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Art Historian I Medieval and Early Modern, PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS Renaissance Teaching Fellow, Edinburgh Uni Franco-Scottish cultural connections: art, architecture and material culture. https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs https://bryonycoombs.com
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The Book of Kells, dating from around 800, has been digitized at @tcddublin.bsky.social: digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/works/hm50tr726?locale=en Enjoy the beauty of the insular majuscule script and the insular illuminations! #medievalsky

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I'm giving a talk on the medieval monastery at Lismore for the Scottish Society if Northern Studies this Thursday, 27 February! www.ssns.org.uk/events/ssns-...

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What do all these books have in common? They were all printed, published, or sold by women! Our recent list 'Women Printers, Publishers, Booksellers' celebrates the contributions of women to the book trade across four centuries: https://buff.ly/4i6AHrl

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Delighted to learn that 'Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance: Scotland, France & National Identity' is being released, much sooner than expected, in paperback in April 2025! Making it much more affordable. It is available for pre-order with discount code attached! @edinburghup.bsky.social

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More on the experiential learning project; good to think about time and practice. Currently thinking about posture, bodily complaints and constraints (recorded by scribes mainly) and altered states of time. Lots of interesting threads to do with slowness, patience, muscle memory & flow state

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Always good to see this splendid fellow when visiting @corpuscambridge.bsky.social …

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Some manuscripts really make you aware of their materiality. I wish I could do some biocodicological work on the ms I looked at today. The hair follicles & remaining hair was so visible, quite peculiar, not like the sheep parchment mss I am more used to - would love to know the species? (CRC ms 175)

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A piece I wrote about Oxford Corpus Christi College MS 129 for Feb 2025’s issue of ‘Sundial’. www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/alumni/sundi... This 16th century Irish Medical Manuscript was written by An Gilla Glas Ó Caiside. See also leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man... @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social

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There’s still time to book for this online short course next month. It is for anyone who wants to work with texts in medieval French 🇫🇷📖📝 #medievalsky👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/events/trans...

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'Michael' has some explaining to do... 🤔 [never leave your manuscript in children's reach] (Harley 6149)

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Our Global Premodern Art History MSc students have arrived in Rome for our annual study trip @edincollegeofart.bsky.social

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This is game changing for Scottish archives. www.trove.scot

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Today I am looking at precious stones & their properties: in one of my Scottish manuscripts, but also drawing in one of my favourite illuminations in Latini's Le livre du Trésor. Each stone is paired with a personification of virtue & set in a Rouen street scene [Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 160]

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Slow progress with the January calendar page...

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📣ANNOUNCEMENT📣 Lund Humphries is delighted to announce the formation of the Lund Humphries Foundation for Visual Arts, a Charitable Incorporated Organisation with a mission to advance knowledge and appreciation of the visual arts: www.lundhumphries.com/pages/lund-humphries-foundation-for-visual-arts

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Books in the Burrell....

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Exciting discovery of an ownership inscription of Humphrey of Gloucester in a manuscript copy of Boccaccio's Decameron!

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Tomorrow I am teaching a different course looking at French visual culture & we are examining the Aix Annunciation. Links between Barthélemy d'Eyck's work and the van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece are most apparent in the attention to books, manuscripts, and writing paraphernalia...

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And here is the link to the gallery: www.europeana.eu/it/galleries...

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Teaching on the Ghent Altarpiece (1432) and it is a painting full of books, words and literary associations - which is perhaps one of the reasons why I, and so many others, can never get enough of it! There is always something new to investigate! 📚

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Mistakes happen! If you forget to insert that one sentence in a paragraph the solution is easy. Just draw a dude in a hood and he will pull the missing text to the right place with a piece of rope! Walters Ms. W.102 Book of Hours, late 13th/early 14th C. www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/Walters...

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I'm looking forward to giving this lecture on Friday. If you're in Utrecht, do come along!

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Ironic that I writing about time for this and by the time I finish *all* the many things that need done at the weekend there is just not enough time time left with good daylight to get anywhere...😔 oh to have more time⌚

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Some reading for a wet Sunday - thoughts inspired by @britishlibrary.bsky.social's Medieval Women exhibition.

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Some lovely news to end the week: I have been awarded a Fellowship by the Historians of Netherlandish Art to see the Anselm Adornes book over the line. I am hugely grateful for this support🙏. Its a delight to continue to work on the manuscripts & literary interests of Adornes and James III 📚

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