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

Do I officially own this cat now?

A bilinear half-uncial-shaped g in the wild

Day two of the feline visitor

Very intrigued to read this!

Does anyone know how much money was spent on digitising medieval manuscripts at the British Library that the 2023 cyber hack took down? (preparing for a class tomorrow!)

I haven't touched Old Norse materials in a while, but I *love* Hallfreðr saga.

Uhm. I think I own a cat now.

For the francophones, a podcast on forged medieval charters 😍

The Vatican's 'Action Successful' message always makes my day

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-...

I have been informed that there is a crafts-store/bookstore in Ireland called 'Vibes and Scribes'. I am obsessed.

Reject modernity, embrace tradition

The Schaffhausen Adomnán 🥰🥰🥰

📣 Time Change - Kemble Lecture #TOEBI #medievalsky 🕰️ 5:30pm‼️ 📅 13 November 2025 📜‘Myths and Monsters: Beowulf and the Etymologists’ 🗣️Prof. Richard Dance, University of Cambridge 🏫Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin 💻Register for Zoom: tcd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

@sharpnews.bsky.social is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief!!! Applications are due on November 14th. Get in touch if you have any questions!

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

This is the feast of Cedd, d. 664, brother of Chad (Ceadda) and protegé of Aidan at Lindisfarne. 🕯️ He led missions to Mercia and the East Saxons, served as a bishop and as abbot of Lastingham, where he died. Here's the entry for his day in the Old English Martyrology in CCCC 196.

One last time 😭 @nmireland.bsky.social

It’s a Coptic GIF!! Thanks @laurenrndll.bsky.social for the sneak peak from Manuscripts and the Mind at @chesterbeatty.bsky.social #manuscripts #coptic

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

Stolen from the Latin teacher FB group.

An extra few days to see this amazing exhibit!

Due to popular demand the "Words on the Wave" exhibition will extend it's run until Monday 27th Oct. Don't miss your last chance to see these unique early medieval treasures at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare St. www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

Unreasonably delighted to be teaching a seminar on Luxeuil minuscule (one of THE most difficult scripts IMO) and to be asked for help with this word …

18th October is the feast of St Luke the Evangelist as depicted with his symbol and with the incipit page. St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 51: Irish Evangelary from St. Gall (Quatuor evangelia); 8th century; pp.128, 129 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

📣 Kemble Lecture 2025 #TOEBI #medievalsky 📜‘Myths and Monsters: Beowulf and the Etymologists’ 🗣️Prof. Richard Dance, University of Cambridge 📅Thursday, 13 November 2025, 5pm 🏫Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin 💻Register for Zoom: tcd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Our online Winter School is now open for booking! We’re offering online courses on a range of topics for those interested in pre-modern books. Courses begin on 26 January. Check it out 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Next Tuesday the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar is online. Kate Gerry will be sharing her work on the Guthlac Roll. Book 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Please, please, please, please write in your books (Not manuscripts, though)

This #medieval illuminated manuscript has been digitized and is now available online #openaccess ! 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #medievalsky 🏺 www.openculture.com/2025/10/the-...

Not only was I able to get my hands on a copy of Ker’s Catalogue, but it once, in fact, belonged to Pierre Chaplais.

Destroyed in Ashburnham house fire

Remember when I said I was done with Aldhelm? Ahahahaha. Oops.

Rare Book School is searching for a detail-oriented, self-motivated, and forward-thinking full-time Program Manager to assist in facilitating excellent educational programming. Review of applications begins 30 October. Details at rarebookschool.org/about-rbs/employment/ #Booksky

Love the fact that Dunstan’s Classbook is the header

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

"Oh, so you are still using your bizarre scroll? I just bought the newest technology, a printed book with a binding, wanna have closer a look"? Academic small talk back then, #academicchatter.

University Irish classes this year @department-asnc.bsky.social Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced, Conversation classes. Introductory Meeting 4pm, Thu 9 Oct, Room G-R04, English Faculty, Sidgwick Site, or contact @camwachowich.bsky.social Details of last year's classes below. Rath ar an fhoghlaim!

Me, in car in Ireland: Oh, Birr. That’s where the MacRegol Gospels were made. The other passengers: … wha… Bodleian Library MS. Auct. D. 2. 19

📣 The Earlier Middle Ages seminar @ihr.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Here's our autumn term schedule. First up is @rorynaismith.bsky.social on 8 October, giving the annual David Wilson Lecture (with @uclarchaeology.bsky.social). All welcome! Please sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Great to see BBC Countryfile featuring @davidwoodman45.bsky.social’s The First King of England and asking why Æthelstan is not a better known king like William the Conqueror

Félicitations à Charlotte Denoël 👏 lauréate du prix de la Dame à la licorne, décerné par la Société des Amis du musée de Cluny, pour l'ouvrage "Le Beatus de Saint-Sever". ▶️ bit.ly/48EN5NW

Medieval Literature faculty vacancy: Assistant Professor (Medieval British Literature), English Department, School of Arts & Sciences, Hunter College, CUNY cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Today is the final day for BretPal 1.0. Stay tuned for publication announcements and (hopefully) BretPal 2.0!

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/...

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

October is the time for sowing the seeds. #MedievalCalendar BL Yates Thompson MS 3; 'The Dunois Hours'; c 1439 CE-c 1450 CE; France (Paris); f.10r