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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

queck, queck, queck BL Add 49622, f.190v @blmedieval.bsky.social

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

So, a propos of my recent nib haul, I decided to properly orgnanize them, label them, and test them. We're talking buying special bead organizers from hobbycrafts, level of organizing LOOKIT MY NIBS!!! (not shown: two full-gross boxes of vintage nibs, which are perfectly fine as they are.)

Four boxes with little compartments, each one holding dip pen nibs, each one labeled neatly. In total there are 61 compartments.

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Glasgow Scribes @glasgowscribes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

As a general rule, I don't believe in gatekeeping art appreciation, but the fact remains that there are right ways and wrong ways to appreciate calligraphy. And one of the absolute wrongest wrong ways is to point out spelling errors.

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Guilbneach le Murchadh Dòmhnallach / Curlew by Murdo Macdonald Seann bhothan-fòn, Baile Mòr, Uibhist a Tuath In an old phone box in Balemore, North #Uist #Gaelic #poetry with English translation, #calligraphy in foundational hand

The poem next to payphone and a sign saying the payphone will be removed

The old phone box by a single track road

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Over on tumblr, some beautiful words moved me to break out the copperplate.

no animal was harmed during the making of this video. not one. for the few minutes that we were shooting film, the guns of each hunter fell silent. the industrial bolt throwers observed a moment's peace and the jaws of every predator hung softly open. no fish bit any hook and the bait worms held off on drowning only until the cameras stopped. the tails of ruminants ceased to flick just as their attendant flies, in unison, landed on their flanks to catch their tiny breaths. a spider instantly stopped winding silk around a wasp, patiently waiting for the caesura to end. a young veterinarian paused with the syringe in their hand. somewhere, a colicky baby stopped biting its mother's nipple and nursed happily for the very first time. we're sorry. we're sorry it couldn't have been longer. we didn't know this would happen.

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their tiny breaths. a spider instantly stopped winding silk around a wasp, patiently waiting for the caesura to end. a young veterinarian paused with the syringe in their hand. somewhere, a colicky baby stopped biting its mother's nipple and nursed happily for the very first time. we're sorry. we're sorry it couldn't have been longer. we didn't know this would happen.

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Glasgow Scribes @glasgowscribes.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Turns out that lots of what we think we know about manuscript colour preparation might be a Chortlemuffin effect. majnouna.substack.com/p/false-red-...

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False Red, Fake Blue

More scrutiny of medieval handbooks

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It is the last Friday of the month, which means the Cathach of Columcille (RIA MS 12 R 33) is on display from 10am - 4.30pm. The Cathach is the oldest extant Irish manuscript of the Psalter and very likely the earliest example of the form of Irish writing known as insular majuscule script.

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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Got cute about Seddon’s 1695 “Pen-mans Paradis,” which I got to hang out with at the San Francisco Public Library last month

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Glasgow Scribes @glasgowscribes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

@calligraphyoutside.bsky.social , a follow-up if you ever feel like switching from cephalopods to ungulates.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I was going through some old photos and found this video I made about using cellugel to treat red rot. Please enjoy. youtube.com/shorts/N8eM0...

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Treating old bindings with cellugel to stop red rot

YouTube video by cpccohen

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Glasgow Scribes @glasgowscribes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

What nicer way to end the day than to spend half an hour at Coffee With a Codex -- a half-hour show-and-tell over zoom at 5pm (UK time), hosted for free by the University of Pennsylvania library, every Thursday! Schedule here, if you want to join in: www.library.upenn.edu/events/coffe...

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Coffee with a Codex

An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise ...

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The completed pattern, now painted in blue, red, and yellow bister inks. This is Pattern 99 from volume 3 of from Serap Ekizler Sönmez's 3-volume masterpiece, 'The Geometric Language of Anatolian Seljuk Art' (Anadolu Selçuklu Sanatının Geometrik Dili) #IslamicGeometricArt #IslamicArt #humanArt

A 5-pointed star formed from tiled shapes built around 5-fold symmetry, coloured in concentric pentagonal bands of turquoise, ochre, and maroon. To one side is a handsomely bound, large hardback book with a ribbon bookmark, entitled Anadolu Selçuklu Sanatının Geometrik Dili, by Serap Ekizler Sönmez.

A 5-pointed star formed from tiled shapes built around 5-fold symmetry, coloured in concentric pentagonal bands of turquoise, ochre, and maroon.

A close-up shot of the shapes tiling the large star from previous photographs. Pointy 10-pointed stars are coloured in turquoise, fat 10-pointed stars are coloured in ochre, and bow-tie shapes in maroon separate the bands of ochre and turquoise shapes.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Next in our #SIMSseries on LJS 26, a 13th century astronomical and mathematical manuscript written in Italy:: How do scribes deal with a hole in the parchment? This 13th century scribe outlined the hole in red on one side, and simply wrote around it. 🔗: bit.ly/41EAKFa

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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The utter beauteousness that is the very small English penitential book, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 482 (eleventh century). Fits in a pocket ready to use at much-needed moments of pastoral care.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I've had this in my 'quotes' folder for a while, but felt inspired tonight. Thank you, @ultragotha.bsky.social.

White copperplate calligraphy on red paper. Text reads

Hail, Pterry, full of rage, the muse is with thee. Blessed art thou among authors, and blessed is the fruit of thy brain, Discworld.

Hail Pterry, Father of Great A'Tuin, who channeled rage into compassion blessed are thy words.

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Glasgow Scribes @glasgowscribes.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

A propos of the below, if you've ever wondered exactly which muscles ache the next day when a middle-aged person spends an afternoon on her hands and knees cutting mounts and cellophane wraps to prepare lots of calligraphy exhibits for display, I have alllll the excruciating details.

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Glasgow Scribes @glasgowscribes.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

We put up our annual exhibition in the Mitchell Library foyer yesterday! This thread contains photographs (kindly taken by @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social, one of our members) of the exhibits. If you are bothered by light reflecting off the cellophane, I guess you'll just have to go in person!

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Glasgow Scribes @glasgowscribes.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Hello, Bluesky! We are here and posting now, and look forward to telling you about all calligraphic things in #Glasgow (and beyond!)

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