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I dissect calendars in Books of Hours and keep a close eye on the Vatican Library, sometimes in that order.
https://www.cokldb.org/
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/
A cat got him… thus is the fate for goats
January 13, 2026 at 2:12 PM
The pope (Nick 5). Around the time he was preparing his Bible, Gutenberg printed the Plenary indulgence from Nicholas V, modernly called the "31-line Indulgence"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/31-line...
31-line Indulgence - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 12, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Do you know if this still accurate, to the best of our knowledge at least, for the origins of HIV?
January 11, 2026 at 5:12 PM
@harvard.edu's Houghton Library has a copy of that too! id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/9900933...
id.lib.harvard.edu
January 11, 2026 at 5:04 PM
What do we know about the printing technology? Specifically my interest is in what the type was made of, if we know, and if it was mass produced.
January 7, 2026 at 2:24 PM
I can try to work something out, but I store the dates as relatively unstructured data, so it could be "1525" or it could be "1525-1535" or it could be "16th C" or even "14th C, 15th C, 1275" for manuscripts of several parts
January 5, 2026 at 2:58 AM
An examination of gambling under the monarchy of the ancien regime in the long 18th century:
December 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Thank you, the database has been updated. Is there any way to query PhiloBiblon via API, or the like? I'd love to get the list of Vatican MS into my DB so I can know when to cross-link the entries
December 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Just a note of clarification, the Vatican has two different departments, the Archives and the Library. I only pay attention to the library (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana/BAV) which has manuscripts, not to the Archives (Archivio Apostolico Vaticano, formerly the Archivum Secretum Vaticanum).
December 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
That would be an interesting Dadaeaque project. Take hallucinated citations and force the genAI to create the paper. See if the fake papers cite each other in some sort of web of lies
December 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It was a good reminder for me to figure out which volume it was. I'll make sure to add it to the notes on the volume so everyone knows!
December 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This MS is extremely well studied, probably because it was published in Paleographie Musicale 14 in 1931. So not only was a printed facsimile out in the world, but PM indexes things, so it's easier to work with than many similar volumes
archive.org/details/palo...
Paléographie musicale : fac-similés phototypiques des principaux manuscrits de chant grégorien, ambrosien, mozarabe, gallican : Macquereau, André, 1849-1930 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : In...
Les éditeurs varient
archive.org
December 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It reminds me of the "fold down the tab" pledge cards I've seen at Yom Kippur services
December 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
if it makes you feel better, I did handouts for my last talk in LuaLaTex. I was hoping for something a little ... less effort, particularly since the journal I'm targeting does not accept .tex submissions
December 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM