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Independent scholar: research interests in hermeneutics, textual criticism, and the classical tradition; aurum in stercore (I don&#x27;t use Chat)<br><br>🌉 <a href="https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/enniusredloeb.bsky.social">bridged</a> from 🦋 <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/enniusredloeb.bsky.social">enniusredloeb.bsky.social</a>, follow <a class="h-card u-author mention" rel="me" href="https://bsky.brid.gy/bsky.brid.gy" title="@bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy">@bsky.brid.gy</a> to interact

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    May our minds be illuminated by the study of the Seven Liberal Arts: Astronomy, Music, Arithmetic, Geometry, Rhetoric, Logic and Grammar. BL Royal MS 6 E IX; Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia; c1335 CE; Italy (Tuscany); f.29r @blmedieval.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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    The Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance BL Royal MS 6 E IX; Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia; c1335 CE; Italy (Tuscany); ff.21r-21v @blmedieval.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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    10th August is the feast of St. Lawrence who is said to have been roasted on a gridiron and said to his torturers: &#39;I am cooked on that side; turn me over...&quot; BL Cotton MS Caligula A XIV; The &#39;Caligula Troper&#39;; 11th century; England; f.25r @blmedieval.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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    This ms of Origen of Alexandria&#39;s homilies begins with images of the Abbey&#39;s two patron saints, St Germain and St Vincent. BnF MS Latin 11615; Origen of Alexandria, Homiliae in Vetus Testamentum; 12th century; France (Saint-Germain-des-Prés); f.2v @gallicabnf.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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    Initial &#39;V&#39;(ir erat in terra Hus nomine Iob) at the beginning of the book of Job BL Add MS 28107; &#39;The Stavelot Bible&#39; vol 2; 1093 CE-1097 CE; Stavelot; f.4v @blmedieval.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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    What a diptych, including an incipit page, with which to begin the manuscript BnF MS Latin 12168; Augustinus Hipponensis, Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum, livres I-IV; 8th century (750-770?); North of France (Laon?); ff.Cv-1r @gallicabnf.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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    August is the time for threshing the wheat. #Medievalcalendar BnF MS Latin 1156B; Horae ad usum romanum; 15th century; f.8r @gallicabnf.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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    August is the month for a barrow ride back from a long hard day&#39;s work in the fields. #MedievalCalendar BnF MS Latin 1173; Horae ad usum Parisiensem (Heures de Charles d&#39;Angoulême); 15th century; f.4v @gallicabnf.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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    A beautiful peacock forms the initial &#39;E&#39;(cce). BnF MS Latin 1121; Troparium, prosarium, processionale, tonarium Sancti Martialis Lemovicensis; beginning of 11th century; f.26v @gallicabnf.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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    Initial &#39;Q&#39;(uem creditis super astra ascendisse o christicole..) BnF MS Latin 1121; Troparium, prosarium, processionale, tonarium Sancti Martialis Lemovicensis; beginning of 11th century; Saint-Martial de Limoges; f.21v @gallicabnf.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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    Initial &#39;C&#39;(elebremus) BnF MS Latin 1121; Troparium, prosarium, processionale, tonarium Sancti Martialis Lemovicensis; beginning of 11th century; Saint-Martial de Limoges; f.17v @gallicabnf.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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    Quite an initial &#39;Q&#39;(uem) BnF MS Latin 1120; Troparium, prosarium, processionale Sancti Martialis Lemovicensis; 10th-11th century; f.41r @gallicabnf.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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    &#39;P&#39;(recamur nostras deus animas...) BnF MS Latin 1120; Troparium, prosarium, processionale Sancti Martialis Lemovicensis; 10th-11th century; f.106r @gallicabnf.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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    Head in the initial &#39;V&#39;(enite omnes et exultemus in conspectu domini....) BnF MS Latin 909; Troparium, Cantatorium et officia adusum Sancti Martialis Lemovicensis; 10th to 11th century; Limoges; f.158r @gallicabnf.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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    Luke the Evangelist and his symbol St. Gallen, Stiftsarchiv (Pfäfers Abbey), Cod. Fab. 2; Liber aureus (Evangeliary); 1080-1090, with later additions; Southwestern Germany; f.8v (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

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    25th July is the feast of St James the Apostle who is here depicted with scallop shells at the beginning of the liturgy of James. BL Add 12213; Pilgrim&#39;s Guide to Compostela; 1st half of the 14th century; Spain (W., Santiago?); f.3v @blmedieval.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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    25th July is the feast of St James the Apostle who appeared in a dream to Charlemagne and told him to follow the milky way to Galicia and to liberate his forgotten tomb. BL Royal MS 16 G VI; 1332-1350; Les Grandes chroniques de France; France (Paris); f.165r @blmedieval.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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    Initial &#39;L&#39;(iber) at the beginning of Matthew&#39;s Gospel Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, Ms. 34; Liber Evangeliorum et Capitulare; second third of the 9th century; St. Bertin; p.31 (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

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    Initial &#39;H&#39;(ec) at the beginning of Exodus #MontpellierBible4772 BL Harley MS 4772; the ‘Montpellier Bible’, vol 1; 12th century; France, S.E.; f.27v @blmedieval.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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    Initial &#39;H&#39;(ec) at the beginning of Deuteronomy depicting person holding a staff with two men before him, possibly Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh #MontpellierBible4772 BL Harley MS 4772; the ‘Montpellier Bible’, vol 1; 12th century; France, S.E.(?Lyons); f.81r @blmedieval.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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    Initial &#39;M&#39;(aria) depicting Mary Magdalene kneeling before Jesus Hermetschwil, Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. membr. 6; Lectionarum Officii Monasticum; second half of the 12th/beginning of the 13th century; southwestern German region; f.147v (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

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    Old English words added in the margin in the ninth or tenth century: &quot;cniht ic drink&quot; Bodleian Library MS. Hatton 48; Rule of S Benedict; c.700 (?); Mercia (Worcester?) or (Canterbury?) SE England; f.42v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk@bsky.brid.gy

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    11th July is the feast of St Benedict. Here is an initial &#39;F&#39;(estina) depicting St. Benedict in prayer and the ladder of humility. BnF MS Latin 11700; Homiliarium Corbeiense, Vol III; 12th century (1179 CE); France (Corbie); f.49v @gallicabnf.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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    July is the time to be out with the sheep and your dog. #MedievalCalendar BL Add MS 38126; The &#39;Huth Hours&#39;; 15th century; f.8r @blmedieval.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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    Initial &#39;P&#39;(aulus) unveiled with a jolly dragon in its tail #ManuscriptMonday BnF MS Latin 17246; Petrus Lombardus, Collectanea in epistolas Pauli; 1160-1180; Paris; f.112r @gallicabnf.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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    Happy bats in the margin Bodl. Library MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk@bsky.brid.gy