Roger Pearse
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Any help gratefully received to transcribe the Life of St Botolph from a Swedish breviary. I've done what I can (included) but the script is a bit beyond me.
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How’s your paleography? Two pages from a medieval breviary
I’ve had a go at transcribing the “Life” of St Botolph from this medieval breviary, but frankly my paleography is not great. Would anyone else like to have a go, or a bit of one?…
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November 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Any help gratefully received to transcribe the Life of St Botolph from a Swedish breviary. I've done what I can (included) but the script is a bit beyond me.
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People do not talk enough about the fact that the Neo-Punic translation of Latin Imperator is a loan from Numidian
(Lepcis Magna Neo-Punic 14: mynkd, Numdian MNKDH)
(Lepcis Magna Neo-Punic 14: mynkd, Numdian MNKDH)
November 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
People do not talk enough about the fact that the Neo-Punic translation of Latin Imperator is a loan from Numidian
(Lepcis Magna Neo-Punic 14: mynkd, Numdian MNKDH)
(Lepcis Magna Neo-Punic 14: mynkd, Numdian MNKDH)
Does a Georgian translation of a work by Barsabas contain the earliest mention of the Trinity? Probably not.
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Barsabas of Jerusalem – the earliest witness to the Trinity?
In the Iviron monastery on Mt Athos, there is a Georgian manuscript (shelfmark: Athos Iviron 11) which contains a work with the title, “The Word of Saint Barsabas, Archbishop of Jerusalem, ab…
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November 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Does a Georgian translation of a work by Barsabas contain the earliest mention of the Trinity? Probably not.
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Got an English translation of some German handbook? Better check the footnotes in the original - the translation may not contain them, or be transcribed correctly.
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You cannot trust the footnotes in English translations of German handbooks!
Today is All Saints’ Day, and I have been looking at the entry for this in the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, and attempting to learn some real history about the origins of the me…
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November 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Got an English translation of some German handbook? Better check the footnotes in the original - the translation may not contain them, or be transcribed correctly.
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English translation of pseudo-Chrysostom homily on Easter now online (CPG 4408).
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Ps.Chrysostom, “Homilia in sanctum pascha” (CPG 4408) now online in English
The Greek text CPG 4408, “Homilia in sanctum pascha”, is one of quite a number of homilies on Easter attributed to John Chrysostom. According to the most recent editor this one is not …
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October 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
English translation of pseudo-Chrysostom homily on Easter now online (CPG 4408).
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Just banged out a perfectly decent English 9 page translation of a pseudo-Chrysostom homily on Easter in a couple of hours this evening. So I'm feeling very proud of myself. My secret? Start with a nice modern French translation...
October 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Just banged out a perfectly decent English 9 page translation of a pseudo-Chrysostom homily on Easter in a couple of hours this evening. So I'm feeling very proud of myself. My secret? Start with a nice modern French translation...
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#ReliefWednesday - One of the pieces I so wanted to see when I first went to Venice a while back was the 'Tetrarchs', the statue group looted from Constantinople in 1204... But it was behind scaffolding, so this was the best shot I could get! Even so it was fabulous to get so close to it! #History 🏺
October 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
#ReliefWednesday - One of the pieces I so wanted to see when I first went to Venice a while back was the 'Tetrarchs', the statue group looted from Constantinople in 1204... But it was behind scaffolding, so this was the best shot I could get! Even so it was fabulous to get so close to it! #History 🏺
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When I came across these images in an old book, I had to double-check they weren’t by a Ladybird artist.
They’re not - but are so cheery I have to share them anyway. 1/2
They’re not - but are so cheery I have to share them anyway. 1/2
October 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
When I came across these images in an old book, I had to double-check they weren’t by a Ladybird artist.
They’re not - but are so cheery I have to share them anyway. 1/2
They’re not - but are so cheery I have to share them anyway. 1/2
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Unrelated to Proclus: one of the first texts in this codex is a "Lamentatio de calamitatibus in Cypro insula, a. 1191, sub Richardo, Angliæ rege," by Neophytus the monk. De Re Militari's site has a translation: deremilitari.org/2013/04/conq...
"England is a country beyond Romania on the north..."!
"England is a country beyond Romania on the north..."!
October 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Unrelated to Proclus: one of the first texts in this codex is a "Lamentatio de calamitatibus in Cypro insula, a. 1191, sub Richardo, Angliæ rege," by Neophytus the monk. De Re Militari's site has a translation: deremilitari.org/2013/04/conq...
"England is a country beyond Romania on the north..."!
"England is a country beyond Romania on the north..."!
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Unrelated to bombycin: a lot of the texts have very pretty shaped or tapering layouts at their ends. Here's the end of the text just before Proclus's letters.
October 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Unrelated to bombycin: a lot of the texts have very pretty shaped or tapering layouts at their ends. Here's the end of the text just before Proclus's letters.
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New open-access publication: Discover how a multidisciplinary approach helped identify and contextualise three Qurʾānic parchment fragments from the University of Münster collection, revealing their shared origins in an Umayyad Qur’an:
www.nature.com/articles/s40...
www.nature.com/articles/s40...
From fragments to text and ink: a scientific and historical study of an Umayyad Qur’ān - npj Heritage Science
npj Heritage Science - From fragments to text and ink: a scientific and historical study of an Umayyad Qur’ān
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October 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
New open-access publication: Discover how a multidisciplinary approach helped identify and contextualise three Qurʾānic parchment fragments from the University of Münster collection, revealing their shared origins in an Umayyad Qur’an:
www.nature.com/articles/s40...
www.nature.com/articles/s40...
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September 30, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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30th September is the feast of St Jerome who is here depicted as translator of the Psalms
#StJerome
BnF MS Latin 1152; Psalter of Charles the Bald; 9th century (between 842 CE & 869 CE); School of the Palace of Charles the Bald; f.4r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
#StJerome
BnF MS Latin 1152; Psalter of Charles the Bald; 9th century (between 842 CE & 869 CE); School of the Palace of Charles the Bald; f.4r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
30th September is the feast of St Jerome who is here depicted as translator of the Psalms
#StJerome
BnF MS Latin 1152; Psalter of Charles the Bald; 9th century (between 842 CE & 869 CE); School of the Palace of Charles the Bald; f.4r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
#StJerome
BnF MS Latin 1152; Psalter of Charles the Bald; 9th century (between 842 CE & 869 CE); School of the Palace of Charles the Bald; f.4r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
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JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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a string of Middle Persian ordinals in Gr. Bundahišn, 3.7 (ed. Cereti in FS Emmerick):
/nazdist asmān ud dudīgar āb, sidīgar zamīg, čahārom urwar, panǰom gōspand, šašom mardōm ud haftom ātaxš/
"1st the sky, 2nd water, 3rd the earth, 4th plants, 5th small livestock, 6th people, and 7th fire"
/nazdist asmān ud dudīgar āb, sidīgar zamīg, čahārom urwar, panǰom gōspand, šašom mardōm ud haftom ātaxš/
"1st the sky, 2nd water, 3rd the earth, 4th plants, 5th small livestock, 6th people, and 7th fire"
September 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
a string of Middle Persian ordinals in Gr. Bundahišn, 3.7 (ed. Cereti in FS Emmerick):
/nazdist asmān ud dudīgar āb, sidīgar zamīg, čahārom urwar, panǰom gōspand, šašom mardōm ud haftom ātaxš/
"1st the sky, 2nd water, 3rd the earth, 4th plants, 5th small livestock, 6th people, and 7th fire"
/nazdist asmān ud dudīgar āb, sidīgar zamīg, čahārom urwar, panǰom gōspand, šašom mardōm ud haftom ātaxš/
"1st the sky, 2nd water, 3rd the earth, 4th plants, 5th small livestock, 6th people, and 7th fire"
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It's a very open community! Info at iiif.io/get-involved/ and you can request invitations to the Slack at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Get Involved
IIIF is a set of open standards for delivering high-quality, attributed digital objects online at scale. It’s also an international community developing and implementing the IIIF APIs. IIIF is backed ...
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September 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
It's a very open community! Info at iiif.io/get-involved/ and you can request invitations to the Slack at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Still no Bodmin/Padstow Gospels though 😪
More manuscripts are coming to the British Library's online site www.bl.uk/collection/d...
And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!
And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!
Digitised manuscripts and archives - British Library
View more than 2,000 of our digitised manuscripts and archival documents, including the Sherborne Missal and Octateuch, Four Gospels and Synodicon.
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September 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Still no Bodmin/Padstow Gospels though 😪
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Sir G. Carteret, Mr. Coventry, and I by invitation to dinner to Sheriff Maynell’s, the great money-man.
September 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Sir G. Carteret, Mr. Coventry, and I by invitation to dinner to Sheriff Maynell’s, the great money-man.