Had fun filming a short video about the fabulous Parker.stanford.edu with @blalbritton.bsky.social today. We have a super NEH project (Global Currents) on the automated retrieval of features of manuscript layout using Parker data.

Calling all independent humanities scholars, non-faculty researchers, librarians, anyone struggling to find time for research when it's not in your job description! This Saturday, 11 PDT. Links below for calendar/zoom & timezone conversion #medievalsky #bookhistory #dh #humanities

🚨 Funding Alert! 🚨 Are you passionate about book history, bibliography, or book arts? Check out this funding opportunity to support events in your community! 📖✨ 📅 Deadline: 3 November – Don’t miss your chance to apply! Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities

Recently one of our manuscripts was rebound in modern conservation binding. Follow the progress, and an amazing discovery, as our Head of Conservation reveals the steps taken for this careful work A deep dive in medieval manuscript binding 🕵️ www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/chr...

A new #OpenAccess resource for teaching world/global history is almost ready. The module "The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta," is in final editing & should be "live" by the beginning of September. A preview here: www.arc-humanities.org/blog/2025/07...

Curious Cures completed - really excellent work by a brilliant team @theul.bsky.social led by Dr James Freeman: www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...

Quick round of updates: Early Short Title Catalogue has moved to CERL, it is the beta version. They do not just want to restore but also improving the data. They call on research community for input on beta version #Bookhistory

Just came across this web resource: 76 digitized handwriting manuals 1600-1800 - mostly with models for handwriting exercises (bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/search/N-503...). A bored child learning to write doodled in one of them (source: bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/p...).

This piece is worth reading/ wrestling with. imho. 1. AI can't do original research and thinking; it recombines (often badly) so may be most potent for digestible popular history. That's worth worrying about separately. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

It’s a full house for @etreharne.bsky.social ‘s John Coffin Memorial Lecture on mortuary rolls @ies-sas.bsky.social

Resharing this job posting. There’s still time to apply! Come work with me. 📜📚

UNC Library isn’t on Bluesky I guess so I’m sharing that they’re currently recruiting for the Hanes Curator of Rare Books: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/301... This is an amazing opportunity! Happy to talk to anyone about my experiences when I held this role!

"In response to the withdrawal of multiple public datasets and websites" the University of Chicago Library has launched has launched the "UChicago Data Mirror." For starters, it includes NPS and Census data. Good to see more stakeholders involved mirroring data. www.lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/u...

🎉Almost 2000 views! So grateful for all this interest in my new book (and extremely grateful to the Dutch Research Council for covering the book's Open Access funding 😊). The free e-book version is here 🔓📖👇 academic.oup.com/book/59790

"Every so often in this Rare Book Librarian’s work, a book that seemed really exciting when I ordered it, turns out to be even more exciting when it arrives and I am able to interact with it in person" 📜 Iowa State University isuspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/r...

This one: www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Just in time for our #StanfordManuscriptSciences’ event on authenticity, @blalbritton.bsky.social!

This kid sure gets around… slowly ( Stanford, Codex 1417 T). A Book of Hours dated to 1526, belonging to Anna Maria, Countess of Fürstenberg.

Wow, there’s a lot going on in this StanfordUL binding fragment—once the pastedown & spine strengthener for a Book of Hours(?) belonging to Charles Bruce, Earl of Ailesbury. It’s comprised of a leaf from the Great Bible (different from EEBO version) & a medieval fragment I’m working on. Fab, eh?

Yey! Finally! This is worth checking out! Congratulations to the editors and the authors! #digitalhumanities

Jonah making an appearance Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 003; The Dover Bible, Volume I.; 12th century; f,262r @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social

A day of archival fun with @etreharne.bsky.social and colleagues. Pulled out a selection of medieval and early modern documents and all agree we wish we knew more about seals - like these in various states of covering.

So proud to have co-written this newly published book w/my brilliant friend Anne E. Lester; I just remembered the book came into being largely b/c of an #NEH grant Anne received in 2020-2021, allowing us to follow up on our pandemic zoom calls together. cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/a-c...

New issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities Vol. 6, No. 4 (2025) reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v6-n4 Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Preservation @roopikarisam.bsky.social @jenguiliano.bsky.social @dr-tg.bsky.social

Out now: What *is* ‘ancient history’? Why it is much bigger and more important than we might think, how generations of scholars have dismembered it, how we can do it justice – and why ‘Classics’ has run its course: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Do you have a favorite unusual collection in special collections and/or archives? I want to expand my list of examples for class. Unexpected formats are particularly interesting.

"Switzerland’s Abbey of Saint Gall has agreed to lend 17 manuscripts to the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin for a landmark exhibition that will combine artefacts and parchments to recreate a sense of Ireland’s golden age as the 'land of saints and scholars'" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

20thc illuminated, manuscript copy of a Shelley poem. Why haven't we done heaps of research on this stuff already??

Join us in-person or online for “The Declaration in Script and Print,” by John Bidwell on Thursday, April 17 at 7:00 p.m. EST. More information at americanantiquarian.org/node/12911

Do you learn by doing? @ies-sas.bsky.social has a new summer school course that explores medieval manuscripts by making them. You’ll learn how inks and pigments were made and used and get to experiment for yourself! 📖📚🎨 @ies-sas.bsky.social book 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/london-rare-...

Last chance to book for this online introduction to Medieval Spanish Palaeography running 28 April - 1 May 👇 #MedievalSky ies.sas.ac.uk/events/intro...

please come to Houghton Library on May 1st and hear about botanical paper mosaics! queer scrapbook interior collages! Emily Dickinson's stationery! craft-based pedagogy in collaboration with archives! from the great @drbibliomane.bsky.social @amyeelkins.bsky.social Jen Bervin, & Mande Zecca ✨🪡📜

Nominations are open for the 2025 Stanford University Libraries Data Sharing Prize! 🔗 Apply now: forms.gle/mDDaUAZV462Z...

The recent cancellation of NEH funds has hit the wonderful resource that is the Medieval English Text Series (METS) @urochester.bsky.social, a free online resource that 1000s use for teaching & research. Please consider making a donation if you can, and please share! metseditions.org/donate

📣There's still time to apply for our new collaborative doctoral studentship, in collaboration with @universityofleeds.bsky.social. Closing date is 30 April 2025!

A couple of days ago I shared the study of Lévêque et al. 2025 who had revealed through aDNA analysis that the books produced in the Cistercian abbeys in Western Europe were in fact covered with sealskin, previously thought to be skins of local animals (deer, boar etc.)

Are you a PhD student? Interested in working with @britishlibrary.bsky.social collections? Take a look at the next Doctoral Open Day, which is on the Library's digital collections. I'll be talking about the Digital Research Team @bldigischol.bsky.social! Friday 23 May events.bl.uk/events/not-j...

Our wonderful colleague Ray Heigemeir has created a new resource for access to rare music at @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social exhibits.stanford.edu/rare-music/h...

Just past 2500 views of my co-authored essay w/ @fancynahyan.bsky.social, "Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death." Part of an on-going effort to transform how we understand pandemics. #OneHealth #histmed www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

130 (130!!!! ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY!!!!!!!!) people came to the Winterthur Library tattoo inspiration open house (new attendance record for a Wint Lib event) and I am walking on fucking air

Here be dragons. #medievalsky Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Msc.Nat.1, f. 25v, 26v

FitMA is hiring! We are looking for a motivated PhD-candidate in medieval Latin philosophy to join our team @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social! Deadline for applications: 24 April www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨ Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!). academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...

Have you ever wanted to work at wonderful Winterthur? Come be my boss!✨ We're hiring for a new library director: secure6.saashr.com/ta/6002811.c...

Material Wills 📜 have made the Zooniverse front page! 📰 We're delighted to be one of @zooniverse.bsky.social's featured projects on their main homepage 💻🌍 Find us alongside some other fascinating people-powered research projects 👇 #crowdsourcing #citizenscience #history www.zooniverse.org/projects

MAA Archive now available online! Very excited to share this resource about the history of Medieval Studies in North America! We've been working on this project for more than a year. #MedievalSky

More manuscripts for the feast of St. Cuthbert! Bede wrote two lives of Cuthbert, one in verse and one in prose. CCCC 183 contains both versions. This MS was commissioned by King Æthelstan for the Lindisfarne community then at Chester-le-Street. Here Æthelstan presents the book to Cuthbert. 🧵