Yesterday, I finally visited the wonderful Pech Merle cave. A very moving and thrilling experience. Especially grateful for the patience and bravery of my 2-year old who accompanied me 40 meters underground ☺️

Don’t be shy!

My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

How do I explain to this gentleman that I don’t have x-ray vision or any other techniques to retrieve text covered by fur, fat and bones?

The promises I made to @laurajcleaver.bsky.social have been fulfilled 😄 phew Out now, in Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social part of my ventures into the trade of medieval mss in the late 19th century

So sad to have missed this! Highly recommend @saracharles.bsky.social book “The Medieval Scriptorium”

Learning more about the fascinating world of relic labels at Chelles from the brilliant @ana0dias.bsky.social #IMC2025 #craftingdocuments

Shameless article promotion in case someone is interested. An output from the wonderful CULTIVATE MSS project led by @laurajcleaver.bsky.social in @ies-sas.bsky.social published open access in the Journal of the History of Collections.

@brasenoseoxford.bsky.social MS 91 - Genealogy of the kings of England to Henry VI - is on display + Jim and Dilon presenting the amazing research they have done on it! #medievalsky

Connoisseurship and Medieval Manuscripts: A Roundtable, will take place this Friday, 6 June, at 4 pm. Join us at the Weston Library for a lively discussion with Emily Guerry, Peter Kidd and Michael Michael! Image: Sydney Cockerell, The Gorleston Psalter (London, 1907), pl. IX. #OMMG #medievalsky

In case of interest, colleagues in the fantastic @ox.ac.uk Dept for Continuing Education are advertising a FT permanent post in the art of the Global South in early modern/modern art and material culture! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI408/d...

Another day in @lincoln.ox.ac.uk but for very different reasons #medievalsky

On #ascensionday Brasenose takes over Lincoln college.

Join us this Friday in Lincoln college, Oxford

We are still recruiting!

An amazing afternoon learning the techniques of medieval book illumination with @saracharles.bsky.social and the @oxfordmedievalmss.bsky.social And In great company @liber-ray.bsky.social @mssprovenance.bsky.social #medievalsky

Spent yesterday’s afternoon showing some beautiful mss in #Brasenosecollege collection to our students. This is a detail from the “Founder’s Bible”, a 13th-c. Paris Bible that belonged to William Smyth, bishop of Lincoln and one of the founders of @brasenoseoxford.bsky.social #medievalsky

Another brilliant thread by @ainoacastro.bsky.social

Training in early Frankish palaeography is not just for those working on this period, it will help you understand Late Roman, Carolingian, and Protogothic scripts& to approach cursive writing from later centuries too. It’s a doorway to many centuries of Latin palaeography! #medievalsky #manuscripts

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

The Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group is finally on Bluesky! Please share your widely and follow us! #medievalsky #oxford

51 years ago, my home country (Portugal) overthrew dictatorship. The military coup became known as the Carnation Revolution as soldiers placed the red flowers in barrels of their guns to celebrate freedom and the success of a what was mostly a peaceful revolution.

A few weeks ago, in beautiful Port Meadow, on my way home. Nothing beats Spring in Oxfordshire

I’ve finally been to see this fantastic exhibition! Beautifully curated 👏🏼 a must see!

🧵 Is this a Dire wolf... 🤔? No... Our @erc.europa.eu Beasts to Craft team led by Élodie Lévêque uncovered the true identity of mysterious hairy covers on #medieval #Cistercian #manuscripts - they're ... 👇

In case you feel like looking at small pieces of parchment this evening. Online registration still open

I’ve finally managed to visit Santa Prassede and see its wonderful mosaics + relic from the flagellation column. Unfortunately, Santa Pudenziana was closed. 😢 #medievalsky

Good evening, Saint Peter! Looking stunning at sunset

A real treat this morning at the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social #InternationalWomensDay

Obsessed with the colouring of the square capitals! Psalter of St Maxim, Trier, 9th century The John Rylands Library, latin me 116, f. 16r #medievalsky

Fabulous postprandial seminar on the history and materiality of the book. Thanks Laure Miolo and @matthewholford.bsky.social ! @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

Glorious Spring days in Oxford 🌸🌼

Thanks @liber-ray.bsky.social 💛

Unquestionably a 7 this week (same manic face I imagine)

Amazing (and rare) opportunity! Associated Professor in Latin Medieval Manuscripts Share widely!!! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

It’s officially “cuddle an alpaca” day in Brasenose college!

Beautiful frost this weekend

Beautiful display at the Weston Library on the anniversary of the 1255 issue of the Magna Carta. Do not miss it if you are around Oxford in the coming month! @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social @matthewholford.bsky.social 👏🏼

Happy 2025! Now that the year has officially started (on Epiphany no less), a reminder that I will be leading this course in June in the London International Palaeography School. Please share with students, friends, and colleagues. Thank you 🙏🏼 @ies-sas.bsky.social #medieval #manuscripts

When I told my little one that I needed a bookmark he helpfully lent me all his felt dinosaurs

Stormy Sunday with turmeric latte and @saracharles.bsky.social book for company!

Join us this Friday, 29th November (Merton College, Oxford, 5pm) for Eleanor Jackson’s talk about her new @britishlibrary.bsky.social exhibition: Medieval Women in their own words.

This is really sad news! It is such an important cultural centre & landmark

Next year, I will be running this course in the London International Palaeography School (9-10 June) Check this one &all the other amazing courses planned for the 2025 edition. We are now recruiting! ies.sas.ac.uk/london-inter...

A mini masterclass in medieval palaeography! 👏🏼

Spent the morning in Stationers Hall presenting my current research. Not a bad venue, not a bad view!

Fancy doing a PhD on the archaeology of medieval Europe, c. AD 400-1500 at Oxford? Scholarship available here: www.stx.ox.ac.uk/st-cross-son...