PI of FitMA (Fluidity in the Medieval Aristotle) @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social and funded by @erc.europa.eu.
Author of The Friar and the Philosopher.
Medieval Greek-Latin translations of philosophy and science.
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MS leaf from the very popular medical handbook Liber Rhasis ad Almansorem used on the cover of a printed book by Martin Luther.
(@unihalle.bsky.social, von Alvenslebensche Bibliothek, Hundisburg, Alv. Dn 253)
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Interesting trace of craftsmanship! Leaf with an unfinished initial, sketched in detail but not coloured. Recycled as pastedown in the binding of another MS.
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Reused in a binding: paper MS leaf from a commentary (anonymous?) on Albert of Orlamünde's Philosophia pauperum
(Hannover, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek, Ms XXIII, 932)
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Leuke digitale ontmoeting: fragment van het "Boek van den houte", ooit toegeschreven aan Maerlant, bewaard als makulatuur in een MS uit het uiterste noorden van Duitsland!
(Stadtarchiv der Hansestadt Stralsund, MS 975)
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thanks to
Riccardo Strobino we now have the Abu Bishr Matta Arabic source for the poetics aligned at the section level to the Greek as well as the Moerbeke's Latin -- and a Greek treebank.
Our team at KU Leuven is organizing a Workshop on Letters & Epistolary Culture in Syriac Christianity at the Oxford Patristic Studies Conference (2–6 Aug 2027). We will be happy to receive proposals for papers by 30 June 2026 ([email protected]). Details in the attached file.
Incunable leaf turned into book cover. Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum doctrinale. Strasburg, "Printer with the weird R" (Adolf Rusch), 1477 or 1478. GW M50558 or M50560, f. 32/33v
(@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Hymn. 8283)
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Figured out why Greenblatt's The Swerve sold so well: it's cake. One of those illusion cakes. Try opening a copy. You can't, because it's cake! No Lucretius, only frosting.
Interested in Alberic of Paris—one of the 12th century’s leading philosophers, a rival of Peter Abelard & best known for showing that Abelard’s #logic was inconsistent? Then you are in for a treat: see the recent SEP entry by Heine Hansen & Boaz Schuman 👇 plato.stanford.edu/entries/albe... #philsky
