Gwilim bastart 1066 Brut y Tywysogion (Chronicle of the Princes) National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 19
Mandrakes from the herbal ‘Erbario’ written in northern Italy in the 15th century. Held by the University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts. LJS 419. #RareBooks #BookHistory #KislakCenter #BotanicalArt #Mandrakes
Reading about the Blue Qur'an today, and...just...wow. Gold Kufic script (likely gold leaf, not shell!) on indigo-dyed parchment (technique uncertain! Brushed? Dipped? Pressed? No one knows!). Written in the early ʿAbbāsid period (ca. 800), place uncertain. 2024 research suggests Cairo or Baghdad.
We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'
this is not even the first job where I've had coworkers ask "how did you learn to type so fast?" okay guys well there's this thing called a "forum," and sometimes people in it are *wrong*, so
As Halloween is round the corner we thought we’d share some medieval bats. A thread… 🧵 🦇
Rare example of a medieval scribe practicing Latin, Greek, and Hebrew on the same fragment. Any medievalists out there who can shed light on the style of the Latin characters? geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...
List or table: T-S AS 186.224
Scrap of parchment covered with various jottings, mainly in Hebrew including the phrase "I, Shelaḥya." There are also three copies…
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#Arabic phrase of the day: انى قد طولت روحى عليك وانا اراك منعظما "I’ve been incredibly patient with you, and yet I still see you being an arrogant prick." (from Sin. ar. 461, fol. 4v:12)
There are some very showy Fly Agairics Amanita muscaria around at the moment here are two from #RSPBBroadwaterWarren (L) and #OldLodgeLNR (R) here in the Sussex High Weald #fungifriends @sussexwildlife.bsky.social
News you can use, BL manuscripts edition: Tl;dr you CAN download images detailed enough to teach from. Read on for a hack. #medievalsky #paleography 🧵 At the time of writing, links from www.bl.uk/research/dig... to the IIIF viewer are not working for me in Chrome but are in Firefox.
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Trans woman killed by transphobic medical neglect in an NHS hospital, linked to legal fundraiser in quoted post.
Ruth Pearce@notrightruth.bsky.social · 2w agoNHS England's new trans segregation regime for hospitals will kill people. We know this because there are real examples of how NHS "corridor care" is *already* killing people. But you can help - Trans Legal Clinic are fundraising legal action for a trans woman who died. Please donate and/or share!
We finally got this one online! Greek Herbal on YouTube now. Something fun to watch over the weekend! youtu.be/-KGhKD15f1c
Coffee with a Codex: Greek Herbal (LJS 62)
YouTube video by SchoenbergInstitute
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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies@sims-mss.bsky.social · 4w agoFor #CoffeeWithACodex (12pm ET, on Zoom) on October 8, @leoba.bsky.social will show us our 15th century copy of a work, in Greek, on plants and their medicinal properties #medievalsky Register here: https://bit.ly/4y2tW1s
The ultra extreme crazy trans activist position that our political class can't countenance right now is that if a trans woman is in A&E she should be considered a patient in need of care instead of an inconvenience to be dealt with.
what i say in these cases is, yes, what began in the 20s and 30s passed by 45..or much later..? but how many people have to die in the meantime, for the pendulum to swing back? the thing is: i don't want to die. i don't want my friends and loved ones to die. i want a life worth living.
Billie Lauren Hindle 🏳️⚧️🎙️ | 🩷BWT Alpine💙@billielhindle.bsky.social · 2w agoI know it’s meant in a nice way, but I get quite annoyed when cis people tell me “the transphobia will pass.” How do you know that? You don’t. And all it does is make people complacent. You wanna know why the legislative homophobia was (mostly) undone? Because LGBT+ ppl and their allies FOUGHT it.
The NHS is already one of the biggest perpetrators of anti-trans violence in the UK. This new guidance, which refers to trans people using slurs, demands that we be segregated and abused. I’ve said it before: senior NHS managers must be sacked and punished for what they’ve done to us.
Ethel Weapon@lousadzak.bsky.social · 2w agoThis will kill people
0 complaints about trans people in hospitals. Trans people banned. 0 cases of puberty blockers for trans kids causing harm. Puberty blockers for trans kids banned. 0 cases of trans people attacking cis people in toilets. Trans people banned.
Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.
This looks very useful: a new online searchable version of Cappelli's _Dizionario di abbreviature_ reader.contubernalesbooks.com#/paleo/cappe... There is also a section on how to actually read a manuscript, which looks like a very useful teaching/learning tool: reader.contubernalesbooks.com#/paleo
Read Latin and Greek with help on every word
Seven books free, no account needed. Notes, scansion, facing texts and games built from each book's own words.
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A fungus photo a day: an Amanita pantherinoides/western panther that had started to dry up, so its gills are curling, taken last May. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
Cats (rayist percep.[tion] in rose, black, and yellow) by Natalia Goncharova, 1913 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137260
A few years back, the BBC asked me on to talk about asylum, but then the researcher started to panic because I wasn't "balanced" with someone who hated asylum seekers. I guess the BBC's definition of "balance" only goes one way
Alasdair Mackenzie@alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 3w agoNote once again that there is not one pro-refugee included view here - no politician from the Greens or SNP or even the Labour left, no activist or lawyer, and certainly no actual asylum seeker - and "balance" consists of presenting a choice of exactly how vile we should be to people
If you ask me, this is one of the most important manuscripts in the Cairo Genizah collections. It's a page from a 9th-century Quran with text from Sura 11 (Hud) about the prophet Noah (vv. 43-50). Despite this origin, it was found in a synagogue and likely owned by a Jew. @theul.bsky.social
