#greek manuscripts

[u-mspcoll]

A Lecture and Two Workshops on Greek Paleography

Mich. Ms. 30, full illumination depicting John the Evangelist, fol. 306v. Gospels and biblical and patristic commentaries. [Northern Greece], May 31, 1430.

Mich. Ms. 13, fol. 1r. Lectionary of the Gospels, fragment. Second half of the 10th c.

Professor Elena Velkovska (University of Siena, Italy) will help us understand the international significance of the many treasured and valuable Byzantine Greek liturgical manuscripts held in the U-M Library's Special Collections Research Center.  Read more!

#greek manuscripts #palaeography #paleography #workshops #lectures #events #special collections #archives #special collections libraries #special collections and archives #libraries #libraries and archives

[superbdonutpoetry]

There are Four Varieties of Bible Teachers Out There Who Aren't Bible Believers

1. Those who believe only the original manuscripts were inspired and infallible. They are akin to Mormons who believe… only the original manuscripts were inspired and infallible… Sadly, they believe something that doesn’t exist. 2. Those who read from different books are actually the followers of scholars. They draw on commentaries and opinions based on the views of scholarship and not what the…

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#Attack on God&039;s word #Authorised Version #Bible Believers #EC Moore #Greek manuscripts #King James Bible #Preach the word #Psalm 138:2 #Something to share #Stam #Unbelief

[cuties-in-codices]

pan

in a copy of the "ovide moralisé", a medieval translation of ovid's "metamorphoses", paris, 1380s

source: Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 176, fol. 355r

#14th century #medieval art #greek mythology #ovide moralisé #ovid #illuminated manuscript #pan #hybrids #metamorphoses #musical instruments

[arthistoryanimalia]

More for #InternationalZebraDay: zebras in a Byzantine Greek illuminated manuscript of the Book of Job, c. 1362. BnF Grec 135, f. 100r and 224r.

#zebra #zebras #mammals #illustration #manuscript #illuminated manuscript #medieval manuscript #Byzantine #Greek #medieval art #Byzantine art #Greek art #14th century #Book of Job #BnF #Bibliothèque nationale de France #International Zebra Day #animals in art

[holmesoldfellow]

The original 1893 manuscript for "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter" from "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock holmes #acd #sir arthur conan doyle #conan doyle #arthur conan doyle #the adventure of the greek interpreter #gree #the memoirs of sherlock holmes #sherlock holmes manuscript #holmes #manuscript #1893 #antiques #victorian

[ancientorigins]

Previously unreadable, the hidden text of Ptolemy’s Meteoroscope Manuscript details the creation and uses of this ancient instrument to determine one's latitude in degrees from the equator, the exact date of a solstice or equinox, or the apparent location of a planet in the zodiac. The valuable knowledge obtained from these findings offer more insight into the brilliance of ancient technologies.

#manuscript #ancient writings #astronomy #cosmos #Greeks #Ptolemy #zodiac #ancient #history #ancient origins

[hanzajesthanza]

thinking about all of the wonderful book witcher designs that i’ve seen from fanartists across decades of fandom (i.e., way before i joined the fandom) and how different everyone’s designs are, yet how they all are so similar because we’re all inspired by the same descriptions, we’re all working with the same text. the distinguishing features come from creating based upon our personal interpretations and imaginations, which are unique to us. and yet all images, in all of their differences, are the same character, the same description, the same text

#like its no matter if you want to draw something influenced by the games or even netflix or whatever but to me it is so fcking beautiful #when an artist just draws based on a text description and isnt influenced by any pre-existing design for that specific character #and then thinking about all the different interpretations of such a character that ive seen #its like all the same guy (or girl) but different minds thinking alike and it makes me feel so happy and good to exist #as part of like a community thats bustling with ideas and artists and different takes #lol it doesnt have to be the witcher i think any art based on something literary is really cool because writing as a medium has no images #so its up to the artist to decide and interpret based on their text #like for instance illustrated manuscripts from the middle ages depicting like ancient greek myths but everyone is dressed in period fashion #txt

[infinitysisters]

“The New Testament in the original Greek is not a work of literary art : it is not written in a solemn, ecclesiastical language, it is written in the sort of Greek which was spoken over the Eastern Mediterranean after Greek had become an international language and therefore lost its real beauty and subtlety.

In it we see Greek used by people who have no real feeling for Greek words because Greek words are not the words they spoke when they were children. It is a sort of “basic” Greek; a language without roots in the soil, a utilitarian, commercial and administrative language. Does this shock us? It ought not to, except as the Incarnation itself ought to shock us.

The same divine humility which decreed that God should become a baby at a peasant-woman’s breast, and later an arrested field-preacher in the hands of the Roman police, decreed also that He should be preached in a vulgar, prosaic and unliterary language. If you can stomach the one, you can stomach the other.

The Incarnation is in that sense an irreverent doctrine: Christianity, in that sense, an incurably irreverent religion. When we expect that it should have come before the World in all the beauty that we now feel in the Authorised Version we are as wide of the mark as the Jews were in expecting that the Messiah would come as a great earthly King.

The real sanctity, the real beauty and sublimity of the New Testament (as of Christ’s life) are of a different sort: miles deeper or further in.”

—

CS Lewis, intro to JB Phillip’s translation of the New Testament letters, 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴, 1947

#CS Lewis #new testament #jb Phillips #christianity #ancient texts #koine Greek #Greek language #first century ad #ancient manuscripts #messiah #the Christ #vulgar

[upennmanuscripts]

Today's #ToolingTuesday is LJS 97, a 16th-century blind-stamped and roll-tooled tanned leather over wooden boards, contemporary with the textblock. It was later rebacked with the old spine laid down. Made in Spain or Italy; the text is Greek.

Online:

#medieval #renaissance #manuscript #leather #binding #tooling #tooling tuesday #spain #italy #greek #book history #rare books

[fleshcity]

I need this lil guy tattooed on me right now

#it's an early ouroboros drawing from the 900s or 11th century Greek manuscript:) in the middle it says in Greek “all is one” #the pic itself is from a book about the history of alchemy by sara norja #art #history #my post

[insidemyfavoritemanuscript]

Episode 18: Olivia Baskerville on the Great Survey, the Greek New Testament, and the history of England

Pages from the Codex Sinaiticus (l) and The Domesday Book (r)

In Episode 18 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, we have a two-fer! Dot and Lindsey chat with Olivia Baskerville about her two favorite manuscripts: The Domesday Book and the Codex Sinaiticus. The Domesday Book, completed in 1086, documents a tax survey taken of most of England and parts of Wales after the Norman Conquest, while Codex Sinaiticus is a complete copy of the New Testament, written in Greek in the 4th century and sold to England by the Soviet Union in 1933. While very different in form and content, both manuscripts have played important roles in English culture, and we'll spend most of our time talking about the politics surrounding their creation and use over the course of England's history.

Listen here, or wherever you find your podcasts.

Below the cut are more images and links relevant to the conversation.

The Domesday Book at the National Archives (includes digitized images taken from the 1986 photographic facsimile, free to download in PDF format if you sign in)

Open Domesday (includes digital images taken from the 1850s photozincographic reproduction of Domesday, made by Ordnance Survey in Southampton. As Andrew Prescott points out on Twitter, the plates used to make this facsimile have been cleaned up and some marginalia removed)

Page of the Domesday book showing Bedford in Bedfordshire (image from the National Archives)

Codex Sinaiticus (transcription and digital images)

Codex Sinaiticus fol. 217b, the opening of the Book of Mark

The same page within the context of the website, transcription and translation on the right.

Example of a Canon Table from British Library Burney 41, f. 19v. From left to right, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John showing the divisions that were used before the invention of the modern system of chapter and verses. The numbers in the columns will be written alongside the text in the main part of the Bible. (Wikipedia page on Eusebian Canons)

The canon table that Olivia mentioned, from the Codex Amiatinus (digitized online at the Library of Congress)

Codex Sinaiticus fol. 217b, zoom in on the bottom right under standard light.

Codex Sinaiticus fol. 217b, zoom in on the bottom right margin under raking light. The ruling is so clear!

Wikipedia page on the Soviet sale of paintings from the Hermitage Museum (which happened around the same time that the Codex Sinaiticus was sold)

Newsreel Footage of Codex Sinaiticus from 1933, blog post by Brent Nongbri includes the movie footage embedded.

The CULTIVATE MSS project (2019-2024), funded by the European Research Council, explores how the trade in medieval manuscripts between 1900 and 1945 affected the development of ideas about the nature and value of European culture during this period. (Project website)

The Cost of Culture, the podcast of the CULTIVATE MSS project

#medieval #manuscript #england #history of england #codex sinaiticus #domesday book #nationalism #latin #greek #cultivate mss project #podcast #inside my favorite manuscript #imfmpod

[imaginarycostumemuseum]

And if there will ever be another comic book based on it all, this is what the cover might look like.

#making comics #illuminated manuscript #greek or romanian manuscript #not sure #the inspiration #i mean

[cuties-in-codices]

the trojan horse

in an illustrated copy of the "trojanerkrieg" by konrad von würzburg, germany, c. 1441

source: Nürnberg, GNM, Hs. 998, fol. 195r

#dunno man i think something about the sizing of your horse is off #15th century #medieval art #trojanerkrieg #konrad von würzburg #trojan horse #greek mythology #medieval manuscript

[letthestorieslive]

3 and 30 for ao3 wrapped?

Hi spike, thanks for sending this <3

3. What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits) ?

Honestly, I am so proud of every fic I wrote this year. Because I managed to write in english, which is so not my first language (and sometime words are hard and languages just kind of merge in my head and what I'm saying or writing doesn't make sense anymore), and because I managed to write on a tight time schedule (5 fics in two months, which three and a half of them were written in one month for Scottuary).

I guess that if I have to choose one tho, it would probably be (Help) I'm Alive. It was the first fic I wrote this year and that fic has history : I rewrote it a lot, discarded it because of frustration, worked on it again, put it on hold to work on developing other ideas, deleted almost everything, rewrote some sections, deleted other sections, paused it again to start writing another fic and came back to it hit by inspiration.

30. Biggest surprise while writing this year ?

Working with a beta reader, hands down.

I've told @scribeoffate several times that I was thinking about asking someone to be my beta reader to see if it was something that could work for me but my shy ass never acted on it. Until last December and it was like one of the best decision I made that month ? I definitely got more confident as grammar and spelling were correctly correct this time (and it was my biggest mental block when writing in another language).

And the back and forth was SO GOOD !! Maybe because I had like the greatest mind as a beta (@momentofmemory i'm forever grateful <3) but talking about some sections of fic, and how to make it more flowing was really great. Like Anatomy of Healing Aching Scars would not be the same without her. So yeah, a really good surprise.

#ao3 wrapped #ask game #watch me struggle with time and language #like i live in a french speaking country (which is already a daily struggle jpp) #but my master was in another language (english) #and i went to Columbia for an internship (so spanish-ish yeah ?) #but i learnt italian in school #and during my internship i had to work on a neo-latin manuscript #but i chose ancient greek at college #then for my first job i came across a particular collection in a library which books were in german #but i was the only person in my family not to choose german in school #the universe is pointing and laughing at me #anyway #thanks for the ask! #teen wolf

[pwlanier]

Creator: Heron of Alexandria, Apollodorus of Damascus

Early 16th century.

British Library

#Greek manuscript

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

The battleship of the emperor's fleet attacks the boat of Thomas the Slav's insurgents with the Greek fire (823), the miniature on fol. 34v from the manuscript of the Chronicle by Jan Skylitzes, the code Vitr. 26 – 2 in the National Library in Madrid, about 1130

something absolutely INSANE i found - an example of a hand held greek fire flame thrower from a manuscript about byzantine history by John Skylitzes,

Hand-wielded Greek fire siphon (pyrekbolus), the reconstruction of T. Kolias in Museum of the Army in Athens. Drawn by P. Grotowski.

#byzantium #manuscript #greek fire #middle ages #warfare #byzantine empire #thomas the slav #my upl #medieval