Roger Pearse

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[Roger Pearse @roger_pearse]

@MgrSebastianus @ProfTCSchmidt Nobody knows what's out there, and the funding is miniscule.

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@ProfTCSchmidt @JosephBenJ2 Easier to understand when we know that manuscripts of Augustine's works are very numerous, and that around 500 sermons are known.

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A now lost copy of the two new sermons by St Augustine at Amelungsborn Abbey - looking for the inventory of 1412.

https://t.co/YpN8gaWsSX

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Two new sermons of Augustine discovered in 2024, to be published by the CSEL.

https://t.co/ZGEYQEuQz1

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Just what does Deepseek do to garbage Greek embedded in an scanned document?

https://t.co/A8j1TGNwT8

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The serpent column in Constantinople in the 16th century, before the heads at the top were broken off.

https://t.co/Ze6tRRPWoN

h/t @serkan_hizli and @baryaral1

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The original English translation of what might be the lost "De Baptismo" of Melito of Sardis.

https://t.co/0jeYQvNauG

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Looking up the Life of a Welsh Saint, St Melangell, whose feast day is today.

https://t.co/Sx2dCKvn6a

@Catherine1J

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The possible lost work of Melito preserved in Sahidic Coptic.

@AlinSuciu1

https://t.co/XAMzPnuhqz

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The Nile was much higher in the pyramid age, and had a large branch running along the base of the Giza plateau - two articles from 2022 and 2024.

https://t.co/TWOr5vONCn

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The Latin text of Eusebius of Emesa, Sermon 1.

https://t.co/3cQZHMGZH5

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Adventures in the homilies of Eusebius of Emesa; and diagnosing a very slow browser.

https://t.co/cFBfKNQQBk

[Roger Pearse @roger_pearse]

Three men named Eusebius, and their Latin sermons. History brought them together - can scholarship tell them apart? Eusebius of Emesa, Eusebius of Alexandria, and Eusebius Gallicanus.

https://t.co/L6GPPKmIBB

[Ἀλέξανδρος Αὐρανίτης Alexander Hourani @alexanderh78029]

🟦 The Register of Sylvester Patriarch of Antioch 1724-1766

I found this register among the manuscripts of the Missionary Society of Saint Paul in Harissa in September 2023 through the virtual Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (link: https://t.co/S3CarAntf4).

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A trip to a research library.

https://t.co/VQTgcOGKAf

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Photographs of the ruins of a submerged Roman fort in Felixstowe, Suffolk, and links to drone footage of the site!

https://t.co/dXeNjpkHga

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A file with an English translation of the 174 "Letters" of Procopius of Gaza now online. It's just a working tool using Google Translate, but it might help you find your way around the text if you need to work with it.

https://t.co/KrcmLPpPn7

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We know that Arabic translations of lost Greek texts have been found at Mashhad in the past.... but... where's that?

https://t.co/UETVuY6EC5

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This and that from my chair in front of the computer.

https://t.co/lWRhmjKSeF

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@SonOfGuire Very kind - thank you!