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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure all manuscript scholars want to second that vote of thanks. MLGB3 goes beyond what the hardcopy Medieval Libraries of GB could provide. It was a sad day when it had to be taken down; it is great to see it back and functioning well. And it is going to get better! Congratulations to the team.

Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 1d

The rebranding from MLGB3 to MLGB is a case of undersell: the print volumes of _Medieval Libraries of Great Britain_, overseen by Neil Ker and Andrew Watson, were succinct, with the detail stored on index cards. MLGB3 made that material public, and that is helpfully retained in this version.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 1d

Have you been bereft without MLGB3? It was the essential and much-used online listing of extant books from British medieval libraries. Those good people @bodleian.ox.ac.uk have been working away and have just re-launched it, with the promise of more in the year ahead:
mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain

mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 2d

That dating...

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 5d

Back in Christ Church for a day to reflect on where it began, with the change from St Frideswide's Priory to Thomas Wolsey's Cardimal College five hundred years ago this year.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 9d

Come and join our friendly community @memsunikent.bsky.social:

Robert Gallagher @hwaetspur.bsky.social · 9d

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate

Are you passionate about early medieval Britain? Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing? If yes, then you may be interested in this f...

jobs.kent.ac.uk

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 9d

TODAY TODAY TODAY

Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 16d

Here's a treat for manuscript- and fragment-lovers everywhere: @manuelmunoz.bsky.social will speak at Senate House Library @ies-sas.bsky.social Tuesday, 30th September, 5:30pm on his research into fragments at Keio University. To attend in-person or online, register at ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 13d

Sounds as if she is learning from the Liberal Democrats.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 13d

The last one certainly is (you might be able to make out the captions at top of leaf). Others combined nota drawings with mnemonics; the reader's manicula is written with some skill but these...

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 13d

No, this is too much.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 13d

I am beginning to find it difficult to take you seriously.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 13d

I'm not edgy. This is my happy face (@magdalenoxford.bsky.social MS. lat. 186).

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 14d

I would have thought a better question would be how many 'i's there are in 'artificial intelligence' - but then we know AI is all about superego.

Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 14d

Don't believe it, Uni kids- use your precious noddles

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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 15d

And our FIVE YEAR teaching and research position in Early Modern Europe and the World is now live..... Please do circulate and/or think about applying. I truly love our department! @kingshistory.bsky.social

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 16d

Oh, Peter, just when I was imagining I could sit quietly at home... Thank you for the alert!

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 16d

For you, Lisa... I will ask the speaker if he is willing.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 16d

Having returned from my travels, I am catching up with news and am very sorry to hear of the death of the former librarian of Oxford's Christ Church, John Wing. He was a quietly supportive and shrewd presence, with a prodigious memory. And a penchant for chocolate
chchconnections.org/news/the-hou...

HENRY JOHN RICHARD WING

Former Head Librarian, Henry John Richard Wing (known as John), has sadly passed away. John retired from Christ Church in 1994. His funeral will be at Oxford Crematorium on Wednesday 10 September.

chchconnections.org

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 16d

Here's a treat for manuscript- and fragment-lovers everywhere: @manuelmunoz.bsky.social will speak at Senate House Library @ies-sas.bsky.social Tuesday, 30th September, 5:30pm on his research into fragments at Keio University. To attend in-person or online, register at ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 19d

Heiligenkreuz.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 20d

I am feeling over the hill. Because I am Vienna at the moment.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 21d

At least you are not a moose.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 21d

Not just any old screwups, the graviores ones.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 21d

A bit modern but not a bad location for a palaeography conference. Thanks to our hosts in Vienna, @oeaw.bsky.social, for 23rd CIPL congress.

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · Aug 31

A day of papers to mark the 500th anniversary of the foundation of 'Cardinal College' College on Oxford: 4 October 10-5 with @dunning.bsky.social @drdavidrundle.bsky.social Sarah Foot, Mishtooni Bose among others.
www.chch.ox.ac.uk/events/saint...

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · Aug 29

Sorry, it's stuck in 1899.

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