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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 8d

🌳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! 📜
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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · May 30

🧐 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...
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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · May 27

🥳 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

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · Mar 22

📜Check out this beautiful diagram of the movement of the Sun from 📕Bern, Burgerbibliothek 87.

🔗 www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/bbb/0087/...
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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · Mar 13

🏺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
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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · Mar 5

📕 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...
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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · Feb 26

📜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...
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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · Feb 21

🧐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...
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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · Feb 12

🤩 Great news: Codices Vossiani Latini are now available Open Access and IIIF compatible.
🔗 www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01...
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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · Dec 14

🙈 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
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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · Dec 12

Sadly, it is Latin

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · Dec 11

❓ 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 😖
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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · Dec 8

📅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
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DELM: Meetings

delm-net.github.io

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · Nov 19

I sent them a line, but I don't think they will be buying this one

Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · Nov 19

📜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...

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · Oct 16

📕 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-...
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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · Oct 15

📜E-CODICES UPDATE📜
24 new manuscripts from Swiss collections are now online 🥳
Include a 9th-century Physiologus.
#medievalsky
🔗 e-codices.ch/en/list/all/...

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · Sep 23

🥳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
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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · Sep 17

📜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
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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · Jun 14

📜 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...

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · May 6

✍️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

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · Apr 29

✍️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...

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · Apr 22

📖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
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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · Apr 20

📜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/...

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · Apr 17

🖼️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.
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