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Research Guides: Medieval and Renaissance Facsimiles and Incunables: A Resource Guide: Deciphering scribal abbreviations

Couldn't help myself - very useful page here: guides.loc.gov/manuscript-f... Tab 'The semicolon or yogh symbol' indicates it is a multipurpose abbreviation for -q(ue), -b(us) and others, so that word higher up would be 'Decoribus'

guides.loc.gov

This guide provides an overview on searching for medieval and renaissance facsimiles, incunables and ancillary material.

Alexander Wells @ajbwells.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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Berlin people involved in writing, reading, living, laughing, and/or loving: Tomorrow we celebrate six months of our new online literature magazine. It's free and there'll be readings plus some chats. Come along and say g'tag!!! www.lettretage.de/programm/6-m...

lettretage.de

6 Months AUFLAUF – Lettrétage

Sep 19, 2026 19:00 Uhr | Eintritt: frei | Ort: Lettrétage, Veteranenstr. 21, 10119 Berlin | Sprache: Englisch

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seeing this beautiful stone makes me want to get my chisels out... 🙏 btw will be showing this to my daughter when she gets home to encourage her in the usefulness of her Latin studies 😉

another one up here, but without the q... ?

Fionn Petch @elusiveword.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

that's what happens when the letter carver has loads of high-scorers left over at the end of the game...

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I'd always understood that 4'33" refers to absolute zero i.e. -273 celsius

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Fionn Petch @elusiveword.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

ovoids, llamas. unexpected items on the Isle of Coll last month.

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

meanwhile, check these out ...

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Fionn Petch @elusiveword.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If you'd like an idea of current stress levels, these have all featured in my dreams in the past few nights: - eaten by a bear - mauled by a tiger with one eye - received a letter from Adobe demanding payment of $1,324,741 for downloading fonts without a license (?!)

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Fionn Petch @elusiveword.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

turns out that karma is a chameleon, eh? the irony. #fuckboygeorge

Fionn Petch @elusiveword.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

woo-hoo also coincidentally listening to Godspeed You! Black Emperor at this moment

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Fionn Petch @elusiveword.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Really looks like they‘re deciding the fate of the Malvinas tonight

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Fionn Petch @elusiveword.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Even Borges is playing for Cabo Verde 💚

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Fionn Petch @elusiveword.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

So long since I've felt genuinely surprised by a film

Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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This novel’s a masterpiece. If you want to read about Elena Garro in the meantime, I wrote about her career, short stories (tr. Megan McDowell), & Jazmina Barrera’s bio of her (tr. Christina MacSweeney) @southwestreview.bsky.social (Sadly they misspelled her name in the url so I look like an idiot)

southwestreview.com

Of Things to Come | The Legacy of Elana Garro

By Cory Oldweiler

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Fionn Petch @elusiveword.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Some timely editing this evening in Berlin, where it is still 27 degrees at 10.30 pm. From a new translation of Memories of Future Times by Elena Garro, forthcoming from Charco Press.

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Fionn Petch @elusiveword.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

i feel like anyone should wear anything they like but regardless I can highly recommend Scarpa Mojito Bio as the most comfortable shoes I've worn and remarkably (in grey) go with jeans, smart trousers and sports gear equally well 👟

Fionn Petch @elusiveword.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

great to see Sawe is a Parmenides fan on top of everything else 🫡

newspaper caption quoting London marathon record-breaker Sawe saying 'I have shown that nothing is not possible'

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

P.S. save the date ...

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Fionn Petch @elusiveword.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

🙏 so glad it reached you draga Alina

Fionn Petch @elusiveword.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Obviously we all knew Farage is a grifter but this is just insane. The bare facts of this should be forced down the throat of anyone dreaming of voting Reform. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

‘Nigel is mad to accept his money’: who is Christopher Harborne, the mystery billionaire bankrolling Reform?

A crypto tycoon is giving record-breaking amounts to Farage’s party. But little is known about his motives

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Dave C @duckpondsreview.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

2021 #69 An early find for me from @charcopress.com and what a wonderful find it is. Sagasti pulls together a heap of apparently unrelated characters from modern history and weaves a tale that connects them. There's more in the alt text, it's still a big favourite in this household ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🖋️📚 #booksky

Fireflies, by Luis Sagasti, tr by Fionn Petch

A lyrical and philosophical exploration of seemingly unrelated people and events in modern history, drawing them together to form a whole.
How do we even begin to narrate the history of the world? Where do we start, and where do we end? Fireflies is Sagasti's bold and original attempt to answer these questions. Roaming across time and geography, he lights on an eclectic array of characters and events that at first glance seem unrelated, and teases out their stories to reveal unexpected points of contact between them. Stanley Kubrick, Joseph Beuys, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Neil Armstrong, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Beatles, Japanese poets, Brazilian priests, Russian cosmonauts and many more cross these pages, and Sagasti finds common threads that weave them together into a single narrative.
The fireflies themselves perhaps provide the key to understanding this book. They become a metaphor for the resistance of certain luminous moments, certain twinkling fragments of history, to the passing of time. They remind us that events do not always simply disappear neatly into the darkness, but rather remain, floating in the air, lighting up the night sky indefinitely. Sagasti shows us that the present moment, like this novel, is a tapestry woven of a multiplicity of times.
Using his unique, poetic and keenly observant style, Sagasti transforms the accidents of history into a single, lyrical constellation, and for the reader it is an extraordinary sight.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Loved this book all the way to the 812th unidentified moon of a distant galaxy. Splendid and unforgettable. Thank you @elusiveword.bsky.social for bringing it into English.

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Fionn Petch @elusiveword.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

see also 'inosculation' in trees 😊 🌳

Fionn Petch @elusiveword.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Unexpectedly met the avatars of the AI translation apocalypse at a dinner tonight. Reassured them that we literary translators will fight to the death 🫡

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Fionn Petch @elusiveword.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

On second thoughts maybe it was overly optimistic of me to renew my annual Berlin museums pass today?

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Fionn Petch @elusiveword.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

It felt like a Friday, that's what matters Alex