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Pieter Beullens
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PI of FitMA (Fluidity in the Medieval Aristotle) @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social and funded by @erc.europa.eu.
Author of The Friar and the Philosopher.
Medieval Greek-Latin translations of philosophy and science.
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Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · Oct 6
The yearly update of the Supplementa tertia (v. 6.7) is out! Additions and corrections to the three published volumes of Aristoteles Latinus Codices, with plenty of hyperlinks to digital images! If you know or own other MSS of the medieval Latin Aristotle, please reach out!
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Some pastedowns from a typically glossed canon law manuscript, a.o. provisions about priests' testaments (Paderborn, Erzbischöfliche Akademische Bibliothek, I 118)
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November 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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One book, two very different pastedowns. Leaf from a MS of the Breviarium in psalmos (Ps 107), attributed to Augustine or Jerome or Anonymous (Migne 26). And an attractive leaf from a later prayer book (Trier, Stadtbibliothek, G 1057)
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November 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Petrus Pictor, popular poet from St Omer on the border of 12th-c Flanders and France, wrote rhyming Latin hexameters (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 2849 & 1721 - also 1717-20)
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object102907/en/
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object100688/en/
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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In the new #openaccess companion on student notes from Latin Europe (@leuvenup.bsky.social), our own Lorenz Demey, together with collaborators, contributes a chapter arguing that student notes hold great promise as sources for intellectual #history 👇 lup.be/book/student... #HPS #earlymodern #philsky
Book cover of "Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750): A Research Companion," edited by Xander Feys, Maxime Maleux, Andy Peetermans, and Raf Van Rooy. Published by Leuven University Press. The cover features a partial diagram of concentric celestial spheres and an anatomical drawing of a human head labeled with Latin terms for sensory faculties. The design is minimalist in beige and gray tones. There is also an open access logo and the logo of Lueven University Press in the bottom left corner.
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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More @hsprtl.bsky.social: bifolium from the Expositio on Aristotle's Rhetoric (book II) by Aegidius Romanus aka Giles of Rome (Schloßmuseum Sondershausen, Lat. lit. 2 a)
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November 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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I correct myself: Albert is quoted in a glossary similar to the Derivationes by Ugoccione da Pisa (like other fragments from the same MS in the collection)!
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pieterbeullens.bsky.social Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 8d
Noticed in the newest versions of @hsprtl.bsky.social: fragment from Albert the Great's commentary on Aristotle's Meteorologica (II,1) (Schloßmuseum Sondershausen, Lat. lit. 1 c)
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November 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Noticed in the newest versions of @hsprtl.bsky.social: fragment from Albert the Great's commentary on Aristotle's Meteorologica (II,1) (Schloßmuseum Sondershausen, Lat. lit. 1 c)
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November 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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stylometry of scribal abbreviations is barely touched, and I think it has huge potential
November 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀
𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆, 𝟭𝟲𝟲𝟬–𝟭𝟴𝟯𝟬
Edited by Brecht de Groote, Lieve Jooken, Sonja Lavaert & Guy Rooryck

More info: bit.ly/4ntQjaJ

#Translation #Literature #C18 #History
November 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Colophon in red ink from a recycled unidentified MS by Johannes Gredinger, completed on the “feria vi” after the feast of S. John “ad portam Latinam” (12 May?). The exact year is masked by the book’s spine label (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Cs 6738)
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November 3, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Leaf from a Carolingian (10th c?) herbal text, possibly some variant on Dioscorides, heavily rubbed (Hundisburg, von Alvenslebensche Bibliothek, Alv. Le 97) @unihalle.bsky.social
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October 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Research funds are scarce & competition is fierce. A recent paper by @andreasdeblock.bsky.social & colleagues explores how this competition shapes science—its practices, risks & ethics—and proposes ways to make funding fairer & more effective👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #AcademicSky #HPS #scipol 🧪
Screenshot of a PNAS article titled “The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds,” authored by Gerald Schweiger, Adrian Barnett, Peter van den Besselaar, Lutz Bornmann, Andreas De Block, John P. A. Ioannidis, Ulf Sandström, and Stijn Conix. Edited by Neil Shubin. Published December 2, 2024, in volume 121, issue 50, article e2407644121.
November 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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The fragment was added to the Handschriftencensus.
handschriftencensus.de/25861
Apparently, it belonged to the same MS of which 2 fragments were earlier found in Naumburg!
pieterbeullens.bsky.social Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · Sep 29
Unnoticed fragment from a medieval martyrology in German! One full MS is preserved in Jena (hence Jenaer Martyrologium), two other fragments are known. This one has many variants in the German dialect. Specialists' comments welcome!
fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-6...
handschriftencensus.de/werke/181
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Not only MSS were used in early book bindings, incunabula leaves were recycled, too. Here is a short anthology! First, from the Corpus iuris civilis printed in Rom, 1476 (GW 7678). Only 15 copies are known! (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Dq 8880)
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October 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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An enthusiastic article about the Hendrik Conscience Library in the Italian arts blog ArtLife: artslife.com/2025/10/26/h...
Hendrik Conscience. Un tuffo in una delle biblioteche più affascinanti del mondo - ArtsLife
Fondata nel 1481 grazie alla donazione di 41 libri, la biblioteca Hendrik Conscience di Anversa è una delle più antiche del Belgio
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October 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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the best use of digital resources in medieval studies, by far, has been the simplest, namely the widespread digitisation of and free internet access to manuscripts in large numbers
October 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Fragments from a MS of later Latin poets: Eugen of Toledo, Fulco of Beauvais, Hildebert of Lavardin, Marbodus of Reims. Who sees more? (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 2819-27)
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object102848/en/
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object102852/en/
October 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

@apache.be you rule 🖤
October 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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In the context of our present global juncture, philosophers are examining the rise of populist movements & their threats to democratic values. Griet Galle & colleagues have edited a trilingual collective volume addressing these issues. Check it out! 📙👇 lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-6... #philsky #polphil
Cover of Forum Philosophie International 73: The Challenges of Populism (edited by the Association Internationale des Professeurs de Philosophie; publisher: LIT Zürich). The title appears in three languages—English, German, and French. Below the title is a cartoon showing two political scenes: on the left, a politician (next to a bodyguard) asks “Do you want clientele politics…” while addressing a small, serious audience; on the right, the same politician continues, “…or populism for everyone?” while cheerfully engaging with an enthusiastic crowd. Cartoon by Jan Tomaschoff.
October 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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The proofs, as they say, are in the pudding, and I am pudding in some proofing time today. Expecting some disagreements but it's been so fun to work on this. And brilliant and humbling to work with @rantyben.bsky.social!
Excerpt of article proofs, reading: A Stylometric Reassessment of the (Pseudo?) Ovidian Nux REBECCA MENMUIR AND BEN NAGY Abstract This article reproposes that the elegy known as the Nux is a genuinely Ovidian poem, written during Ovid’s relegation in the early first century CE. The poem's.
October 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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This #FragmentFriday is found in De Thiende (1585), a groundbreaking #mathematical book by Simon Stevin, introducing the decimal separator (now , or . ) for fractions. It has a 19th century library binding, but retains the medieval parchment wrappers it was originally bound in.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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The hyperlinks to the Copenhagen fragments are wrong. The domain name should be digitalesamlinger.kb.dk! Material for the next update!
pieterbeullens.bsky.social Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · Oct 6
The yearly update of the Supplementa tertia (v. 6.7) is out! Additions and corrections to the three published volumes of Aristoteles Latinus Codices, with plenty of hyperlinks to digital images! If you know or own other MSS of the medieval Latin Aristotle, please reach out!
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
October 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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New volume of Chôra Vol. 23 (2025) www.pdcnet.org/collection-a... Réception et metamorphoses d’Avicenne
journal cover
October 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Also under the hammer this week: a 17th-c printed law manual, bound in a bifolium from a MS of the Sentences commentary by Humbert of Preuilly!
October 20, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Up for auction next week: early 9th-c fragment of Isidore of Seville's Etymologies (incipit of book 12)! 16 lines, 4500€ estimate! Bargain waiting for someone!
October 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM