Great question! What would you add? 🧵

Only 18 #Manuscripts digitized by the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Inc. more 17th C papal stuff, an operetta about the death of Petrarch, some classic oratory, Plato, and more #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Well, episode 7 of 8 had no disease or natural disaster, just cultural conflict. I note that the warning label for the series says "fear, language, gore, smoking, mild themes." Season finale coming up...

🧵, as they say. Ithaca makes an appearance at the end, or maybe doesn't.

Beautiful initial 'I'(n esaia) Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 126(218); Hieronimus, Expositio in Evangelium Matthaei; first third of the 9th century; Disentis Abbey; p.6 (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

EPACT, Bee, dammit. How does it know so many weird chemical terms and not basic computus?

"This Element...argues that many Jewish and Christian texts conventionally labeled 'apologetic' are better understood through a bibliographic and archival lens: They produce authority...by organizing books, constructing corpora, mobilizing archives, and regulating interpretation." Open access!

Ovid clearly also needs a second breakfast... 1522 Italian edition of ALL his works... @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case Y 672 .O9647) i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

Reading minutes from meetings of the Society of Antiquaries in the 1720s and 1730s and so much of it is "hey guys, I found a cool rock!" "Would you look at this weird coin?" or "My cousin told me about a dead body he saw one time." We need to bring back adult show and tell. I'm serious about this.

PSA for those in extremely leafy, extremely upper NW: I tried Opal in Chevy Chase DC for the first time and had an extraordinarily good meal. Service was outstanding. The vibe was calm. I will definitely be back early and often!

Just one guy, off in the corner, muttering “ChLA has 10x the number of sources but nobody likes charters”

Have you ever wanted to know how much of the CLA corpus is comprised of Insular manuscripts? I bet you did. It is a hwopping 19%. 19. Percent. Now you too can tell your friends and family this fun fact! You're welcome!

This seems like good news! Here's a gifted link: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/s...

Here's a direct link to the newly digitized collection: archives.dc.gov/collections/...

Scriptorium Vol. 78, Nos. 1-2 (2024) www.brepolsonline.net/content/jour... @brepols.net @pieterbeullens.bsky.social

Lady Cockburn's three sons never forgave their mother for this painting. They also took the parrot when they left home. Painted by Joshua Reynolds, whose day is today, in 1773.

In one of my recent sleepless musings, it occurred to me that it would be a good idea to type up brief explanations of why I got certain books and slip them into those books for benefit of my nieces and nephew. I have so many things whose rationale is explicable...

This looks like a strange place to rest on a very hot day, but Dolly has discovered that the air conditioning vent in the study is directly above this spot.

TIL the relationship btw Upholders and upholstery. (Just take my HEL card now.) Despite the description at the link, I was having trouble picturing what this project was. A PDF on the Upholders' website upholders.co.uk has a couple of really cool closeups of the St. Paul's panel. #medievalsky

I beg your finest pardon?

I'm going to watch another Little House episode. Let's see what everybody is dying of this week.

Speaking of which, go here www.colinwinterbottom.com/GalleryMain.... and scroll down to see Colin Winterbottom's amazing photos of birds and gargoyles at WNC.

Speaking, listening: Mennonite preacher Cornelis Anslo and his wife, 1641, by Rembrandt. One of great portraits of all time. Brilliant.

A new fundraising tactic from WNC: send emails from a gargoyle rather than the dean. ⚓

"HARC is part of a consortium of four sites working to collect and preserve religious archives; it joins the Women Religious Archives Collaborative in Cleveland...and archives at Boston College and Santa Clara University." www.globalsistersreport.org/congregation... #nuntastic

2/2 And a dog. Because there's always a dog. Drawn by Rembrandt.

In which I continue my rant. I love the look of the stoops, but a house this inaccessible means you can't even have guests over who can't do stairs. That's unavoidable in a lot of earlier architecture, but in 21st-century-built houses it's hostile design.

Oh, this is lovely. I've never been to see this memorial. I have *vivid* memories of Birthe from the digs at St. Albans and Repton!

📣 #CallforContributions #medievalsky #OldEnglish 📜 Dynamics of Old English Scholarship in the Long Nineteenth Century: Discoveries, Disputes and the Development of a Discipline ✍️ Editors: Rachel A. Fletcher, Ellen Gallimore & Thijs Porck ⏰ Abstracts due: 1 Sept 2026 📆 Drafts due: end of Sept 2027

These are shaping up to be quite handsome, and it turns out they are single-family townhouses (not stacked units). Between the very pretty setting, the bus stop directly outside, and a lot of space for the money by DC standards, they'd be an attractive option for many. However +

Gotta love a boat that comes with its own marginal grotesques

My niece's marriage into a very different culture continues to remind me how impoverished my family is in traditions, not to mention numbers of relatives. But in a good way! I'm excited to be learning & even more excited by the chocolate- and gold-dusted almonds that arrived at my mom's house today.

I’m curious to know people’s opinions on the hottest early printers. Henri II Estienne? Printing dynasties were glued together by sex and marriage. This is relevant to bibliography!!!!!

The Admonitio Generalis fragment went for a whopping £130,500 higher than the estimated high price. I.... wow.

Wau! 🧵👆👇

Last year for St. Bonaventure's day we looked at varieties of Gothic script. Scroll through the whole thread to learn about Cursiva vs. Hybrida. 👇 #paleography #medievalsky

Aldus Manutius certainly knew how to lay out a page. From his 1503 edition of Cardinal Bessarion’s ‘In Calumniatorem Platonis’, which reconciled Platonism with Christianity. Part of the library of John Moore (Bishop of Ely), given to @theulspeccoll.bsky.social by George I in 1715. Sel.3.150. #venice

Now *that* sounds like a historical novel we need.

I went to the Freer today to see the recently opened A Museum in the Making exhibit, from which the ceramics I posted below came. Worth it! Look at this frame by Stanford White! 🧵 asia.si.edu/whats-on/exh...

Google Maps today gives no indication that 4th, 7th, the surface routes of 12th, and the whole length of Madison and Jefferson Drives are completely closed to traffic. Apple Maps (not shown) has 4th and 7th marked closed, but not the rest.

TIL that Mary Chase Perry Stratton's work at Pewabic Pottery was influenced by ceramics from Syria collected by Freer.

This looks amazing!

Whytf are all the cross-Mall streets still blocked off?

Colourful Canon Tables Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 34; The Four Gospels in Armenian; 1606 CE; Stampoul (Istanbul), Church of Saint Nikoghayos; ff.7v-8r, 9v-10r (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

Today's artist without a (known) birthday: the extraordinary portraitist Hans Holbein. Here portraying himself, in miniature, at age 45.

Show me a comic page you love; no explanation needed.

I knew HotD closed captions would not disappoint.

Well, my sister is also a Latin teacher, but since she teaches middle school I would suck at it. I fact, the reason I have so many advanced degrees is that I *did* suck at it in 1987-88 and ran away to grad school so I could come back and teach older people.

For the academics in the Narthex, Virginia Theological Seminary is hiring faculty in NT, Church History, and Theology. May involve teaching at General Seminary as well. See listings here. episcopalnewsservice.org/jobs/ 🕯️📕⚓️

I'm hashtag-stalking the #eshs-hss conference in Edinburgh because my niece is giving a paper there and boy, that looks like a great conference! I would not have thought history of science was my jam, but I'm seeing so many topics I'd like to hear about.