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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have completely fallen for Edmund Waller's 'To the Lady Isabella Flynn on her exquisite cutting trees in paper'

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A little bouquet of surprise flowers in the endleaves of British Library Additional MS 15227, Fol.101v to Fol.102r 🌼🌸🌷🪻🌻

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

if you say "The Museum of English Rural Life" three times in a mirror, nothing happens. but if you speak it a fourth time, a man in a smock appears and asks you to incant the poem on the side of this rather menacing jug

harvest festival jug featuring a rather spooky sunshine design

the reverse of the jug, featuring a poem. it reads: "Harvest is come all
busy now in making
of the Barley mow if
you the Barley mow
neglect of Good ale you
can not then expect"

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Gold posy ring, c. 1595-1633 “Mutuall consent gives true content” Dead right. Maker’s mark of Robert Tyte of Salisbury (British Museum)

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And just in case you can't bear to travel without vinegar, p.122

Close up of Arts Treasury
A way always to be provided with Vinegar for Sauce wherever you travel

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Variations on a theme of tea-staining your homework? Arts Treasury, 1688, p.119

Detail from Arts Treasury
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To make new writing look old, and of long standing
Take a dram of Saffron and infused it into half a pint of Ink, and suffer it to warm over a gentle fire, and it will cause whatever is written with it to turn yellowish and appear as if of many years standing

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today's rabbit hole (or tree labyrinth). Love the little gardener 🥹❤️🪏👒 Ralph Austen, A Treatise of Fruit Trees or Spiritual Use of an orchard, 1653

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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One of my new favourite verse letters 😁

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Paper cut! Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 14: Fol. 23r

Photo of a page of a manuscript with a big diagonal slash across the text

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Scratching dog, Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet, 1473 - 1477

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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

One of my all time favourite commonplace books ❤️

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

An extra John Heywood poem- or a misattributed nineteenth-century forgery? @caitlinburge.bsky.social looks at a mysterious supposed variant of 'Give Place You Ladies' and John Payne Collier's forgeries in Folger Va339 and the imitation of Henrician poets stemma.universityofgalway.ie/give-place-y...

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

We still have room at all of it: ink workshop, palaeography training, Steven May lecture, mini-symposium, and transcribathon. There will even be sandwiches. Join us!

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Meghan Kern @meghankern.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Come figure it out with us. @stemma.bsky.social is hosting an open (to everyone) Early Modern palaeography training session on the afternoon of 23rd July, at @universityofgalway.bsky.social in the Arts Millenium Building, Room AMB-G012

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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Submitted a new article for the first time since June 2024 😁🥳

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Manuscript event! ECR funding! Join us!

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

As promised! The @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social has generously provided support for two days of public-facing ms activities this July. The events will be free of charge, and there is funding for ECR travel (defined as ≤7 years post-PhD, with preference for those not yet in permanent employment). 1/

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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Google heatwave hallucination??? 🫠

Screenshot of a google search

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Searchbox: No more of thy bewitching follies
AI Overview
Message received loud and clear. Consider the theatrics officially ended!
From here on our we can keep things completely direct, no frills, and straight to the point.
Let me know what you'd like to do next:
- are you looking to plan a trip, restaurant booking, or event in your area of Lancashire?
- do you need help with a task, calculation, or writing project?

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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Serving Hat Portrait realness. Already so deeply camp

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

STEMMA will be hosting its inaugural Manuscripts Week this year starting 20 July. Watch our socials for details, including opportunities to get involved.

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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

'Scattergood' feels like an excellent name for a commonplacer @stemma.bsky.social

Screenshot from STEMMA database
TEXT
Add. MS. 44963
Commonplace book of Anthony Scattergood

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

When you really need brunch 🥓🍳

Screenshot from the STEMMA database
TEXT
folger
79766: For Bacon I long, whom long I have sought
Sloane MS 1873

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

What's your reading style? Over stimulated spaniel. 🐕 Robert Burton Anatomy of Melancholy

Photo of text
TEXT
This rouing humour... I haue euer had, and like a ranging Spaniel that barked at euery bird he sees, leauing his game, I haue followed all sauing that which I should, and iustly complaine, and truly... that I haue read many books but to little purpose, for want of good method, I haue confusedly tumbled outer many Authors in our Libraries, with small profit, for want of art, order, memory, iudgement

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Does MS actually stand for Mouse Snack? 🤔🐭 Summary Catalogue, Vol.III, p.321

Photo of an excerpt from the summary catalogue
TEXT
Many of the poems are mutilated by mice having gnawed the outer lower margin

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

They just don't write love poetry like they used to 🪰❤️ (Thomas Carew, 'When this flie lived', in Rosenbach MS 239/27)

'Of a fly flying into his mistress's eye'

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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Morning affirmations. Is this the most miserable manuscript I've ever worked on? Maybe. Excited to present my new research from the @stemma.bsky.social project at the British and Irish Spenser Seminar today

Power point slide. Five quotations from a manuscript arrayed at jaunty angles against a white background.

TEXT
A miserable saying
Death is one of God's best gifts to the believer
Be sober, Beware
The Day of Death Better than the Day of Life

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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Beyond delighted that my first book is under contract with @edinburghup.bsky.social 🥳🎉✨

Picture from contract
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...copyright in the Work) in a literary work at present entitled: The Rhetoric of Early Modern Petition: Suing for Grace (the "Work"), to be published in the series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture under rh berries editorship of...

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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Love some poetic waste paper ☕ Marginal note recorded in Summary Catalogue description of Rawl. poet. 25 @stemma.bsky.social @bodleian.ox.ac.uk 'The Originall Copy is by mee. Given me by my Brother Mr John Woodford who bought it among other broken books to putt up Coffee pouder, as I remember.'

Photo from the Summary Catalogue

'The following notes by Woodford are on foll. ii, 131v: 'The Originall Copy
is by mee. Given me by my Brother Mr John Woodford who bought
it among other broken books to putt up Coffee pouder, as 1 remember.'

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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

HELP WANTED!! @stemma.bsky.social I am working on Folger MS V.b.370, a self-proclaimed 'Rich Cabinet'. The compiler clearly loved giving their MSS ostentatious titles, my favourite being 'My Merchant Ship Laden with Variety of Wares'. Ever come across these MSS titles below? Please get in touch 1/3

Photo of the title of Folger MS V.b.370 written in large italic and framed by two squiggling lines

TEXT: 'a Rich Cabinet or Common Place Book

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Meghan Kern @meghankern.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Casually using the @stemma.bsky.social dataset as an Early Modern RIP.ie Several epitaphs today, including this one: 'On Mr John Davnant Who died on Thursday, Aprill the 18 1622 being thee Mayor of Oxford. Dedicated to the Worthlesse and Witlesse Townsmen' [Folger MS V.a. 103, f. 22r] #folgerfinds

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

In code? Is it just how words start to look at 4:30 on a Friday afternoon? [Data from Bodleian MS Add. B. 106, f. 28v]

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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The incredible double hammer beam angel roof in the Church of St. Mary & All Saints, Willingham, Cambridgeshire 🤩 Dating to the 15th century, or slightly earlier, it was relocated here in the early 17th century, probably from nearby Barnwell Priory.

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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Was here on choral business. Had NO idea it was Milton and Bunyan's old haunt!!!? ❤️

Black wooden church door framed by a white stone arch with a golden cherub at the center. Above is an arched window in a red brick wall. A white blossom tree leans into the left hand corner of the photo

Photo of information poster

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St Anne and St Agnes
The church of St Anne (mother of the Virgin Mary) and St Agnes (4th century Roman martyr) was first recorded in about 1137. Its unusual double dedication was adopted in the 15th century. Only the 14th century tower survives from the medieval building.

The church was largely destroyed by fire in 1548 and 1666. It was rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren from 1676-87 in the form of a Greek cross.

Past parishioners have included John Milton the poet, John Bunyan, author of the Pilgrim's Progress and John Wesley, founder of Methodism, who preached here in 1738.

Enemy action in 1940 damaged much of the church. Restoration was only completed in the 1960s. The parish forms part of the United Parish of St Vedast-alias-Foster in nearby Foster Lane who hold occasional services here

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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I love this. It's exactly how the sun makes me feel too. At least for the few minutes before I get overheated and have to retreat into the shade. Hannah Frank, "Sun" (1943) artuk.org/discover/art...

Black and white drawing in an Art Nouveau-ish style, of a woman stretching towards the rays of the sun that can just be seen at the top of the picture.

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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I really hope Edmund thought 'wheeeeeeeee' whenever he wrote those descenders

Signature 'Edmund Talbot'. Delightfully spiral descenders looping down from the capital 'E' and final 't'

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Just got new team photos for a forthcoming website update. Here's a sneak peek! 🤩

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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Brutal reading for a Leah 🤣🤣🙈🙈 'Heaven is like Rachel, Faire and Comelie, and courted by All. All desire faire Rachel. Repentance is like Leah, Tender and Blear Eyed, with teares and sorrow. and is neglected by most'.

Close up of a passage in a manuscript

TEXT
Repentance First then Heaven
Heaven is like Rachel, Faire and Comelie, and courted by All. All desire faire Rachel. Repentance is like Leah, Tender and Blear Eyed, with teares and sorrow. and is neglected by most'.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Embroidered binding for 'The Book of Common Prayer' and bookmark, possibly by Broderers Company, embroidered in London, ca. 1634 (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Detail from Crivelli’s Virgin and Child with Saints Francis and Sebastian @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social #snail @earlymodlancs.bsky.social

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Contender for the best first line in early modern poetry?? 'Silly buzzing wanton elf'

Screenshot of STEMMA database

TEXT
Manuscript Item Details: Vpon a gnatt burnt in a candle
ID: 20836
Has merge history: X
New item: -
Data source: celm
Work: 4784: Silly buzzing wanton elf
Manuscript: MS Add. 8684
Page or folio: f.11r-v
Author: Richard Crashaw

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

When you leave someone on read too long: 'an elegy to the countess of Londonderry supposing her dead by her long silence' 🥶💀

Screen shot of STEMMA database entry

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Title 'An elegy of the countess of Londonderry supposing her to be dead by her long silence'

Heading: Lady Anne Southwell 'An elegy of the countess of Londonderry supposing her to be dead by her long silence'

First line: Since thou fair soul art warbling to a sphere

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