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Medievalist and librarian, interested in all aspects of manuscript culture.
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Jennifer
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The Hereford Gospels online symposium is on 26 June. It's a free opportunity to hear about this remarkable manuscript from the experts. I'm also pleased to confirm that it will be recorded for those who may not be able to come in real time!
www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/herefo...
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Hereford Gospels Online Symposium - 26/06/2026 10:00:00
Taking place online on Friday 26 June
https://www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/hereford-gospels-online-symposium
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Suzanne Paul
3 days ago
Fabulous medieval postdoc opportunity on a brilliant project…
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Leonie V. Hicks
6 days ago
PhD funding available
#skystorians
#medievalsky
#heritage
#archaeology
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AMARC
11 days ago
Booking is now open for the AMARC 2026 Summer Meeting and AGM: Discovering Welsh Estate Archives and Records 📜 📍Bangor 📅 15 July ⏰ 10.00-16.00 See our website for info and registration 🔗https://amarcsite.wordpress.com/meetings/forthcoming-meetings
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Tuija Ainonen
13 days ago
Looking for Medieval Latin philologists: Postdoc specializing in Digital Philology in München
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/4...
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Postdoc specializing in Digital Philology (m/f/x)
https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/4c6b1a871158fb726f6897328f6cfd0c09b35b380?ref=homepage
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Anna-Lujz Gilbert
16 days ago
A promotional post for
cebeme.manchester.ac.uk/en
, a platform for searching and visualising data across PLRE, Renaissance Cultural Crossroads, Plantin sales and provincial booksellers' inventories, c. 1500–1640. So, ownership, sales, and translations of books in
#earlyModern
England.
#bookHistory
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Ticia Verveer
18 days ago
Archaeologists uncovered a medieval notebook from a latrine in the city of Paderborn, W-Germany. The 700 to 800 year old notebook consists of wooden tablets coated in wax and is enclosed within a leather binding decorated with embossed lily motifs 📷LWL/ S. Brentführer
www.lwl.org/pressemittei...
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Alfonso de Zamora
20 days ago
#BookHistory
#LateAntiquity
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24 days ago
Register for
#TEI
before 1 June for Early Bird rates! “Overall, it was a fantastic experience." (TEI participant, 2025) View the programme:
tinyurl.com/485evt2k
Read a blog post from 2025:
tinyurl.com/45bunynv
Register:
tinyurl.com/yd9f9mjz
@uniofcam.bsky.social
@matthewholford.bsky.social
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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
24 days ago
If you missed it - an introduction to our newly acquired MIDDLE ENGLISH FOLDING ALMANAC LONG THOUGHT LOST, ONE OF TWO KNOWN MIDDLE ENGLISH FOLDING ALMANACS - you can see it now and learn its story on YouTube!
youtu.be/MHHMrEmWL7A
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Dot Porter
29 days ago
In case you missed it this morning...
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Peter Selley Visiting Fellowship for Members of the Book Trades at
@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
. Applications close 29 May.
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
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Handschriftenportal
about 1 month ago
📣 Unbefristete Stelle an der
@stabiberlin.bsky.social
zu besetzen: Wir suchen eine:n Wissenschaftliche:n Mitarbeiter:in (w/d/m) im
#Handschriftenportal
für Datenmanagement und Wissensgraph. Zur Ausschreibung 👉
sbb.berlin/hifw6
#medivalsky
#bibliojobs
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Thomas Hendrickson
about 1 month ago
New open-access edition of Willetrudis "Verses about Susanna." Please share around if you know anyone interested in medieval Latin, women Latin authors, or the reception of Daniel 13.
#medievalsky
pixeliapublishing.org/book/willetr...
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Willetrudis. Verses about Susanna - Pixelia Publishing
https://pixeliapublishing.org/book/willetrudis-verses-about-susanna/
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Yes! Very grateful to colleagues for implementing a solution to bot attacks (Anubis for those interested) on
@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
manuscripts and archive catalogues.
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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX
about 2 months ago
#MedievalSky
is there any scholarship looking at vernacular glosses holistically, rather than specific texts/languages?
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Larisa Grollemond
about 2 months ago
Here's a beautiful thing for your Thursday, a German artist working through drawings of bookbindings and studies of Christ's loincloth, ca. 1490
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Margot Finn
about 2 months ago
Of interest to (among others)
@ihr.bsky.social
,
@royalhistsoc.org
and
#Skystorians
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Free and open to all!
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about 2 months ago
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rahaeli
about 2 months ago
Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN
www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...
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A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity
Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...
https://www.openculture.com/2026/04/recording-lets-you-hear-delta-blues-legend-robert-johnson-in-stunning-clarity.html
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Struggling with your Anglo-Norman? You're in the good company of this medieval reader who glossed the start of this text using Latin and Middle English (before giving up).
@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
MS. Selden Supra 74
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Bursary deadline 7 April. Please encourage students/colleagues to apply. 👇☀️📖
palaeography.uk/study/short-...
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Introduction to Handwriting in England c. 700-1700
8-12 June, University of London This course will provide an introduction to manuscript-production in Britain and Ireland over the course of a millennium. It will explore questions of palaeography, …
https://palaeography.uk/study/short-courses-and-summer-schools/introduction-to-handwriting-in-england-c-700-1700/
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Tobias Niedenthal (aka hexaOrthorexia)
3 months ago
A new blog post by Birgit Hofer about the bindings of the Vienna Dioscorides (in German): Ein Weltkulturerbe und seine Einbände – der Wiener Dioskurides
www.onb.ac.at/mehr/blogs/d...
#histmed
#medievalsky
#bookhistory
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AMARC
3 months ago
🚨Booking is now open for our AMARC Spring Event🚨 Exploring Business Archives: Collections and their Use 💻Virtual seminar hosted by the University of Glasgow 🕰️24th April 2026, 13.00-16.30 For booking and a schedule, see our website:
amarcsite.wordpress.com/meetings/for..
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AMARC
3 months ago
Deadline approaching for our next round of AMARC grants. See our website for more information on what we fund and how to apply. 📆Deadline: 1 April
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Digital Medievalist
3 months ago
📜The event is next Wednesday, do not miss it!
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Medieval Manuscripts
3 months ago
We have an incredible new PhD placement opportunity to help support the development and curation of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest, opening in October 2027. Learn more and apply through the link below!
www.bl.uk/services/res...
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Persée
3 months ago
💼 [RECRUTEMENT] Assist. de traitement de données documentaires & cotes de manuscrits
@persee.fr
🔎 Dans le cadre de l’EquipEx+
@biblissima.bsky.social
, contribuez à la structuration et à l’enrichissement de données patrimoniales 🗓️ Postuler : https://ens-lyon.softy.pro/offers/197328
#ScienceOuverte
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BROKENSONG
3 months ago
Two new positions with the
#ERC-BROKENSONG
project at Maynooth University. The first position is for a Postdoctoral Researcher/Senior Postdoctoral Researcher to conduct analysis of the medieval Insular music corpus recovered, transcribed, and edited within the project.
my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
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https://my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecruit/apply?id=040484
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BROKENSONG
3 months ago
The second position with
#ERC-BROKENSONG
is for a Research assistant/Postdoctoral Researcher with experience in statistical image processing/multispectral image processing. Deadline Mar 29, 2026.
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The Parker Library
3 months ago
Peterborough Psalter and Bestiary is making a visit to London! Why not drop by to say hi The manuscript is on loan at a new exhibition: The Painted Tower: Conservation in Context at Longthorpe Courtauld Gallery, 26 Feb–27 May 2026
courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...
CCCC MS 53, ff. 7v-8r
#medievalMSS
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KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections
3 months ago
Our
#siteoftheweek
is POP - Plateforme ouverte du patrimoine. POP describes and disseminates scientific descriptions of cultural assets that are studied or preserved in France (works of art, buildings or sites, objects or furniture, photographs, etc.).
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Mohamed Qassiti
3 months ago
#astrohistory
#histsci
#medievalsky
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Fragmentarium
4 months ago
Working with liturgical fragments? We're collaborating with the Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission project to hold a colloquium in Fribourg, July 1-3. CFP here:
sites.google.com/view/scraps-...
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"Meetings with unremarkable manuscripts" could actually be a very interesting book.
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Brepols
4 months ago
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘄𝗶𝘁𝘇𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗶𝗿 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗽𝗽𝘀'𝘀 𝗔𝗰𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟭𝟴𝟮𝟬𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗹 Angéline Rais More Info:
bit.ly/4rn0aC5
#BookHistory
#Books
#Collector
#Collections
#History
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Agenda des médiévistes
4 months ago
Offre d’emploi – Co3Dicology (Investigating the Codicology of Medieval Bookbindings through Digital Imaging)
rmblf.be/2026/02/18/o...
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Offre d’emploi – Co3Dicology (Investigating the Codicology of Medieval Bookbindings through Digital Imaging)
L’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne fait deux recrutements dans le cadre du projet de recherche Co3Dicology financé par l’ANR porté par Élodie Lévêque. Informations / …
https://rmblf.be/2026/02/18/offre-demploi-co3dicology-investigating-the-codicology-of-medieval-bookbindings-through-digital-imaging/
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École des chartes | PSL
4 months ago
📢 Demain, 18h : lancement du séminaire «Lier les
#données
du
#patrimoine».
Avec Charlotte Denoël, Armâne Magnier et Alexandre Tur. Réflexion sur les méthodes de liage des données documentaires et instrumentales à l’œuvre à la BNF pour définir un «manuscrit augmenté». ▶️
https://urls.fr/sSNbyq
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Agenda des médiévistes
4 months ago
Web – Mise en ligne en open-access des éditions du Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (volumes antérieurs à 2010)
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Web – Mise en ligne en open-access des éditions du Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (volumes antérieurs à 2010)
Using current philological methods and editorial techniques, members of the commission, collaborators and scholars from various countries have been producing editions of the writings of Christian L…
https://rmblf.be/2026/02/14/web-mise-en-ligne-en-open-access-des-editions-du-corpus-scriptorum-ecclesiasticorum-latinorum-volumes-anterieurs-a-2010/
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Ruth Ahnert
4 months ago
@kmcdono.bsky.social
@danielwilson.bsky.social
and I have a new OA article out:
eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
It’s about the fragmented landscape of historical data, and what we can do about it to improve discoverability, sustainability and reuse.
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Show Me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core
Show Me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources
https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1017%2FS0080440126100632&data=05%7C02%7Cr.r.ahnert%40qmul.ac.uk%7C18945a4ffd484e7928cc08de6afa175a%7C569df091b01340e386eebd9cb9e25814%7C0%7C0%7C639065819533629553%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3AWzLBEHnAi%2BZr%2By0rK3aKCfuTLaNaBDw5OkcfX0Wpo%3D&reserved=0
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴
4 months ago
The lovely Michelle Pfeffer has invited me to speak at the Divination, Oracles and Omens seminar at Magdalen College, Oxford. 4pm on Wednesday 25 February. All welcome, free to attend! My paper is called 'Doing onomancy in the later Middle Ages' and I will share more info as I have it!
#MedievalSky
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Dr Vanessa
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Some sad news.
courtauld.ac.uk/news-blogs/2...
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John Lowden (1953-2026)
https://courtauld.ac.uk/news-blogs/2026/john-lowden-1953-2026/
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Lisa Fagin Davis
4 months ago
Here is the very latest from Caroline Goodson, hot off the presses! It is an amazing and incredibly important study. Already put it in my syllabus!
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
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Papyrus Economies and the Experience of Early Medieval Papal Documents*
Abstract. The medium of papyrus, a ubiquitous, state-sponsored product in the Roman world, was turned by the empire’s loss of Egypt in the 630s–640s into a
https://academic.oup.com/past/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pastj/gtaf023/8442849
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lisa wright
5 months ago
A little stop motion video I made of an almanac in the University of Rochester collection to try and give viewers an idea of how it functions 😊 (Video of RCL cod. a.1, a late 14th century folding almanac from England, likely Oxford)
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S.C. Kaplan
5 months ago
Do I have any
#DH
#DigitalHumanities
friends on here who do network visualization (Apr. 6) or digital exhibits/repositories (Apr. 13) who'd be willing to Zoom in for a guest lecture for my Intro to DH class?
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5 months ago
If you have graduate students working with medieval manuscripts this free online training might be useful 👇
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Digital Tools for Manuscript Studies
https://www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/digital-tools-manuscript-studies
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Matt Shaw
5 months ago
Assistant Library sought!
www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/as...
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Assistant Librarian - The Queen's College, Oxford
The College seeks a qualified librarian to join our small and friendly library team as Assistant Librarian. The Assistant Librarian helps with the day-to-day running of the College Library, ensuring a...
https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/assistant-librarian-2/
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over 1 year ago
Delighted to be advertising three new vacancies in Collections at Glasgow University Library. This is an exciting time to join a world-class collection and team. Find out more at:
www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs...
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University of Glasgow - Explore - Jobs at Glasgow - Appointments - Library Collections DirectorateSearch iconClose menu iconMenu icon bar 1Menu icon bar 2Menu icon bar 3
https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/appointments/librarycollections/
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Joop van Waarden
5 months ago
Now available: Sidonius Apollinaris: Selected Letters Order at
www.cambridge.org/9781009087629
Early birds save 20% off at checkout, code JOOP2026
#sidoniusapollinaris
#epistolography
#LatinLiterature
#LateAntiquity
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