Dr. Lea Luecking Frost

special collections librarian and digitizer of manuscripts on microfilm at Saint Louis University/Vatican Film Library; opinions my own

[Dr. Lea Luecking Frost @frostillicus3]

you can see my hair in this! (I'm the blonde one)

[Dr. Lea Luecking Frost @frostillicus3]

His library is now part of the Vatican libraries! The Urbinati manuscript fonds are made up of books that belonged to him and his successors. They're also very easy to identify bc of his house style (even older acquisitions tended to get a new title page and extra decoration)

[Stephanie J. Lahey, PhD 🇨🇦 @SJLahey]

#TIH #OTD 10 Sep 1482: Death of Federico da Montefeltro (b. 1422 Jun 07), lord of Urbino. He commissioned the construction of a great library, then perhaps the largest in Italy after the Vatican, with his own team of #scribes producing #manuscripts in his personal scriptorium.

[Dr. Lea Luecking Frost @frostillicus3]

Have a little Petrarch on your lunch break (or coffee break or elevensies), from BAV Vat. lat. 4524, f. 1r (sorry, @lisafdavis)

[Emily Steiner @PiersatPenn]

Reading Ovid in Italy c.1000

[Dr. Lea Luecking Frost @frostillicus3]

Here's a lovely and unstamped initial from the same manuscript (BAV Vat. lat. 4518, Italy, s. xiv)

[Dr. Lea Luecking Frost @frostillicus3]

one thing that frequently happens a lot in my job is that I find myself wondering about the choices of librarians generations before me and one of those choices is putting a stamp in this location

[Renáta Modráková @renatamodrakova]

🍄The German mushroom atlas from 1795 contains 44 colored engravings of interesting mushrooms.
National Library CZ 16 FF 8
Jacob Boltons Geschichte der merkwürdigsten Pilze. Berlin: Buchhandlung des Geheimen Commerzien-Raths Pauli, 1795
https://t.co/D09Xi5jjZ1

[Dr. Lea Luecking Frost @frostillicus3]

@tlecaque You could also stop by St. Louis on the way and visit the Central Jesuit archives!

[Dr. Lea Luecking Frost @frostillicus3]

amazing

[John D. Hosler @medievalist1]

@LeonieVHicks Have you seen C. Warren Hollister's song about the Avignon Papacy, set to the tune of "Old MacDonald?" He used to sing it to undergrads at UC-Santa Barbara.

[Ennius @red_loeb]

The roar of the green dragon!

BL Add 16577; Festival prayer book, Italian rite; 3rd quarter of the 15th century; Italy; f.44v @BL_HebrewMSS

[Dr. Lea Luecking Frost @frostillicus3]

The inscription says "retro Satane" (an atypical declension) but I like to think it's actually Titivillus

[Dr. Lea Luecking Frost @frostillicus3]

cute little demon from a page full of pen trials, along with some formulae to exorcise him (Porto, Biblioteca Publica Municipal MS 46, s. xiv med)

[Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) 📖🔍 @universalstc]

WE’VE HIT 1 MILLION!
With the upload of our latest USTC extension, we have officially passed the 1 million editions mark. You can read all about how France helped us reach this milestone here: https://t.co/WQbUjtv7kZ

[Ennius @red_loeb]

What a work of art!

BL Harley 5698; Maimonides, Lisbon Mishneh Torah, volume 1; 1472 CE; Portugal (Lisbon); ff.11v-12r @BLAsia_Africa @BL_HebrewMSS
https://t.co/9Lf7BKeLzu

[Dr. Lea Luecking Frost @frostillicus3]

prepping paleography refs for grad students and lost in the Derolez taxonomy, tearing my hair and raging at the heavens: "IS THIS SCRIPT QUADRATA ENOUGH"

[Dr. Lea Luecking Frost @frostillicus3]

@DrFrancisYoung You can travel there on the Elizabeth line

[Dr. Lea Luecking Frost @frostillicus3]

It always makes me happy when I'm digitizing a manuscript (on microfilm, in this case BAV Vat. lat. 4951, fol. 210r) and it turns out someone drew a little guy in it

[Dr. Lea Luecking Frost @frostillicus3]

(It was amazing)

[Dr. Lea Luecking Frost @frostillicus3]

Ralph Williams at @UMich was my undergrad adviser and an absolutely brilliant, compelling lecturer. Not sure he's very well-known outside of UM but an amazing stage presence and a great teacher

[Tom Cook @TomCook24]

Who is the best lecturer you’ve ever seen/heard?

[Dr. Lea Luecking Frost @frostillicus3]

Performed a rendition (to a 12-person seminar) of Doctor Faustus' final soliloquy that made me wonder what anyone who happened to be outside the door must have been thinking