3-year postdoc with CODICUM project for a medievalist placed in Odense, Denmark! Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️ tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3

Made a site where you can practise Old English scansion. You get given a half-line and have to select which of Sievers's five types it belongs to. Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/ [Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]

Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.

The Tanner Bede is on Digital Bodleian! #MedievalSky 📜 digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/6285...

📗New project publication📗 "Liturgy, Literature & History: Oswald of Northumbria and the Cult of Saints in the Middle Ages" is now available #OpenAccess from @britishacademy.bsky.social & @livunipress.bsky.social Free download here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #MedievalSky

These "Teaching the Codex" blog posts introducing collation formulas from Dr. Sian Witherden @sianwitherden.bsky.social have particularly good illustrations that make it clear for students learning about it for the first time. 📜 teachingthecodex.com/author/teach...

Great news!! My special issue on Writing for Third Parties: Commercial Manuscript Production in the Late Middle Ages (Queeste, @amsterdamupress.bsky.social) is now available in open access. Looking much forward to your reactions! www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

ATTACKS from bots are a major problem for libraries scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/07/g... "Can we differentiate the behavior in our systems from the motives of the operating individual or organization, and should we be in the business of judging “good” and “bad” site visitors and uses?"

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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 pleased to be offering an open ended Archives Cataloguing post working with the University of Edinburgh's wide and deep literary archives. please do share with anyone interested! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

#HistoryJob - just a reminder that our colleagues in VCH Herefordshire are looking for *two* contributing editors to bring their first #BigRedBook for over 100 years to fruition. Details in the link, applications close on 10 October.

Next Wednesday 8th October, 12.30-1.30: Jiří Vnouček on "A Tale of Two Parchments" - insular and continental parchment preparation. In person: @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Weston Library, Lecture Theatre Or livestreamed. Free: book here visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oct25/...

FRAGMENTS GALORE 👇

Short-term post-doc for arts/humanities researchers! Do you love rare books, manuscripts, archives, art and/or objects? Would you like to explore one of our amazing Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social for c. 6 weeks (longer part-time)? Find out more lahri.leeds.ac.uk/brotherton-f...

Interested in bookbindings? Learn all about Greek-style bindings in early modern Venice in this talk and book launch with author Anna Gialdini in conversation with Nicholas Pickwoad warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/greek... 8 October 2025, 5:30pm - 7:30pm #BookBindings #EarlyModern #BookHistory

Want to work with the FitMA-team? Here is your chance! Join our great project and get paid for it! Two postdoc positions open! #classicsky #medievalsky #philsky www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Enjoying the historically informed street signs in Basel. Why don't we see this in more places?

Call for papers, Leeds IMC 2026 - Big data and medieval manuscripts. Please consider submitting a proposal!

Over 300 medieval #manuscripts from the collection of the Cistercian Abbey of Stams now digitised. Thanks for sharing, @buecherwurm99.bsky.social! #medievalsky

Interested in rare books collections and all things library? We’re looking for a Graduate Trainee Library Assistant to join our team! Find out more here: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

In awe of the Comms person at Cambridge who has made a textual emendation based on a change of a single letter go viral.

Now, if you are wanting to read some good work on #BayeuxTapestry, here's a thread. By the way, the pun wasn't intentional on Wednesday and isn't now. I'm not that funny. First up: Gale Owen-Crocker, textile historian par excellence www.medats.org.uk/officer/gale... #medievalsky 1/

Ever wished someone would sit down and explain how to collate an early printed book? The marvellous ‪‬@sianwitherden.bsky.social has done exactly that in a brand new series for Teachable Features: teachingthecodex.com/how-to-colla... #bookhistory #incunabula #teachingcodex

Are you a researcher working on book or reading culture in Flanders or the Netherlands? If so, you can apply for a fellowship from the Tiele Foundation. tinyurl.com/y24y2hxy

Great postdoc on the INSULAR project for an early medieval Germanist with manuscript interests

We are celebrating the opening of Joyce’s personal archive next year, and displaying items which reveal more about the author behind the puzzles of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. The exhibition is in the Museum of English Rural life staircase hall from 7 Oct 2025 - 9 Feb 2026. More details to follow!

This is an incredible collection that needs just the right person. #lisjobs #classics careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

𝗕𝘆𝘇𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗔𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Edited by Stefanos Alexopoulos, Stig Simeon R. Frøyshov, Stefan Royé & Andrew Wade More info: bit.ly/4mQhH3B #Palaeography #Greek #Literature #EarlyChristianity #ChurchHistory #Byzantine

Good news about some of the Longleat manuscripts

and apologies to anyone getting a 502 on medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk as a result of the same scrapers

A super job for a digital medievalist going here www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMW815/r...

R u #digitalhumanities researcher affected by the recent developments in the US? R u interested in collaborating with @psl-univ.bsky.social ? The PSL seed fund has been doubled this year to enable this. 1-yr projects will be funded up to EUR 12k. Don’t hesitate to reach out! psl.eu/en/news/call...

Release v4.1.0 erweitert unser Datenangebot erneut deutlich: großen Zuwachs verzeichnen wir mit 2.500 KODs der Stadtbibliothek Trier, 850 Digitalisaten der UB Kassel & 451 Beschreibungen der Fürstlich Waldeckschen Hofbibliothek. Release Notes 👉 handschriftenportal.de/info/release... #medievalsky

📣 Job Klaxon!📣 Hey #digitalhumanities people! I'm pleased to share a new PostDoc opportunity in #dh, with focus on #computational #philology and #OldNorse studies, as part of my current project at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social Please share widely: github.com/KAKDH/varia/... 🙏

Available in paperback and Open Access 📖🔓 ✨ Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750): A Research Companion, edited by Xander Feys, Maxime Maleux, Andy Peetermans, Raf Van Rooy 🔗 lup.be/.../student-... #studentnotes #earlymodernhistory #bookhistory #universityhistory #Latin #intellectualhistory

Thursday 1 May 17.30 Roundtable discussion on **Teaching the History of Liturgy** with Katie Bugyis @notredame.bsky.social, Andrew Irving @rug.nl & John Harper, chaired by Tessa Webber. In person @ihr.bsky.social in London (and online): www.history.ac.uk/events/round.... #medievalsky

Immer wieder findet sich in frühmittelalterlichen Urkunden die Titulatur „vir venerabilis“, („ehrwürdiger Mann“). Zu den spätantiken Wurzeln dieses Ehrentitels und wer damit ausgezeichnet werden konnte haben wir etwas in unserem e-Lexikon: werkstatt.formulae.uni-hamburg.de/texts/urn:ct...

📢 An exciting opportunity for conservators & archivists! UCD Library is seeking a Book and Paper Conservator to establish a Conservation Laboratory, part of a new Cultural Heritage Centre to be developed in the James Joyce Library. Full job description➡️ buff.ly/IqKpdP6 Apply by 19 May #jobfairy

Hybrid event of interest to 📜 and #medievalsky folk

I realize that traditional exhibition catalogues aren't very popular any more (sadly) but would it really be so hard to include in the "exhibition book" a list of the items that were actually displayed?

Here’s the fundraising page run by the Yorkshire Museum to acquire 900 amazing Iron Age treasures and ensure they stay in public hands www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m...

Interesting for #medievalsky and 📜 folks

If you’re interested in doing a PhD under my supervision on medieval music (including notation, MSS, digital approaches) this is a great opportunity: four years incl EU fees, 25k euro stipend & 2k research per year. Apply now & DM for details: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/graduate-res... #medievalsky

Temporary job alert! We're really excited about our latest collaboration with @ucl.ac.uk's Information Studies and @wikimediauk.bsky.social and are looking to hire a project worker to explore Wikidata with our collections. If you're free over the summer please apply! www.ucl.ac.uk/information-...

@medievalacademy.bsky.social to offer three summer skills workshops, in Old French, Latin Paleography, and Medieval Latin. Only $125 for five weeks! More information here: www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-summer-s...

⏳ Last Chance to Book! ⏳ Don’t miss this free talk by the brilliant Anne Lawrence-Mathers taking place tomorrow. Join us to find out how medieval people predicted the future. 🔮✨ 📍 In person & online #UnfoldingTime #MedievalSky #MedievalManuscripts

Call for the last postdoc on my ERC project on vocalised Quranic manuscripts. Are you or do you know a talented codicologist who would like to study beautiful Kufic vocalised manuscripts, do (tell them to) apply! www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

Si vous vous intéressez à la diplomatique et aux pratiques de l'écrit au Moyen Âge, InfoDiplo, la newsletter bimestrielle du réseau Diplo21 est faite pour vous. La première a été publiée sur notre blog : diplo21.hypotheses.org/1042. Pour s'inscrire : [email protected]. #medievalsky