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#FensterFreitag #stpetersbasilica #vatican #photography #Rome #Italy #TravelItaly #travelphotography

Color photo taken inside St Peter’s Basilica in Rome looking up at the interior of the ornately decorated dome. Beams of sunlight are coming into and crossing the dome from two of the windows near its base. At the bottom of the photo is the top part of St. Peter’s Altar with its baroque bronze canopy.

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#Vatican #blasts #genderaffirming #surgery, #surrogacy and #gender #theory as #violations of #humandignity.

The #Pope #signedoff on the #publication

— So much for them reforming their hateful views.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Spirituality #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews

https://apnews.com/article/vatican-gender-surrogacy-abortion-pope-3f84d8eb97f045b0cfb0ec1efa4e614e

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"'Back to the Future' movie actors Thomas F Wilson, who played the bully Biff Tannen, and Michael J Fox, who played Marty McFly, have a heartfelt reunion at Caesars Palace Las Vegas Hotel and Casino"

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"#Zelensky and #Trump hold 'very productive' talks at #Vatican"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8gpdj704mo

Zelensky and Trump sitting close to each other on two makeshift chairs in a Vatican hall

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Uninvolved in the conclave, the #Vatican libraries digitized 58 #manuscripts
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week19.html
Including a counterfeit 14th C Dante, a ton of 19th C music, more Sistine Diaries, occult tests, travel guides, glossed classics, Persian poetry and more!
@bookstodon @medievodon #Medieval #Medievodons

f.2v from Vat.lat.10272, a counterfeit 14th C manuscript of Dante. It contains a single column of 15th C style "humanist" script, with red letters to start important parts of the narrative. This page comes from the 3rd canto, and starts at the top "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate"

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Page 4, f.2v, from Capp.Sist.215.pt.28, a manuscript of liturgical music from 1721. There are 6 staves of music, most with lyrics below them. Three are in plainchant neumes, the rest are in 18th C white-note notation

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72d

The Catholic Church has a new Pope, and he explicitly cited the threats AI presents for workers as a reason for choosing the name Leo XIV.

With the tech industry doing all it can to defend its power, could the Pope be an ally against the AI onslaught?

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/will-pope-leo-xiv-be-an-ally-against

#tech #pope #popeleo #ai #artificialintelligence #catholicchurch #vatican

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63d

Only 11 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week

https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week21.html

The bulk are from the archives of the Cappella Pontificia. Withs one more Diary and a 16th C Russian Evangilary completing the week's work
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons

f.3v from Capp.Sist.670, a page of italian style script from 1537

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A page of 16th C liturgical Russian from P.I.O.slav.48, f.1v. There is a large title band in red, with several lines of rubric below it. There are two columns of black acrostic filling the majority of the page

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49d

67 #Manuscripts digitized by the #Vatican last week
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week23.html
Mostly Sistine Choir, including music, regulations, and more diaries. In addition three Persian works, one more Ge'ez, 2 vol. letters of Urban VIII, Alain de Lille, and a bit more
#Medieval #Medievodons @medievodons @bookhistodons

a page of music from f.1v of Capp.Sist.247. The word "Credo" is written at the top left of the page, the rest of which is covered by staves of music with lyrics below

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a 15th C table of contents from Barb.lat.503. There are two columns of late gothic text, where each section begins with a pilcrow, alternating red and blue. On the right of each columns are chapter numbers in red roman numerals

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20d

only 34 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week27.html
including a ton of musical volumes, more about Barberini popes, a printed missal, an arabic christian medical miscellany and more!
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons

f.1r from Urb.lat.109. It is two columns of printed gothic text, with many of the lines in red, with italian borders on top, bottom and right. There are large illuminated capitols in both columns, and an empty rondel at bottom for a coat of arms. The library has put their ownership stamp in the middle of this rondel

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38 #Manuscripts digitized from the #Vatican this week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week24.html
Mostly in the Cappella Pontificia archives (music!) and the diaries of the puntatore (now >75%). Otherwise a 18th C Megillat Esther, a Glagolitic breviary, printed, Persian poetry, and more
@bookhistodons @medievodons #Medieval #Medievodons

A section of Vat.ebr.533. An architectural border, with columns and friezes at the bottom, contains 5 arcaded sections of hebrew text in a small square italian hand. There are floral elements above

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f.3r from Borg.il.19. A page of a liturgical calendar from a breviary printed in glagolitic. There are columns at the left for calculating Easter, and the saints and feasts are in red and black on the right

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Only 4 #Manuscripts this week from the #Vatican https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week28.html Contains: stuff about 16th C Ecclesiastical Hungary, the case for canonization of Philip Benizi, a musical setting of Psalm 149, and a 1705 dissertation on the Column of Antonius Pius.
#Medieval #Medievodons @medievodons @bookhistodons

A page of music in dark brown ink from f.2v of Capp.Sist.357. There are no lyrics, but 18th C musical notation covering the entire page

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f.8v from Barb.lat.2066, a page of pretty but impossible to read 16th C cursive in a single column

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34d

Only a bare 13 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week25.html
Includes a few more late musical volumes from the Sistine, some papal briefs, a musical about St. Boniface written by pope Clement IX, and more
@medievodons @bookhistodons #Medieval #Medievodons

A page of text from a sermon from Vat.lat.11446, f.47r. It has a single column of black text in a strange hybrid hand, and a large red L to start the second paragraph

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A page of plainchant music from Capp.Sist.440, f.4v. It has five staves of square notes on red staff lines, with a block of roman text in the middle, in red and black. There are Respond symbols on the right

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49 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week26.html
Including a ton more from the Cappella Sistina, both archival and diaries, a vol of 10th C sermons, Ausonius (including the wedding cento!), a map of the roman forum and more
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons

A decorated page from a Missa, Chig.B.VII.210 f.12v. There is a rotunda gothic hand for two columns with red rubrications within the text and several, illuminated initials. There is a narrow border on the left with several birds and acrobats, and a interlace at hte bottom

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A page of 17th C Italian cursive in a single column of brown ink. There are several corrections in the text and a small marginal note at the bottom left. From Barb.lat.2670 f.12r

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