#SpecialCollections Image-A-Day📚⛏️⛰️ Elements of Geology (1846) by Charles Lyell (born 14 Nov 1797) #OTD 2d American Edition (#HistSci Collections University of Oklahoma Libraries) #HistGeol #SciEdu

'I, Ippolita Maria Visconti... wrote this little book in my own hand around the time of my childhood and under my tutor Baldo, 8 July 1458' The words of Ippolita Maria Sforza in her handwritten copy of Cicero's On Old Age, made when she was only 14. blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

Our book is here! In it, we demonstrate how premodern Bibles constantly acquired new meanings and functions as they moved through time and space, and were touched by the hands of makers, readers, and users. brill.com/edcollbook/tit… (Image: Arjan van Dijk)

This is very exciting - Westminster's archives are a treasure trove. If you want to be the newest recruit to fragment studies, do drop me a line. (And thank the gods of CHASE DTP for making it possible).

#medievaltwitter 9th Annual Late Medieval France and Burgundy Seminar will take place on 6-7 December at Leeds! Many thanks to Institute for Medieval Studies History at Leeds French at Leeds Leeds Uni Library Treasures Gallery for their support. Register by 1 December: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval/event…

{New book} Female Performance and Spectatorship in a Medieval Nunnery: The "Elevatio" and "Visitatio sepulchri" of Barking Abbey in Practice by Aurélie Blanc #medievaltwitter #openaccess arc-humanities.org/9781802702415/…

There are many incredible personalities in our Medieval Women exhibition. But this is one of our favourites. We would love you to get the chance to meet her for yourselves. medievalwomen.seetickets.com/timeslots/filt… #MedievalWomen

Séminaire 'Les p’tits déj’ Humanités numériques de l’IRHT' (hybride) | 📜 L’imagerie multispectrale au service des études sur les manuscrits 📆 6 dec. 2024, de 9h30 à 12h30 (Paris) ▶️Info et inscription: digigloses.hypotheses.org/2577 #medieval #DH

Happy Feast of St Catherine of Alexandria! A great saint for all those involved in the intellectual life, studying and teaching! She defeated the best pagan philosophers of her day, converting many while she was imprisoned before her martyrdom.

A couple of potheads discovered in the margins - 1320s, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.754, ff. 96v and 100v

Certain to be fab!

It is argued that 'claricia' who is depicted swinging from the initial 'Q'(uid) at the beginning of Psalm 51, is the illuminator. Walters Ms. W.26, Claricia Psalter; late 12th - early 13th century; Germany (Augsburg); f.64r

You haven’t eaten unless you’ve eaten Medieval!

{Sale} 25% off with "ARC24" Europe and the End of Medieval Japan by Mark Hudson arc-humanities.org/9781802701838/… #medievaltwitter

My article in Manuscript Studies 9:2 is out: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53923 In it, I theorize manuscript for #3D capture, define digitization and play history bug. Way too much fun! This volume jammed with provocative research, from analysis of inks to lost manuscripts to visual history

Chanukah (Hanukkah) starts at nightfall on 25th December this year. Here's a marginal illustration of a man lighting the Hanukkah lamp. BL Add 26968; Forli Siddur; 1383 CE; Italy, Central (Romagna, Forli); f.101r BL_HebrewMSS BL Asian and African

A Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage Edited by Andrew Jotischky and William J. Purkis - The central focus is on how pilgrims prepared for & negotiated their journeys; what they saw and did at shrines; & how they understood their journeys. #medievaltwitter arc-humanities.org/9781641891790/…

{Recent book} Material Encounters between Jews and Christians: From the Silk and Spice Routes to the Highlands of Ethiopia Edited by Bar Kribus, Zaroui Pogossian and Alexandra Cuffel arc-humanities.org/9781641893879/…