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

Bursary deadline 7 April. Please encourage students/colleagues to apply. 👇☀️📖 palaeography.uk/study/short-...

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

🚨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...

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

📜The event is next Wednesday, do not miss it!

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...

💼 [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

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...

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. my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

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

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.).

#astrohistory #histsci #medievalsky

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-...

"Meetings with unremarkable manuscripts" could actually be a very interesting book.

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

Offre d’emploi – Co3Dicology (Investigating the Codicology of Medieval Bookbindings through Digital Imaging) rmblf.be/2026/02/18/o...

📢 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

Web – Mise en ligne en open-access des éditions du Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (volumes antérieurs à 2010) rmblf.be/2026/02/14/w...

@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.

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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Some sad news. courtauld.ac.uk/news-blogs/2...

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...

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)

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?

If you have graduate students working with medieval manuscripts this free online training might be useful 👇 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Assistant Library sought! www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/as...

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...

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

Issue 42.2 of Parergon was released just before Christmas. A special issue focused on medieval English attitudes to the outside world, Alison Hudson's article 'Elephants in English Literature, Art, and Material Culture before the Reign of Henry III' is currently open access! doi.org/10.1353/pgn....

Are you a PG research student based outside of London? Did you know that you may be eligible for a bursary of up to £500 to take one of our short courses in 2026? Find out more on our IHR Research Training and Short Courses page: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini... Applications open until 31 Jan 2026

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...