Up next: manuscriptevidence.org//wpme/2025-r... "Break-Up Books and Make-Up Books", 21-23 November (hybrid at Princeton and online). Experts, students, collectors, lovers of books look at fragments. Join us!

#childrensbooks #histoyofreading

#historyofliteracy #papersinpaintings

Happening this Friday!

Next Week: We invite you all to the RGME 2025 Autumn Symposium, "Readers, Fakers, and Re-Creators of Books: From Page to Marketplace and Beyond". This event will be held online October 17-19; more details and registration found on the website: manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-rg...

Next Week: We invite you all to the RGME 2025 Autumn Symposium, "Readers, Fakers, and Re-Creators of Books: From Page to Marketplace and Beyond". This event will be held online October 17-19; more details and registration found on the website: manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-rg...

#historyofliteracy #historyofcookbooks

#picturepoems #carminafigurata #wordsasimages

#lists We admire Michael Hensley's work on book lists. He spoke about it for our 2025 Spring Symposium, and we are eager to learn more. #historyoflibraries

With the start of September, we mention the CFP deadline of 15 September for your proposals for our sessions at #kazoo2026 ( #2026icms ) and #imc2026 at Leeds. manuscriptevidence.org/2026-interna...

#kzoo2026 CFP: this year the RGME is co-sponsoring 5 sessions at next year's ICMS- more details and portals for submissions on the website: manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2026-in...

CFP: the RGME is sponsoring a session for #imc2026 called "Manuscripts at Play and as Play: Temporalities and (Re)Configurations as Reading Methods". Send us your proposals! manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2026-in...

The last known inscription made in #Egyptian hieroglyphs was carved #OnThisDay in AD 394 🏺 #Archaeology The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom depicts the god Mandulis, accompanied with a text hoping the inscription will last forever. It seems the engraver got their wish 1/2 📷Olaf Tausch / CC BY-SA 3.0

#inscriptionsinstone #generosity #beauty

An exceptional Byzantine mosaic made of marble & glass tesserae showing Ktisis who personifies the act of generous donation, c. 500. 👁️ Read/watch Byzantium: Beyond The Cliché, here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/byzantium-... #mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky #skystorians 🏺 #archaeology

Restorations, with thanks to our Associate, Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social

More Is More, Wayback Machine Style for British Library Online, Hindsight Included. With thanks to our Associate, @carinr.bsky.social

#beautifulbook #turnedthepages

Join us on Monday online for the next RGME Friends' Meeting. "Food for Thought" = Fairy Tales and Cookbooks. We explore realms of imagination and nourishment, as we look at books for a lifetime/lifeline and prepare our Community Cookbook. Interested? See manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/meeting...

#turnedthepages #beautifulbook Antwerp Sedulius declared a treasure. #medievalmanuscripts

This is Day 1 for RGME sessions at the #2025imc. Great sessions! We give thanks to organizers, speakers, panelists, advisers, audiences in-person and online, and the IMC staff. manuscriptevidence.org/2025-interna...

#beenthere #worththevisit #beautifulplace

The next installment of the DMSI visits the University of Leeds in time for the 2025 IMC! You can still register for it. Well worthwhile!

With thanks to the IMC! #IMC2025

#IMC2025 is fast approaching, and we are very excited this year to be sponsoring four sessions as well as a roundtable. We'll see you there! A detailed overview of the session programs are found on the website: manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-in...

#solstice #turnedthepages

Greetings for the summer solstice!

We thank Dana Delibovi for her thoughtful blogpost on translations of Boethius in English through the ages.

More Is More, Scientific Style, Manuscripts in Switzerland Included.

Have a Look! The next episode for our series for "The Research Group Speaks" happens online on Saturday 21 June. We explore "Learning to Look". manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/episode...

Day 2 of the RGME at the 2025 ICMS. Sessions 165 on Grimoires 2, and 224 on Moving the Mail. See you there or online! manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-in...

#booksinpaintings #annunciation

#turnedthepages #beautifulbook

Coming soon! Our 2025 RGME visit to Vassar College to see Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts, fragments, and cuttings, with presentations about new research plus a roundtable. Sunday & Monday 4-5 May. Hybrid. #medievalmanuscripts #fragmentology #manuscripts manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-rg...