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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Only three more added to Mary of Hungary's profile today, but every little bit helps! booksofduchesses.com/owners/Mary%...

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Title: Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia, Governor of the Netherlands

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

An unexpected addition today: Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (niece of Isabella of Portugal, duchess of Burgundy) and her prayerbook, ONB Cod. 1942: booksofduchesses.com/owners/Elean...

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Another few new books today AND another woman owner: Eleanor of Austria, dowager queen of Portugal and France. booksofduchesses.com/owners/Elean...

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 17/08/2026

Cambridge's @theul.bsky.social recently uploaded almost 1000 new images of unconserved, undescribed Cairo Genizah fragments, which means there's a good chance you can find something here that no one has read for hundreds of years: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/search?Facet...

Mosseri IX.70.2, a small, creased, stained, rectangular scrap of rag paper with 7 lines of Hebrew script in light brown ink. The fragment sits against a blue background with a yellow label showing the scale (fragment is about 4" by 3")

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Only one new addition to Mary of Hungary's library today, but small progress is still progress! booksofduchesses.com/owners/Mary%...

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Another five new additions to Mary of Hungary's (enormous) library - we're currently at vol. 402 😶 booksofduchesses.com/owners/Mary%...

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Today's newest addition takes us significantly further east than we usually get to go: Bona Sforza, queen of Poland and her Book of Hours, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Douce 40, are now up on BoD. booksofduchesses.com/owners/Bona%...

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today, we added Jeanne of Bar, countess of Marle and Soissons, as well as her connections to her granddaughters Marie and Françoise of Luxembourg (and their connection to each other). booksofduchesses.com/owners/Jeann...

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yesterday, we added our first book (in two volumes at two different institutions, of course) to Jacqueline of Bavaria, countess of Hainaut. Check it out here: booksofduchesses.com/owners/Jacqu...

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Just a reminder that if you have a publication (recent or old) on medieval women's books that isn't cited on BoD and should be, you're very welcome to become a Guest Editor so that you can rectify the omission 😁

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

News, not new! Sigh! In related *news*, two more additions to Mary's reading list today:https://booksofduchesses.com/owners/Mary%20of%20Hungary,%20queen%20consort%20of%20Hungary%20and%20Bohemia/ She'll have well over 500 books associated with her on BoD by the time this is done!

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

And NEP 60 now recognized as RBME 38-I-10: booksofduchesses.com/books/RBME%2...

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

In extremely cool new, the ongoing cross-referencing has resulted in the realization that the Chronicles of Holland, Zeeland, and Frisia formerly known as NE 1168 in fact still exists today as RBME O-II-20. Check it out for yourself: booksofduchesses.com/books/RBME%2...

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Things are starting up again in dribs and drabs over here. Current project (for reasons associated with @medievallitura.bsky.social's work) is Mary of Hungary's books from her 1558-59 inventory (largely distinct from the several hundred that she inherited from Margaret of Austria)

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

We are so excited! We just finished a training session with Sarah Dyer Magleby, our newest Guest Editor who's adding the bourgeois Marie Turquam and her books to the database! Keep an eye on this page: booksofduchesses.com/owners/Marie...

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Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Happening now at @imc-leeds.bsky.social : the first of three panels in memory of Dr Johanna Green. Speakers in the first panel will speak about one of Johanna’s greatest passions: Old English literature.

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Get your 300–500 word abstracts in by 30 September 2025!

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Another unexpected addition to BoD today as the result of other research: Marie de Baussay, lady of Champdeu and Samarcolle, who shared ownership with her husband of a 1424 copy of Pontus et Sidoine according to the scribe's colophon booksofduchesses.com/owners/Marie...

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

We love stumbling across new-to-us women. Today's prime example: Marguerite de Croy, lady of Wavrin (1508-49), associated with two books for sure and potentially a third: booksofduchesses.com/owners/Margu...

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Although last night's reading did not advance the paper it had been ILLed for, it did add another couple woman from the bourgeoisie to BoD's list of ladies! Meet Thomasin (Barrington) Hopton and her granddaughter Thomasin (Sidney) Ganell: booksofduchesses.com/owners/Thoma...

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

And also the mysterious Maid Maria, recipient of a copy of the Erle of Tolous: booksofduchesses.com/owners/Maid%...

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

And today, it's ONB Cod. 1897 linking Margaret Tudor and her sister Mary, to whom she gave this Book of Hours as a gift: booksofduchesses.com/books/ONB%20...

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Always a good time when research for other things results in additions to BoD. Today, that's the beginnings of Anne of Bohemia (booksofduchesses.com/owners/Anne%...) and Mary I of England (booksofduchesses.com/owners/Mary%...).

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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

📢 #CfP #OldEnglish #medievalsky #SELIM35 📜The 35th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM 35) 📅24th-26th September 2025 📲Details: selim35.uma.es/call-for-paper ⌛️Deadline: 30 March 2025

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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

JUST ANNOUNCED! The Winterthur Library Fresh Perspectives on Collecting Symposium highlights the work and voices of the next gen of rare book, manuscript, and special collections professionals, scholars, and enthusiasts. Tune in on Zoom March 18 & 19! 📜

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The Bibliographical Society of America

The website of the Bibliographical Society of America, a 501(c)(3) non-profit membership organization and learned Society devoted to the study of the material text.

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Another new addition (and something is definitely off with the code of our book count...): Isabel de Zuniga y Pimentel! booksofduchesses.com/owners/Isabe...

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

More minor progress: we've added two more books to BoD, both of which are associated with Yolande de Lalaing, lady of Brederode and Vianen: booksofduchesses.com/owners/Yolan...

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Conference prep leads to fortuitous discoveries: newly entered into BoD is Jeanne Filleul, demoiselle d'honneur of Margaret Stewart and a poetess in her own right: booksofduchesses.com/owners/Jeann...

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Ideally, we want as much information as possible when we enter a book into BoD, but sometimes it just doesn't exist! Take, for instance, the case of BnF fr. 2154, which has almost unknown women's names inscribed in it: booksofduchesses.com/books/BnF%20...

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

We have another new addition to BoD: Anne de La Tour d'Auvergne, countess of Auvergne! Check her out: booksofduchesses.com/owners/Anne%... And if you know of other of her books, please tell us!

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

It has been a tumultuous couple of months here on the back end of things, but we're finally (slowly) getting back in the digital saddle: today, we added Margret Vigfusdottir and our first pin in Iceland! booksofduchesses.com/owners/Margr...

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

It is perhaps a little late in the game, but is there enough interest to pull together a panel of speakers on/using Books of Duchesses for #IMCLeeds2025?

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S.C. Kaplan @medievallitura.bsky.social · 25/07/2024

Thrilled to let you all know that I'll be a presenter for the 2-day workshop on Medieval Women's Networks happening on Zoom Oct. 17-18! Come listen to me talk about @booksofduchesses.bsky.social and learn about projects by @aboyarin.bsky.social, @yvonneseale.bsky.social, and others!

Poster for event Medieval Women's Networks: Exploring Techniques and Tools for Digital Analysis, with information on organization and participants, encouraging interested parties to register at https://tinyurl.com/DHMedievalWomen

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 20/07/2024

Exciting news: Margaret of Austria's full inventory as edited by Margaret Debae is finally fully entered into BoD! booksofduchesses.com/owners/Marga... Now to chase down all of the other associated inventories 😅

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

Did you finish or examine a book history dissertation in 2022 or 2023 at any level (undergrad, masters, doctoral)? Please submit the citation info to the form below! The next SHARP bibliography will be the 2022-2023 Dissertation Bibliography! (Plz reskeet!) #BookHistory forms.gle/XbTJNUTSy7Tp...

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SHARP Thesis/Dissertation Bibliography Submission Form

Use this form to submit citation information about book history theses and dissertations completed between 2022 and 2023 Guidelines Dissertations and theses about book history (interpreted broadly, if...

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S.C. Kaplan @medievallitura.bsky.social · 14/07/2024

EBS Session 6: Lost MSS and Printed Books. Between fire (Cottonian Library, 1731), theft, and losses over time, one wonders about titles mentioned in wills and inventories, books lent and lost, ghost copies, fabricated citations w/ no correspondence to primary sources icms.confex.com/icms/2025/pa...

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Paper Submission Loading - 2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies

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S.C. Kaplan @medievallitura.bsky.social · 14/07/2024

EBS Session 4: Women’s Books: Owners, Makers, Patrons can explore any aspect of women’s books: ownership, patronage, books written for or directed to women, annotations, ownership marks, heraldic insignia, evidence of reading, etc. icms.confex.com/icms/2025/pa...

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S.C. Kaplan @medievallitura.bsky.social · 14/07/2024

EBS Session 1: Old Books, New Technologies explores uses of tech in eliciting information about MSS and books. Also envisioned as a sharing session with papers on useful repositories and other online resources scholars need to know about. To submit a proposal, go to: icms.confex.com/icms/2025/pa...

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S.C. Kaplan @medievallitura.bsky.social · 14/07/2024

I'm not EBS's official person #onhere, but I've been asked to post the #cfp for #Kzoo2025, so here they come! 6 EBS sessions have been accepted for the 60th ICMS Kalamazoo (May 8–10, 2025). All open for proposals. Volunteers session chairs welcome! Proposals due 9/15. See earlybooksociety.org

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 14/07/2024

So, so close to finishing the entries from Debae's edition of Margaret's 1523 inventory (about 50 left!) AND that article got accepted and will come out late this year or early next. Appreciating the small joys!

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 29/06/2024

Another week, another 40 or so additions to Margaret of Austria and Mary of Hungary's book collections on BoD! booksofduchesses.com

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 08/06/2024

Picking up steam on new additions to BoD (helps to have a deadline by which a source needs to be returned...) - another 20 books added to Margaret of Austria, Mary of Hungary, and related women this week! booksofduchesses.com/owners/Mary%...

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AMARC @amarc.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

A database of Polish medieval manuscripts - including MSS in Polish repositories, of Polish origin/provenance, lost manuscripts, and fragments - has now launched! Take a look 👀 manuscripta.pl 📜

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Manuscripta – Przewodnik po rękopisach średniowiecznych w zbiorach polskich

Pelplin, Biblioteka Diecezjalna im. Biskupa Jana Bernarda Szlagi, 4 (8)

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

And last but not least, 5) Crediting of Guest Editors on Book and Owner pages! Go poke around, check it out, and drop us a line if you'd like to get involved :)

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

2) Streamlined search (no more picking between showing books vs. owners) - NB, it's still a little slow, because processing soft dates as strings is tricky, but we're doing our best! 3) The ability to search by Language 4) Parent texts (easier to trace the spread of translations now!)

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

I am delighted to announce that BoD has gotten a few upgrades over the past month, funded by a UCSB Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Funds grant! These include: 1) Auto-fill suggestions on the search boxes on the home page (though you can still search your own key term[s] just fine)

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Adrienne Williams Boyarin @aboyarin.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

I am thrilled to announce that a new edition of my MEDIEVAL ANGLO-JEWISH WOMEN project has just been released! Work will continue for the next 5 years, expanding and employing ever more precision, but it is already an excellent resource. Please do check it out: majw.uvic.ca/index.html. Pass it on.

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

After an over-long delay, I am delighted to announce that Queen Sophia of Bavaria's books are now part of the data in Books of Duchesses, and her owner page can be found here: booksofduchesses.com/owners/Sophi.... Thank you Věra Vejrychová for translating the pertinent inventory entries!

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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

Here is one of the things I am working on now. Co-organizing this event, hybrid, in April at my alma mater. Excited about the program. Great subject. Fantastic line-up of speakers. Plus it's the Anniversary Year (25/35) for the RGME. Much to celebrate. manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2024-sp...

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2024 Spring Symposium at Vassar College -

The 2024 Spring Symposium at Vassar College celebrates accomplishments for manuscript and early-book studies in Special Collections at Vassar and elsewhere.

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Books of Duchesses @booksofduchesses.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

We were delighted to find our project mentioned in the most recent @bibsoc.bsky.social newsletter! Hope you've had a chance to check it out 😊

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