Countdown to 2022 *3*. Theme of the day: believing in magic. For this final #watermarkwednesday of the year, a valiant dragon from a mid-fifteenth-century manuscript (MS C91). #ksrlcountdownto2022 #kansasmanuscripts #dragons

Countdown to 2022 *2*. Theme of the day: remembering. For this final #tbt of the year, the very first image I posted here, from the opening of Virgil's Aeneid (MS E20). Remember also, Aeneid I.203: "forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit." #ksrlcountdownto2022 #kansasmanuscripts

Countdown to 2022 *1*. Theme of the day: full of possibilities and potentials.✨ Closing the year with a #newacq: Purchased in Rabat, Morocco donated to Spencer Library. Looking forward to finding out more about it in the New Year! 🎉🥳 #ksrlcountdownto2022 #kansasmanuscripts

Read about the recent conservation treatment by my awesome colleagues of Spencer Library’s MS D23, titled Dae Bangwangbul Hwaeomgyeong (The Sutra of Garland Flower of Great Square and Broad World of Buddha). #kansasmanuscripts #ksrl

Happy #PiDay and #idm314--the International Day of Mathematics! Enjoy this eighteenth-century manuscript from Spencer Library (MS K4), titled "Diagrams to Euclid & Archimedes as published by Andrew Taquet" and full of impeccable diagrams! #kansasmanuscripts #manuscriptmonday

One of the manuscripts I've been working on, from the library of Buxheim Charterhouse. What remains in KSRL, MS E35 are the ghosts of the repurposed parchment text guards--offset onto the insides of both boards, with fragments missing. #KSRL #kansasmanuscripts #fragmentfriday

I recently had the occasion to unroll our roll manuscript Pryce MS J1 at Spencer Library! A whopping 3.25 meters--almost 11 feet--at its full glory! #ManuscriptMonday #KSRL #KansasManuscripts

#throwbackthursday to the first manuscript I’ve ever worked on! The absolutely remarkable Brotherton MS 100 of University of Leeds, currently on display at Leeds Lib Galleries. So lucky to be giving a lecture on this 15th c. roll on Monday. We have much to talk about! #leedsmanuscripts

Happy #MayDay! The calendar page for May in Leeds, Brotherton Collection MS 1 depicts hawking (or falconry) as the labour of the month and the lovers in embrace as the zodiac sign of Gemini. Explore more here: explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collec… #Leedsmss

Fab thread! Wait until you see what’s inside this #ugliestbuilding!

could someone help us track this #watermark? I thought the T B at the bottom would make it easy, but nothing so far at memoryofpaper.eu maybe because it is a late thing? It's a 19th cent. Persian #manuscript #filigranes eCodicesNL DREAMSEA manuscripts &c. #مخطوطات