It's been a while since I've added anything to CoKL, but I got through another of the mini-Hours at #Houghton Library this week, 2020HEM-27. This was made c.1400 in Bruges. The calendar is somewhat sparse at 118 saints, but nearly flawless. Only two errors, and both are just shifted by a single day. An interesting detail is the flamboyant script to abbreviate the parts (Kalends, Ides, etc) of the Roman dating http://www.cokldb.org/p/v100/ms/867 #Medieval#Medievodons@medievodons@bookhistodons
Includes a 15th C Petrarch, Dati's La Sfera (with the Tower), a 16th C Arabic Diatessaron, many song books from Chigi, a 16th C Ge'ez Gospel, some early Greek, a Maronite Office... and more! @medievodons@bookhistodons#Medieval#Medievodons
From the manuscript to you: How Old Norse manuscripts are read and edited
"A case-study in how a page from an Old Norse manuscript (in this case the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda) is edited for publication in a modern-day book. Manuscript images from the Árni Magnússon Institute at the University of Iceland (handrit.is)."
#Video length: Thirty minutes and fifteen seconds.
Is anyone putting together a #Medieval academy panel on saints or Books of Hours? I've got a paper to propose, but it's always easier with a group #MAA2025 @medievodons#Medievodons
Because I fixed a bug in the code, 115 #Manuscripts were tracked as new from the #Vatican this week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week18.html
The load time for the Vat.lat page had exceeded my timeout for the last 7 weeks, this has been fixed! There's a lot of papal history, including several Scrutini, sermons, commentary, satirical poems, Thomas Aquinas in Terza Rima, Beneventan music, coins and more! #Medieval#Medievodons@bookhistodons@medievodons