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“Standing on the Shoulders of Giants”: Revisiting Bernard of Chartres’ Metaphor and Its Hidden Legacy www.medievalists.net/2025/08/stan... #medieval
"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants": Revisiting Bernard of Chartres’ Metaphor and Its Hidden Legacy - Medievalists.net
A look at the medieval origins and deeper meaning behind the metaphor of standing on the shoulders of giants.
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August 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Fragment from a MS of Robert Grosseteste's Latin translation of Aristotle's Ethica Nicomachea (book 5) with a set of late-antique and Byzantine commentaries (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 1676). Fragm. 1677 is from the same text.
www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...
August 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Donatus is seated on a glorious chair writing his grammar. His inkpot is held by tiny Heinre.

BL Arundel 43; Sedulius Scotus, Expositio super primam edicionem Donati grammatici; Germany; 12th century; f.80v
August 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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New MSS images @ manuscripta.at include some Aristotelica. Here the opening of "De inundatione Nili", a Latin translation by William of Moerbeke (contrary to the catalogue entry) of a text that does not survive in Greek (@uni-graz.at, Ms 93, f. 273v)
manuscripta.at?ID=23286
July 16, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Just in case if you missed this printing event in #Mainz: they publically printed a giant page of the Gutenberg bible in the format 5 x 7,20 meter. #bookhistory #skystorians
April 29, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Aristoteles
𝗗𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘀
𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗲𝗶 𝗱𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗲𝘁 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗹𝗺𝗶 𝗱𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗯𝗲𝗸𝗮
Edited by Lisa Devriese

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#Aristotle #Philosophy #Literature #Medievalsky #Latin #Greek #Philosophysky #Medieval #MiddleAges
April 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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The conflict between Peter the Apostle and Simon Magus

St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 86; The Pseudo-Clementines; c. 950 CE-970 CE; Einsiedeln; p.6
(e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
April 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Adsit igitur rhetoricae suadela dulcedinis, quae tum tantum recta calle procedit cum nostra instituta non deserit.

Boethius, Consolatio Philosophiae
March 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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New issue of Journal of Late Antiquity Vol. 18, No.1 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54365 #openaccess @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social @thesaurosaur.bsky.social Translation and Greek-Latin Bilingualism in Late Antiquity
March 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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New entry "The Textual Transmission of the Aristotelian Corpus" by Justin Winzenrieth plato.stanford.edu/entries/aris... Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Textual Transmission of the Aristotelian Corpus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
plato.stanford.edu
March 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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🧵 1/5: I'm THRILLED to see Jiří Vnouček's paper on the Hamburg Bible's parchment finally published with such stunning illustrations (73 in all)!

This research shows how a careful reading of parchment tells a rich story of its creation.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
March 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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On my desk...
March 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Page populated with P's! Pretty!
Not because the scribe imitated the p-language: the text is from Aristotle's Problems, in which every section opens with "Propter quid..."!
(Admont, Benediktinerstift, Cod. 345, f. 79r)
manuscripta.at/diglit/AT100...
February 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM