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16c drafts of the 39 Articles of the Church of England - @corpuscambridge.bsky.social - MS 121. Inky paw prints of an anonymous cat … Some things never change.

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Fragment from the Latin translation of Aristotle's De Anima, recycled in a MS binding (Kiel, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. ms. Bord. 21). Retrieved thanks to @hsprtl.bsky.social dibiki.ub.uni-kiel.de/viewer/resol...

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Update De Negen Besten. Vandaag bezoek van historicus van Landschaftsverband Rheinland. De Besten in Keulse hanzezaal moeten dateren na 1349, volgens bouwhistorisch onderzoek. Heel reëel dat de Zutphense Besten dus het oudst zijn. Ze krijgen natuurlijk een rol tijdens www.middeleeuwen-symposium.nl.

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A tiny, intensely illuminated Italian book of hours, newly acquired at the Boston Public Library. Copied in or around Brescia at the end of the 15th century, this book has never been in an institutional collection and will soon be digitized. Now BPL MS q Med.303 bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S7...

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

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Incredible marginal face/manicule/face-icule, in a manuscript of Boethius’ De consolatione philosophiæ. Copied in England in the twelfth century and now MS Dd.6.6 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social #manicule

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Op deze dag in 1634 legde kapitein Ortega zijn schip voor anker achter een koraalrif, waarmee het verhaal van de Snorkels en Ortega begon. ("Ik ontdekte het scheepsjournaal van kapitein Ortega in een klooster dat uitkijkt over de zee...")

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“This is nice behaviour, that I write to you again and again, and you pay no attention to me.” This almost 4,000-year-old Babylonian letter in clay is proof that we have been finding ways to say “per my last email” for some time

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Amusing little initial D, from Robert Sheringham’s ‘De Anglorum gentis origine’ (Cambridge, 1670). The copy belonging to Lincolnshire lawyer & antiquary Maurice Johnson, founder of the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society. From my shelves.

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How do we sleep while our beds are burning? @gettymuseum.bsky.social MS Ludwig XIII 7, f. 274v

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🌹💌 #ValentinesDay throwback to 1564, when Claes van Bronchorst, canon at Voorne, scribbled 'Amor vincit omnia (Love conquers all) in a manuscript (KB, ms. 130 B 21). Virgil’s Eclogues continues: 'nos et cedamus amori'—so why shouldn’t we give in to love too? The Hague, KB, ms. 130 B 21, flyleaf.

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Page populated with P's! Pretty! Not because the scribe imitated the p-language: the text is from Aristotle's Problems, in which every section opens with "Propter quid..."! (Admont, Benediktinerstift, Cod. 345, f. 79r) manuscripta.at/diglit/AT100...

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I adore this little chap at his writing desk, hiding in his initial Q for a little over five centuries. In a missal printed by Peter Liechtenstein at #Venice in 1520. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Norton.a.35.

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Thanks to a recent collaboration with the Flemish Heritage Libraries, several manuscripts from the Teseum collection (Tongeren-Borgloon) are now available online. You can browse these musical treasures in full from the comfort of your home via the links in the digital image bank collectie.teseum.be

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The three living and the three dead is a common motif of gothic art, recalling the transience of earthly life. In the church of Maria Himmelfahrt in Chammünster is a fine Bavarian example, dating to the second half of the fifteenth century.

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Followers gezocht. Nu we niet meer actief zijn op X (algemeen FS-account 150k followers) en Mastodon helaas niet het volume van het oude Twitter lijkt te krijgen, hoop ik dat BlueSky die plaats kan innemen. Social media is toch een goedkope manier om publiek te informeren. pls rt

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The idea that higher ed’s job is to train people to meet the demands of “the market” is farcical. These demands are fickle and trendy. College takes four years and is built on slow moving foundational principles. This is magical rhetoric to direct where the money goes.

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'The lamb is among all beasts the most sweet and innocent...It hurts no man with teeth, nails or horns and all that comes of him is good and profitable...' Surely the scribe was considering the parchment of that very folio - made more noticeable by the hole - as he wrote this... [Harley 6149].

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Pastedowns recycled from a 14th-c MS of Aristotle's Physics in Latin. With enough space in the margins to add your own thoughts and annotations! (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, 3 an: Dg 2971) resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0000C3BC0...

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But fear not, some underground ruins can still be visited !

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The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Just came across this ⏬. (Un?)surprisingly, the Wikipedia-page reads like an introduction into vernacular translations of medieval romance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_...

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Thinking back to Radini's 2019 article about the nun with lapis lazuli in her teeth. I remember being sceptical about whether licking the tip of your brush could cause such accumulation. I can now confirm however that there is *nothing worse than splayed hairs in a brush when trying to paint details

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Sunday. #medievalsky @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 17333, f. 4v

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#SquirrelsOfBluesky

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Fantastic follicles!

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Wigalois (left) and his father Walewein (Gauvain, right): it's a vibe. Leiden, UB, LTK 537 (1372)| Leiden, UB, LTK 195 (14th c.)

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Getting ready to teach my medieval manuscripts class this semester. First week of class we learn...the beautiful, condensed language of catalogue entries. I made this annotated graphic of one to show everything we learn from this brief entry.

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Le partage de Verdun (843) :

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Fascinating, but eek🫣:

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"We tend, I think, too often to think of hope as the same as optimism, but it isn’t. Things aren’t inevitable - they won’t necessarily get better, but neither will they necessarily get worse. ... Hope is about possibility; it requires people to do things, even in the face of it all falling apart."

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Did you know the largest city North of the Alps after Paris in the 14th c. was not London or Cologne, but Ghent, County of Flanders.

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Tonight is Burn’s Night and to celebrate here’s a fantastic medieval recipe for haggis! 🐏🎉 @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Ashmole 1439, f. 35r

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This is fabulous news for #histmed, too. Among the treasures is VossLatQ1, begun in the early 11thC in Beneventan & completed in Caroline near the end of the century. The annotations are to die for, b/c they capture the creation of the Dioscorides alphabeticus. This is where the scripts change.

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Oh wow oh wow oh wow LOOK AT THESE AMAZING CAROLINE MANUSCRIPTS! The 9th-c. MS known as the "Leiden Aratea" from Charlemagne's court (Zodiac! Constellations! Earth-centric planetary system (sort of!)!) is so f'ing incredible it deserves its own thread. hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:...

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Great news from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Their University Library has bought a splendid new Buchelius manuscript describing a series of Utrecht castles eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A.... The digital images are to be published next month.

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"The most important group of medieval manuscripts from the Special Collections of the University Libraries of Leiden (UBL), the Codices Vossiani Latini, is now available in open access via the Digital Collections." www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01...

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The fabulous @emilyscartoons.bsky.social isn't just on this app, but is bringing the #Nuntastic to boot! 🤩

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To celebrate Winnie the Pooh Day yesterday, here’s a fantastic medieval Pooh bear in the border of a 15th-century Breviary! 🐻🎉 @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Canon. Liturg. 215, f. 223r

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Who's the Saint with the sidekick Pig? (Saint Anthony Abbot) You're damn right! Who's the Saint tempted with wealth, glory, and desire? (Saint Anthony Abbot) Can you dig it? Boulogne-sur-Mer, BM, 0089 initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/decor/103619

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Q: How to add more glamour to your fifteenth-century manuscript fastly, #bookhistory nerds? A: By glueing a printed image on the page.

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I recently prepared a page from a medieval manuscript (CCCC, MS 143, fol. 28r) for a TV programme. Here's a look behind the scenes at how it was prepared, using tradition techniques. I made four examples to show the different stages of production #bookhistory #medievalmanuscripts #medievalsky

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