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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

🤩Glad I completed NFDI4Memory FAIR Data Fellowship with HAB Wolfenbüttel. All early Isidores are in Wikidata. Huge thanks to Camillo Pellizzari and @jonathangross.bsky.social from WD Manuscripts WG. 🍐First fruits: zenodo.org/records/2024... Full report to follow soon. #medievalsky #digitalhumanities

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

🧩 This absolutely difficult to explain mismatch at Stephen Butler. The description references Isidore's Etymologiae, but the photos show a fragment of Smaragdus's homiliary. Did a real Isidore fragment pass through the auction house? 🤨 🔗 stephenbutler.com/product/smar... #medievalsky

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Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636), Etymologiae, Book X, chapters 236–246, with added liturgical rubric. — Stephen Butler

Single leaf (235 × 180 mm), double column, c. 31 lines per column, in a rounded and regular Carolingian minuscule with generous spacing. Ink in a fine brown

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🤩EXCELLENT NEWS🤩 University of Montreal bought seven new items for its special collection, ranging in dates from the 9th to the 19th century. Included is a ninth-century fragment of the Etymologies. #medievalsky 🔗 www.ledevoir.com/lire/978128/...

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Des trésors du Moyen Âge entrent à la bibliothèque de l’Université de Montréal

Sept documents, dont l’un datant du IXᵉ siècle, viennent enrichir ses collections patrimoniales.

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

📖 Glad to share 2025 update of the IK DB, which now contains info about 513 early medieval manuscripts of the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville. 🔗DB: db.innovatingknowledge.nl 📊data: zenodo.org/records/1950... ℹ️the project and its methodology: innovatingknowledge.nl #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

📖 Working with tabulated manuscript data? Looking for ways to clean and curate it? Interested in connecting it to referential sources? 💎 Join the DELM creche on data wrangling with OpenRefine. We will explore this tool, including import/export to WikiData. 📅 11 February, 13.00-14.30 CET #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🌳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! 📜 #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

🧐 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... #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

🥳 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 · 22/03/2025

📜Check out this beautiful diagram of the movement of the Sun from 📕Bern, Burgerbibliothek 87. 🔗 www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/bbb/0087/... #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

🏺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 #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

📕 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... #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

📜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... #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

🧐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... #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

🤩 Great news: Codices Vossiani Latini are now available Open Access and IIIF compatible. 🔗 www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01... #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

🙈 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 #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

❓ 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 😖 #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

📅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 #medievalsky

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DELM: Meetings

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

📜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 · 16/10/2024

📕 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-... #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

📜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 · 23/09/2024

🥳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 #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

📜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 #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

📜 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... #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

✍️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 · 29/04/2024

✍️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 · 22/04/2024

📖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 #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

📜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 · 17/04/2024

🖼️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. #medievalsky

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INSULAR @insularmss.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

Exciting news! @ERC_Research grants #ERCAdG to INSULAR MSS in the Age of Charlemagne (€2.5m). Our team includes @litteracarolina.mastodon.online & partners in libraries & universities across Europe incl. @ercb2c @brad_dan @CharlotteDenoel @LieveWatteeuw @bodleianlibs @BLMedieval

A detail from BL Add MS 40618 f21v showing an illumination of a saint holding a book, with the letters ERC on the cover.

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

An Isidore from a private collection that shall not be named. First experience collaborating with a private collector. Very positive. The manuscript belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps. Was split into two parts in the 19th century and circulated separately. Now reunited. Happy ending! #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

🤩IT IS OFFICIAL: THERE ARE 500 EMA ISIDORES🤩 Have been stuck on 499 surviving + identified pre-1000 copies of Etymologies for a long time. Yesterday found this darling🥳 📜Paris, BnF, Lat. 6288 (10th c., 2/2, Moissac) 🔗https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9066980z #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

✍️Check out the Summer School in Digital Palaeography in Göttingen. 📄Applications are accepted until the end of April. ❓More info at: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/684265.html #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

📜Check out this detailed TO map from a 12th-c. copy of Isidore's Etymologies (Aix-en-Provence 25, p. 293) 🏔️It is uncommon to see so many geographical labels for regions and water bodies ❓Can you guess where was it made based on the relative density of toponyms?

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

🕐There is still some time to submit a proposal for Biblissim-IA conference in Paris. ✍️If you work on applications of AI to palaeographic subjects, this is a conference to attend in 2024 📅Deadline: 5 February biblissim-ia-2024.sciencesconf.org

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

👇JOB OFFER IN GÖTTINGEN👇 ➡️The project Manuskripte digital lesen lernen is looking for a manuscript specialist to help develop a digital teaching tool. ➡️The job is part-time for two years (1 Apr 2024 - 31 Mar 2026) ➡️Apply before 5 February via obp.uni-goettingen.de/de-de/OBF/In... #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

📯There is still time to join us this week at the colloquium Vies paralleles des Classiques et des Peres latins au Moyen Age 📅31 January - 2 February 🚩Paris AND online (just write to the organisers) 📄The full programme is here: www.irht.cnrs.fr/fr/agenda/co... #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

🤩CRAFTING DOCUMENTS PROJECT LAUNCH🤩 If you are interested in medieval relic labels, parchment and ink production, this project is officially launching in Oxford. 📅2 February, 3-4 PM GMT 🚩Oxford and Zoom #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

🤩GREAT SEMINAR ON PARCHMENT PRODUCTION🤩 📜Changes in production of parchment during one millennium: 4th-14th centuries 🧑‍🏫Jiří Vnouček, Conservator of parchment, paper & bookbinding The Royal Library 🕰️2 February, 16:00 CET ❗Write to organisers for hybrid access #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

Join us on 31 January - 2 February at IRHT for this colloquium on the parallel lives of Classical and Patristic texts. You can also join remotely if you write to the organisers. Program available at: www.irht.cnrs.fr/fr/agenda/co...

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

📄The program of the seminar for quantitative codicology and the sociology of the book at Sorbonne📄 You can also join remotely #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

🖼️Picture of the day is this full-page Saint Jerome portrait in manuscript Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 1332, fol. 1v (8th c., ex., Salzburg) #medievalsky

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

#MedievalChickens! Just what #MedievalSky needed. "We first shotgun sequenced 995 archeological chicken samples excavated from more than 140 western Eurasian archeological sites." Impressive geographical distribution of samples! www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Fiddaman et al. 2023. Fig. 1. Locations of MDV-positive samples and time-scaled phylogeny. (A) Map showing the locations of screened archeological chicken samples that were positive for MDV sequence.

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

📜Glad to see this fragment-palimpsest on e-codices.ch😍 ✍️Upper script: 12th-c. Beneventana, the Urbarium of the Church of Salerno ✍️Lower script: 10th-c. Beneventana, Isidore's Etymologiae 🧐Your humblest narrator provided the detailed description www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/searchres...

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

📜Here is a fuller picture of that wonderful 9th-century Isidore fragment that surfaced in Boston Public Library. It's a reminder that new 9th-century find are possible, especially among fragments. search.digital-scriptorium.org/catalog/DS3314 #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

📜Christie's has a new auction of autograph letters and manuscripts. Nothing medieval but some 16th-17th c. interesting scientific journals 🔭 Check out this sketchbook of Johann Rudolph Halter of Basel (1627-1628) onlineonly.christies.com/s/alphabet-g...

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

A new fragment of the Etymologiae just surfaced on Digital Scriptorium 2.0. Dated to 11th c. Crazy! I am quite fine with dating it to 9th c. Anyone wants to share their palaeographic opinion? Boston, Public Library, H.41.8 (endleaves) search.digital-scriptorium.org/catalog/DS3314

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Peripleo looks like an interesting mapping tool for manuscript researchers. LOD-compliant. A tutorial is being offered on Monday as a part of Linked Past conference. Won't be making it, but maybe someone else may. linkedpasts.hcommons.org

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Friends and foes, a bit od a deja vu, but JHNR just moved: jhnr.uni.lu ➡️ jhnr.net 📚 The special issue on network analysis in manuscript studies can now be found at: jhnr.net/9/volume/9/i... Great that individual articles have now their own DOI 🥳 #medievalsky

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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

🦷Medieval ode on a rotten tooth🦷 "Having lost a tooth, I was forced to write this verse, Behold, the rotten tooth fell out of our [mouth?], It bore a lot while I ate, eaten it has perished." Paris, BnF, n.a.l. 1448, fol. 214v #medievalsky

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