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AaronM
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I dissect calendars in Books of Hours and keep a close eye on the Vatican Library, sometimes in that order.
https://www.cokldb.org/
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/
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aaronm.bsky.social
Another "dump it all on friday" week of #manuscripts from the #vatican
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
Includes medical works, a lot of Bruni, classics, papal stuff, history of Venice, stuff I don't understand, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 6 of 2026
A solid showing this week, with fifty-five manuscripts digitized, forty-six of those were uploaded on Friday. The vast majority, forty-four, came from the Ott.lat fond. The bulk of the remaining came...
www.wiglaf.org
February 16, 2026 at 1:42 AM
aaronm.bsky.social
@monicamedhist.bsky.social I know the 16th Century is too late for you, but I just noticed this line in a table of contents (BAV Ott.lat.2131)
a 16th C cursive hand in 4 lines
February 12, 2026 at 1:20 AM
aaronm.bsky.social
Since all of this weeks 18 #Manuscripts were uploaded by the #vatican on Friday, I'm a bit late
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
Many classics, a medical notebook, an Avvisi, Boccaccio and Poggio, texts on gems and art, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 5 of 2026
On Friday of this week eighteen manuscripts were digitized, the only day of activity. Of those, sixteen were from Ott.lat, and one each from Chig and Vat.lat. At the right is f.121r from Ott.lat.215...
www.wiglaf.org
February 9, 2026 at 3:19 AM
aaronm.bsky.social
Inches of snow fell
More than the new #manuscripts
only six digitized

... from the #Vatican at least
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
Boccaccio, Ockham, Giles of Rome, Virgil, Bondio.. and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 4 of 2026
Only six manuscripts were digitized last week, all from the Ott.lat collection. At the right is f.33v from Ott.lat.2071, a composite manuscript of the 14th C. The first part, which includes this fo...
www.wiglaf.org
February 2, 2026 at 12:50 AM
aaronm.bsky.social
Before the snow fell
The #Vatican Library
Scanned 33 books

www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
Includes a c. 1200 glossed Virgil, a ton of classics, St. Anthony of Florence, medicine, Lorenzo Valla on Latin and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorian
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 3 of 2026
A total of thirty-three manuscripts were digitized this past week. They came entirely from the Ott.lat, with twenty-five, and Barb.lat, with the remaining eight manuscripts. To the right is a page fr...
www.wiglaf.org
January 25, 2026 at 6:08 PM
aaronm.bsky.social
A solid 37 #Manuscripts added by the #Vatican last week
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
Includes a skinny Argonautica (San Vito rubrics!), a bunch of classics, papal and other ecclesiastical stuff, Plutarch translated by Bruni, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 2 of 2026
A total of thirty-seven manuscripts were digitized this week. These were split between Ott.lat, which added twenty-four, and Barb.lat which added thirteen. This brings the total number of manuscripts...
www.wiglaf.org
January 20, 2026 at 12:44 AM
aaronm.bsky.social
First of 4 #BooksOfHours from my recent trip to @labnf.bsky.social This one is the unusual Use of Bayeux, with local saints, inc. Ragnobert on 5-16; Ravennus and Rasiphus on 7-23; Exuperius on 8-1, and only 2 errors. Due to BnF, no pics to post
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
www.cokldb.org/p/v100/ms/389
CoKL: Manuscript: Latin 1426b
www.cokldb.org
January 13, 2026 at 12:24 AM
aaronm.bsky.social
@maklelan.bsky.social Have you done an episode on the very end of Genesis (Parshah Vayechi in the Jewish reckoning, chapters 47-50 or so)? The "blessings" are so weird and layered that it might make a good analysis topic
January 11, 2026 at 4:58 PM
aaronm.bsky.social
Only 5 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
A Livy, a Virgil, a work on grammar and rhetoric, an Avvisi from 1650 and Maimonides in Latin
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 1 of 2026
Only five manuscripts were digitized this week, all from the Ott.lat collection. To the right is f.288v from Ott.lat.644, one of the approximately thirteen surviving manuscripts of the Dux neutrorum,...
www.wiglaf.org
January 11, 2026 at 3:11 AM
aaronm.bsky.social
Slightly diminish a band:

10pm Oil
rsybuchanan.com R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · Jan 11
Slightly diminish a band:

The Danged
unchi.org Tim Pierce @unchi.org · Jan 11
Slightly diminish a band:

Guns ‘n’ Rosehips
January 11, 2026 at 1:41 AM
aaronm.bsky.social
Statistical wrapup on the 2025 digitization work on #Vatican #Manuscripts. No pretty letters or illuminations, just cold facts and some unattractive graphs.
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 1 of 2026
No manuscripts were digitized in the first week of 2026 due to the holidays, so this week there will be a look back at the digitization work of 2025 in numbers. To start, some summary numbers coveri...
www.wiglaf.org
January 5, 2026 at 2:52 AM
aaronm.bsky.social
Many factors delayed the last MS report of 2025, but the #vatican did manage 17 #Manuscripts last week
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Much Ge'ez, strange narrow MS, Arabic stories, Sistine Music and more.
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 52 of 2025
Despite Christmas coming in the middle of the week, the Vatican got in two digitizing days and added seventeen manuscripts this week. It was an unusual distribution with eight, the largest fraction, ...
www.wiglaf.org
December 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
aaronm.bsky.social
41 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes more Ge'ez, poems sucking up to Barberinis, lotsa Sistine music by Palestrina, Biordi, et al, some classics, an Exultet Roll in use, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 51 of 2025
A total of forty-one manuscripts were digitized in the past week, perhaps the last working week of 2025. This week's distribution was all over the place, Capp.Sist contributed the most with eleven. F...
www.wiglaf.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
aaronm.bsky.social
The year starts to wind down, but the #Vatican still digitized 23 #Manuscripts www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes Sistine scrap paper, 18th C and Ge'ez liturgy, 15th C copies of Cicero, Averroes, Diogenes Laertius, Vegetius, and more! (not much more)
#MedievalSky #HistorianSky
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 50 of 2025
In total twenty-three manuscripts were digitized this week. The breakdown across the collections is Ott.lat, Capp.Sist, and Comb, with eight, seven, and six contributions, respectively. The last two...
www.wiglaf.org
December 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
aaronm.bsky.social
#HistorianSky and #MedievalSky I need advice. What is a good Mac-compatible word/text processor for writing articles? I've grown to hate MS Word, but I like the Zotero integration. I want an application, not an online thing (eg. not Google Docs).
December 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
aaronm.bsky.social
Only 9 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes Sonnets, a Chronicle of Venice, a Chronicle of Burgundy by Molinet, Delfino's _Le Cleopatra_, Cicero, legal commentary, Antonio da Rho's autograph of _Dialogues against Lactantius_, etc.
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 49 of 2025
Only nine manuscripts for the first week of December. They came solely from Ott.lat, with seven, and Barb.lat, with the remaining two. To the right is f.6r from Ott.lat.1903, an autograph copy of Ant...
www.wiglaf.org
December 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
aaronm.bsky.social
Only 23 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Petrarch, Sistine Music, Cicero, Suetonious, Arnold de Villanova, Aristotle, Ge'ez liturgy and amulets, and a Fransiscan Missale... and more
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 48 of 2025
A total of twenty-three manuscripts were digitized in the past week. Unusually Capp.Sist contributed the most, with eight manuscripts digitized. Following that were the expected fonds, Ott.lat with s...
www.wiglaf.org
November 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
aaronm.bsky.social
Only 13 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Contains: Ge'ez liturgy, obsequious Barberini poetry, a text on how to build and use a clock, poetry by Il Porcellio, commentaries on Aristotle, and more
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 47 of 2025
Only thirteen manuscripts were digitized in the past week. Despite the small numbers, the recent pattern of distributions was maintained: Barb.lat led with five, Comb and Ott.lat added four each. T...
www.wiglaf.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
aaronm.bsky.social
If anyone has access to the 2015 fascimile of the Officiolum of Francesco da Barberino, and would be willing to do me a favor, it would be much appreciated.
November 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
aaronm.bsky.social
46 new #Manuscripts went online from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes: Ge'ez imagery, 17th C Barberini stuff, 18th-19th C Sistine music, classics, a spanish illustrated work on machines and _more_
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 46 of 2025
A total of forty-six manuscripts were completed in week 46 of the calendar year. The distribution is not quite what we have seen recently, Barb.lat continues to be the largest collection, adding seve...
www.wiglaf.org
November 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
aaronm.bsky.social
Reminder that this is happening (eek!!) on Monday. There is no online option, but hopefully this will lead to more work on the absolute batshittery of this manuscript
aaronm.bsky.social AaronM @aaronm.bsky.social · Oct 21
For those lucky enough to be local to the Cambridge MA area, I will be giving a lunch talk on November 17th that I think of as "This Manuscript is too Fucked-up to be Real, but it is!"
medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/mahind...
#MedievalSky
Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar: Collations | Medieval Studies @ Harvard
medieval.fas.harvard.edu
November 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
aaronm.bsky.social
I would actually love to see some AI homework failures from the sciences.
mattseybold.bsky.social Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · Nov 11
My encounters with AI generated by students have been exclusively on writing assignments & the mainstream moral panic has been about the college essay.

I encourage you to ask a science or social science colleague about the graphs, charts, & diagrams they've been receiving. 😳🫣🤢
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
aaronm.bsky.social
A much more exciting week brought 76 #Manuscripts online at the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a glossed Priscian, a bunch of 17th C Barberini stuff, a pile more Ge'ez, many Cicero, Iñigo de Mendoça's Spanish _Vita Christiana_, and MORE
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 45 of 2025
A total of seventy-six manuscripts were digitized this past week. Barb.lat, with twenty-nine, and Ott.lat with twenty-eight, contributed the majority of the volumes, following recent patterns. A full ...
www.wiglaf.org
November 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
aaronm.bsky.social
Eleven #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a text on the Barberini Lyre, more papal writings, Caesar's Wars (several), some Neo-Latin, a catalogue of printed books... and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 44 of 2025
Eleven total manuscripts were digitized in the past week. These consisted of six from Barb.lat, four from Ott.lat, and a single volume, a 17th C catalogue of printed books, from Vat.lat. To the right...
www.wiglaf.org
November 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
aaronm.bsky.social
Only 5 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
A Bussula, a Virgil, Ceasare della Riviera's Magical World of the Heroes, Herodian's History in Latin, and a legel compendium... that's it!
#Medievalsky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 43 of 2025
Another extremely quiet week with only five manuscripts digitized. Four of them were from Ott.lat, and the remaining one was another Bussula, a type of election record, from Barb.lat. To the right...
www.wiglaf.org
October 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM