in Naumburg!
handschriftencensus.de/25861
Apparently, it belonged to the same MS of which 2 fragments were earlier found in Naumburg!
Unnoticed fragment from a medieval martyrology in German! One full MS is preserved in Jena (hence Jenaer Martyrologium), two other fragments are known. This one has many variants in the German dialect. Specialists' comments welcome!
fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-6...
handschriftencensus.de/werke/181
fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-6...
handschriftencensus.de/werke/181
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The fragment was added to the Handschriftencensus.
handschriftencensus.de/25861
Apparently, it belonged to the same MS of which 2 fragments were earlier found in Naumburg!
handschriftencensus.de/25861
Apparently, it belonged to the same MS of which 2 fragments were earlier found in Naumburg!
Not only MSS were used in early book bindings, incunabula leaves were recycled, too. Here is a short anthology! First, from the Corpus iuris civilis printed in Rom, 1476 (GW 7678). Only 15 copies are known! (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Dq 8880)
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October 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Not only MSS were used in early book bindings, incunabula leaves were recycled, too. Here is a short anthology! First, from the Corpus iuris civilis printed in Rom, 1476 (GW 7678). Only 15 copies are known! (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Dq 8880)
resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0001655D0...
resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0001655D0...
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An enthusiastic article about the Hendrik Conscience Library in the Italian arts blog ArtLife: artslife.com/2025/10/26/h...
Hendrik Conscience. Un tuffo in una delle biblioteche più affascinanti del mondo - ArtsLife
Fondata nel 1481 grazie alla donazione di 41 libri, la biblioteca Hendrik Conscience di Anversa è una delle più antiche del Belgio
artslife.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
An enthusiastic article about the Hendrik Conscience Library in the Italian arts blog ArtLife: artslife.com/2025/10/26/h...
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the best use of digital resources in medieval studies, by far, has been the simplest, namely the widespread digitisation of and free internet access to manuscripts in large numbers
October 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
the best use of digital resources in medieval studies, by far, has been the simplest, namely the widespread digitisation of and free internet access to manuscripts in large numbers