Curators Examined the Book of the Dead—& Found a 3,300-Year-Old Version of Wite-Out: Upon digital & infrared inspection, the team discovered the use of ancient correction fluid to trim a drawing on one of the illustrated spells 🪄 📚 📜 #BookScience www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...

Some sad news to report, I'm afraid... Jeff Grant, the director of legendary public information film Lonely Water, died on 13 March. He fought to include the film's horror elements, and they proved so successful that it opened the door to the shocking PIFs that we know and love. (1/2)

A successful egg-hunt? #Easter #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts 📚 📜

LES bookstore Bluestockings, which served Narcan & radical reads, shutting down | Gothamist #books #bookstores 📚 gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain is back! 📚🥳📜 #MedievalManuscripts mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Just gave my first keynote. (It went well—and was fun. 🙂🤓) #BookHistory #BookScience #MedievalManuscripts

Nearing the end of season 2 & we've hit over 100K listens on the podcast 🥂. Thanks to all of our guests for sharing their time & expertise! Thoroughly enjoyed talking medieval Ireland over the last 38 episodes, more anon! @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie open.spotify.com/show/1Gq9yIx...

And some of the images of the poor (and once beautiful, but now not usable) manuscript I'm hoping to image one day to be able to virtually restore to its once-glorious illustrations. @sjlahey.bsky.social (I found it!) X893 H12 (it's a Haggadah, probably illustrated by Leipnik)

Our brand-new Dye Garden is coming to life! With guidance from colleagues across the UL, and @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social, our Conservation team has planted traditional dye plants once used in manuscript painting. 🎨 #CambridgeUniversityLibraries #CULconservation #DyeGarden

#HappyBirthday to Lester Lawrence ‘Larry’ Lessig III (b. 1961), American legal scholar & political activist, & founder of Creative Commons @creativecommons.bsky.social 🎈🎂

Welcome to June. In this month, in 1749, settlers heading to Halifax, Nova Scotia with Cornwallis incl. Herbert Jefferie, printer, & Thomas Blackwell, bookbinder. Whether they carried type & related equipment is unclear. … #books #typography #BookHistory #CdnHist 📚 📜 [1/2]

#RIP Greg Cannom #horror www.fangoria.com/greg-cannom-...

CAUT (Canadian Association of University Teachers) advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S. www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

“You used a 3 million dollar piece of hospital equipment so you could read a novel?” — Dr Cuddy, disapprovingly, to Dr House, who has done precisely that (“House MD”, s7e3) I feel rather seen 😶 (yet defiant 😈💅) #BookScience 📜📚🔬

#RIP Dr Joe Nickell (1944 Dec 01–2025 Mar 04), American skeptic and investigator of the paranormal. 😞😔

Our final 'abstract spotlight' from Medium Ævum’s 93.1 issue is on @sjlahey.bsky.social and @aboyarin.bsky.social's '‘Et dixit anglice’: unpublished vernacular verses in British Library, Harley MS 912'. Members can log into medium.aevum/space to read the full article.

Researchers using digitized photos or manuscripts in any manner in theirresearch, are invited to participate in this anonymous survey of McGill University (forms.office.com/r/nuqD9ZJzFq, 8-10 min to complete). (1/2)

The #Vatican was back this week with 40 #Manuscripts www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Including a ton more Cappella Pontificia annual diaries, a nice 8th C Greek Lectionary, some Chinese dictionaries (including rhymes), several Avvisi, some disappointment from Sire, and more! #MedievalSky

Back at University of Toronto Engineering @uofteng.bsky.social today for an Old Books New Science Lab collaboration with Grasselli’s Geomechanics Group @civmin.bsky.social geogroup.utoronto.ca/contact-us/. We’re micro-CTing a birchbark codex. 👀 #Books #RareBooks #BookScience 📚 📜

#TIH #OTD 7 Jan 1779: The Quebec Gazette announced a new subscription for a public #library at Ville de Québec—the 1st public library established in what is now #Canada. Some of the books were purchased from local members of the public, but most were brought over from Europe… 1/2

A Dispute? (‘The Cloisters Apocalypse’; Normandy, c.1330) #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #Critters #MedievalAnimals #Dragon #Wyvern 📚 📜

Been waiting for an excuse to break this out... #WeirdHistory #Medieval #ThisIsFine #AlwaysAddALT #AlwaysReadTheALT

There is also a connected database: TM Ousia (www.trismegistos.org/ousia). The monograph reflects literature until October 2020 and was produced in the framework of the ERC project PATRIMONIVM at the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne's Institut Ausonius (PI: Alberto Dallarosa; patrimonium.huma-num.fr)

Bookmarked: liiive | Real-Time Collaborative IIIF Annotation https://liiive.now/ #digital_humanities_iiif Collaborate in real-time on IIIF image collections. Annotate, view, and explore high-resolution images with your team. Even without a login.

According to the chronicler Froissart, #TIH #OTD 1 Jan 1387, Charles II, King of Navarre, suffering from illness, was ordered by his physician to be tightly sewn into a linen sheet soaked in distilled spirits. The sheet caught fire; the king later died of his injuries. #WeirdHistory #Medieval

#ChristmasEve #Christmas #MedievalManuscripts

Only ONE WEEK to go until the "Turning Page(s)" workshop! 📖 Join us—online or in person—for a phenomenal day of insights and discussions on the latest trends in book and library history. Don’t miss out on this must-attend event! #BookHistory #LibraryStudies #marginalia #digitalhumanities #books

@incunabula.bsky.social *psst* Please check your DMs on the bird site! 😉

… plus a great deal more. Watch this space 👀 #OBNS_MISHA #BookScience #BookHistory Right now, University of Toronto Libraries’ homepage features an example of our output (the banner): onesearch.library.utoronto.ca #OBNS_MISHA #BookScience 📚 📜 #IMadeThis 😊

Interesting surface crackling of thick, red #ink in this German terrier (list of land-holdings) compiled in Klein-Karben, Kloppenheim (1483), and now held by University of Victoria (🇨🇦). #MedievalManuscriptsInCanada #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscripts 📜 📚

The illustrator of Lambert of Saint-Omer’s Liber Floridus reminds us that we are not always the apex of the food-chain. #Critters #Griffons #Monsters #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscripts 📜 📚

Just published my first blog post in 2 years and it feels great to do this again! I am working on a new format, shorter and reflecting on what an old book does to me. First one new style is about a moldy manuscript. See if you like it: https://buff.ly/4i7hp63. #medievalsky #booksky

Pin holes and offsets of multiple pilgrims’ badges once added to the end of this complete calendar from a mid-15th century manuscript Book of Hours from Arras. From a private Ohio collection. #OhioMSS #fragmentology #MedievalManuscripts #ManuscriptFragments #Pilgrimage

Fun times getting to see the Codex Argenteus, probably made for Theoderic the Great in Italy in the sixth century, containing a Gothic translation of the Bible written in gold and silver script on pages dyed purple. #medievalsky #manuscripts

That‘s future #bookhistory.

Playing Dragon Age when I walk past this in-game mural right after seeing this post.

Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.

The illustrator of Lambert of Saint-Omer’s Liber Floridus reminds us that we are not always the apex of the food-chain. #Critters #Griffons #Monsters #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscripts 📜 📚

Interesting surface crackling of thick, red #ink in this German terrier (list of land-holdings) compiled in Klein-Karben, Kloppenheim (1483), and now held by University of Victoria (🇨🇦). #MedievalManuscriptsInCanada #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscripts 📜 📚

Rub-a-dub-dub! Bath-time in a 15th-century, @theul.bsky.social copy of Régime du corps, a personal guide to home #healthcare composed by the physician Aldobrandino of Siena in 1256. #MedievalManuscripts #Medicine #Bathing #Healing 📜 📚

🔔 Only 1️⃣ week to go to the 𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗜𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰, brought to you again by @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social & myself. The 2️⃣ of us will guide you through 3️⃣ millennia of ogam (4ᵗʰ-21ˢᵗ centuries) to celebrate 4️⃣ years of the OG(H)AM Project (ogham.glasgow.ac.uk). 🔔 📷: T. O'Neill

Low-hanging fruit? #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscriptsInCanada #Fragmentology 📜 📚

Working on a new online exhibition dedicated to quirky early 20th century ABCs called "X stands for nothing" with material from the David Blamires' collection of children's books @theJohnRylands Library Gordon Brown is a genius!😁 #childrensbooksillustration #bookhistory #modernism

Lovely clear watermark evidence on this bifolium from an as-yet unidentified medieval dictionary. Watermark = Briquet 12995, MS likely produced in Bavaria, ca.1440-50. 16 bifolia in total, each w/ this mark; once recycled as pasteboard book covers. #Fragmentology #manuscripts

a respectable 61 #Manuscripts from #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024... Includes some more 17th C music, Leonardo Bruni, several Chinese lexicons, and some poetry, classics, patristics, liturgy, and more! #MedievalSky

Beautiful #bookhistory stories and where to find them @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social . #newberry #bibliophilia #lostbooks #booklovers #lostandfound www.newberry.org/blog/lost-an...

Skimming through slide decks from my erstwhile "Data Infrastructure" class, I happened upon this treasure from the Old Place:

It is with great sadness that I, along with many others who knew and cherished Björn, must bid farewell to a great scholar, a generous colleague, and a dear friend. Du wirst mir fehlen, mein Lieber.

It's out - paper by Mark Hall (mainly), myself and James Graham-Campbell on the Lindisfarne playing pieces (amongst other examples). Archaeological Journal. Open Access From Durham Uni / DigVentures excavations on Holy Island www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Low-hanging fruit? #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscriptsInCanada #Fragmentology 📜 📚