Common abbreviations and terms found in manuscripts of the Islamic rational sciences.

All Latin grammar worth knowing summarised on just 8pages?! The naysayers said it couldn't be done. No chance. But that was in the dark days before 1961, when James P. Humphreys stepped forward and said "Hold my Kennedy":

Is Textual Criticism...Cool? thegospelcoalition.org/article/textua…

Nam tunc dolor me tenet quod non didicerim Graecum sermonem, sine cuius peritia nihil sumus. John Colet

The Holy Roman Empire lasted ~1000 years, and it looked like this: How did such a fractured political entity last so long? It has to do with a concept called “subsidiarity”, and it holds the key to implementing responsible government today 🧵 (thread)

This 1200's copy of Peter Lombard's Sentences has many marginal notes. This copy was made by a professional and use by at least one of the Worcester monks (WCL F8 f.3r).

Have you ever wanted to become just as well-educated as a monk or nun in 8th century Northumbria? Using some evidence from the works of Alcuin of York, I put together a comprehensive reading list for what you would have learned. Check it out: youtu.be/lkmxTlcR9As?si…

Reading Callimachus' Aitia somehow brought me here

1st November is All Saints' Day. BL Add 11695; The 'Silos Apocalypse'; 1091-1109 CE; Spain, N.; ff.112v, 113r Medieval Manuscripts

An unusually playful binding for the four tragedies of Euripides edited by Richard Porson. Work done in 1951... by A.L. Peck?

A calyx krater showing the abduction of Europa by Zeus, 4th century BC. Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta. Ἀεὶ γὰρ εὖ πίπτουσιν οἱ Διὸς κύβοι. - The dice of Zeus always fall well. Sophocles, Fragments

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Diagram showing an eclipse of the moon, illustrating Robert Grosseteste's De sphaera BL Harley 3735; Calendarial and computistical treatises by various authors; 2nd half of the 13th century; England; f.81v Medieval Manuscripts

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New Testament Textual Commentaries by Elijah Hixson. …ngelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2020/07/new-te…

Peter Lombard's commentary on the Psalms. This is a 1200's manuscripts. All the capital letters have decorative long tails extending down the columns of text, except the letter I. It has flourishes going upwards. (WCL F47 f.98r)

Révision de la Traduction œcuménique de la Bible (Bible TOB) alliancebiblique.fr/revision-tob?u…

"Confortatus est ergo Salomon filius David in regno suo et Dominus Deus suus erat cum eo et magnificavit eum in excelsum." München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 6262; Hrabanus Maurus, Commentarii in libros Paralipomenon; 9th century; Freising; f.80r Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

History Of Islamic Philosophy Henry Corbin . 1993 PDF 🎯 archive.org/download/byhen… archive.org/details/byhenr… libraryofagartha.com/Philosophy/Rel…

Mole, Doormouse, and Squirrel Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.4.25; Bestiary; c.1230; England; f.75r @CamDigLib