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.
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
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.
Fragments from a MS missal pasted onto the covers of an incunable
(@uniheidelberg.bsky.social Bibliothek, D 9877 oct. INC)
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Two new sermons of Augustine discovered in 2024, to be published by the CSEL.
www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/...
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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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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Two bifolia from a late MS of De Pomo, a pseudo-Aristotelian treatise describing the last moments of Aristotle's life in the manner of Plato's Phaedo. The Latin version is (no doubt wrongly) ascribed to king Manfred of Sicily.
(@unileipzig.bsky.social, MS 1457)
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In Memoriam Joost Ritman (1941-2026) www.embassyofthefreemind.com/news/in-memo...
After Edward Moretus sold the old printing establishment to the city of Antwerp, it became the best museum in the world: the Plantin-Moretus Museum. #OTD, 150 years ago, it was opened as museum!
Congratulations with your 150th anniversary! 🥳🎈🎊 📚
#bookhistory
#plantin
#MPM
Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS)
Pieter Beullens
Pieter Beullens
Pieter Beullens
Pieter Beullens
Philip Forness
Perkamentus antiquarius
Roger Pearse
Old Paper Collector
www.roger-pearse.com
Excellent news from the University of Würzburg, where a researcher has discovered two unknown sermons by St Augustine in a Latin manuscript in Poland! The reporting (by Martin Brandstätter) is unusu...
A remarkable man has passed away. Joost Ruben Ritman was a man with a mission, patriarch of a large and colorful family, an Amsterdammer through and through, a world...
