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Matthew Holford

@matthewholford.bsky.social
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Medievalist and librarian, interested in all aspects of manuscript culture.

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Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Open access and includes an interesting case study of medieval manuscript recycling
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Handschriftenportal @hsprtl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Für Ortsabwesende: Beide Veranstaltungen können im Livestream verfolgt werden! Die Zugänge finden Sie hier: Geschriebene Heiligkeit: Hagiographie in kodikologischer und digitaler Perspektive 👉 sbb.berlin/np9qx KI-gestützte Handschriftenforschung zwischen Verheißung und Realität 👉 sbb.berlin/1t7hr
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Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Semi-regular reminder that if you have published on one of the Bodleian's medieval manuscripts, we'd love to know about it via this form forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon... Items will be added to our Zotero bibliography, which is linked to our online manuscript catalogue.
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Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
So glad that it's finally out! What a privilege to have been involved with the eManuSkript project. emanuskript.vercel.app
emanuskript.vercel.app
eManuSkript
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Dr Kate Farrant Shaw @katefarrantshaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oxford Bibliographies in Legal History – A truly impressive set of guides to key scholarship in legal history including one on Law in Anglo-Saxon England academic.oup.com/reference/62... #medievalsky
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Oxford Bibliographies in Legal History
Abstract. Once the purview of lawyers and exclusively focused on courts and legal doctrine, legal history has become a vibrant, dynamic field that encompas
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Our medieval art curator rates every scroll emoji. 📜
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Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The moment you've all been waiting for over the last eleven months: here is the yearly update of the Supplementa tertia to the printed Aristoteles Latinus Codices volumes. Creeping up to 100 pages, more than 660 items, and plenty of hyperlinks! License CC-BY 4.0! doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Aristoteles Latinus Codices. Supplementa tertia
Since the publication of the Supplementa altera to the Aristoteles Latinus catalogue volumes (1961), many more manuscripts have come to light and more detailed descriptions were published. The study o...
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Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Turns out the most exciting exhibition at the British Museum is free and wonderfully quiet. Until 20 Sept. www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
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Early Netherlandish drawings
Delve into a transformative period of artistic innovation when drawings evolved from preparatory studies to works of art in their own right.
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Alfonso de Zamora @perurealfonso.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The University of Turku invites applications for a part-time Postdoctoral Researcher position in a project examining the persecution of #heretics and #Jews in late #medieval Europe. The role involves quantitative analysis and collaboration with a research group." #job 👇 #JewishHistory #Antisemitism
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Dr Sian Witherden @sianwitherden.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’m pleased to share that records for parish churches and chapels are now available on Medieval Libraries of Great Britain - mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk #provenance #manuscripts @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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Agenda des médiévistes @rmblf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Publication – « The Medieval Aristotle. Studies Celebrating Half a Century of Aristoteles Latinus in Leuven, 1973-2023 », éd. Nena Bobovnik , Clelia V. Crialesi, Lisa Devriese rmblf.be/2026/09/03/p...
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Publication – « The Medieval Aristotle. Studies Celebrating Half a Century of Aristoteles Latinus in Leuven, 1973-2023 », éd. Nena Bobovnik , Clelia V. Crialesi, Lisa Devriese
For fifty years, the Aristoteles Latinus project has deepened our understanding of how Aristotle entered the Latin Middle Ages. Based in Leuven and rooted in early twentieth-century international c…
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A great and overarching report on what we need to do to build infrastructure to digitally preserve all those 3D scans of cultural heritage. It shows how fragile our data is - even more so now SketchFab is being sold on. (And I learnt a lot being on this expert panel!)
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Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Handlesen galt im Mittelalter als probates Mittel der Zukunftsprognostik. Ab dem 12. Jh. entstand dazu eine umfangreiche Literatur, die Marco Heiles erforscht. Jetzt liegt der 1. Band seines „Katalogs der magischen Literatur des Spätmittelalters“ vor. Open Access! doi.org/10.1515/9783...
Blockbuch: (Pseudo-)Johannes Hartlieb: Buch von der Hand, Augsburg, Jörg Schapf [um 1510], Exemplar: Wien, Österr. Nationalbibl., Ink 2.D.36, S. 4. Bild: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Lizenez: Public Domain, Quelle: http://data.onb.ac.at/dtl/3254998.
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World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org · 20/05/2026
Want to map your dataset like this? Our free Reconciliation API matches your place-names phonetically against over 67 million historical & modern toponyms from GeoNames, Wikidata, Pleiades, Getty TGN & more, and returns coordinates. Works with OpenRefine too!📍 docs.whgazetteer.org/content/tech...
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2. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) - Documentation for World Historical Gazetteer
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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Jane Robert's Dorothy Whitelock lecture from last year on ‘Guthlac: What the Early Medieval Records Tell Us', is available here: english.web.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/ro...
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Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Our new paper is out! 📚📜 www.nature.com/articles/s40... #parchment #conservation #MedievalManuscripts #BookScience
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Parchment damage assessment: a review of methods, multimodal workflows, and a transparent reporting framework - npj Heritage Science
npj Heritage Science - Parchment damage assessment: a review of methods, multimodal workflows, and a transparent reporting framework
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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 17/08/2026
Ranking friendly-looking medieval animals by how much we'd trust them. #MedievalMonday
A medieval illustration of Taurus the Bull from an ancient manuscript. Text on the image reads: "Friendly-looking medieval animals! Ranked by how much we’d trust them."
About:
Taurus the Bull
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Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 614
Date Statement:
12th century, middle
Place of Origin:
England
Description:
Copies a prototype of 11th century, probably London, B.L., Cotton MS. Tiberius B. V.
Language:
Latin
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
How did early medieval nuns at Chelles approach writing the labels for their sacred relics? Like an extension of book production, argues Ana de Oliveira Dias, in her just-published article. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Relics, writing, and devotion in early medieval Chelles
The discovery in 1983 of a collection of relics with their medieval identificatory tags in the parish church of Chelles opened new avenues for research on devotional and writing practices in this Fra...
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Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg @stabihh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Spannende Kombination aus zeitgenössischen Blattobjekten & historischen Fragmenten in unserer kommenden Ausstellung. „Fragments & Leaves“ widmet sich der kulturellen & materiellen Geschichte des Blattes als Träger von Schrift, Bild & Erinnerung: blog.sub.uni-hamburg.de?p=43083 Eröffn.: Do. 27.8. 18h
Sechs Fragmente alter, teils beschriebener und teils mit Pflanzen bedruckter oder gepresster Pergamentstücke auf rotem Hintergrund.
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Dr Daniella M Gonzalez @deegonz92.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I had the pleasure of interviewing @witchesetc.bsky.social last year for the @harchivestrust.bsky.social #Podcast 🥳 It was a really fab discussion and I’m so excited to read her latest book and delve deeper into the topic of #Witches, #EarlyModern studies, and #LocalHistory
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Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
In case you missed it, Bernard Meehan’s lecture on the Cutbercht Gospels (the 2026 Coffin lecture in Palaeography) is now online. #MedievalSky #Manuscripts #palaeography www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ker9...
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The John Coffin Memorial Lecture in Palaeography 2026
YouTube video by SchAdvStudy
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Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
New in OA: The Medieval Aristotle (ed. Bobovnik, @cleliacrialesi.bsky.social, Devriese) resulting from the 2023 Leuven conference library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... My paper at the conference with @wouterhaverals.bsky.social and @rantyben.bsky.social came out two years ago: doi.org/10.21071/mij...
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Biblissima+ @biblissima.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
📢 Le portail #Biblissima+ intègre 7 233 cotes issues de la revue ALMA, dans le cadre du chantier mené avec #Persée sur la détection de cotes de manuscrits dans les publications scientifiques. 👉 Info sur le projet : hal.science/hal-05087163 @persee.fr #ScienceOuverte
Illustration : Dies. Prague, Národní knihovna, MS XIV A 15, fol. 94va (Thomas Cantimpratensis, Liber de natura rerum). Šedinová Hana. Non vivens nisi per unum diem. A Winged Aquatic Animal on Its Way from Aristotle to Thomas of Cantimpré. In: Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi, tome 77, 2019. pp. 207-234.
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Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Lovely day in beautiful Bangor for the @amarc.bsky.social summer meeting. Great to learn more about the institute for the Study of Welsh estates and to see some of the amazing archives including this charter of Richard I (afraid I didn't get the shelfmark)
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Rachel A. Fletcher @rafletcher.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Interested in the history of #OldEnglish scholarship? @emgallimore.bsky.social, Thijs Porck and I will be editing a volume on OE in the long 19th century; if you'd like to contribute a chapter, the deadline for abstracts is 1 Sept 2026, first full drafts due Sept 2027. Spread the word! #medievalsky
Call for Contributions
Dynamics of Old English Scholarship in the Long Nineteenth Century: Discoveries, Disputes and the Development of a Discipline 
ed. Rachel A. Fletcher, Ellen Gallimore & Thijs Porck 
The long nineteenth century (1786–1914) was a dynamic and transformative period for the scholarly study of Old English.
The legacies of nineteenth-century scholarship remain deeply embedded in the study of Old English today. As a result, contemporary scholars must engage not only with early medieval language and literature itself, but also with the intellectual and ideological lenses through which nineteenth-century scholars recovered, edited and interpreted this material.
We hope to bring together a peer-reviewed edited volume with papers on various aspects of the scholarly study of Old English in the long nineteenth century, with an additional focus on European continental 
contributions in line with the ERC-project EMERGENCE (‘Early Medieval English in NineteenthCentury Europe’). Proposals for chapter contributions of c. 8000 words are welcome from scholars from all academic backgrounds. First drafts full drafts are due at the end of September 2027.
Possible topics/themes include but are not limited to:
- Discoveries of Old English texts
- Disputes about linguistic or literary interpretations of Old English
- Developments in the discipline of Old English studies
- Personal, religious, political and ideological motivations for the study of Old English
- Biographical contributions about scholars of Old English
- Scholarly correspondence on Old English matters
- Editing and printing of Old English texts
- Teaching of Old English
Please send an abstract (500 words) and short bio (150 words) to Rachel A. Fletcher 
(r.a.fletcher@hum.leidenuniv.nl), Ellen Gallimore (ellen.gallimore@york.ac.uk) and Thijs Porck (m.h.porck@hum.leidenuniv.nl) before 1 September 2026.
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Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
We are hiring a PhD-student! #Philosophysky #Medievalsky #philjob www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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PhD-candidate (1 + 2 years) for the project ‘Fluidity in the Medieval Aristotle. Readers and Readings of the Greek-Latin Translations’ (FitMA)
Want to join the FitMA team?
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Handschriftenportal @hsprtl.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
📣 Softwareentwickler:in gesucht! Im #Handschriftenportal unterstützt du die Entwicklung eines nutzerfreundlichen Frontends und bringst dich aktiv in der #OpenSource Community ein. Dabei wirkst du u. a. an der Weiterentwicklung unseres #IIIF Viewers #Mirador mit. Zur Ausschreibung 👉 sbb.berlin/4vgyf
Foto zweier Monitore auf denen das Handschriftenportal geöffnet ist. Links sieht man ein Digitalisat und eine Beschreibung. Rechts die Landing Page. Im Vordergrund liegt eine geöffnete Handschrift
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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Survey on digitising flap books, movable books, volvelles, that kind of thing! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #GLAMS 📚
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Designing Interactive 2D for Movable Books or Other Texts - User Survey
Primary Question: What are researchers,’ book artists, paper engineers, & library professionals' goals for interactive digital surrogates (digitized versions) of movable books or other texts? For thi...
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Caroline Fiennes @carolinefiennes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
As tickets go on sale to see the Bayeux Tapestry* in London, reminder that you can see a stitch-by-stitch* full-size replica of it* FOR FREE, any time you like at (of all places) the Reading Museum. It's fabulous. Go Sat 2pm for the guided talk: it's ace. (That museum really needs a better PR!)
Advert on the Tube for the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition
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Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The annual bibliography is one of @sharpweb.org’s most important (and least recognized) contributions to #bookhistory. Broad and diverse in scope.
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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
HMML is hiring a "Cataloger of South Asian Manuscripts," a full-time, benefits-eligible, remote position. Details: bit.ly/4uGD6PE The Cataloger will be working on Islamic manuscripts recently digitized in India and Pakistan. This is a two-year, grant-funded position. #LibraryJobs #Hiring
A manuscript (ATUP 00786) in the collection of Anjuman-i Taraqqī-yi Urdū Pākistān, located in Karachi. Learn more about the collection: hmml.org/stories/where-were-working-anjuman-i-taraqqi-yi-urdu-pakistan
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Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The Hereford Gospels online symposium is on 26 June. It's a free opportunity to hear about this remarkable manuscript from the experts. I'm also pleased to confirm that it will be recorded for those who may not be able to come in real time! www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/herefo...
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Hereford Gospels Online Symposium - 26/06/2026 10:00:00
Taking place online on Friday 26 June
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Suzanne Paul @suzpaul.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Fabulous medieval postdoc opportunity on a brilliant project…
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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
PhD funding available #skystorians #medievalsky #heritage #archaeology 🏺📜
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AMARC @amarc.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Booking is now open for the AMARC 2026 Summer Meeting and AGM: Discovering Welsh Estate Archives and Records 📜 📍Bangor 📅 15 July ⏰ 10.00-16.00 See our website for info and registration 🔗https://amarcsite.wordpress.com/meetings/forthcoming-meetings
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Tuija Ainonen @tainonen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Looking for Medieval Latin philologists: Postdoc specializing in Digital Philology in München job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/4...
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Postdoc specializing in Digital Philology (m/f/x)
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Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A promotional post for cebeme.manchester.ac.uk/en, a platform for searching and visualising data across PLRE, Renaissance Cultural Crossroads, Plantin sales and provincial booksellers' inventories, c. 1500–1640. So, ownership, sales, and translations of books in #earlyModern England. #bookHistory
A screenshot of the Items perspective of https://cebeme.manchester.ac.uk, filtered by French language of publication and book owner social status of "middle class"
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Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Archaeologists uncovered a medieval notebook from a latrine in the city of Paderborn, W-Germany. The 700 to 800 year old notebook consists of wooden tablets coated in wax and is enclosed within a leather binding decorated with embossed lily motifs 📷LWL/ S. Brentführer www.lwl.org/pressemittei...
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Alfonso de Zamora @perurealfonso.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
#BookHistory #LateAntiquity
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dhoxss.bsky.social @dhoxss.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Register for #TEI before 1 June for Early Bird rates! “Overall, it was a fantastic experience." (TEI participant, 2025) View the programme: tinyurl.com/485evt2k Read a blog post from 2025: tinyurl.com/45bunynv Register: tinyurl.com/yd9f9mjz @uniofcam.bsky.social @matthewholford.bsky.social
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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
If you missed it - an introduction to our newly acquired MIDDLE ENGLISH FOLDING ALMANAC LONG THOUGHT LOST, ONE OF TWO KNOWN MIDDLE ENGLISH FOLDING ALMANACS - you can see it now and learn its story on YouTube! youtu.be/MHHMrEmWL7A
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Coffee with a Codex: Folding Almanac in Middle English (Ms. Codex 2368)
YouTube video by SchoenbergInstitute
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Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In case you missed it this morning...
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Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Peter Selley Visiting Fellowship for Members of the Book Trades at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk . Applications close 29 May. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
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Handschriftenportal @hsprtl.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
📣 Unbefristete Stelle an der @stabiberlin.bsky.social zu besetzen: Wir suchen eine:n Wissenschaftliche:n Mitarbeiter:in (w/d/m) im #Handschriftenportal für Datenmanagement und Wissensgraph. Zur Ausschreibung 👉 sbb.berlin/hifw6 #medivalsky #bibliojobs
Ein Foto von vier Handschriften, die vor einem neutralen Hintergrund arrangiert sind. Durch Bildbearbeitung wurde in den Hintergrund TEI-Code eingefügt.
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
New open-access edition of Willetrudis "Verses about Susanna." Please share around if you know anyone interested in medieval Latin, women Latin authors, or the reception of Daniel 13. #medievalsky pixeliapublishing.org/book/willetr...
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Willetrudis. Verses about Susanna - Pixelia Publishing
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Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Yes! Very grateful to colleagues for implementing a solution to bot attacks (Anubis for those interested) on @bodleian.ox.ac.uk manuscripts and archive catalogues.
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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
#MedievalSky is there any scholarship looking at vernacular glosses holistically, rather than specific texts/languages?
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Here's a beautiful thing for your Thursday, a German artist working through drawings of bookbindings and studies of Christ's loincloth, ca. 1490
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Of interest to (among others) @ihr.bsky.social , @royalhistsoc.org and #Skystorians
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Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Free and open to all!
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