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Pieter Beullens
@pieterbeullens.bsky.social
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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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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)
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November 10, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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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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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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Gredinger’s name is also found in the colophon of a German calendar from 1428 (StAN, Reichsstadt Nürnberg, Handschriften 425, f. 17r)
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November 3, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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The gradual he wrote for the church of Saint Lawrence in Nuremberg is dated 1421 (Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in Bayern, Nürnberg, G2/ NbgStLor 3, f. 236v)
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November 3, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Gredinger was a Dominican friar and scribe whose name is known from colophons of at least five other carefully dated MSS. Nuremberg City Library’s Cent. I,30 and III,28 are dated 1415 and 1416 (Nürnberg, STN, Cent. I,30, f. 175r)
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November 3, 2025 at 7:25 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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Finally, from a German Bible, printed in 2° (GW 4303) in Nürnberg by Anton Koberger, and dated 17 February 1483 (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Oq 7241)
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October 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Also unnoticed: leaves from the Decretum Gratiani, printed in Strassburg in 1484 (GW 11368). Pretty initials! (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Bn 3056)
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October 29, 2025 at 6:24 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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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)
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October 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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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
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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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The tower of medieval education: on the ground floor Donatus and Priscian, then Cicero, Aristotle, Boethius, on top Peter Lombard! From the Margarita Philosophica printed in 1512 by Johann Grüninger in Strassburg (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, A 4414)
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October 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Bambergische halszgerichts ordenung, or how I am seeing the working week ahead (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, 4" Inc. 1931.8)
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October 12, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Incomplete leaf from a breviary with ruling already prepared, used in the binding of an early edition of Albert the Great! (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, 4" Bs 7021)
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October 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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MS BAV, Barb. lat. 1878 preserves a humanist Latin translation of Aristotle's Poetics with a commentary on the same text. There is no attribution in the MS and it does not seem to be identical with the printed translations or commentaries. H/T @aaronm.bsky.social
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October 9, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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This fragment from book 3 of Aristotle's Metaphysica in the Latin translation by Michael Scot is one of the new items in version 6.7 of my Supplementa tertia to Aristoteles Latinus Codices that was released today! (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 1258)
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October 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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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!
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October 6, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Leaf from an elegantly written 15th-c MS of the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium, once used in a book binding as the traces on one side show (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 3142) #ClassicsBlueSky
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October 3, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Op 14 oktober geef ik de openingslezing voor het NKV in Leuven. De titel is niet "Van Aristoteles tot zeehond". Kom langs om meer te weten!
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Afbeelding van een standbeeld van Aristoteles dat door een zeehond wordt geflankeerd!
October 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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I started teaching Aristotle's Ethica Nicomachea in Greek last week with the usual complaint about the lacking quality of Bywater's 19th-c OCT edition. Turns out that a new one came out this year, over 1000 pages in OA! Bound to be an improvement!
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Green cover with golden lettering in Spanish
September 30, 2025 at 6:29 AM