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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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Sing yourself through the day! (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Hg 1650)
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November 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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The cover of an Aristotle edition preserves strips from a MS of the Legenda aurea. Passages from the life of S. Caecilia, whom the Church celebrated last Saturday (Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Rq 91)
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November 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Pastedown patchwork: two bifolia from a collection of material for sermons, similar to the ones by Stephanus de Borbone or Humbertus de Romanis; some canon law; and a snippet from a pastoral work. No identifications, so your Monday puzzle! (Karlsruhe, BLB, Ba 100)
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November 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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New online and listed by @aaronm.bsky.social: MS BAV, Ott. lat. 1816 contains the "Conclusiones Metaphysice" by Franciscan author Gonsalvus Hispanus (+ 1313). He was a teacher of John Duns Scotus. After his academic career, he became Minister General of his order.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Let's start the day with some music!
(@unihalle.bsky.social, AB 175274)
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November 18, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Sermon by Bede, probably from a lost homiliary, in an elegant hand. This leaf survived as a book cover (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Ee 710-234)
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November 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Bifolium from a breviary used as cover material for a printed book (@unihalle.bsky.social, Cb 2246)
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November 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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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