Ott. Lat. 1746, or the time there was a cherub popping out from the C of C. Iulii Caesaris.

It's a wrap! What a wonderful conference and precious conversation I am bringing home. I am grateful to have been part of the panel on female letter writers and addressees in Graeco-Roman antiquity, organised by @janjasoldo.bsky.social and @gavinkellylatin.bsky.social I learnt so much!

Wonderful news!

This Friday in Edinburgh. Do come along if you are around and you have a thing for letter collections!

Professional news: Cover reveal! The official publication date with UC Press is September 23, 2025

Fighting initial 'A'(rma) at the beginning of Virgil's Aeneid BnF MS Latin 16236; Publius Vergilius Maro: Eglogae, Georgicae, Aeneis cum glossa; 11th century; France; f.61r @labnf.bsky.social

Wait... I know this author! @janjasoldo.bsky.social

More than 300 Codices Vossiani Latini now available in open access! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

@EdinburghUP informed me that my Sidonius: Letters Book 5, Part 1 is now available to pre-order in paperback! Claim 30% discount ordering from EUP using the code PAPER30.

Sometimes working with manuscripts gets us really, really close to the people from the past allowing us to hear their voices. This is a story of a letter from a schoolgirl to her teacher, written probably sometime at the end of the 9th or the beginning of the 10th century. A thread 🧵 #medievalsky /1

A lovely gift from @giuliamarolla.bsky.social!

I just read Andreas Abele's thoughtful and generous review of my book in the latest issue of Journal of Late Antiquity. You'll also find my review of Michele R. Salzman's The Falls of Rome in the same issue!

New publication for those who might be interested in the topic. madalinatoca.com/2024/12/10/a...

Home on the Peutinger map: Natiolum!

Impressive Tacitus in the recently digitised Ott. lat. 1422. Available here! digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott.l…

Gavin Kelly (Edinburgh), Reinterpreting Ammianus Marcellinus: a new translation and a new edition. At Warsaw Late Antique Seminar, this Thursday at 4.45 p.m. In person and online, as usual.

The hilarious graffiti in #MontyPython'sLifeofBrian are way better than THIS. Really, Ridley? (I did not watch #Gladiator2 and I suspect I never will).

Self-portrait of the German nun Guda, scribe and illuminator: "Guda peccatrix mulier scripsitque pinxit hunc librum." Frankfurt, Stadtund Universitätbibl. Ms. Barth. 42; 12th century; f.110v

29th September is the Feast of St Michael and All Angels. Here are the angelic orders of Seraphs, Cherubs, and Thrones. BL Royal MS 6 E IX; Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia; c1335 CE; Italy (Tuscany); f.6r

🚨🚨75% off @edinburghup.bsky.social ebooks to celebrate their 75th birthday! No excuse to download from a certain must-not-be-named-library 🏴‍☠️ this time... 👀 #EUP75

"Imago pictoris et illuminatoris huius operis"

📖🐛Bookworm goals: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek✔️

Congratulations to @laloursi.bsky.social on the appearance today in CQ of her article on Cicero’s Ad Quintum fratrem letter collection www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New issue of Mnemosyne Vol. 77, No. 5 (2024) brill.com/view/journal... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social