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Bibliophile. Rare book collector. The history of writing, and of the book, from cave painting to cuneiform tablet to papyrus scroll to medieval codex to Kindle.

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ChronHib

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· 8月5日

After two months waiting, it finally arrived today: vol 8 of the @aelawsocial booklet series on ancient European languages & writings, my "Cisalpine Celtic", with editorial assistance by @CCeLL_project. Lepontic and Cisalpine Gaulish never looked so good!

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The charter invokes the Lord of Paulin : "Sicart vescomte de Lautrec e seihner de Paulinis..." The fiefdom of Paulin was among the most important of the Languedoc. By 1288 thirty-two vassals had pledged fidelity to the Baron of Paulin. Below is the commune of Paulinet today. 2/2

A chirograph charter in Occitan, dated 16 October 1277, concerning an dispute between Huc de Paulinet and Peire de Valgilada, two inhabitants of Paulinet, in regard to the Mas Ausene in the parish of Saint Etienne de Tarabuset. 1/2

1) Thread: Does this intriguing Roman epitaph reveal a succession conspiracy playing out during this week in 117 AD? Marcus Ulpius Phaedimus, 28 year-old freedman and main attendant of the Roman emperor Trajan, died on 12 August 117....

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A little Twitter gem.

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Well, if you like exquisitely illuminated manuscripts of the pre-eminent work in all Italian literature, produced less than a century after it was first written, then this isn't a bad little book, I suppose...

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Beinecke Library

@BeineckeLibrary

· 18時間

Dante Alighieri Divina Commedia MS 428 [late 14th century] more: bit.ly/2W9vdWO

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Exquisite Roman lapidary capitals.

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Tom Ljevar

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· 8月8日

Inscription from #Salona (Croatia) dedicated to Silvanus, mentioning a nymphaeum erected in honour of Emperor Trajan. Split Archaeological Museum

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Without trying to be diverse, in the last 24 hours I’ve tweeted about books & manuscripts written in: Georgian Raetic Lusitanian Iberian Gaulish Faliscan Celtiberian Latin English Lithuanian Martian Occitan Runes Shuishu I *must* improve my coverage of non-Earth-based scripts!

Representation of silence as a yellow rectangle: 'factum est silentium in celo' Add MS 11695; 1091-1109; Beatus of Liébana, Commentary on the Apocalypse (The 'Silos Apocalypse'); Spain, North (Santo Domingo de Silos); f.125v

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The Shuishu script combines phonetic signs, logograms and anthropomorphic signs or pictographs. Chinese scholars categorise the 485 recognised Shuishi characters into 13 categories. 3/3

Shuishu uses pictographs which are similar to jiaguwen (甲骨文) found on Shang Oracle bones and the jinwen (金文) on bronzes from the Shang & Zhou dynasties. It is widely believed that the script is a “living fossil”, which represents an echo of these earlier ancient scripts. 2/3

The Shui (水族) are an ethnic group of nearly 400 000 in SE Guizhou. The Shui script, known as "Shuishu" (水書), is used exclusively for ritual purposes. Shuishu is one of the two main surviving hieroglyphic scripts in China, together with the better known Naxi Dongba script. 1/3

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This set has the bookplate of Carl Jedvard Bonde, and was subsequently in the library of Ericsberg. Some of the stones shown in these engravings no longer exist today, so these are our only record of the original rune-stone inscriptions. 3/3

In the 1830s a small new edition was made using the surviving original copper plates, of which this is an example. This example has 119 of the plates. Willard Fiske, the greatest ever collector of runic books, was never able to obtain a copy of this book for his collection. 2/3

One of the rarest of all runic books. These plates depicting 118 rune-stones were engraved under the supervision of Johannes Bureus around 1650, but the planned work for which they were intended was never completed. A few copies were made at the time - only 5 survive today. 1/3

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This is Rue de la Croix in Burlats today.

Just south of Albi lies the city of Castres. Burlats is just east of Castres, in the modern-day Parc of Haut-Languedoc. A number of Roman & medieval buildings still stand in Burlats, including the Adelaide Pavilion, where amour courtois (“courtly love”) allegedly originated. 2/2

A charter in Occitan, the oldest living language of France, dd 11 Nov 1289 ("Vo ydus novembris), conveying a vineyard by sale from P. Barrieira to Esteve Garcola 'a la Crotz' in Burlats ('una vinha que ieu avia a la Crotz'). There is still a Rue de la Croix in Burlats today. 1/2

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Useful to have this, I always confuse K and L when writing to Martian friends.

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Owen Davies

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· 22時間

In the 1890s the medium Hélène Smith claimed to be in communications with the people of the planet Mars. She provided images of Mars' plantlife and also the key to the Martian alphabet. It could be the future - the new international/intergalactic language.

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Remarkably, Lithuanian retains some Proto-Indo-European features - and some vocabulary - only otherwise found in Vedic Sanskrit or Ancient Greek. For example: Lith. & Sanskrit sūnus (son) Lith. & Skt avis (sheep) Lith. antras & Skt antaras (other) Lith. vilkas & Skt vṛkas (wolf)

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Lithuanian is often said to be the most conservative living Indo-European language, retaining features of Proto-Indo-European now lost in other languages. Early books in Lithuanian are seldom seen. This is the Bible in Lithuanian, set in fraktur, and printed in Frankfurt in 1853.

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Bybeles, tai esti: Wissas Szwentas Rasztas Senoir Naujo Testamento, Lietuwiszkay perstattytas, isz naujo perweizdetas ir penktq Kartq iszspaustas. [British & Foreign Bible Society], Frankfurt am Main 1853. This version was edited by Frydrichas Kursaitis after the version of 1816.

I see your Beinecke MS 589, and I raise you a Doves Bible.

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Stephanie J. Lahey

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· 11時間

Photo of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 8 recto in Yale, Beinecke, MS 589. Two columns of Latin text—the first with 32 lines, the second with 40 lines—both in black ink with touches of red. Nearly half the width, and the entire length, of column two is taken up by a massively-enlarged majuscule ‘I’ (for “IN principio”) rendered as a long blue rectangle decorated with white highlights, plus a dense mass of intricate red pen-work both within and without the initial. At the top of the page is an enlarged header in alternating red and blue majuscules.

The Mother of all ‘I’s? #Manuscripts

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Here's the link to order them directly from the University of Zaragoza. The booklets are available in both Spanish and English. Just published - and not shown above - is the new Spanish language booklet on Etruscan, and an English one on Cisalpine Celtic. puz.unizar.es/busqueda?contr

This booklet gives an introduction to the study of Raetic, a non-Indo-European language of the Alpine region. The Raetic epigraphic corpus includes 300 inscriptions found in the Trentino and the Veneto, as well as in the Tyrol, dated between the 6th and the 1st centuries BC. 7/7

This volume of the AELAW booklets deals with Lusitanian, an Indo-European language attested in the Western Iberian peninsula in pre-Roman and Roman times. Only six texts in Lusitanian have been preserved. 6/7

The Iberian language is documented by more than 2000 inscriptions dated between the fifth century BCE and first century CE, drawn from a region of the Mediterranean belt that stretches from the Hérault river in French Languedoc to Almeria. It is currently undeciphered. 5/7

This booklet focuses on the study of Gaulish, an ancient language linguistically classified as Continental Celtic, situated in an area that covers modern day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, most of Switzerland, Northern Italy, and parts of the Netherlands and Germany. 4/7

Faliscan is an Indo-European language, belonging to the Italic branch, attested by approximately 300 inscriptions, coming from the ager Faliscus (‘Faliscan territory’) in the modern Italian region of Lazio and dating from the 7th century BC to the 2nd century BC. 3/7

Each booklet - like the Celtiberian one shown here - gives you a succinct but expert outline of the language and a detailed overview of its script and the surviving epigraphical remains. Each is profusely and brilliantly illustrated. I simply can't recommend these too highly! 2/7

The AELAW project, based at the University of Zaragoza, focuses on ancient European languages, writing & epigraphy. These FABULOUS booklets - available at the bargain price of less than €10 each - are the first 6 in a new series on the extinct pre-Roman languages of Europe. 1/7

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This dictionary was compiled by the nobleman, diplomat, Catholic monk, writer and linguistic innovator Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani (1658–1725), who also founded the first publishing press in Georgia in 1709, and is considered the founder of the modern Georgian literary idiom. 2/2

Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani’s Kartuli leksik’oni, edited by Raphael Eristavi, Tbilisi 1884. The first printed edition of the first Georgian dictionary, especially significant for its extensive annotations of concepts from logic, astronomy, and physics. 1/2

Provenance research: Have any booksellers here bought books or manuscripts from (or otherwise heard of) Edward Johnstone-McBarron of Buckinghamshire, or his sister Mary Williamson, of Aylesbury? Both probably deceased, or very elderly. Would much appreciate a DM if you have!

gjrt888:Etymology map for the word “carrot” in Europe

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Incunabula

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8月7日

"Steinsaltz not only rendered the forbidding Aramaic text into modern Hebrew, but integrated his own commentary into the original, filling in gaps that had previously required deep familiarity with the internal mechanics of talmudic discourse to decipher."

Adin Steinsaltz, acclaimed scholar who made the Talmud more accessible, dies

His monumental translation of the 63 volumes of the Babylonian Talmud made the arcane rabbinic debates and folkloric tales easier to comprehend.

jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com

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Reuven Rivlin

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· 8月7日

Our hearts mourn the passing of Rabbi Adin Even Israel Steinsaltz זצ"ל. He was a man of great spiritual courage, deep knowledge and profound thought who brought the Talmud to Am Yisrael in clear and accessible Hebrew and English. May his memory be a blessing. יהי זכרו ברוך.

A classic rabbinical reply... "At one time, he felt he was overwhelmed by his workload & wrote to the Rebbe, asking which duties he should drop. The Rebbe’s reply: Continue doing everything and add more projects. It was a directive that he took to heart." chabad.org/news/article_c

"Im Jahr 1988 war Steinsaltz der renommierte Israel-Preis verliehen worden. Das US-Magazin »Time« nannte ihn damals einen 'Jahrtausendgelehrten'." juedische-allgemeine.de/?p=2098380