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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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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Plaintive but hopeful elephant 🐘♥️ Please be nice to him British Library Sloane MS 3794: Fol.5r

Drawing of an elephant with it's back to the viewer raising it's trunk to the sun

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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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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Poetry and maths side by side - just how we like it here at STEMMA Bodleian MS Rawl. Poet. 142, Fols 11v - 12r

Photo of an open manuscript: one page covered in calculations (and spilling over onto the next page) and poetry on the other

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A verse letter about a dog-seal! 🐕❤️💌 Bodleian MS Add. A. 267: Fol.28r

Close up of a manuscript
TEXT: the subscription, the letter being sealed with a sealed whereon portrayed a dog

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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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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Getting ready for the new academic year: 17th century undergraduate Simon Sloper writes his term dates into his commonplace book in 1619 Bodleian MS Eng. poet. f. 10: Fol.52r

Manuscript page from Bodleian MS Eng.poet.f. 10

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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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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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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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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 · 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.

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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 · 16/04/2026

I *could* go home for the evening, but it's much more fun to stay in my office and confirm that there is, in fact, a digitised image of this gem. (Houghton MS Eng 686, ff. 33v–34r)

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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Delighted to announce that Volume 15 of the Journal of Early Modern Studies is now available online! oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...

oajournals.fupress.net

Vol. 15 (2026): Material Space and Literary Production in Early Modern Europe | Journal of Early Modern Studies

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The team's latest database enhancement request is for an animated confetti graphic that celebrates each 1% change in data cleaned, and you know what? That's fair.

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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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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Monumental brass showing the Virgin Mary in the Annunciation, made in 1485. Found in a cellar in Silver St #Cambridge, 1804. (British Museum) And we get to see her book case too. Today 25 Mar, is the Feast of the Annunciation.

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