We are very excited to share our new programme for Michaelmas Term 2025, with a variety of events in Oxford and online on the theme of 'Science and Discovery'.

Please note that some venues have yet to be confirmed.

We look forward to seeing you!

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Happy September! As we prepare a crop of events for the new academic year, look out for our Michaelmas Term programme. We will share it with you soon.

Image: the September harvest in the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. Chantilly, Musée Condé, MS 65, 15th century, folio 9v.

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"Fragments of Devotion" is live!

Discover a sensory history of illuminated manuscript cuttings in this online exhibition curated by MA students at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with the Barber Institute of Fine Arts and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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@brasenoseoxford.bsky.social MS 91 - Genealogy of the kings of England to Henry VI - is on display +
Jim and Dilon presenting the amazing research they have done on it!

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Connoisseurship and Medieval Manuscripts: A Roundtable, will take place this Friday, 6 June, at 4 pm. Join us at the Weston Library for a lively discussion with Emily Guerry, Peter Kidd and Michael Michael!

Image: Sydney Cockerell, The Gorleston Psalter (London, 1907), pl. IX.

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We are looking forward to welcoming Irene Van Eldere (Leiden University) and Elvira Miceli (Wolfson College, Oxford) to this week's work-in-progress session, held in the Hawkins Room at Merton College on Friday 30 May, 5pm.

Brussels, Royal Library (KBR) Ms. IV 12, f. 19v-20r.

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After our hands-on gold workshop last week, we move online for our next event: our termly reading group on Friday 23 May at 5pm BST, this time discussing connoisseurship.

We hope to see many of you there!

Image: Auguste de Châtillon, Portrait of Léopoldine Hugo, 1835.

@liber-ray.bsky.social took the prize for the best dragon!

@mssprovenance.bsky.social excellent work

The workshop on medieval book illumination was a huge success. Thanks @saracharles.bsky.social for another wonderful session!

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The countdown for our gold workshop with @saracharles.bsky.social has started!
We couldn’t be more excited!

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One day perhaps.....Pope Joan in a procession giving birth

BL Royal 16 G V; Giovanni Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation; c.1440; France, N. (Rouen); f.120r

The Manuscript of the Week is the Book of Uí Mhaine, RIA MS D ii 1. The contents of this 14th C manuscript are described in a marginal note as ‘bolg an tsolathair’ (bag of mixed content/miscellany).
Read more & find a link to the @dias-isos.bsky.social digital copy here: www.ria.ie/collections/...

Training in early Frankish palaeography is not just for those working on this period, it will help you understand Late Roman, Carolingian, and Protogothic scripts& to approach cursive writing from later centuries too.
It’s a doorway to many centuries of Latin palaeography!
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Thank you!

Some of the stars of the show this evening in Merton College Library.
Thank you @juliawalworth.bsky.social for the wonderful visit!

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Amazing evening in Merton College Library analysing this beauty! Thank you @juliawalworth.bsky.social
and @oxfordmedievalmss.bsky.social

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This term's programme is now available!
Come and join us if you are around Oxford!

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Gearing up for our visit to Merton College Library today at 5pm. Stay tuned for more events soon.

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