There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends. It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

There are 6 spaces remaining for a fascinating looking workshop on Arabic calligraphy on 24 March at KCL. 'Get ready to dive into the world of creativity by learning the expressive capacities of Arabic letters with Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani.' (from the booking site) libcal.kcl.ac.uk/event/4503803

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Incunable covered in a spectacular leaf from a late Spanish MS, possibly a chronicle (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, 8° Inc 2775.20) resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB000144080...

Very pleased to receive author’s copies of Offa, King of the Mercians from @yalebooks.bsky.social today. Looking superb, and an excellent publishing experience!

You can see me there looking intently at all your applications! Join us and learn Latin or Early Modern English Palaeography. There will be many manuscripts, many videos, and many live sessions. Book now! #medievalsky #palaeography #manuscripts #online #course

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Bursaries for London Rare Book School courses including this one are available thanks to @bibsoc.bsky.social! 📖

The amazing Michelle Brown is running her summer school course on Medieval Women at #LRBS this year. In person, in London, book now 👇 #MedievalSky #BookSky #BookHistory ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

It's the @[email protected] pipeline! Learn how to identify and catalogue fragments in your collection by taking a class at Rare Book School and then join the Digital Scriptorium consortium to make them discoverable! rarebookschool.org/impact-story...

One of Those Days™️. Currently screaming in job market…

The hand is not exceptional, but have a look at the layout of this glossed Bible. Some early-modern binder must have liked it, too! (Paderborn, Universitätsbibliothek, Th 45a) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:h...

Imagine your documents were marked up for editing with this guy. Terrifying! MS.B.2.25 mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B... #marginaliamonday #medievalsky

Girls don’t want flowers for Valentine’s Day. They want you to book them a shark research experience that raises money for science outreach! I can help. Let’s chat.

Discover 17th-century codes with our new online course, 'Working with Early Modern Letters'! 🤫✒️ tinyurl.com/5d9r8rcp ✔️A week's worth of content for just £100 ✔️Optional Q&A sessions with an expert ✔️Learn at your own pace Pictured: John Pell's 17th-century equivalent of an Enigma machine.

🎺 We're opening applications for the last term of our biweekly seminar series!!! 🎺 Submit your abstract/proposal of no more than 250 words to our email, [email protected], by Sunday 15th March. Check the post for further details! We can't wait to have you join us next term!

Back at work after c.3 weeks medical leave and let me just say, this is rough. The whole having to reset the authentication app to work and the crushing weight of my inbox are not helping…

My wonderfully talented brother has published another one of his beautiful compositions. Do give it a listen, it’s gorgeous. open.spotify.com/album/7Hpbcj...

Yay! Isn’t it lovely?

The graft goes in there!

- Manuel Muñoz Garcia, ‘Matthew Paris as Scribe: Idiosyncrasy and Collaboration’, The Cambridge Companion to Matthew Paris (Cambridge University Press). Read here: 👉 www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Happy publication day to the Cambridge Companion to Matthew Paris, a great collection of scholarship from wonderful colleagues. It also includes my humble contribution on Paris’s hand. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c... @imems.bsky.social @komldsp.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

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...

Calling all scholars working in Turkey on Byzantine, Armenian, Georgian, and Syriac Studies! Apply now for a virtual, four-session program focused on professional development.

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

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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.