Back to the Lindisfarne Gospels facsimile volumes. I wonder if there is any chance at all of a reprint of the commentary volume. It contains an absolute treasure trove of detailed paleographical observation by Julian Brown, not least a letter-by-letter description of the main script, 🧵 #medievalsky
January 15, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Back to the Lindisfarne Gospels facsimile volumes. I wonder if there is any chance at all of a reprint of the commentary volume. It contains an absolute treasure trove of detailed paleographical observation by Julian Brown, not least a letter-by-letter description of the main script, 🧵 #medievalsky
Gleanings from the Saints+Manuscripts year: teachable manuscripts, a short 🧵. At the very beginning of the project, MSS turned up that went straight into my paleography teaching files. The very 1st MS turned out to have the most gorgeous prickings: bsky.app/profile/cari...
#medievalsky #bookhistory
#medievalsky #bookhistory
Today's teachable codicological tidbit + calendar of saints entry: Today is the feast of Paulinus of Aquileia. Here is the opening of his Liber exhortationis in St. Gall 138, p. 2, with *very* clear pricking and ruling. The MS was written at St. Gall ca. 900. #manuscripts #codicology #paleography
January 13, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Gleanings from the Saints+Manuscripts year: teachable manuscripts, a short 🧵. At the very beginning of the project, MSS turned up that went straight into my paleography teaching files. The very 1st MS turned out to have the most gorgeous prickings: bsky.app/profile/cari...
#medievalsky #bookhistory
#medievalsky #bookhistory
Medievalists who were on the internet in the last milennium may remember the wonderful resources shared in the first medieval listservs, long before digitized anything. My very favorite was Carl Berkhout's bibliography on modern Anglo-Saxonists, from the 16th to the 20th centuries. #medievalsky 🧵
January 10, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Medievalists who were on the internet in the last milennium may remember the wonderful resources shared in the first medieval listservs, long before digitized anything. My very favorite was Carl Berkhout's bibliography on modern Anglo-Saxonists, from the 16th to the 20th centuries. #medievalsky 🧵
Paleography peeps: I'm collecting examples of premodern descriptive or evaluative (sc. judgy) language about script. E.g. Boniface requesting a book "claris et absolutis litteris scripti" because he can't read "minutas litteras ac connexas" anymore. #medievalsky 🧵
January 7, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Paleography peeps: I'm collecting examples of premodern descriptive or evaluative (sc. judgy) language about script. E.g. Boniface requesting a book "claris et absolutis litteris scripti" because he can't read "minutas litteras ac connexas" anymore. #medievalsky 🧵
🧵‼️👇 #bookhistory #medievalsky
Last BPL new acquisition of the year is a copy of the very rare gradual printed by Johann Emerich for Lucantonio Giunta in Venice in 1499. This is the largest book (by dimensions) printed during the 15th century and it required a custom-manufactured paper stock to print. 1/8
December 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
🧵‼️👇 #bookhistory #medievalsky
It's the feast of John the Evangelist! 🕯️ For his day, here are a few In Principios in chronological order. 🧵 First up, Luxeuil ca. 700, with its characteristic challenging minuscule. The manuscript is BNF lat. 9427, a lectionary. Look at that I running the whole length of the page! #medievalsky
December 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It's the feast of John the Evangelist! 🕯️ For his day, here are a few In Principios in chronological order. 🧵 First up, Luxeuil ca. 700, with its characteristic challenging minuscule. The manuscript is BNF lat. 9427, a lectionary. Look at that I running the whole length of the page! #medievalsky
Brief report after very brief exploration: this is a good interim interface and thank GOD the catalogue entries are back. I immediately printed several I need. On the interface, they have my very favorite thing, a chronological sort. Short 🧵 follows. #medievalsky
An interim version of the Explore Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue is now available through the BL website: searcharchives.bl.uk
It contains all the catalogue data from the eve of the 2023 cyberattack, and features embedded links to all currently available digitised content within the records.
It contains all the catalogue data from the eve of the 2023 cyberattack, and features embedded links to all currently available digitised content within the records.
December 17, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Brief report after very brief exploration: this is a good interim interface and thank GOD the catalogue entries are back. I immediately printed several I need. On the interface, they have my very favorite thing, a chronological sort. Short 🧵 follows. #medievalsky
We’re thrilled to announce that issue 3 is up & features a special cluster on Netflix’s The Decameron!m! The full issue is available here: www.arthuriana.com/tsw-issues! #pubhums #medievalsky #arthuriansky
And now, a quick teaser 🧵 of the pieces in this issue… /1
And now, a quick teaser 🧵 of the pieces in this issue… /1
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December 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
We’re thrilled to announce that issue 3 is up & features a special cluster on Netflix’s The Decameron!m! The full issue is available here: www.arthuriana.com/tsw-issues! #pubhums #medievalsky #arthuriansky
And now, a quick teaser 🧵 of the pieces in this issue… /1
And now, a quick teaser 🧵 of the pieces in this issue… /1
Today is the feast of Leander of Seville, d. 600/601, brother of Isidore and buddy of Gregory the Great! GG Papa dedicated his Moralia in Job to Leander. And do I have a manuscript for you! This is BL Add. 31031, mid-8th c., in the "Laon a-z" script. Lots of #paleography coming up. 🧵 #medievalsky
February 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Today is the feast of Leander of Seville, d. 600/601, brother of Isidore and buddy of Gregory the Great! GG Papa dedicated his Moralia in Job to Leander. And do I have a manuscript for you! This is BL Add. 31031, mid-8th c., in the "Laon a-z" script. Lots of #paleography coming up. 🧵 #medievalsky
Appel à contributions | Les frontières du sacré. Matérialiser les seuils, de l’Antiquité à la fin du Moyen Âge
📆 Date limite de soumission : 31 mai 2025
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#AncientBlueSky #MedievalSky 🧵⤵️
📆 Date limite de soumission : 31 mai 2025
🔗 journals.openedition.org/frontieres/2...
#AncientBlueSky #MedievalSky 🧵⤵️
October 8, 2024 at 10:11 AM
Appel à contributions | Les frontières du sacré. Matérialiser les seuils, de l’Antiquité à la fin du Moyen Âge
📆 Date limite de soumission : 31 mai 2025
🔗 journals.openedition.org/frontieres/2...
#AncientBlueSky #MedievalSky 🧵⤵️
📆 Date limite de soumission : 31 mai 2025
🔗 journals.openedition.org/frontieres/2...
#AncientBlueSky #MedievalSky 🧵⤵️
Neat mini-🧵 on the #BeneventanScript! #MedievalSky
Let's do a saint! Today is the feast of Barbatus of Benevento, d. 682. When I saw "of Benevento" in the calendar I knew we'd be able to find something in Beneventan script for his day, though of course from centuries later. This is Vat.lat.1197, late 11th/early 12th c. #medievalsky #paleography 🧵
February 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Neat mini-🧵 on the #BeneventanScript! #MedievalSky
Today is the feast of Prudentius of Troyes, d. 861. Prudentius, né Galindo, wrote inter alia the Flores Psalmorum, an abbreviated/paraphrased Psalter for a grieving noblewoman, possibly Empress Judith. Vat.lat.84 is has the text in Caroline Minuscule and Reg.lat.334 is in Beneventan. #medievalsky 🧵
April 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Today is the feast of Prudentius of Troyes, d. 861. Prudentius, né Galindo, wrote inter alia the Flores Psalmorum, an abbreviated/paraphrased Psalter for a grieving noblewoman, possibly Empress Judith. Vat.lat.84 is has the text in Caroline Minuscule and Reg.lat.334 is in Beneventan. #medievalsky 🧵
For St. Luke's day, let me reup this thread on the Laudian Acts, with shoutout at the bottom of the thread to the Selden Acts. 🕯️🧵 #medievalsky #paleography
Next up for the Conversion of Paul, a *much* older manuscript. The Laudian Acts, Bodleian Library MS. Laud Gr. 35, was copied late 6th/early 7th c., possibly in Sardinia. It has the Latin and Greek text of Acts parallel. Here is a whole page with the dramatic moment, fol 72r. 🧵
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
October 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
For St. Luke's day, let me reup this thread on the Laudian Acts, with shoutout at the bottom of the thread to the Selden Acts. 🕯️🧵 #medievalsky #paleography
Coming in at the last minute with today's Saints+Manuscripts post. Odo, 2nd abbot of Cluny, died in 942. 🕯️ Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque d'agglomération, Ms. 350 is an 11th-c. MS from the abbey of Saint Bertin containing Odo's sermon on the translation of St. Benedict. #medievalsky 🧵
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Coming in at the last minute with today's Saints+Manuscripts post. Odo, 2nd abbot of Cluny, died in 942. 🕯️ Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque d'agglomération, Ms. 350 is an 11th-c. MS from the abbey of Saint Bertin containing Odo's sermon on the translation of St. Benedict. #medievalsky 🧵
At 60 Karl Freiherr zum Stein had two problems: He missed a purpose and he faced old age. So he turned to the field of history and noticed the lack of good source collections. #medievalsky
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December 4, 2024 at 8:36 AM
At 60 Karl Freiherr zum Stein had two problems: He missed a purpose and he faced old age. So he turned to the field of history and noticed the lack of good source collections. #medievalsky
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He wanted his interpretation of the inscription engraved on the bottom of a precious medieval silver bowl being confirmed and wrote "May this request be graciously received". #goethe #modernhistory #medievalsky
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December 5, 2024 at 9:15 AM
He wanted his interpretation of the inscription engraved on the bottom of a precious medieval silver bowl being confirmed and wrote "May this request be graciously received". #goethe #modernhistory #medievalsky
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The talented Tanya Bentham & the Opus Anglicanum will at the #IMC2025 Craft Fair for all your medieval textile needs! 🐉🧵 Buy an IMC momento and be sure to visit some of Tanya's socials: opusanglicanumembroidery.com
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#MedievalSky
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#MedievalSky
April 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The talented Tanya Bentham & the Opus Anglicanum will at the #IMC2025 Craft Fair for all your medieval textile needs! 🐉🧵 Buy an IMC momento and be sure to visit some of Tanya's socials: opusanglicanumembroidery.com
instagram.com/opusanglican...
opusanglicanum.wordpress.com
#MedievalSky
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opusanglicanum.wordpress.com
#MedievalSky
St. Mildred, continued! Her feast day was yesterday, but I had more manuscripts than I could get to. Let's look at BL Cotton Vespasian B XX, an early-12th-c. dossier of materials relating to St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, including texts by Goscelin of St. Bertin about Mildred. 🧵
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
February 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
St. Mildred, continued! Her feast day was yesterday, but I had more manuscripts than I could get to. Let's look at BL Cotton Vespasian B XX, an early-12th-c. dossier of materials relating to St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, including texts by Goscelin of St. Bertin about Mildred. 🧵
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
After the violent reign of Magnus Barefoot, there was an era of peace in Man & the Isles. According to the chronicle for 1102 Olaf 'reigned 40 years. He was a peaceful man, he had all the kings of Ireland and Scotland allied with him, so that no one dared to disturb the kingdom.' #medievalsky 1/2 🧵
April 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
After the violent reign of Magnus Barefoot, there was an era of peace in Man & the Isles. According to the chronicle for 1102 Olaf 'reigned 40 years. He was a peaceful man, he had all the kings of Ireland and Scotland allied with him, so that no one dared to disturb the kingdom.' #medievalsky 1/2 🧵
On my way back to Poland, I stopped in Naumburg to see its cathedral, which combines a late Romanesque nave with French Gothic choirs. The western choir, dating from around 1250–1260, was one of the first Gothic realisations in the Holy Roman Empire.
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#medievalsky
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#medievalsky
August 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
On my way back to Poland, I stopped in Naumburg to see its cathedral, which combines a late Romanesque nave with French Gothic choirs. The western choir, dating from around 1250–1260, was one of the first Gothic realisations in the Holy Roman Empire.
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#medievalsky
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#medievalsky
1/🧵 Pottery at the ROM to show my students from University of Toronto! This time it is pottery from Mamluk Egypt and Syria (c. 1250-1500) and pottery from Iran c.800-1300.
🏺 #Archaeology #ArchaeologyOfStuff #Ceramics #IslamicArt #MedievalSky @romtoronto.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social
🏺 #Archaeology #ArchaeologyOfStuff #Ceramics #IslamicArt #MedievalSky @romtoronto.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
1/🧵 Pottery at the ROM to show my students from University of Toronto! This time it is pottery from Mamluk Egypt and Syria (c. 1250-1500) and pottery from Iran c.800-1300.
🏺 #Archaeology #ArchaeologyOfStuff #Ceramics #IslamicArt #MedievalSky @romtoronto.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social
🏺 #Archaeology #ArchaeologyOfStuff #Ceramics #IslamicArt #MedievalSky @romtoronto.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social
Today is the feast of Isidore of Seville! Several MSS to share of the 1000+ that survive; I'll put them in separate posts. St. Gall 226 consists of surviving leaves of a *papyrus* codex from later 7th-c. southern France! This is the only papyrus MS in the St. Gall Stiftsbibliothek. 🧵#medievalsky
April 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Today is the feast of Isidore of Seville! Several MSS to share of the 1000+ that survive; I'll put them in separate posts. St. Gall 226 consists of surviving leaves of a *papyrus* codex from later 7th-c. southern France! This is the only papyrus MS in the St. Gall Stiftsbibliothek. 🧵#medievalsky
A fabulous 🧵, showing what happens when you a) add in gender analysis and b) collaborate w/ a talented historian/geographer like @greenleejw.bsky.social. Wow! #MedievalSky #EarlyModernSky #skystorians
Yes, it was so fun to collaborate on these diagrams! At first glance they may *look* like fairly ordinary "most history books have things like this" diagrams, but a lot of thoughtful & even subversive & progressive choices can go into such diagrams. The politics of diagramming, a thread: 1/?
I just got my copy of @adapalmer.bsky.social’s new book, INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE, which I’m really looking forward to reading.
But my first stop in the book is right at the front, to see the family crests and diagrams I drew for the book. And they look great. I’m tickled.
But my first stop in the book is right at the front, to see the family crests and diagrams I drew for the book. And they look great. I’m tickled.
February 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
A fabulous 🧵, showing what happens when you a) add in gender analysis and b) collaborate w/ a talented historian/geographer like @greenleejw.bsky.social. Wow! #MedievalSky #EarlyModernSky #skystorians
I was going to work on a historical text today but I am side tracked by this Viking Age burial at Ballateare, IoM. The sword is discussed in my next book but the real curiosity is the skeleton of a female in the upper layers of the burial mound #medievalsky 🧵 1/5
April 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I was going to work on a historical text today but I am side tracked by this Viking Age burial at Ballateare, IoM. The sword is discussed in my next book but the real curiosity is the skeleton of a female in the upper layers of the burial mound #medievalsky 🧵 1/5