Ancestors

Written by Anna Dorofeeva on 2025-01-24 at 22:31

Huge news: the Codices Vossiani Latini, for years behind a €8000-a-year paywall, have just been made open access. This is a huge collection of 300 #medieval #manuscripts, many of them from the earliest years of the Middle Ages.

https://www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01/more-than-300-medieval-manuscripts-from-the-bibliotheca-vossiana-now-available-in-open-access

@medievodons #palaeography

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Written by Halla Rempt on 2025-01-25 at 20:20

@litteracarolina @medievodons Be that as it may, FUCK BRILL. They are evil profiteers, and have been since I was a student in the late eighties, early nineties.

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Toot

Written by Halla Rempt on 2025-01-25 at 20:26

@litteracarolina @medievodons I studied a lot of what's called "small languages" these days like Chinese, Classical Chinese, Tibetan, Classical Tibetan, Pali, Sanskrit, Tocharian, Nepali, pretty much all IE languages and many more -- and at every turn, I encountered Brill and a book I could not buy and study.

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Descendants