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Jennifer

@bibliojenni.bsky.social

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Librarian at Hereford Cathedral. Librarian cliche & loving it. Expect books, tea, crafts & cats. All views my own, in case it needs to be said.

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Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · Jul 30

Here, have a smiley carrot to brighten your life. (This is my mom's picture, not mine.) #TinyJoys

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Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · 1h

🥹 How lovely!

Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · 11h

Made my jumper about two years ago. Spent ages choosing colors and not sure it's a combo I have seen before. So very much feeling like a trendsetter to walk past this in a shop window!

Me in dark green jumper with yoke of diamonds in spring green, light blue, copper and ice blue.

Toast website with mohair jumper, dark green with wide multicoloured fair isle yoke

Close up on middle of Toast jumper which has diamonds in spring green and light blue.

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Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · 1d

Printed a tote bag for each daughter. Apparently they will take a week to dry!

Two small tote style bags. One is white and has printed images of animals playing instruments, with a border and bird coming out of two leaves. Shades of pink, yellow, red, orange. The other is yellow with many green leaves at the bottom and a bird on a branch singing into a blue moon.

Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · 1d

Lino in the library! Very fortunate to have a series of workshops to accompany our exhibition Sacred Creatures.

Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · 2d

Le sigh, forgot the picture. I'm not tired, you're tired.

Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · 2d

One of the most stressful fortnights of the year, so by next Friday I will be at least 75% tea. #TeaUp

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Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · 3d

Happiness is switching while listening to a lecture about parchment.❤️

Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · 4d

Woop!

Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 4d

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

Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · 5d

Wrote a strongly worded email, which achieved the desired result, and yet I still feel guilty about it. Sigh.

Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · 5d

Just thinking about Taylor Swift's Easter eggs and how much fun it would be to get her to come do our escape room. I could totally make that happen, right? I mean, a sister in Kansas City has to come in handy, right?

Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · 10d

Squee!

Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 10d

Der IGEL!

Lothar Meggendorfer really knew how to evoke lifelike movement! This book from the Olin Library special collections at Wash U is only one spectacular example! #movablebooksociety
#Hedgehog #paperengineering

Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks, I will have a look!

Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · 11d

Are these parenthesis? Book was printed in 1520. Any thoughts @liamsims.bsky.social?

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Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social · 11d

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/...

A tale of two parchments

In this talk, Dr. Jiří Vnouček discusses differences in species choice and membrane preparation of 'Insular' and 'Continental' parchment used for book-making in the early Middle Ages.

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Anna James @superteadrinker.bsky.social · 12d

I'm off work for a couple of months and looking for an in-person volunteering post for about half a day a week starting now to give a bit of shape to my week.

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Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · 12d

Days with incunabula are always better. I love the little stick animal at the back of this crowd around Augustine. A glorious early title/half title page from 1494. HCL C.8.14 (ISTC ia01308000)

Title page of Augustine's sermons. Some hand written additions.

Close up of opening illustration from Augustine's Sermons. Augustine in foreground, small people and stick animals in background.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 19d

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

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Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · 19d

#NotMyCat, but we call him Todd. He likes to hang around our house.

Cat lying on a narrow strip of wood over a gate. One leg is dangling off the side.

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Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · 26d

Forgot to tag @nmireland.bsky.social, who clearly worked super hard to put it together.

Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · 26d

I had read about the similarity between the Hereford Gospels and some of the St. Gallen manuscripts, but WOW. Look at those swirls! So grateful for the opportunity to go see Words on the Wave last Friday.

Incipit page of St Gallen Schriftsbibliothek Cod. Sang. 60

Hereford Cathedral Library P.1.2 Hereford Gospels Mark incipit.

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Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · 28d

Spent a bit of time fangirling over Isidore's Etymologies, a key text source for the Mappa Mundi. 😍

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Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · 29d

Saturday morning reading about the Faddan More Psalter. Back home tomorrow and things will look a bit different. 😂

The Faddan More Psalter: A special supplement to Archaeology Ireland.

Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · Sep 12

Good morning, Dublin.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · Sep 11

Early in the pandemic I spent 2 terrible weeks in isolation, unable to breathe or walk across the room. Expecting my temp. to spike, & knowing that then I'd have to go to the hospital. Worrying I was dying.

In the middle of this anti-vax bullshit, I thought it was worth saying what it felt like:

Poem titled "Gnawed." The text of the poem reads:

Gnawed

Kalends of April, 2020

I can feel the rat,
dark and angry,
buried
in the furrows of my chest,
trying hard to pull apart
the fiber of my breathing.
Twisting. Writhing.
Clawing
with a feral-hearted hatred
at the bonds that sinew
soul to skin.
I cannot walk across the room without
the rasping of its teeth
along the inside of my ribs,
or speak without it screaming
in the shallows of my breath.
I can only lie beyond
the borders of my life,
checking the thermometer
a hundred times a day
as all the while
I am being
eaten
from the inside out.

– John Wyatt Greenlee

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Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · Sep 11

Knitting on public transport makes me very happy, which is a good thing because I am on this bus for 4.5 hours.