I posted this👇 to a claim that genAI is better than Ctl+F to search historical docs. @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social replied with a genAI summary of my document and @bookllyfr.bsky.social asked if it was accurate. It turns out that it did exactly what genAI does: made stuff up & got stuff wrong.🧵

So, you're a medieval manuscript librarian? Oh, that's nice. I guess it's good that someone looks after those old dusty books

It is time to feast! Our annual winter closure is here. We will return back for our regular hours on Monday 5 January, 2026 Parker Library On the Web will continue to fullfil your medieval manuscript desires: parker.stanford.edu/parker CCCC MS 053, f.65r tinyurl.com/vuyr92pt Happy holidays!

Very interesting position at ASNC for a Celticist: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

The latest issue of Mirator, a multidisciplinary journal for medieval studies, is out! It's a thematic issue on #Science and #Magic in the Middle Ages. #MedievalSky journal.fi/mirator/issu...

An interim version of the Explore Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue is now available through the BL website: searcharchives.bl.uk It contains all the catalogue data from the eve of the 2023 cyberattack, and features embedded links to all currently available digitised content within the records.

With Adam Poznański, we discovered a previously unknown treatise against Waldensians in a Wrocław manuscript. The edition is now out: doi.org/10.31743/ams... #MedievalSky #Heresy #Waldensians

We are still accepting applications to the Neil Ker Memorial Fund 2026, open to both early career and established scholars of any nationality. Awards are tenable for a maximum of 12 months. Find out more and apply: https://bit.ly/4hO0Oo1

The ad for the second postdoctoral position on our @leverhulme.ac.uk Britain’s Early Medieval Letters project is now live. We’re looking for an Old English specialist (who also works with Latin). 32-month FT post. Deadline for apps is 16 Jan 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

#DigiBodAdvent day 9 is the Tanner Bede (MS. Tanner 10). In a slightly sorry state owing to submersion near Wallingford in the 18th century but still a priceless example of the renewal of English book culture in the early 10th century. 📜 digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/6285...

#DigiBodAdvent day 5 - the sumptuous Hours of Louis Quarré, MS. Douce 311. Savour the delicate colours of the Trinity or admire the trompe l'oeil effects of the pilgrim badge border (fol. 21v with bonus detail, not shown here, on the reverse, fol. 21r). digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/d23d... 📜

We all need some good and proper boundaries Here the borders surround various texts by Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln (1235-1253) on pastoral care and the teachings of the Church CCCC MS 257, ff. 9r and 181r parker.stanford.edu/parker/catal... #ManuscriptMonday

We’ll be running our introduction to manuscript studies again in June 2026. There’s an early bird discount if you book this month, but if students are interested please encourage them to book early as this course has limited places 👇 📚📖✏️💻 ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

Are you bored of advent calendars yet? I hope not, because I'll be highlighting 25 of the amazing medieval manuscripts added to Digital Bodleian @bodleian.ox.ac.uk this year. #DigiBodAdvent

We've got some HUGE news! We've DOUBLED in size overnight! Not only have we added "some" more Cairo Genizah fragments, but "ALL" of them @theul.bsky.social !!! This now brings the total number of items in Cambridge Digital Library to OVER 160,000! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

So, you're a medievalist? What do you do? Study dragons and stuff? Well.... (check the alt text for links to the source manuscripts held @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social)

15 and + years 🎉 Our teenage years online are all about unrestricted screentime Go and explore Parker Library On the Web and find our 560 medieval and early modern manuscripts www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/cel...

Post-doctoral Mellon Fellowships or early career medievalists Pontifical Instute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto DL 1 Feb 2026 For more information, see: pims.ca/article/post...

The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍 📜

Monday mood Baldwin of Ford (d. 1190) focused on writing his text On the sacrament of the altar (De sacramento altaris) CCCC MS 200, f. 1r (c. 1184-1190s) - fully digitised and online: tinyurl.com/4s9v9j9t

Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

And the news is... We're recruiting! Applications are now open for our 2026 @leverhulme.ac.uk Doctoral Scholarships. So, if you want to study at PhD level pre-modern handwritten cultures and the organisation of knowledge and power within them, do investigate our refreshed website.

How have books shaped the way we think? In January Anna Somfai will teach an online short course on books about science and philosophy in the Middle Ages. Book now 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Love medieval manuscripts? Love public libraries? Love Bristol? Don’t miss this FREE exhibition: bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=250...

Are you a scholar of the fifteenth century and have an interest in the British Isles and its wider connections? If so, then you will want to know that @memsunikent.bsky.social will be hosting the 2026 Fifteenth Century Conference in Canterbury and the CfP is now open: www.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...

📢 Delighted to announce that our Visiting Research Fellowships scheme for 2026 is now open for applications. Wonderful collections, world-class library & a brilliant @uofglasgow.bsky.social team to support you. Find out more 👇

Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.

3-year postdoc with CODICUM project for a medievalist placed in Odense, Denmark! Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️ tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3

We're delighted to digitally contribute to @theul.bsky.social Curious Cures project Curator James Freeman highlights some of way Middle English medical writings have survived to us: specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=30906 One more month to catch the physcial exhibition, do not miss it!

🗞️Newsletter alert🗞️ Issue 85 of the AMARC newsletter is en route to our members, which means Issue 84 is now available online - take a look! amarcsite.wordpress.com/newsletters-...

In the midst of a long-overdue update to Stanford Text Technologies. If you want to get a sense of what the project does, head over to texttechnologies.stanford.edu

🚨Manuscripts Event🚨 Heritage Science and Manuscripts from Antiquity and the Middle Ages 📆13-14 November 📍The Queen's College, Oxford

The @ies-sas.bsky.social online Winter School in Jan. 2026 includes courses by Michelle Brown (the Medieval Book); Anna Somfai (Medieval Scientific and Philosophical mss); and dream team @manuelmunoz.bsky.social @rozierhistorian.bsky.social and me (History Books). Book👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Our most famous manuscript, available on Parker Library On the Web: tinyurl.com/4a62s8s6 In case you havent noticed, you can have a copy of this too! Download full manuscript pdf directly from the image viewer for you personal enjoyment 📖 We have released all our images with CC BY-NC 4.0 licensing

Rana et Bufo! @byrhtferth.bsky.social has translated Frog and Toad into Latin and he reads it for you: youtu.be/PrA0Xq15etU?... (Fortunately, the style is more Damian than Byrhtferth.)

Here, on the occasion of #InternationalTranslationDay, MS Reykjavík, GkS 1812 IV, 4°, fol. 34v with Arabic star names in Latinised form and Old Icelandic translation. The glossary is the oldest Scandinavian source containing Arabic terms. #medievalsky #histsci handrit.is/manuscript/v...

We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-...

🚨AMARC GRANTS: upcoming deadline🚨 We give grants of up to £500 to projects that promote the accessibility, preservation and study of manuscripts and archives. 📅Deadline: 1 November Read more on our website: amarcsite.wordpress.com/grants/

Happening this Friday!

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

What a success! We recently held our doors open for Open Cambridge celebrations. Over 300 visitors had a chance to check out our exhibition, the room & talk to the Conservation and the Archives of @corpuscambridge.bsky.social www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/ope...

Next Wednesday 8th October, 12.30-1.30: Jiří Vnouček on "A Tale of Two Parchments" - insular and continental parchment preparation. In person: @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Weston Library, Lecture Theatre Or livestreamed. Free: book here visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oct25/...

#MedievalSky don't forget to send in your proposals for #DigitalMedievalist sessions at #IMC2026! Thank you for the great abstracts already received! We'll be in touch in the coming days. #DigitalMedievalStudies #MedievalStudies #DigitalHumanities #DH #AI #LLM

The artwork in thus book is just incredible 😍

Getting ready for Open Cambridge at the Parker: Thursday 18 Sept, 10-12 and 2-4pm we'll keep the doors open for anyone to drop by www.opencambridge.cam.ac.uk/events/open-... Did you know we also have Youtube Playlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dsv... Why not listen and find out what we're all about

Jobs for Medievalists Professor - Late Antiquity Department of Classics / Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto Application Deadline: November 6 The Department of Classics and the Centre for Medieval Studies in the Faculty of Arts and www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-med...

Fellowships at the Harry Ransom Center, 2026–2027 THE HARRY RANSOM CENTER, an internationally renowned humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, invites applications for its 2026–2027 research fellowships. www.themedievalacademyblog.org/9428-2/

Jobs For Medievalists Tenure-track Assistant Professor of English: Medieval Literature Review of applications will begin 10 November, 2025 The English Department at Trinity University seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in medieval www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-med...

Come and see what the fuss is all about! In one week we're taking part in Open Cambridge. Visitors are welcome on Thu 18 Sept, 10-12 and 14-16. Conservation and Archives will be there too! youtu.be/1dsvMieq01o?...

The Institute of History of the University of Bern is seeking to fill a full time professor position (open rank) in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods, beginning 1 February, 2027. ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...