historian and philologist
antiquities, manuscripts & rare books cataloguer
putting the t back into incunabula since 2025
danubius me tollit, sprea me vocat
Laura
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thinking this is presumably Joseph dreaming at the bottom, but who's got the angry cats there...
there are few jobs where you wonder if your employer might pay to send you on a course to learn Ge'ez, but this is definitely one of them...
credit to the lamb of god for doing his best to look like an easter bunny here
this was bound over a medical book printed in 1562, sometime in the 16th century - the fragment itself is maybe a century or so older!
yet another Ethiopian text dor you! this one has some little creatures in it - anyone have an idea? these are the final pages...
and otoh i am in germany a lot and not always in the same city, so...
it doesn't really totally make economic sense for me to have a deutschlandticket, but it just feels so *cool*. oh you're a jetsetter? well have fun in kuala lumpur and vegas, i'm off to ride the tram in essen, bitch 😎
you know how some medieval manuscript fragments were used as binding? well some still turn up like that
the incipit and a few other nice pages
today: a mini-manuscript, Ethiopian, with a picture of St George and the dragon. again if anyone can tell me what text it is you'd be doing me a great favour...
