It’s been a busy time leading up to this! Our tour of the north east celebrating Amiatinus finally starts this Wednesday with an incredible sound and light show produced by The Projection Studio

C12th wall paintings of St Cuthbert at St Laurence’s Church, Pittington. Taken by Ross Ashton in preparation for our upcoming Rivers of Ink tour of the North East www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Our ‘Rivers of Ink: Amiatinus and the Northumbrian Heritage’ tour of the NE England starts in February, with public talks, family drop ins and school events. The tour finishes at Durham Cathedral with talks by Francis Watson and Richard Gameson:

🎺 Are you interested in exploring Connections, Conversation, Contention: Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern World? Then consider submitting a paper to the 20th annual conference, taking place 13 and 14 July 2026 at St John’s College, Durham University!

I’ll be at the Chester Beatty museum next week for Science Week Ireland offering drop-in workshops making iron gall ink and talking about Medieval pigments. It’s a fun way of opening up the world of the scribes who produced Early Medieval manuscripts.

🚨CfP🚨 ‘Shaping the Word: the Form and Use of Biblical Manuscripts in the Early Medieval West’ We are looking for papers exploring ways in which scriptures (including extra canonical) were used and presented during the Early Medieval period. A range of methodologies and disciplines welcome!

A visit to the stunning Melrose Abbey to plan the first stop on our Codex Amiatinus sound and light show tour in February 2026

It’s a Coptic GIF!! Thanks @laurenrndll.bsky.social for the sneak peak from Manuscripts and the Mind at @chesterbeatty.bsky.social #manuscripts #coptic

We have a very exciting line up of people giving our main papers, including Richard Gameson offering a show and tell with mss in the Durham collections. Send us your queries and abstracts by the 17th November.

CfP 🚨 ‘Shaping the Word: the Form and use of Biblical Manuscripts in the Early Medieval West’

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.

And we’re back! Our highly-rated Latin Palaeography and Early Modern English Palaeography courses are back with a twist: this time they’ll run across 6 week instead of 2, giving you more time to really dig into the content and your practice at your own pace. Apply now! Www.imemsdurhamlearn.com

Dore Abbey’s abbey door(way). Great skeleton painted on the left, too!

#Latin #Medieval

I’m at the airport en route to #EABSBL, so it feels like the perfect time to send a copy of my book, Reimaging the Magdalene, on a journey too! 💛 like and 🔁 RT and I’ll draw a winner on the feast of Mary Mag (22/07, heathens) Let’s see where it ends up… #Giveaway

This cute little cat-like creature in Egerton 609

Oh no! This is actually my life

A grumpy looking Luke for the start of his gospel in Amiatinus

Together with @siobhanjolley.bsky.social, I'm organising a symposium this summer in Nijmegen (NL). We have the opportunity to support 2 PGRs with travel grants to attend and participate. Feel free to share and hit us up with questions.

Seagull with more of a comment than a question at #sblaar24

I usually use the fantastic digitised Amiatinus, but using even the half-size facsimile gives such a different impression of how the pages and diagrams work together

Had a go at making Iron Gall ink recently, it’s really simple to do (excuse my bad uncial)