Last night was the Yule Feast at @queenscollegeox.bsky.social, so I and @leahveronese.bsky.social finally got to wear our medieval mummers masks! We sang the Boar's Head Carol while trailing after a large papier mache boars head from WWII, and dined on a medieval-inspired menu.

Deadline for abstracts for John Donne's Architecture is this Friday. Looking forward to reading them!

I have the most amazing colleague ❤️✨

The "Vienna" model or sample book, c. 1410-20. An aid for workshops and travelling artists so that they had a stock of motifs & shapes. Silverpoint drawing on paper, maple wood, leather. Dimensions: 9.5 cm × 9 cm. A small thing. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

✨Book Curses✨ is included in the list of Bewitching Bodleian Bestsellers, so you should buy Book Curses and the 1000 piece puzzle of The World of Frankenstein. Or Book Curses and a Cthulhu pin badge. Or Book Curses and the Edgar Allen Toe socks.

Very excited to be running this conference with Paul Norris. Delighted to have @mcculloughp.bsky.social as our keynote speaker. We can't wait to hear your ideas! Please share widely

Amazing treasures of medieval legal history for a medieval Monday - the Catslechta ˙ (or Cat-sections) - an old Irish legal text on cats (the Senchas Már) which even sets out various categories of cats based on various characteristics or talents. #medievalsky

A page of figure studies by Gesina Ter Borch from 1648 (Rijksmuseum)

Little portraits by visiting students 🥹❤️ Particularly love the observation of the coffee cup in the second one 🤣

💘 💘 in UL Inc.2.B.7.19[4144]

New favourite 18th-century portrait miniature just dropped ❤️ Said to be a lampoon of Madame du Barry, former mistress of Louis XV, representing her as a white peacock #18c

Interesting waste endpapers in this Hebrew edition of Calvin’s Catechism, printed at Geneva in 1554. The binding (see below) would seem to be contemporary & French, which might help someone identify the fragments. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social S817.e.55.6.

It's #WorldOtterDay! To celebrate here's a lovely woodcut illustration of a very hungry little otter found in Conrad Gesner's Historiae Animalium (c.1602)

Looking out the window, 17th century style (Italian, British Museum)

Radigund decided to lend a paw to prepare today's teaching materials Adding to the materiality. Very kind. 🐈‍⬛💌🐾

Will bequests du jour, from a Nfk yeoman to his wife 1581: 'two quesshions withe squirrelles thereone withe twoe other quishions of her owne makinge' and 'one quishion withe the princes armes vppon it and an other quisshion with the Squirrelles.' Bit of a decorative theme there. #EarlyModern

📢 #Job alert! @ox.ac.uk is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate to support a new collaborative project with @nationaltrust.org.uk. You'll explore our early modern global carpets and their histories of production and use. Closing date: 6 June Find out more👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Woo! Town & Gown 10km complete! Well done to #TeamUniv and to my running buddy @leahveronese.bsky.social, the Univ LVs smashed it! 💪👏💙💛🥇

Finally out! In this vol., a neglected group of texts with much in them to add to discussions about Donne and women, sacramental theology, Roman Catholicism and preaching tailored to occasion and auditory.

The 32 winds & their names from a handcoloured 1644 Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Novus Atlas. #EarthDay

Giotto, St Francis Preaching to the Birds c. 1295-1300 San Francesco, Pisa.

Friends, my books are discounted! Both come in paperback. You can check out my work on Shakespeare or my work with Emily G Sherwood @esherwood.bsky.social on the letters of Elizabeth Bourne. Please ask you library to buy them if it hasn't already. #EarlyModern www.routledge.com/authors/i156...

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Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the bears, for today is their special day! This illustration of a bear comes from 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. 📷 Reserve 590 BUF #WorldBearDay #BearDay #RareBooks

Antoon Van Dyck visited the very elderly Sophsoniba Anguissola #painter 12 July 1624 during plague lockdown in #Palermo. She died in Nov 1625. He made this sketch, then this painting. (BM/National Trust images) Van Dyck was born #otd 22 Mar 1599. So he was 25 when he saw her.

Yes, we may be cataloguing Big, Serious Archive Collections about Important Events, but we're also very much enjoying this fab children's drawing of a farm, unexpectedly found in the back of a 1904 book about mining legislation Personal highlights: TROFF & comparative pig / house scales

A true artist at work on a the flyleaf in this copy of Petrus Apianus’ Cosmographia (1584) 👌 #rarebooks #marginalia #bookhistory #earlymodern 💙📚 📜

Do we think this little guy is a unicorn??? (/ cuboid rhino???) Love him so much 🤣❤️🦄

I will never not be delighted at introducing my Catz first years to this adorable object...🐴🏹⚔️🏰❤️ cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-CAT-...

In the 1790s a London woman named Eliza Denyer developed a modest reputation as a restorer of medieval manuscripts. She was forgotten by scholars and, in one case, her restorations were deliberately replaced by a man’s. I recovered her story & tracked all her known work here: tinyurl.com/2ktztx2e

It's Friday and on a scale of 'being harassed,' I am this owl (although the owl looks strangely unperturbed by it all 🦉) CCI MS E1.

Saw the fantastic @nationaltheatre.org.uk livestream of the Importance of Being Earnest last night. Completely forgot how wonderful Miss Prism's tender reunion with her handbag is and a life scratched and stained into its surface ❤

Stumbled across this auto generated page of women's self-portraits on Wikimedia Commons. There are broken links and errors, but will undoubtedly be stealing things for #WomensHistoryMonth. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Self-po...

What a lovely arrangement, so beautifully expressed: 'to yong beginners newly entring into the world to deale for them selues'.

This excellent piece really gets to the heart of my article: the political repurposing of Shakespeare during the 1640s

NEW: @engfac.bsky.social's Dr Leah Veronese has unearthed a rare manuscript copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 tucked away in a 17th-century poetry collection. This is only the second known manuscript copy of the sonnet ever discovered. More info ⬇️

Hello Blueksy! I expect this first post will be my most exciting post 🤣 My article about a new manuscript copy of Sonnet 116 I have identified has been published online open access academic.oup.com/res/advance-... @oupacademic.bsky.social