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Tuija Ainonen @tainonen.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

When you stare into a manuscript and the manuscript stares into you

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IMEMS Durham @imems.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

There are still a few places left at our Carolingian Calligraphy workshop! 23-24 June 7 Owengate, Durham FREE (please note that you will need to provide your own materials - click the link for a list of what you'll need.) Find out more and book your place: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

🧵Is the piece of parchment too small? No problem – I’ll just stitch on another one to match! #Materiality #MssStudies

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Nerea Fernández Cadenas @nereavsk.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The documentary "L'odyssée des chiffres", on which I had the pleasure to collaborate, is now available!! @artefr.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=njcS...

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L'odyssée des chiffres (2/3) | À la conquête du monde | ARTE

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 14/04/2025

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/...

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Which means: when the forgery was made, the monastery was right in the middle of a major cultural, liturgical and graphic transition—and the script still shows signs of resistance to change.

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

After a close comparative study of 28 Visigothic-script documents from the Oña archive, I was able to demonstrate—with solid evidence—that this charter was almost certainly produced in the late 1090s.

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

The aim: to provide an approximate production date for the charter dated 30 June 1023 (BNP, coll. de Bourgogne, vol. 77, no. 90), in which Sancho the Great reforms monastic life at San Salvador de Oña according to Cluniac custom.

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

To answer my colleague’s question, I spent the last few days analysing every document in the same archival collection, including the one that sparked the consultation.

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

So even if the document is diplomatically ‘false’, it might still tell us a great deal—particularly if we focus on its material features.

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

We’re talking about a crucial period: the transition from the Hispanic to the Roman liturgy, a shift from local to international politics, and a major script change—from Visigothic to Caroline minuscule (see the per abbr.)

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Why does that matter? Because forging a document in 1033 is very different from doing it in, say, 1090—especially at such a pivotal moment in Iberian history. 😱

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

A few weeks ago, a colleague asked me for help dating a medieval document long considered a forgery. Yes, a forgery—but one with a precise date: the year 1033. And yet no one had ever asked: what if that date actually matches the likely time it was produced? 👇 #MssStudies

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Do sign up for this course!! If I were in London I wouldn't miss it (if it were online, I'd be the first to sign up!)

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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The framing of palaeography as a challenge to be overcome rather than a useful skill and a joyful exercise is concerning and devalues both this critical ability and of historical research work generally.

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Very much looking forward to this residential workshop on The Parish #Church in #Medieval Smaland (Sweden). I've been invited to share comparative insights from my research on medieval England and Wales, including especially www.thomasway.ac.uk. Lots of interest to @chppc.bsky.social too!

Our conference room in the beautiful Teleborg Castle

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Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

📜 There is still time to apply for the remaining few spots at the Digital Medieval Studies Institute UK edition, a one-day event on digital methods for medievalists, sponsored by Digital Medievalist! 📆 July 11 2025, University of Leeds ▶️ Info and registration: tinyurl.com/yeyhact4 #medievalsky

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Another personal sign — this time from the scribe of the document. Shaped like a puzzle piece! #PeopleAndWriting

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

¡Recién salida del horno! 🔥 Reseña del libro de Graham Barrett, Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia (711–1031), imprescindible para quienes estudian cultura escrita en la Alta Edad Media 🆓 👉 revistas.usal.es/uno/index.ph... #ManuscriptStudies #PeopleAndWriting @erc.europa.eu

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Barrett, Graham. Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia. The Written and The World, 711-1031 | Studia Historica. Historia Medieval

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Back from Easter break with a thought-provoking new guest post on our #PeopleAndWriting blog: Pilar Ledesma explores how labour, writing, and orality intertwine in medieval contexts. A must-read! 👉 peopleandwriting.usal.es/en/guest-pos...

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Guest post: Pilar Ledesma, “Labour, Writing, and Orality" - People and Writing

El proyecto People and Writing, Universidad de Salamanca, explora al ciudadano a través de la escritura en la Edad Media. ERC StG Research Project 2020-2025

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Fernando Luis Corral @flcorral.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

@usaloficial.bsky.social @esmicroproj.bsky.social La semana que viene estaré en el Colegio Público de Monterrubio para hablarles a l@s alumn@s del cole y sus compañeros del CRA de Castellanos y San Cristóbal del concepto de comunidad y valoraremos el patrimonio histórico del pueblo y sus aledaños 👇

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Continuing the #HolyWeek exploration of the Bobbio Missal, BNF lat. 13246 a Merovingian missal-sacramentary-lectionary in a fat little package with very questionable Latin. This week, many of my clergy friends will attend a Chrism Mass. Here are blessings of holy oils from the MS. #liturgy #latin 🧵

Bobbio Missal fol. 285v: single column of light brown text in more-or-less uncials, with a pale red heading and brown initial R ⅔ of the way down the page. The script is a little shaky but mostly clear.

Bobbio Missal fol. 286r: the script from 285v ends ⅓ of the way down the page and then a new, much messier hand picks up with a decorative initial D. The second hand's lines wander and much of the ink has spread or feathered.

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AaronM @aaronm.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

A rare example of a 12th C (catalogue calls it, I think a bit earlier) punctus interrogativus, or question mark. The clause starts 2 lines from the bottom, on the right "Petre amas me?" #Vatican Barb.lat.541 f.2v #MedievalSky

a crop of f.2v from Barb.lat.541. There is a single column of late Ottonian/Caroline minuscule with three words underlined in purple. Many words are abbreviated

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

(btw, in Iberia charters in portrait are more likely to be copies or related to legal disputes. Is it the same in your corpus?)

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I was reading the document and found it both amusing and intriguing that there are letters hanging from others, such as in nominatur on the first line. Is this a common feature in this type of script?

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Carmen GB (0000-0002-6819-9525) @manuscriptagraeca.eurosky.social · 10/04/2025

Hoy nos acompaña en el @cchscsic.bsky.social @ainoacastro.bsky.social de la @usaloficial.bsky.social . Gracias al Instituto de Historia #IH del @csic.es por invitarla

En la imagen varias personas atienden un evento en una sala. Una de ellas está de pie a la izquierda, junto a un ordenador y delante de una pantalla donde hay una presentación proyectada. En los lados, se ve a personas sentadas alrededor de una mesa escuchando a la persona que está de pie

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Gracias por la invitación y por la acogida! Ha sido genial, y más veros 😊

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

✍️ Ever wondered how to read medieval Spanish manuscripts? Join our Introduction to Medieval Spanish Palaeography course! Uncover the secrets of script from 800–1500 🕵️‍♀️📜 ⏳ Deadline to register is fast approaching – don’t miss out! 🔗 ies.sas.ac.uk/events/intro...

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Introduction to Medieval Spanish Palaeography

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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

So excited that @goingmedieval.bsky.social’s film ‘Medieval Apocalypse’ is now available to watch on History Hit! I had an absolute blast sharing the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social Douce Apocalypse (MS. Douce 180) for the show and all apocalypse nerds out there 😈🔥

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CSIC @csic.es · 07/04/2025

💡Nace la nueva infraestructura europea de investigación en ciencia del patrimonio El #CSIC coordina el nodo español de E-RIHS, que aplicará un enfoque innovador en la conservación de los bienes culturales ➡️ tinyurl.com/3hvb2nym

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Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

As expected, the NEH DH Advancement Grant funding the VCEDitor 2.0 project has been terminated by DOGE. VCEDitor 2.0 continues development of software to model & visualize codex manuscripts. As described in our award announcement, the funded work would include... 1/6 viscoll.org/2024/08/28/v...

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VCEditor 2.0 has received an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies is thrilled to announce that the VisColl team has received a three-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Advan…

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James T Palmer @jtpmedieval.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Apocalyptic Monsters #medievalsky There was no way it wasn't going to be fun, was there? 😊

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Now available in OA: My article on 'Studying the networks and the mobility of clerics between Ireland, Britain and Francia (c. 640–750)' in the volume on early medieval mobility edited by @laurysarti.bsky.social and Helene von Trott zu Solz. Congratulations to the editors! #MedievalSky

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Carmen GB (0000-0002-6819-9525) @manuscriptagraeca.eurosky.social · 09/04/2025

¡Es hoy! Si estás por #Córdoba no te lo pierdas

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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

🧵 Is this a Dire wolf... 🤔? No... Our @erc.europa.eu Beasts to Craft team led by Élodie Lévêque uncovered the true identity of mysterious hairy covers on #medieval #Cistercian #manuscripts - they're ... 👇

Image fo a seal - by someone that has not seen one - from Valenciennes, ms 0320, Thomas de Cantimpré, Albert le Grand. Liber de natura rerum, vers 1280, 230 × 156 mm. Folio 116, Image : IRHT https://patrimoine-numerique.ville-valenciennes.fr/ark:/29755/B_596066101_ms_0320 (http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/7876).

The original colour of the skin (before it degraded) - but what is it? (image Elodie Leveque)

Mock-up of the original book binding by Elodie Leveque. Note that the fur is too dark in this mockup (image Elodie Leveque).

In 2016, the team in 2016 first confronted the collection at Troyes - but what are the bindings made of? Image of five people, one sitting, discussing a large bound medieval text held by supports in a modern library.

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Did medieval scribes listen while they wrote? 🧐🎶 Marcus Jones unravels the hidden ties between music and script in "Music and writing practices across N. Iberia, Catalonia, France and Northern Italy (10th c.)" Read more: 🔗 peopleandwriting.usal.es/en/guest-pos... @erc.europa.eu #PeopleAndWriting

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Guest post: Marcus Jones, “Music and writing practices" - People and Writing

El proyecto People and Writing, Universidad de Salamanca, explora al ciudadano a través de la escritura en la Edad Media. ERC StG Research Project 2020-2025

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I can't wait for these!!

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

🚨 Beneventan alert! 🚨 BAV Barb.lat.421 in @aaronm.bsky.social's list of latest Vatican mss digitized, is in Beneventan script, though not the highly-polished and regular version we're used to. Space for an A initial at the start of the Rule was left unfilled. digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Bar...

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Seems like we could use a saint. Eldrad, Abbot of Novalesa Abbey, d. c. 844, corresponded with Florus of Lyon about the textual criticism of the Psalter. Florus's letter to Eldrad ended up in the Ripoll Bible, which is an excuse to look at that extraordinary MS. See what I did there? #medievalsky 🧵

Vat lat 5729 1v: the opening of Jerome's Letter to Paulinus (Preface to the Bible), with big initial F full of interlace.

Vat lat 5729, 261v: beginning of the letter of Florus to Eldrad, with initial D in the margin. 3 columns of text.

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