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

Artist and page in dialogue. In Merton MS 177 the artist breaks the sequence of straight edges to echo uneven parchment. #manuscripts #illumination

I highly recommend this thoughtful piece by Julia Smith, on the history of early medieval as a category of historical study. Just published in Early Medieval England and its neighbours! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

THIS is happening next week -- in person, in Oxford, the amazing Leah Price, on reading and the household.

It’s the weekend—with a flourish! (open image for the full view)

Normally I don’t condone writing in library books, but I was kind of impressed by this skilful 20c maniculum—appropriate to the subject matter. #marginalia

Next Friday 31 Jan, 1pm GMT: Nicholas Vincent on 'Magna Carta: New Discoveries'. Part of @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social #MagnaCarta1225 events. Weston Library lecture theatre, or hybrid via Zoom: free booking visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jan25/...

Delighted to announce our next OBS talk by the brilliant Leah Price ...

On Feb 24th I’m looking forward to hosting an event examining Belle da Costa Greene’s impact on the European book trade. I’ll have more details soon, but if this is your thing, book an in-person place now @ies-sas.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/events/belle...

Tsar Alexander prefers to gaze out at Fellows’ Quad rather than face the ‘work site’ that is the Merton Upper Library at the moment.