A lovely email to receive first thing on a Monday: my article 'Poet-Bishop and Harlot Saint: Marbod of Rennes's Life of Thais in Context' was selected as Feminae's Article of the Month! inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/feminae/Arti...

The first medieval manuscripts seminar of the term is next Tuesday. It’s a hybrid lecture. Eyal Poleg will be talking about The Science of Erasures #MedievalSky 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

March 6 is the deadline to apply for Introduction to #Arabic #Manuscript Studies—a virtual, one-week intensive course held from June 22 to 26, 2026. Apply today: hmml.org/programs/arabic-mss-studies

Trilingualism in action: Latin book on herbs & their uses gets translation annotations of some head words to French & English Things I learned: 'haus' (Middle French) is a (rare) plural form of 'allia' (Latin), aka 'garlec' (Middle English) CCCC MS 438, f. 21v parker.stanford.edu/parker/catal...

It's Tuesday. So let's talk about birds eating eels, passing them, and eating them again. It's a THING that shows up in art & language. Here for example, is a lovely 13th C. image of a heron, shown in various stages of eating and...um...recycling eels. Or, at least, an eel. 1/4 🗃️🧪

If you have graduate students working with medieval manuscripts this free online training might be useful 👇 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Delighted to be advertising three new vacancies in Collections at Glasgow University Library. This is an exciting time to join a world-class collection and team. Find out more at: www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs...

How do you transform a fragile book into carefully maintained digital images & provide free, round-the-clock access for anyone, anywhere in the world? On January 28 at 11am (CT), join us for “The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library,” a free, virtual program: hmml.org/events

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

The most elaborate Pontifical (liturgical handbook for bishops) to survive from medieval England contains gilt images of bishops at work & careful notation. The playful initials could so easily be missed! 😛🎵🐇 CCCC MS 079, ff. 134v, 214v (c.1400-25) parker.stanford.edu/parker/catal... #medievalmss

Munby Fellowship in Bibliography based @theul.bsky.social in Cambridge - closes on 1 February, so still time to apply.

The life of Frederic Madden, in his words, 200 years after the events described. Transcribed from his journal by students @ies-sas.bsky.social. Released daily in 2026.👇 madden1826.com

Exciting news for fans of Richard Rolle of the 'The Fire of Love' fame ❤️‍🔥 Dr Timothy Glover, recently Parker Library Early-Career Research Fellow, has made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery that brings us closer to the beloved mystic, hermit and author Richard Rolle (d.1349) tinyurl.com/e3266str

Perfect day for stirring soups and stews in front of roaring fireplace - watch out those toes! CCCC MS 53, f. 1v parker.stanford.edu/parker/catal... #medievalmss

A new digital library full of manuscripts and incunabula to discover! 📜 #medievalsky #DigitalHumanities

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community. PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

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