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

And we’re back! Our highly-rated Latin Palaeography and Early Modern English Palaeography courses are back with a twist: this time they’ll run across 6 week instead of 2, giving you more time to really dig into the content and your practice at your own pace. Apply now! Www.imemsdurhamlearn.com

A whole host of wonderful queer bibliographers (too many to mention here) have produced an LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography, under the aegis of SHARP. 650 items compiled by 17 collaborators. Enjoy! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

One argument comes up repeatedly is that we can't judge old movies by modern standards and people weren't as likely to be offended back in the day. To which I reply: CASTLES FOR TWO (1917)

Still open!

4 days til my birthday and I feel like I’m at my worst but also my best. It’s a strange feeling…

For my next course at @imems.bsky.social I’m exploring medieval Bibles and Books of Hours… some illuminated gorgeousness never hurt nobody…

Don’t be shy!

No rest for the wicked! We’re now reciving expressions of interest @imems.bsky.social for our session(s) at @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2026 on MEDIEVAL FRAGMENTS. Have a look at our CfP, and do get in touch with any proposals or questions. Also, please share if you can!

Day 3 at Rare Book School: Speed Dating! You're lost in a fragmentological wilderness with nothing but a pencil, magnifying glass, notebook, and your wits. You have twenty minutes per fragment to determine genre, approx. date and place of origin, and material evidence of later use. Go!

No rest for the wicked! We’re now reciving expressions of interest @imems.bsky.social for our session(s) at @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2026 on MEDIEVAL FRAGMENTS. Have a look at our CfP, and do get in touch with any proposals or questions. Also, please share if you can!

My brother has composed a gorgeous piano suite based on poems by Canarian poet Alonso Quesada. Give it a listen, you won’t regret it! open.spotify.com/album/3TSMoo...

My brother has composed a gorgeous piano suite based on poems by Canarian poet Alonso Quesada. Give it a listen, you won’t regret it! open.spotify.com/album/3TSMoo...

In the space of about 2 months I’ve been to/spoken-moderated at 3 conferences (US, Spain and UK), taught 2 courses, attended 2 weddings (+ made my outfits for them), filmed and premiered a new course, fixed admin stuff in Manchester and visited friends in Spain. I think I’ve earned this exhaustion

I spend a lot of time looking at & teaching about parchment recycled in the early modern era, not just in bookbindings but any place where a piece of durable parchment might be of use, like this clothing pattern cut from a saga manuscript (Magnússon Institute 122 b fol.): handrit.is/manuscript/v...

Also… I’ve partaken in a British tradition today… Flying ant day😂

After a very fruitful #imc2025 it’s time to go home! I had a great time with our #medievalfragments sessions @imems.bsky.social so you might see a certain call for papers for 2026… #fragmentastic @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Thank you for your fantastic paper! What an amazing, estimulating day!

Come on over ! #imc2025

Good luck to @manuelmunoz.bsky.social, our IMEMS Lecturer in Latin Palaeography of the European Middle Ages, who is presenting in sessions at #LeedsIMC throughout the day!

Hello Leeds! #imc2025

Any of you lovely people going to @imc-leeds.bsky.social #imc2025 next week? Please say hi!

Dragon slowly climbing up the margin BnF MS Latin 14267 ; Petrus Lombardus , in epistolis s. Pauli ; 12th century; Abbaye de Saint-Victor de Paris; f.150v @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Now the calligraphy workshop is done, it’s full steam ahead to add the finishing touches to our upcoming ‘Medieval Fragments’ 4 sessions at @imc-leeds.bsky.social !! The sessions, sponsored by @imems.bsky.social, will take place on Weds 9 (numbers 1021, 1121, 1221 & 1321 at Newlyn LG.01). Do come!

A fantastic time was had at our calligraphy workshop (led by Claudia Sánchez, Universidad de Salamanca). It definitely is a different way of looking at script! @imems.bsky.social