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Carin Ruff

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Medievalist, Latinist, paleographer, Episcopalian, with novel in progress. DC-based, with beagle. Web: ruffnotes.org Cover image is from the Reichenau Gospels, Walters Art Museum MS W7 fol. 7r.

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · Feb 25

Pinned intro: Most days I make a post about medieval manuscripts associated with a saint of the day and discuss their #paleography. I generally follow medievalists, book history people, Episcopal/Anglican folks, and local Washington, DC history/civic affairs/statehood peeps.

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Musée de Cluny @museecluny.bsky.social · 20m

Des faux reliquaires 😮
Ces reliquaires sont entrés au musée de Cluny au milieu du 19e siècle comme des objets médiévaux.
Ils sont en réalité l’œuvre d’un faussaire de Metz, nommé D’Hermange ! Il en aurait fabriqué une douzaine de ce type, trompant même les connaisseurs. 🤥

Reliquaire composée d’une monstrance cylindrique horizontale, enchâssée dans une structure architecturée surmontée de pinacles portant des perles d’agate et des cabochons de verroterie.

Reliquaire composée d’une monstrance cylindrique horizontale, enchâssée dans une structure architecturée surmontée de pinacles portant une crête sommée de perles d’agate.

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 29m

still full of knowledgeable staff and quite a lot of selection. If our metro area can support one such store I bet yours might have one, too.

Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 29m

@themedievaldrk.bsky.social Any chance there are still old-school fabric stores lurking somewhere in the suburbs of your new city? We still have one here, amazingly—not quite what it used to be when it was at full scale, and not at all what it was in the '60s and '70s when it was downtown, but

Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 38m

Beware Michaels, though: a historical costumer I follow recently ordered fabric online from Michaels and they sent separate cut yards, not continuous yardage, and on followup refused to understand why that was unacceptable.

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 1h

I forgot to link to the whole MS yesterday: portail.biblissima.fr/fr/ark:/4309...

Here's yesterday's post, ICYMI: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 1h

For the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, one more detail from one of yesterday's manuscripts for Edward the Confessor. "Illa fuit dies fatalis anglie," from William of Malmesbury's narration of the Conquest in the Gesta Regum. BNF lat 6047, fol. 78r.

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 2h

I would love to visit someday. I wonder if the architect knew Breuer's Abbey Church at St. John's in Minnesota?

St. John's Abbey Church, Collegeville, MN, interior

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 13h

Absolutely delighted to see that Rev. Gini Gerbasi has started a newsletter! ⚓

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Welcome to All Out of Figs

Here you’ll find: Reflections on the beauty – and heartache – of real life; political commentary shaped by scripture and a moral grounding in the dignity of every human being; and a persistent, gritty...

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AaronM @aaronm.bsky.social · 13h

I'm usually pretty meh about the provenance of manuscripts, and in general about 16th C printed books... But Ott.lat.1902 is the copy of Copernicus that was owned, read, an annotated by Tycho Brahe, and has his notes about orbital mechanics bound in at the end. digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott...

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Claire Handscombe @bookishclaire.bsky.social · 16h

Characters shouldn’t need to change by the end of a book. A lot of people never change and still have stories worth telling.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 16h

Since Tana French is the one of the two I've seen in the flesh, I'll go with the inverse of that theory.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 18h

FYI: If you know of intersections of religion and pushback to ICE/DHS in general, but especially Chicago, feel free to drop me a line.

You can reach me via Signal at: jackmjenkins.60

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 19h

2/2 A little girl poses as a huntress (Diana) in 1655 for Caesar van Everdingen.

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 21h

And the hobby through which I used to make new friends outside work/school—dance!—is something I can't physically do anymore, and other gatherings are only online. I know I need to join things, but just making plans to hang out with a couple of people who seem nice would be great.

Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 21h

+1. I think we all need a stock of "this is not weird" cards we can play to make new friends. I find I've reached this stage again later in life, even though I'm back in my hometown, because since the pandemic so many older friends have died and younger ones have moved away.

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