Great news to finish off the year! The Cambridge Companion to Matthew Paris volume - to which I was lucky to contribute a chapter - will be out on Jan 8! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Squeezed in one application before logging off 2025…

If you need some New Years reading, may I suggest the latest issue of Fragmentology? My article on in situ fragments in Beinecke incunabula is in excellent company alongside tasty reads by @pieterbeullens.bsky.social and @lisafdavis.bsky.social 😊🤩🎉 #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts

All the very best for 2026! 2025 has been an extremely intense year for me, in good and not so good ways. Plenty of things are coming my way in 2026, so I just wish for the strength and energy to be able to give it all my best.

📢 Calling all prospective PhD students: just 4 weeks left to apply to be part of one of our Inventing Futures project teams here in Durham with an Inventing Futures studentship! ⏳ Learn more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Looking for a bit of bookish distraction this Christmas break? Look no further! Warning: Features gorgeous manuscripts.

Don't steal pies this Christmas.

Whether Bibles & Books or Hours, Codicology, Church records or Early Modern books, we at the @imems.bsky.social got you covered! #medievalsky

Next semester is already looking quite busy with RA work, part time teaching and ploughing on with my book. But if you have transcription or archival (London/SE area) needs please do drop me a line. My rates are now on my webpage. #MedievalSky #EarlyModern joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...

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When I re-read my first draft... From Matthew Paris's Vie de Seint Auban (Dublin, TCD MS 177, 38r).

In vol. 7, no. 5, Paulina León (UC Berkeley), @sierramatute.bsky.social (Baruch C), and John Slater (Colorado State U) study and edit a pamphlet that parodies Don Quixote to intervene in the dispute surrounding the 1680 epidemic outbreak in El Puerto de Santa María. doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...

Last weekend I resumed blogging and have done another post today; I hope to maintain a weekly schedule. The two new posts concern illuminated leaves from the collections of Victor Goldschmidt and Count Stroganoff. mssprovenance.blogspot.com

Me: I hope 2026 is a bit less stressful than 2025. My 2026 deadlines: Sure Jan…

My latest non-work-related read… It’s not always manuscripts in this house ☺️ @whysharksmatter.bsky.social

The latest issue of @mediumaevum.bsky.social in my editorial hands and soon to be in yours. It ranges from Beowulf to Henry VIII, from Sicily to Scandinavia, and includes articles by the likes of @edolmans.bsky.social, plus a review of recent Silk Roads exhibitions by @peterfrankopan.bsky.social.

Today on my Substack ‘Old Strange Things’, a new free post that takes a deep dive into the current state of exorcism in the Church of England open.substack.com/pub/drfranci...

In good news today, our four Medieval Fragments sessions have been accepted!! #imc2026 So happy we’re back for a second year of fragmentary goodness. @imc-leeds.bsky.social

What is a Book of Hours? How to read a calendar? What is an Atlantic Bible? And a Paris Bible?... If you've ever wondered any of the above (who hasn't?) join my latest online course for @imems.bsky.social: 'Books of Devotion: Medieval Bibles & Books of Hours' imemsdurhamlearn.com/books-of-dev...

Join me in this online ‘at your own pace’ short course exploring Medieval Bibles and Books of Hours. Including: from the earliest Medieval Bibles to the Gutenberg Bible; how to read the calendar in a Book of Hours; iconographic cycles in the Hours… Now live!!🎉🎉 #medievalsky #booksofdevotion

So excited to see this one almost out there! 🎉🎉🎉

Excited to be presenting this at my alma mater, the Universidad de Sevilla @unisevilla.bsky.social. It’s also the first time in years I present anything manuscript-related in Spanish… 🤞🏻

What a great find! As a paleographer, I can't help but observe that if this were French I would have dated the not-yet-Gothic script to the mid-12th century. In Norway, the transition from Romanesque to Gothic happens later, hence the tentative 13th-c. date. www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...

The programme is out 📣 Heritage Science and Manuscripts from Antiquity and the Middle Ages! A two-day colloquium organised by the #CraftingDocuments project in partnership with the @cmtc-oxford.bsky.social (We are working on hosting it as a hybrid event. more soon) Registration info 👇🏼 #medievalsky

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MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

CFP: “Shaping the Word: the Form and Use of Biblical Manuscripts in the Early Medieval West” at Durham University in July 2026. We are interested in a wide range of papers exploring ways in which scriptural texts (produced roughly c. 500-1000) were presented and used.

Very excited to be contributing a chapter (titled ‘Collecting Culture: Árni Magnússon’s Latin Liturgical Manuscript Fragments’) to this volume!

🔈🔔 I’m very happy to announce the contract is signed for ‘Medieval Fragmentology: Provenance, Contexts and Interdisciplinarity’. This edited volume will bring together a great range of exciting research into MSS, textiles, architecture… I can’t wait to get started! @archumanities.bsky.social

The wonderful Björn Weiler on Matthew Paris ⬇️

Thank you for all that attended, in person & virtually. It was really enjoyable and I received much appreciated feedback 🎉

This evening!

On Tuesday!

Don’t miss out!

FRAGMENTS GALORE 👇

So pleased with all the paper proposals received for #medievalfragments #IMC2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social. If successful, these sessions will be 🔥🔥

Don't forget to register for my hybrid #Voynich lecture on Friday, Sept. 26, at 2:30 PM Eastern at the University of Toronto! After a year of work, Colin Layfield & I have important data- and material-results about the original structure of the manuscript! www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/lisa-...

Here's a treat for manuscript- and fragment-lovers everywhere: @manuelmunoz.bsky.social will speak at Senate House Library @ies-sas.bsky.social Tuesday, 30th September, 5:30pm on his research into fragments at Keio University. To attend in-person or online, register at ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Now that I'm back in the UK, a little announcement: I'll be speaking at the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar (Senate House Library) on Tues 30th. Expect fragments galore! The event is held in person & online! ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Made it!

23rd Colloquium of the Comité International de Paléographie Latine!

We start the pilgrimage to the Comité International de Paléographie Latine in Vienna with drama: delayed flight making me go beyond check-in at my accommodation & possibly the trains won’t be running… sigh

5 DAYS LEFT! Keep those abstracts coming!

ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT! #fragments #imc2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Unnoticed fragment from Jean de Joinville's Histoire de Saint Louis. According to the Jonas database @irht-cnrs.bsky.social (jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/consulter/oe...), there is only one extant medieval witness. More study needed! www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...

‘Medieval Fragments’ at the #IMC2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social is shaping up to be great. There’s still time to join! Open for expressions of interest until Sept 20th 💙 #fragments #medieval #medievalsky

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‘Medieval Fragments’ at the #IMC2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social is shaping up to be great. There’s still time to join! Open for expressions of interest until Sept 20th 💙 #fragments #medieval #medievalsky

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