University of Southern Denmark, 3-year postdoc in Medieval Studies memorients.com/news/univers...

#DigiBodAdvent has been a bit erratic but we are finishing strongly with a major new acquisition from 2024, digitized 2025, the 13th-century French bible which belonged to Jean II of France and later to Humfrey duke of Gloucester the great benefactor of Oxford's university library

Metadata nerdiness AND the example manuscript has line numbering in 5s between coloumns

#DigiBodAdvent #17 is the crusading treatise of Marino Sanudo the elder with its remarkable maps, miniatures and binding: MS. Tanner 190. digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/1fee... In the French royal library, in England by the mid-15th century.

Publication – Lucien Reynhout, « Les colophons » rmblf.be/2025/12/17/p...

See thread for scratched glosses! I posted a bit about the Selden Acts back in April: bsky.app/profile/cari...

#DigiBodAdvent returns after an illness-enforced hiatus with the lovely uncial Acts of the Apostles in MS. Selden Supra 30. This manuscript had its 15 minutes of fame back in 2022 (www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022...) but we only digitized it in 2025 - so it makes this year's list!

#DigiBodAdvent 11, something for the papyrologists from a batch just published on Digital Bodleian this week, a fragment of an early uncial Livy. Found at Oxyrhynchus. 📜 MS. Lat. class. f. 5 (P) digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/4f0e...

The ad for the second postdoctoral position on our @leverhulme.ac.uk Britain’s Early Medieval Letters project is now live. We’re looking for an Old English specialist (who also works with Latin). 32-month FT post. Deadline for apps is 16 Jan 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

There is a rather fabulous Victorian screen by artist William Bell Scott decorated with scenes from The Kingis Quair in the care of the National Galleries of Scotland. On view in #Edinburgh www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...

#DigiBodAdvent day 10, one for the Middle English and Scots fans, the Sinclair manuscript (MS. Arch. Selden. B. 24). The earliest Scottish vernacular verse anthology and the unique witness to "The Kingis Quair" attributed to James I. digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/ea06...

#DigiBodAdvent day 9 is the Tanner Bede (MS. Tanner 10). In a slightly sorry state owing to submersion near Wallingford in the 18th century but still a priceless example of the renewal of English book culture in the early 10th century. 📜 digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/6285...

Day 8 of #DigiBodAdvent is @kebleoxford.bsky.social MS. 30, the Breviary of Enrico Tomacelli. Lavish Beatus page with an image of the patron, and dozens of initials including this rather hip-looking psalmist. digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/8102...

Last weekend I resumed blogging and have done another post today; I hope to maintain a weekly schedule. The two new posts concern illuminated leaves from the collections of Victor Goldschmidt and Count Stroganoff. mssprovenance.blogspot.com

#DigiBodAdvent day 5 - the sumptuous Hours of Louis Quarré, MS. Douce 311. Savour the delicate colours of the Trinity or admire the trompe l'oeil effects of the pilgrim badge border (fol. 21v with bonus detail, not shown here, on the reverse, fol. 21r). digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/d23d... 📜

late with #DigiBodAdvent day 4 which is Queen's College MS. 304 with a lovely series of initials depicting monks reading and writing. Made for John Merylynch aka Moorlinch, monk of Glastonbury, in the early 15th century digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/a0ca...

My book on the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834) was published yesterday. It has been a long time in the making, but I've loved every minute working on such incredible material. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The 14th-century Litlyngton Missal is a Latin manuscript which contains the readings and prayers used at the celebration of the Mass, along with a calendar of saints’ days. You can turn the pages of a digitised copy of the Missal in our museum, The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries. #EYADigital

#DigiBodAdvent day 3. Everybody loves fragments, and St John's have digitized a whole collection for you (MS. 235). Here are nos 72, Augustine In Evangelium Iohannis, and 18, "unidentified scholastic philosophy" 📜 digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/fa67... digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/1627...

#DigiBodAdvent day 2, the so-called Amesbury Psalter (All Souls College MS 6). Come for the prefatory miniatures, stay for notated antiphons and extensive evidence of the book's use by John Grandisson bishop of Exeter (d. 1369) digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/4c70...

Are you bored of advent calendars yet? I hope not, because I'll be highlighting 25 of the amazing medieval manuscripts added to Digital Bodleian @bodleian.ox.ac.uk this year. #DigiBodAdvent

15 and + years 🎉 Our teenage years online are all about unrestricted screentime Go and explore Parker Library On the Web and find our 560 medieval and early modern manuscripts www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/cel...

Finally made it to Curious Cures at @theulspeccoll.bsky.social and what a delight to see so many plain looking text manuscripts alongside the herbals and zodiac men

Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research? We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections. Find out more: collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/

Three 2-year postdoctoral positions in COLIBRI, the ERC project based at Sapienza on the reconstruction and study of Hernando Colón's library! web.uniroma1.it/trasparenza/... web.uniroma1.it/trasparenza/... web.uniroma1.it/trasparenza/... Deadline 12 Dec

And the news is... We're recruiting! Applications are now open for our 2026 @leverhulme.ac.uk Doctoral Scholarships. So, if you want to study at PhD level pre-modern handwritten cultures and the organisation of knowledge and power within them, do investigate our refreshed website.

Here at Exeter we are offering three fully funded AHRC PhD places in humanities subjects. Please get in touch if you are keen to come and do research with us! Closing date 23 February 2026: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

A chance to see a well-used, 3m long, birth scroll made in England c.1500. Covered in prayers & illustrations, in Latin & English, invoking Sts Quiricus & Julitta, it's worn from use, engrained with vaginal fluid, imbued with love, pain, fear, hope & life. 🧵👇 wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/...

Friends, @sibyllacumae.bsky.social just sent the latest issue of Two Half Sheets, our newsletter. This issue: an interview with Falk Eisermann, incunable expert and leader of the GW. Enjoy his kind, thoughtful interview! 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks open.substack.com/pub/twohalfs...

📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications! We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections. Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... 📆Closing date: 5 January 2026 #UofGLibraryFellows

Announcing the J.P. Gumbert Dissertation Award 2025! 🏆 We are looking for the best PhD thesis on any aspect of manuscript studies defended between 1 Sep 2024 and 31 Dec 2025. The award includes a prize of 5,000 EUR and a fellowship at the CSMC. Apply by 6 February 2026! uhh.de/csmc-jpga-2025

Great news! This is out: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...

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