Laura
@lauropea.bsky.social
historian and philologist antiquities, manuscripts & rare books cataloguer putting the t back into incunabula since 2025 danubius me tollit, sprea me vocat
whereas scholarly consensus has long asserted that heavy metal is dead and cert'd my new research has revealed a shock: you POSERS don't know how to ROCK! previous methods were used by WIMPS my fresh approach offers a new glimpse of plugging in, turning up to TEN and ROCKING LIKE IT'S 1983 AGAIN
when you're just trying to hang with your friends but they're too busy posting
an antiquarian's dream: get an old book for next to nothing and find it's bound in a medieval manuscript fragment
Dragi prijatelji, imam rukopis za vam! Možete li vi čitati za mene? Wrapper attributes to Stjepan Gradić, s. XVII polymath from Dubrovnik. The language is Croatian, but written with Italian spelling conventions (eg 'gn' = nj, etc.) - looks like a sermon, but can anyone make out the Croatian title?
yet another Ethiopian text dor you! this one has some little creatures in it - anyone have an idea? these are the final pages...
Europe is currently experiencing an unprecedented heat wave. The US government is paying companies to stop plans for wind farms. Tech companies are building mountains of energy-sucking data centers. This is unsustainable, literally www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
just renewed my Wiener Linien annual ticket, which has gone up for the first time since I moved here 8 years ago from 365 to 467 Euros
first time I've had a book in Romansh! verses on the book of revelation, 1770, bound in a bit of decorative paper
what skills did 10 years of teaching at university give me? expertise in wrangling with a very specific model of photocopier
love when 18th-century travel accounts are like 'A true traveller - if he be worthy of the name! - and not but a milk-ſop, must travel alone, and rely on his own ſkill with language, knowledge of medicine, arms, and ſeamanſhip. I ſet out from Alexandria in a ſedan-chair born by eight ſervants'
become a palaeographer! explore the world! see amazing manuscripts! meet fascinating dead people whose handwriting makes you wish you were dead too!
reading a travel account from 1762 describing a journey from Aleppo: 'parti le 11. par la caravanne, vu a 9 lieues d'alep les ruines de la ville d'Aquila' - can't actually find anything about an Aquila in Syria, am I missing something?
do NOT stay hydrated. faint in public and take up a few paramedics' time and resources. become ungovernable
the text in this beauty is Cicero, De inventione - this ms probably produced in Steiermark, southern Austria, in the early 12th century
Laura@lauropea.bsky.social · 2mo agoownership mark of the Domus Dei, Trento, founded in 1340 for the community of flagellants
(town hall standing up meme) lots of digitisation money would be better spent on paying people to just scan physical library books and upload them to internet archive
pov: you are a tour group obstructing my way to work so i'm sure as fuck gonna step into your photo of the hofburg, take that one back to omaha with you
sending my baby out into the world - this jerome manuscript has been my project off and on for months since we bought it, and soon you'll be able to see it at the rare book fairs of the world...
the thing i love about southern interjections is that you can almost never say with confidence they don't exist, as long as they have the basic style
depths of wikipedia@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 2mo agook who says that last one
ownership mark of the Domus Dei, Trento, founded in 1340 for the community of flagellants
chatgpt is sending people by, telling them we've got medieval grimoires and books of magic. well i mean we do, but
sending my baby out into the world - this jerome manuscript has been my project off and on for months since we bought it, and soon you'll be able to see it at the rare book fairs of the world...
i've been chronically online for ages, i'm used to the fact that discourse recurs, but are we actually having... treaty of versailles discourse? wow we've really run through every other topic since 1918 endlessly then huh
i have lived a life where every subject i did bad in in school and was admonished that it was an important skill (e.g. maths) is stuff i have not used since graduation while everything i was told was all very well to be good at but was mostly pointless (french, latin) i have used in work constantly
'what's your most millennial-coded trait?' dropping marginalia about how the stupid have been deceived by error into literally believing in the thousand-year reign of christ
Laura@lauropea.bsky.social · 3mo agomedieval fanboys be dropping into your margins like 'optime dixisti sancte ieronime dulcis' ('you said it best, sweet saint jerome!')
