Families Join us for an Open Day: Words on the Wave – Ireland & St. Gallen exhibition 🗓️ Sat 4 Oct | 11.00–16.00 📍 NMI, Kildare St Talks: Maeve Sikora (11:30), Dr Ó Riain (12:30), Prof Ó Cróinín (14:30) Take part in free Workshops & handle replica artefacts 🎟️ Free admission museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

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Treading grapes is thirsty work in October. #MedievalCalendar Bodleian Library MS. Add. A. 46; Calendar from a Psalter; 13th century, third quarter: f.5v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

It's Michaelmas, so it's also the anniversary of the battle of Auray (1364), which marked the beginning of the end of the Breton War of Succession begun 23 years earlier. And you know what? Let's mark it with a 🚨BOOK GIVEAWAY🚨 this time! (Charles de Blois has never had a stranger memorial...)

Yom Kippur begins at sunset on 1st October. Here is the Initial-word panel at the beginning of Kol Nidrei. #YomKippur Bodleian Library MS. Michael 619; Maḥzor for the High Holidays; Western Ashkenazi rite (Tripartite Maḥzor, volume 3); 1320-1330 CE; f.100v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Ann Wilson is my mortgage broker, asking “how do I get you a loan?”

#AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems on BBC Radio 4 next week! Tune in from Monday!

It's nearly the Autumnal Equinox. The year continues to turn. Here's Stonehenge as depicted in the 16th century. #AutumnEquinox BL Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r

Yesterday was our first Manuscript Studies Interest Group of the year! 10 astronomical manuscripts from Penn's collection and a dozen attendees. We made volvelles using a plan from @marshslibrary.bsky.social. No photos of the event, but here's a link to a booklist: drive.google.com/file/d/1wzDx...

Call for applications: Endangered Archives Programme eap.bl.uk/applicants

Good night all! BnF MS Latin 1141; Sacramentary of Charles the Bald; 869-870 CE; Palace School of Charles the Bald; f.6v @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Wonderful use of micrography around the initial-word of Bereshit (בְּרֵאשִׁית), with dragons and birds Bodleian Library MS. Canonici Or. 137; Torah with Targum Onḳelos and Hafṭarot; 1275 CE- 1325 CE; f.1v

This always cheers me up! I planted it (shock, horror!) 40 years ago and it’s been travelling with me from house to house.

Ann Wilson is my mortgage broker, asking “how do I get you a loan?”

Medieval parents trying to make their kid get up and go to school on the first day back after the summer holiday.

Isaiah depicted within the initial 'V'(isio) BL Harley MS 2803; the 'Worms Bible', vol 1; 12th century; Germany; f.176r

No. 4! Pick no. 4!

New Wyclif polemic discovered! Only 250 words long, but not obviously detached from a larger work. It isn’t ascribed to him in the manuscript (no titulus or colophon) but the style is recognizably his. I’m posting it here because the content is eerily topical. #medievalLatin #medievalSky #genAI

Found ANOTHER interleaved Hebrew Bible with wide margins for annotations (the facing page was blank, now filled with notes in the same hand as the margin). Going on the list for the LitHum Hebrew Bible session! 📜📚

This morning we're tittering at your replies to Alison and her necromancer's journal. Yep, this is a spell book, which you can see more of on Digital Bodleian and soon on our social channels: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/3d22...

Have you seen this Voynich boardgame, @lisafdavis.bsky.social? Looks fun! And what do we think abt the way that their poll is tipping? gamefound.com/en/projects/...

A hybrid book of hours, containing mostly printed pages, with a small section of manuscript and some lovely hand-illuminated initials, plus a striking full-page colored metalcut of the martyrdom of Saint John. Printed in France in 1507 (Penn Ms. Codex 1531) #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/4lCfgjn

it's time for the most fiendish literary quiz of the year. "Who said it - John Wycliffe or Wyclef Jean"

This is the feast of Radegund, d. 587, to whom I have a particular devotion. 🕯️ Five years ago I made a note that there was a pretty good digitization of the illustrated copy of Fortunatus's Life of Radegund in Poitiers, BM, MS 250. Good news: the digitized MS is back and even better! 🧵

Today is the feast of St. Lawrence, who was grilled to death this day in 258. His martyrdom is depicted inside a D in the texts for his feast on fol. 89r of the Drogo Sacramentary, BNF lat. 9428, which was made ca. 845-855 for Drogo, Bp. of Metz. #medievalsky

If you're in Dublin between now and late October, don't miss the Words on the Wave exhibition at the National Museum on Kildare St. Some of our most important medieval Irish manuscripts are on loan from the Abbey of St Gallen & are back in Ireland for the first time in c. 1200 years. #MedievalSky

Initial 'E'(t) depicting Jonah emerging from the jaws of the whale, and the city of Nineveh in the distance Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal Ms-590 réserve; Biblia latina; 14th century (about 1300); Paris; f.389v @gallicabnf.bsky.social

I found an original copy of the 1642 will of Thomas Nash (Shakespeare's grandson-in-law) at The National Archives yesterday.* Yes, I'm biased, but archives are incredibly cool. *Actually found, the item has no description on the catalogue, which is why I was looking through the box.

'The Animals' reformed BL Lansdowne MS 420; Psalter; 1220s; London; f.12v

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It's a two-blog-post-day! This one is "A Franken-Book-of-Hours: From Physical to Digital and Back Again," which I presented at Leeds in a session in memory of Johanna Green <3 Find out all about the weird book of hours I've been making since 2022! www.dotporterdigital.org/a-franken-bo...

Today we’ve turned a new illuminated page in the Irish Gospels of St Gall (Cod. Sang. 51). Explore the beauty of cross-carpets and Chi-Rhos in our latest blog, then see them in person at Words on the Wave 📍 National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street 🔗 www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

The fish appear oblivious to the Ascension of Elijah 🐟🐟🐟 BL Royal MS 1 C VII; The Rochester Bible; 12th century; England; f.154v

Some very worthwhile takes here. (And not just because so many are Talmudic ;) )

Today is the feast of St. Kenelm, d. 821. A short Middle English Life of Kenelm from the South English Legendary appears in the late-14th-c. Vernon Manuscript, Bodleian Library MS. Eng. poet. a. 1.

I'm so thrilled to have this published! Starting from a chat over lunch at @girtoncollege.bsky.social, James Wade & I chipped away at this & have made some fascinating discoveries. The actual article should be published later today. In the meantime, more here: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/song...

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Stunned and delighted in equal measure to have been awarded the 2025 Benson Medal by the @rsliterature.bsky.social and made an Honorary Fellow. A profound thank you to those who nominated me for this amazing honour!

This is an exceptionally beautiful Uncial.

I haven't read the piece (but I will! I have the book) but my immediate response is: if digital copies *can* stand in the place of the real thing, and if they *are* "good enough" to return, then it should be no issue for the originals to be sent back and the copies to stay.

Cataloguing fragments in @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social is living my best life. 45 mins. Discuss.

"Concentrate on what you are doing!" BnF MS Latin 14266; Petrus Lombardus , in epistolis s. Pauli ; 12th century; Abbaye de Saint-Victor de Paris; f.95r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

"Hexameter poem recounting the miracle of this book which was recovered nearly undamaged after it had been immersed in a Scottish stream for several hours." Bodleian Library MS. Lat. liturg. f. 5; St. Margaret's Gospels; 11th c; England; f.2r digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/1f23...

Cataloguing fragments in @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social is living my best life. 45 mins. Discuss.

What an absolute stunner of a volume! Written Treasures: 50 Manuscripts from Medieval Europe, ed. André Bouwman & Irene O’Daly. 300+ pp. w/ numerous illustrations and 50(!) full-page/double-spread colour plates. So honoured to have contributed to this alongside dozens of international colleagues! 🤗

I think they...laminated this book? 😱 Sefer Tsurat ha-Arets (on astronomy, etc.), Offenbach, 1720 QB41.A28

A huge shipment of my books on ogam inscriptions & Cisalpine Celtic has just come in, incl. the Spanish translation of my ogam book! (Plus books on Gaulish & Celtiberian.) My books will be on sale in the Maynooth bookshop (shop.universitybooks.ie/Books/Ogam-L...), the @nmireland.bsky.social shop...

The LEIGHEAS project Medical Manuscript of the Month for June 2025 is London, British Library MS Add. 15582, completed in Co. Mayo, Ireland in 1563 & then brought to Scotland. It contains texts on regimen, cautery & this image of a ‘Phlebotomy Man’: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

📢 #jobopportunity #medievalsky 📜 Lecturer in Old English ⏳5 years, full-time (anticipated duration to 30 June 2030) 🏫 University College Cork ⏰12 noon (Irish Local Time) on Tuesday, 8th July 2025 📲 Details of the post, selection criteria and application process: www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...