Next to Jesus Maria Johannes, another triad: amen amen amen. Unusually, the reason for invoking it thrice is explained: it is in honour of the Trinity as the superscript letters show (p[ater], f[ilius], s[spiritus sanctus]). @magdalenoxford.bsky.social MS. lat. 71.

More evidence of the fun we had at the @memsunikent.bsky.social led and @chase-dtp.bsky.social funded Bookscapes workshop on Traditions of Lettering - from calligraphy to needlework via print, epigraphy and stained glass. Quite a day. Thank you, @cburycathedral.bsky.social Archives for hosting us.

The latest @chase-dtp.bsky.social Bookscapes workshop is about to begin. It is on Traditions of Lettering, run by @memsunikent.bsky.social and hosted by our friends at @cburycathedral.bsky.social Archives.

The @memsunikent.bsky.social MA team are back in their second home, the Archives @cburycathedral.bsky.social for their first session of the term close up with manuscripts.

A meeting @cburycathedral.bsky.social to discuss the next @chase-dtp.bsky.social Bookscapes workshop on traditions of lettering, and had a few minutes to enjoy some of the new (and relevant) temporary display. Timeless questions in present dress. I found it thought-provoking. Thank you.

Louvre Treasure hunt latest ... #Paris #France

Medieval Latin teachers, help! Disaster for our @memsunikent.bsky.social Latin learners: the Memrise pages for Collins's Primer have disappeared. Do you know where they might be now and, crucially, what substitutes there are. I have seen pages on Quizlet and Brainscape. Recommendations?

A reminder that this is on this very afternoon, 21st instant:

That was quick (and suggests the Paper holds few surprises). Good on value of humanities; wise to be concerned about the International Student Levy; disappointing in not pointing out the fundamental flaws in a policy tied to tuition fees.

Quite so. But also: if this is the most the White Paper has to announce on HE, it speaks of a paucity of ambition. If there is nothing on how to attract more international students, nothing on how to ensure ongoing provision across all regions, it will be less use than a wet sticking plaster.

An opportunity next Tuesday at 5:30pm to enjoy some palaeography without moving from the comfort of your own chair:

So true - but the humanities provides so much more than preparation for the economy: it is a training for the whole of life, not just the job. Every well-functioning civil society needs a critically attuned citizenry.

Back in Guersney for some #fragment fun with @tamarajatkin.bsky.social hosted by the Island Archives's Callum Tostevin-Hall.

Scotney not-so-much-a-Castle (and looking good on it). @nationaltrust.org.uk

I'm sure all manuscript scholars want to second that vote of thanks. MLGB3 goes beyond what the hardcopy Medieval Libraries of GB could provide. It was a sad day when it had to be taken down; it is great to see it back and functioning well. And it is going to get better! Congratulations to the team.

Have you been bereft without MLGB3? It was the essential and much-used online listing of extant books from British medieval libraries. Those good people @bodleian.ox.ac.uk have been working away and have just re-launched it, with the promise of more in the year ahead: mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Back in Christ Church for a day to reflect on where it began, with the change from St Frideswide's Priory to Thomas Wolsey's Cardimal College five hundred years ago this year.

Come and join our friendly community @memsunikent.bsky.social:

TODAY TODAY TODAY

I'm not edgy. This is my happy face (@magdalenoxford.bsky.social MS. lat. 186).

I would have thought a better question would be how many 'i's there are in 'artificial intelligence' - but then we know AI is all about superego.

And our FIVE YEAR teaching and research position in Early Modern Europe and the World is now live..... Please do circulate and/or think about applying. I truly love our department! @kingshistory.bsky.social

Having returned from my travels, I am catching up with news and am very sorry to hear of the death of the former librarian of Oxford's Christ Church, John Wing. He was a quietly supportive and shrewd presence, with a prodigious memory. And a penchant for chocolate chchconnections.org/news/the-hou...

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/...

Heiligenkreuz.

A bit modern but not a bad location for a palaeography conference. Thanks to our hosts in Vienna, @oeaw.bsky.social, for 23rd CIPL congress.

A day of papers to mark the 500th anniversary of the foundation of 'Cardinal College' College on Oxford: 4 October 10-5 with @dunning.bsky.social @drdavidrundle.bsky.social Sarah Foot, Mishtooni Bose among others. www.chch.ox.ac.uk/events/saint...

I am always impressed with the number of photographs I took before the twentieth century had dawned. Quite with it, I was, and (though I say it myself) impressively precocious too.

Sometimes you simply can't get the quality of parchment you might have liked.

The dog don't get it @magdalenoxford.bsky.social MS. lat. 175).

Education is not just for work hours; it is for life:

True but there is something both stimulating and humbling about realising there is at least one more language you have to learn.

Here he is with Humfrey, duke of Gloucester in a miniature painted probably before he met him.

'1457 in madrussia sclavonie oppido audiui a cancellario domini comitis steffanis...' so 'I heard in Modrus, a town in Slavonia, from the Chancellor of Count Stjepan...'. Of the Frankopan family - a distant ancestor of yours, @peterfrankopan.bsky.social?

Good news, @tamarajatkin.bsky.social - a minor technical hitch has been resolved and @memslibukc.bsky.social is back up and available in all its glory. As always, thanks go to the @memsunikent.bsky.social students who make it possible.

Yesterday's impulse buy, thanks to the excellence of @waterstones.bsky.social in Canterbury. And thanks go to @lswisnom.bsky.social for writing a book which manages to be both engaging and thought-provoking. Makes me wish I'd become an Assyriologist.

Where we spent my birthday.

Our flight disruption story from yesterday. A simple hop from Dublin to Heathrow, except: 1 Coach to airport 30+ minutes late so rush to gate 2 Safely on plane and about to taxi when radar issue announced and take-off pushed back from 3:30pm to 7pm 3 Good news! Take-off actually 4:50pm But...

St Radegund's Abbey, near Kearnsey (inland from Dover). Bits of it went to help build Deal Castle, in a case of turning ploughshares into swords.

Godmersham, church of St Lawrence the Martyr.

Aiming to give the Truss premiership a run for its money in the longevity stakes.

St Mary's, Chartham.

Roll up, roll up - the fantastic @etreharne.bsky.social's lecture is tonight and I, for one, am eagerly anticipating this highpoint of the palaeographical year.

Don't forget this, as the interlinear text implies:

Is the naming after The Alchemist an allusion to the play's second line?

Sounds as if someone in that government does not understand the concept of peregrinatio studii.

Really enjoyed this stimulating piece on the interaction of urban spaces and human presence: congratulations, @davehitchcock.bsky.social

As God Will: carved in 1511, this is the earliest instance of humanist Roman capitals being used for the English language in stone - on the funerary slab to a French Knight of St John, inscribed on the island of Rhodes.

Lest we think that this is unique, let's remember that there are parallels for human skin as bindings in New York and in Paris - all of them nineteenth-century, not medieval. What with the fashion at that point? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...