Here's a treat for manuscript- and fragment-lovers everywhere: @manuelmunoz.bsky.social will speak at Senate House Library @ies-sas.bsky.social Tuesday, 30th September, 5:30pm on his research into fragments at Keio University. To attend in-person or online, register at ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Yes, e-codices is down full time at the moment. We're working on it. It may come back by itself if the attack ends.

This is the feast of Theodore of Tarsus, d. 690, Archbishop of Canterbury. 🕯️ Let's look at a few early manuscripts of works that have been attributed to him. 🧵 The most securely-attributed work is the Laterculus Malalianus, seen here in the earlier of 2 surviving MSS, BAV Pal. lat. 277, 8c.

Still no Bodmin/Padstow Gospels though 😪

Only 6 Days Left to Apply! @yai.ie is now accepting applications for its next cohort. Join a unique all-island network of emerging leaders. Open to PhD-holders from all professional backgrounds Deadline: 24 September 2025 Apply here https://www.ria.ie/young-academy-ireland/application-process/

A University of Cambridge academic has joined calls for greater recognition of the first king of England, Aethelstan:

I cannot rate this exhibit highly enough. The St. Gallen manuscripts themselves are incredible, but the objects (the Lough Kinale Book-Shrine!) really contextualise the exhibit. And then there are interactive for children to learn more, which is such a brilliant touch. Truly something for everyone.

'...and other equally fascinating writers'. I love this. Using this in my next edited collection.

Found while looking for other things: lovely Gs in this MS, the last part of the composite codex BNF lat 5018. Late-8th c., from the vicinity of Lorsch, though I'm confused by the various accounts of this MS and lat. 7906 by Lowe & Bischoff. Anyway, nice Gs, big and little! @ccurran.bsky.social

RBS is happy to announce that we are now accepting applications for: 𝗥𝗕𝗦-𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 (apply by 𝟮 𝗡𝗼𝘃.) 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠. 𝗖. 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆, 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 (apply by 𝟳 𝗗𝗲𝗰.) Details: rarebookschool.org/2025-scholarships-fellowships/

Same here.

Zenodo. You’ll never look back

Short-term post-doc for arts/humanities researchers! Do you love rare books, manuscripts, archives, art and/or objects? Would you like to explore one of our amazing Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social for c. 6 weeks (longer part-time)? Find out more lahri.leeds.ac.uk/brotherton-f...

📨You are warmly invited to our next annual conference at University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social 📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025 📜The theme is "Education and Early Medieval England" and our programme is available to view online. 📲Registration is now open: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1631647263...

Some really cool artefact displays from the National Museum at the National Ploughing Championships right now!

On Saturday, September 27, Jacopo Bisagni will give a live demonstration and public talk on weapons and combat in the Late Middle Ages. Tickets available through eventbrite: tinyurl.com/mtex6mk9 @campsgalway.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS B ii 1, an Astronomical Tract. It is an Irish translation of medieval Latin texts. The astronomical tract is based on a medieval Latin version of a work by Messahalah, a Jew of Alexandria who wrote in Arabic c. 815.

When I started BretPal (almost two years ago 😪), I had one very clear research goal: to establish parameters for Breton Caroline minuscule (Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 85)

Breaking news: The new, revised, updated Ogham in 3D website is now live: ogham.celt.dias.ie Choose "inscriptions" in the menu.

14th September is the feast of the Holy Cross. Here is an illustration for the legend of the finding of the cross: Constantine's dream München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 22053; Wessobrunner Prayer; c.814 CE; Southern Germany, Diocese of Augsburg; f.2r

Packing up a library owned by two academics and Tolkien nerds is just as much fun as you might think it is.

🚨Job Klaxon🚨 Open rank Professorship in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods 📍Institute of History, University of Bern (🇨🇭) 📆Deadline: 19 October 2025 ▶️ Information: tinyurl.com/56ywncuj #Medievalsky #DigitalHumaniities

There's a new resource available here: celtichagiography.org/bibliography/ It is a running bibliography of publications focused on the saints in Ireland, Scotland, Man, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall, and 'Celtic' saints on the continent. While a work in progress, currently there are 500 publications

Happy Birthday to Claudia Severa! Born on this day in the late first century CE. She wrote a birthday invitation to her friend, Sulpicia Lepidina, which survives among the Vindolanda tablets. #classicssky

Make Your Thursdays Count! Looking for something different after work? 🕔 The National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street is open late on Thurs 11 & 18 Sept until 8 PM. ✨ Discover the stunning Words on the Wave exhibition 📍 Free entry, no booking needed. www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/L...

Come and join us for a few days jam-packed with medieval and early modern keynotes, papers, roundtables, and events! @anzamems.bsky.social Conference 2025 at the University of Melbourne, 3–5 December

An opportunity to participate in the Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast:

What a stunning g

Earliest extant portrait of an English king: Aethelstan (r. 924–927) with St Cuthbert from the Parker Library copy of Bede's two Lives of St Cuthbert (CCCC MS 183) Prof David Woodman of @camhistory.bsky.social highlights Aethelstan's impact on England's history www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/new...

And now to end the BretPal workshop, we have @helenthev.bsky.social presenting on CCCC 221 and Gonville and Caius MS 144/194 with this excellent slide of the three scribes’ g letterforms

In honour of today's final BretPal workshop, please enjoy the palaeographical nightmare/dream that is Angers 477

DEADLINE EXTENDED! The 2026 New Scholars application will remain open for submissions through Friday 12 September! Please share with your bookish networks. BSA membership is not required for New Scholars Program applicants. Link in bio to learn more. 🔗https://bit.ly/bsa-new-scholars

Favourite Breton manuscripts cont'd: The Saint Gatien Gospels (Paris, BNF MS NAL 1587). Long associated with a Breton centre, the Saint Gatien Gospels are distinct for the rich illuminations and the script, which is a weird (I say that lovingly) and unique version of Insular Half-Uncial

Le séminaire de “Lecture et critique des manuscrits latins”, fondé à l’École Normale Supérieure par Pierre Petitmengin, reprendra lundi 15 septembre 2025 (18h-20h), dans la salle de séminaire du Centre d’Études Anciennes (au rez-de-chaussée du 45 rue d’Ulm).

A video on the stunning and unique 'Words on the Wave' exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland which features precious manuscripts from the Abbey of St Gall, Switzerland — some returning to Ireland for the first time in 1000 years! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BikJ... #medievalsky

I've been talking about this network a lot recently! If you're a UK ECR (you have your PhD in hand), sign up for it! You don't need an affiliation. You get access to their brilliant events (they fund your travel so you can attend), offer biannual conference funding, + access to larger funding opps.

New Biography Revives the Reputation of Æthelstan, the First King of England www.medievalists.net/2025/09/new-... #EnglishHistory and check out the new #book by @davidwoodman45.bsky.social for @princetonupress.bsky.social

Some reflections on replicas, the internet's untethering of information from reproductions of works of art, and a lovely email I received from a stranger one year ago. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/8/30/will-the-real-hildegard-von-bingen-please-stand-up-its-replicas-all-the-way-down

I am normally a Dunkin’s girl, but I will not apologise for this

Well, BretPal is coming to a swift end as of 30 September. Between now and then, I'll be posting my favourite Breton manuscripts, starting with the iconic horse Mark from the Boulougne Gospels (Boulogne sur Mer, MS 8).

Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

Recently one of our manuscripts was rebound in modern conservation binding. Follow the progress, and an amazing discovery, as our Head of Conservation reveals the steps taken for this careful work A deep dive in medieval manuscript binding 🕵️ www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/chr...

Included an emoji in an email to my supervisor because it is just that type of day.

The Bear Tapestry

CFP: the RGME is sponsoring a session for #imc2026 called "Manuscripts at Play and as Play: Temporalities and (Re)Configurations as Reading Methods". Send us your proposals! manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2026-in...

For context: The image on the left is from the Parker Chronicle detailing the events of the year 1070 written by an Insular-trained scribe. Image on the right is from Exon Domesday, which was written c. 1086 in ?Winchester by a Norman-trained scribe.

I think the font is the single most reprehensible thing about this show to me. It also would've been one of the easiest ways to distinguish which side of the Channel you're on?

#KingAndConqueror. Not a promising start when the moustache is on the wrong man. Now that's a very easy thing to get right. 'Feudal France?' oh dear. We are undefined years earlier now.

England has another queen and she's 1041 years old

Anyone in the Boston area looking to take in some cats?