It's a busy month: join me on Nov. 18, the UNESCO International Day of #IslamicArt, for an in-depth talk about "Kufi" as defining a self-contained early tradition of Arabic calligraphy. For Islamic Art Week 2025, I've prepared a brand new, exhaustive (& kickass) presentation that will take us from…

MAA News - The Academy’s First Members As the Medieval Academy marks its centenary, today’s members may be interested in learning about their counterparts a hundred years ago. www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-news-the...

Intermediate Latin palaeography will run online in February 2026 for those who want more advanced training. Book now 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Tonight’s #Halloween special was a highly atmospheric visit of Merton College’s 14th c. library, guided by @juliawalworth.bsky.social. Talk about gothic…

An atmospheric Halloween visit to the Merton library tonight.

A great pleasure to display some of the beautiful book creations by Paul Johnson and @majnouna.com for the Oxford Bibliophiles this evening!

Next Tuesday the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar is online. Kate Gerry will be sharing her work on the Guthlac Roll. Book 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Delighted we could help! The manuscript comprises eight tables, which bring together the fundamental tools for computing conjunctions (a term encompassing planetary conjunctions and lunar and solar eclipses), one of the most complex phenomena to compute in the Middle Ages.

A new academic year & the Upper Library is finally re-opened. The exhibition this term features Merton's 'newest' medieval manuscript (MS 329) acquired this year with the generous help of @thefnl.bsky.social. Booklet of 14th-century astronomical tables! Eclipses, conjunctions and more!

Merton College Chapel putting on a good welcome for today’s wedding! 😍

The joy of the pop-up display—greatly enhanced by the cup of tea afterwards!

It was too cloudy to see the lunar eclipse tonight, so here’s some fun diagrams of eclipses from a 13th century astronomical compilation, now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Arch. Selden. B. 34, f. 47v 🌘

Call for Papers - The Sale of Governance in Pre-Modern Europe and the Mediterranean (1100-1600) Call for Papers The Sale of Governance in Pre-Modern Europe and the Mediterranean (1100-1600) Workshop www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-pap...

Kloster Andechs in Bavaria August 1985 and August 2025! We’ve changed, but the church is still stunning.

Apply now! John W. Baldwin Post-Doctoral Fellowship Application Deadline: November 3, 2025 POSITION DESCRIPTION The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies is pleased to announce a John W. Baldwin Post-Doctoral Fellowship for a recent Ph.D. www.themedievalacademyblog.org/apply-now-jo...

Zwetschgenkuchen 2023 and 2025– thank goodness some good things don’t change. #vacation #Allgäu

The Society was kindly gifted a replica model of 'The Monk Astride a Wyvern' from The Met Museum by Prof. Mary Carruthers. The original dates from the mid c.12th, and was made in Magdeburg, Germany. We need your help naming our new wyvern-riding wordsmith mascot! Comment your suggestions below 👇

Astrolabes and quadrants return to display in the Upper Library at Merton College with special thanks to Nikki Tomkins, Oxford Conservation Consortium, Khris Watts, Harriet Campbell Longley, and @stephenaj.bsky.social It took many hands! #astronomy #astrolabes

I'm so thrilled to have this published! Starting from a chat over lunch at @girtoncollege.bsky.social, James Wade & I chipped away at this & have made some fascinating discoveries. The actual article should be published later today. In the meantime, more here: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/song...

@sebfalk.com Who do I hear on the radio this morning?? 👏👏

Books, Beer, and Murder! Excited to give this upcoming talk on scribal shenanigans in Medieval Oxford on 14 August in the incredible @oxfordprestrust.bsky.social Painted Room, check out the OPT’s event page to join the fun! 📜🍺🗡️🎉 www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk/event/books-...

In 17c Netherlands you could enjoy drinking your cool beer from a ‘book’. Very nice blindstamped boards, raised bands, fore-edge ties. #Rijksmuseum #Bookart

A 17c ‘hidden’ church in Amsterdam made a memorable venue for a conference dinner. #CIHEC2025

There's still plenty of times to get tickets for our 80th anniversary event on 'Memory and Commemoration' on Saturday 18th June: www.eventbrite.com/e/memory-and...

Join us this Friday in Lincoln college, Oxford

Art conservation requires specialized materials. What happens when one vital material is threatened? gty.art/4kEb6Yg

The Bibliographical Society and CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group and have joined together for an event (4 June) on acquisitions, aimed at librarians, archivists and curators although all are welcome! bibsoc.org.uk/introduction...

Registration DEADLINE Friday 16th for online summer school Advanced Readings in Medieval Latin, May 27–July 3. Two 1½-hour classes per week for 6 weeks, $500 (£375ish). We've not had many takers, so at just over £20 per hour this is pretty cheap for small-group tuition. marco.utk.edu/summerlangua...

CfP ‘Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library’ Submit by 16th May This 2-day symposium (9-10 Sept at UCL) will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The best way to end the week—looking at manuscripts with a great group! 😍

Amazing evening in Merton College Library analysing this beauty! Thank you @juliawalworth.bsky.social and @oxfordmedievalmss.bsky.social #OMMG #medievalsky

Dramatic results of cleaning late medieval masonry at Merton College.

We love card indexes! Gorgeous 1970s vibe at the National Széchényi Library in Budapest during visit of the Consortium for European Research Libraries #cerl

Wonderful setting at Harvard for the opening plenary of @medievalacademy.bsky.social 2025!

And last week…

Very much looking forward to this event on 21st March about a new arrival at the Bodleian, a manuscript formerly owned by Oxford's great benefactor, Henry V's youngest brother, and heir presumptive to the throne, Humfrey, duke of Gloucester. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/mar25/...

Just announced! On April 12 I'm holding a 1-day workshop at the Arab British Centre, where we'll be having fun using abjad numerals and writing them in unusual Kufi styles. Details in here: www.arabbritishcentre.org.uk/courses/joum...

Pleased to have the opportunity to highlight @fragmentarium.bsky.social —a great resource, just in case there are any book people out there who don’t already know about it! #manuscripts #fragments

Our first blog post for Unfolding Time is live! 📖 monumentoffame.org/2025/02/28/h... Join Kathleen Doyle as she guides readers through the two printed concertina-fold calendars from @britishlibrary.bsky.social in the exhibition, explaining them part by part. 🕰📜

Thank you to librarian Mark Statham for an impromptu visit to the light-filled upper library at Gonville & Caius College this afternoon!

😍 @majnouna.bsky.social ?

This will be familiar to manuscripts people in Cambridge. 😍

A visit to the Other Place! Wonderful library and such helpful staff. #Cambridge #manuscripts

The wonderful London Library—thank you for an hour of calm focus in a day of meetings.

‘I hope I’ve made my point!’ #ManuscriptMonday #medievalsky #marginalia

The Bodleian Library Record 36, 1-2 contains work on amateur musicianship and dance tune collecting & a Hebrew poem by Edward Burdon addressed to Queen Elizabeth I. @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social, @acfranklin.bsky.social, @francescagalligan.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social 🔗bit.ly/BLR36-1-2

Not in Oxford, calendar conflicts? Fear not! The Ford Lectures by Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne--French in Medieval Britain--are wonderful AND recordings of the first three are already online at www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l.... #medievalsky

Am I the only benighted person who thought this was some kind of early sport? 🐑

Calling all medievalists! Registration for the 60th annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo opened this week! Head to our website to register and learn more about what to expect this May: wmich.edu/medievalcong... #kzooicms #ICMS #medievalstudies