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Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social · 7d

(I don't really have anything substantive to say, other than that I would love to see your haul if you want to share it)

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Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social · 7d

YEEEEEEEES

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Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social · 7d

Are you visiting Jinbochou this trip?

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 8d

30 September is the feast of St Jerome. Here is an initial 'Q' with St Jerome holding a book, and faced by a little lion with a poorly paw!
#StJerome
BL Arundel 91; Passionale (Lives of the Saints); England, S. E. (Canterbury); 12th century; f.31v

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Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social · 11d

Surely, reliable AI painting authentication is just around the corner. I mean, all they need is several hundred thousand clones of Caravaggio to provide training data.

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Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social · 14d

"Manuscript climbing gym" would be *such* a better immersive experience then "talk with an AI model of Van Gogh" or whatever it is they're trying to make happen now

Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 14d

the BL should just let me hang out with Harley MS 3244. not for research purposes, just because it’s my favorite manuscript and I can no longer spelunk around in the digitized version. I even made it in animal crossing!

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Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social · 15d

"Shuuuuuuucks!"

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18d

Look at academia giving me a little hope

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 18d

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”

V-Dem data

When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900

The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...

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museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 24d

If you do not find Christ in the dinghy in the Channel, you will not find him in your chalice. (Soz Chrysostom, a day late for your feast day...) #cofepeeps 🕯️⚓

Dr Andreja Bogdanovski @bogdanovskia.bsky.social · 25d

SkyNews reports from London and Tommy Robinson led rally:

“People carried crosses. When the crowd arrived at Whitehall, they were led from the stage in a chant of "Christ is King" and then a public recital of the Lord's Prayer shortly after that.”

news.sky.com/story/politi...

Politics latest: Police say 110,000 at 'Unite the Kingdom' march in central London with counter-protesters nearby

Roughly 110,000 protesters are in London for a 'Unite the Kingdom' rally and 'March against Fascism' counter-protest. Meanwhile, local parties and trade unions can start choosing between Bridget Phill...

news.sky.com

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Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social · 25d

It would be especially interesting in the Anglican communion, since the celebration (or not) of Corpus Christi depends very much on how high church/low church a given congregation is.

Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social · 25d

Corpus Christi would make things extra interesting, since it comes after Trinity Sunday but is only celebrated by some denominations. We might end up with a situation where the week in algebraless Reformed churches re-syncs w/ the secular week slightly before it does in Corpus Christi churches.

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Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social · 25d

(No, no, I'm wrong again, I actually meant Lent through Trinity Sunday. How silly of me.)

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Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social · 25d

(I meant Lent through Pentecost, not Lent through Ascension)

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Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social · 25d

Then again, the difference might not be as stark as one might think. After all, the "algebraless floating Sunday system" might necessitate moving all the other weeks tied to Easter (Lent through Ascension), so *part* of the year would be de-synced from the secular week while the rest would conform.

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Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social · 25d

On the other hand the "algebraless week reset system" (where we start the week again from Sunday on 4/3) would probably be more disruptive to daily life, since the Lord's Day would be de-synced from the secular weekend in most years.

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Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social · 25d

As for the advantages and disadvantages of each, the "algebraless floating Sunday system" (where we move one Sunday to 4/3 as needed) might result in some interesting consequences for churches which celebrate Holy Week, since there would be some years in which Easter comes the day after Palm Sunday.

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Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social · 25d

Obviously, the world outside the churches which adopted the "algebraless liturgical calendar" would ignore it, but this wouldn't be without precedent, after all EO and OO churches already use liturgical calendars which are independent of the Gregorian calendar.

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Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social · 25d

Gotcha. Easter will now be celebrated on 4/3, every single year. To enable that day to be Sunday, we can either cancel one Sunday and move it to 4/3 (if that day is not naturally a Sunday), or simply reset the week to start again on Sunday on 4/3, regardless of the preceding day.

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Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social · 26d

Google Chrome is now serving as my pdf tab overlow. Crisis averted, for now.

Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social · 26d

C'mon, Acrobat, fifty tabs? You're gonna cut me off at FIFTY? C'mon man, that's not even HALF my tolerance. C'mon...buddy... just... just twenty more concurrently open pdfs. Just twenty more! Twenty more and I'll stop, I promise. Naw, man, I PROMISE! Twenty more tabs. Just twenty more tabs! Fifteen?

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Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social · 26d

It's *that* stage of the writing process...

An adobe acrobat error message reading: "There was an error opening this document. The maximum number of files are already open. No other files can be opened or printed until some are closed.

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Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social · 26d

(For comparison, look at the spiral vinework in UPenn MS Codex 738. I'm pretty sure that the individual spirals were done using a stencil, similar a french curve, and looking at them in overlay seems to bear this out. openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/ht...)

OPenn: Ms. Codex 738 Book of hours

openn.library.upenn.edu

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Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social · 26d

Other things I've thought of since: majuscule width, & if the vineworks were drawn from the same stencil. To check for stencil, get photos at the same angle & lay them over each other using transparency. Check both the stems of the vines & the leaf placement—either or both might have used a stencil.

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Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social · 26d

I'd guess so from a quick look, but high grades do tend to flatten out variation. Are the measurements of text area and letter height consistent between all of them?

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Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social · 27d

On the bright side, though, they've moved their catalogue from an easily-searchable html listing to a much-less-usable pdf, and rebuilt their website to remove any hint of a search function!

Hooray!!

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