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31 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Turkish police seize priceless shiny 2000 year old Torah from the fabled ancient Jewish enclave of Yushittinmebro.
timesofisrael.com/police-in-turk…
The inverted menorah is of course typical of the rare surviving manuscripts from the Mutzuballovian rabbinical dynasty, centered for centuries in the Shtetl of Kneidlach.
Provenance is all important with ancient manuscripts like this - if you look very closely at the video, you can just make out the letters of the library stamp " אױ װײ " of that great scholar of Yushittenmebro, the Gaon of Shvindl.

jpost.com/judaism/2500-y… Image
Just had a call from the Distinguished Professor of Ancient Shiny Hebrew, Malachi Beit Arihaha: the library stamp is NOT the personal mark of the Gaon of Shvindl, it's the stamp of the rabbinic school he FOUNDED, the Huhdvink Yeshiva.

Happy to correct, I'm on Twitter to learn.

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A fragment from the Good Friday Liturgy from a sacramentary showing an expert late-stage development of Visigothic Minuscule, probably from northern Portugal, or just possibly Toledo, copied circa 1130-1170. 1/4 Image
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At first glance, a Chinese instruction manual of some kind.

But look closely: everything here - every single word without exception - is in English.

This is An Introduction to Square Word Calligraphy, a livre d'artiste by the acclaimed Chinese contemporary artist Xu Bing. 1/7
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22 Mar
THE GEOGRAPHY OF 15TH CENTURY PRINTING

Printing places of incunabula, showing the spread of printing in the 15th century. 271 locations are known, the largest of them are designated by name on the map. The data is based on the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue of @britishlibrary.
This map was developed by NordNordWest, and is available via Wikimedia Commons here:
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This map shows the spread of movable type printing in 15th century Europe. Books were of course printed - by woodblock and/or movable type - in China, Korea, Tibet, Mongolia and Japan well before this.
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"Communication Measures to Bridge Ten Millennia" - a 1984 report by the semiotician Thomas Sebeok for the US Human Interference Task Force on the problem of marking radioactive waste sites, some of which will be dangerous for more than 100 000 years. 1/8
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20 Mar
Pádraic Pearse's An Mháthair agus sgéalta eile [The Mother and Other Stories], Dundalgan Press, Dun Dealgan [Dundalk], 1916.

Patrick Pearse, the editor of “An Claidheamh Soluis”, and later a revolutionary leader in the Easter Rising, wrote poetry, short stories and plays. 1/6
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THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN ARABIC

The first book printed in movable type in Arabic is a Book of Hours called Kitab Salat al-Sawaiwh, printed in Fano (or Venice) between 1514 & 1517 by Gregorio de Gregorii and probably intended for use by the Melkite community in Syria or Lebanon.
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dpul.princeton.edu/early-arabic-b…
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