Thank you to @ies-sas.bsky.social for hosting! We had the best time📚🤓

⌛ Final Week ⌛ Time is running out to visit our current exhibition: 'Unfolding Time: The Medieval Pocket Calendar' – closing 15 May. 🕰️ 🔗Opening times + digital highlights: www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/unfolding-time #UnfoldingTime #MedievalSky #BookHistory 📜

A pleasure to write this paper, which stemmed from the excellent panel at @newchaucersociety.bsky.social 2022 - if you like to think about why we do what we do with 'big' manuscript data, the whole collection is worth your time!

Spot the surprise Pepys, which made me exclaim in an empty stack, ‘oooh, Pepys!’

Very helpful imprints.

A very early Christmas present for me 🥳 (It’s submitted!)

I defy you all to find a better PhD supervisor than Laura, who celebrated the recent release of the article that nearly broke me with a bespoke mug (It’s blue for the BVM, she says 💙)

📜 📚 Bibliographers & book historians affected by BL cyber-attack: Nikolai Vogler built a stopgap ESTC—fully searchable, 150,000 pre-1700 records, many with links to EEBO. estc.printprobability.org #BookHistory #Bibliography #Cataloguing #GLAM #Libraries #Librarians via x.com/print_and_pr...

We’re here in the real world now! Follow for the illustrated liturgical calendar, stay for the woodcuts of porcupines 👀

Belle da Costa Greene sighting in the collections 🤩 She brought a facsimile of the Gospels of Matilda, Countess of Tuscany, and reminded the Archbishop to send a thank you note (which he did!)

What do you all make of this chronogram? We can only get it to come out to 1573, but it should be 1576 😵‍💫 (Or so says the fun acrostic date at the end)

I feel like I ought to do more than just wave hi (hi!) to everyone who’s been here for ages, so instead, please enjoy the most recent photo I took of an interesting thing I found at work - one of the remaining books damaged by a 1940 incendiary bomb (it’s crispy!)