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Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Rare Book School: Because life is better with Bibliographical Intelligence.* *𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Too soon/late

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Bound-withs continue to be the bane of my existence

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Angelica’s actual dinner time: 5 pm ish When Angelica thinks her dinner time should be: 1 pm if I’m working from home and 1 pm even I’m working NOT from home, but she will be mad about it until I walk through the door

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Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 01/10/2026

Attention everyone I know! Perfectly accurate, no notes. (Forwarded to me; ultimate source unclear.)

Image headlined "WHAT YOUR FAVORITE OBSOLETE ENGLISH LETTER SAYS ABOUT YOU", with thumbnails of MSS focusing on thorn, eth, wynn, yogh, ash, insular G, and long S; each one has the label "You are a nerd."

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Red Sox 🤝 Cubs sucking in Game 1 of the WCS

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I mean, they eked out that last win to clinch a spot so maybe there is hope???

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy Postseason to all who celebrate!

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This would be my villain origin story

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s Purrquoise’s world, and we’re just living in it. In an *exclusive* interview, he touches down on his international travels, his east coast frienemy, and his starring role in Getty’s new season of the If Objects Could Talk podcast. www.getty.edu/news/purrquo...

Installation view of Purrquoise, the turquoise colored ceramic cat sitting on a gold throne at the Getty Museum.

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

you might be able to just get an NY ID card (non-drivers license) that is Real ID compliant. That's what my sister with DS has. dmv.ny.gov/non-driver-i...

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Non-Driver ID Cards | NY DMV

A non-driver ID is a photo ID card for a person of any age who does not drive.

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Taking part in a fac-staff book group this semester, and our read is Matthew Desmond's Poverty, By America. Banger biblical allusion from this week's chapter: "But the deregulation of the banking sector in the 1980s ushered the money changer back into the temple by removing strict usury limits."

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Rose A. McCandless @rosemccandless.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Look at all those Carolines!

A long table with five large manuscript fragments in Caroline minuscule scripts.

Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, SPEC.RARE.MS.MR.Frag.105

Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, SPEC.RARE.MS.MR.Frag.96

Ohio State University, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, SPEC.RARE.MS.MR.Frag.215

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This fifteenth-century volume gives instructions for the blessing of bells and for exorcising people who have been cursed. The instructions are written in red, with the words to be said in black. The volume will on display for our new exhibition The Medieval Manuscripts of Marsh's Library.

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s crazy to me that MIT got the top spot this year, mostly in light of their complete gutting of library services.

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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.

From meteorologist Eric Snitil

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights**

"Heads up birders, I would not be surprised if the biggest bird migration night of the year happens over the next 2 nights. Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight. That is a lot, but the pattern could not be better for migratory birds. A massive area of high pressure will turn the low level winds from the northeast to the southwest across most of the US. The last time we had anything similar to this in the fall was early October last year when a record 1.25 billion birds were in flight. I doubt we get to that level, but I suspect the number will top 500 million especially Monday night which looks to be the bigger of the two nights. You can help by turning off those outdoor lights on big migration nights, and the next 2 nights is about as big as it gets."

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tomorrow morning I finally get to share a short overview of some (very early) progress in my research on Virginia manuscript collections AND talk about using the Schoenberg database @sims-mss.bsky.social and Fragmentarium @fragmentarium.bsky.social to improve discoverability for research!

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Girton College, University of Cambridge @girtoncollege.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

📚 A medieval mystery solved nearly a century later. Girton Fellow Dr James Wade and Dr Katie Walter of @sussex.ac.uk have reunited six lost pages of a medieval bestseller with its manuscript, now held 3,500 miles away at Yale. Read the full story: 🔎 🔗 www.girton.cam.ac.uk/news/reunite...

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Girton Fellow helps reunite lost pages of a medieval bestseller after nearly a century

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

when this is all over, let’s bring back the damnatio memoriae

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 15/09/2026

A belated Spencer Library #newacq thread here: a Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, created in circa 1430 (Pryce MS D1). A wonderful addition to our MSS holdings, and a good companion to the Vosper Hours. Let's start with the Crucifixion and the opening line of text: 📜 #libsky #rarebooks #booksky

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Elizabeth Biggs @elizabethbiggs.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit? They look so cool! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

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Two Working LEGO Printing Presses | LEGO® Ideas

The development of mechanical printing changed how ideas move through the world. Once text and images could be printed rather than copied by hand, knowledge was…

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grenouille78 @grenouille78.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm a big fan of sleep. I don't know why I'm so bad at it.

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Unfortunately it’s a single antiphonal leaf…ostensibly bought ca. 1922 in Florence “from a dealer on the via Tornabuoni”. In talking with Liz Teviotdale, we think that it shows decorative similarities to the Met leaves attributed to the “Master of the Ricardian Lactantius.”

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I was thinking that too, his name is on all the scholarship for this kind of stuff. Sending out the bat signal for @mssprovenance.bsky.social!

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Throwing this out into the universe to see if anyone recognizes or can decipher this code on a manuscript leaf…possibly just the price? #medievalsky

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Now to actually write the paper...that's how this works right? 😆#medievalsky #academicsky

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It's tradition

ALT: It's tradition

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Giving my first ever paper presentation on original work next week! It's great to be one of the MANY A&S faculty/staff contributing to our internal symposium this year, and I can't wait to discuss aspects of data and discovery for manuscript research and scholars. as.richmond.edu/events/facul...

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It ys a tryinge tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that todaye you may fynde sum suprisinge moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make you feele just a litel bettir, that doth helpe you thrugh. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth every bit of myne hearte.

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Absolutely, that would be fantastic!

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Okay but who would maybe like to help me put together a *full* descriptive catalogue record for LVA’s single medieval manuscript (that we know of). Ready to put my knowledge from @drdavidrundle.bsky.social’s RBS class to good use! #medievalsky

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When Amadeus first transferred from London to Broadway in 1980 the Broadway production starred Tim Curry as Mozart and Ian McKellen as Salieri and I would like to go back in time and watch that.

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

well in happier news, I got permission from the institution who has the manuscript fragments I've been working on to add them into @fragmentarium.bsky.social 🎉

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Stephen Colbert Celebrates Success

ALT: Stephen Colbert Celebrates Success

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Got a closer look at this weird and wonderful manuscript today. The original Davis & Orioli catalogue entry (helpfully pasted inside) does not seem correct to me… It’s on paper (watermarked), a weird Italo-Latin mashup, ALL the popes…could it be some variation on the Vaticinia? MYSTERIES ABOUND

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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

What a delightful surprise to come back to my desk after lunch & find a set of charming medieval-inspired prints by @miniaturewheats.bsky.social waiting there for me!

Four prints in black and green ink on white paper show various medieval designs: a hand holding a pair of eyes on a stem, a shocked-looking frog, a cat sitting beside an open book, and a snail-cat.

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

fwiw, this is the De Ricci description elusive codex I'm actually trying to trace (but in SDBM seller catalogs list it as French so who knows)

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

These are some of what I got from the museum today (pulled for me to look at on Friday!). I actually don’t really know yet what I’m looking at because the pictures were sent at almost 6 pm and I haven’t sat down to dig in. But, this is decidedly NOT the 15th c missal that is listed in De Ricci.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 19/08/2026

oh is prince harry returning to england? the same year we've got a tyrant beefing with the Pope? STOP MAKING MEDIEVALISTS RELEVANT

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Have I found the single codex purportedly owned by the person whose collection I’ve been researching? Unfortunately no. Did I somehow in the same museum dig up a “ca. 1600” manuscript book of emblematic drawings that it turns out she also owned? YOU BETCHA I DID. Obsessed with her bookplate btw.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Thirteenth-century Paris saw the emergence of a commercial book trade, which included a system for manually copying books at speed and in great numbers. Or: No, medieval manuscripts were not all made by a sad single monk spending his life artisanally crafting one book. Tune in to this talk! ⬇️

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Research Group on Manuscript Evidence @rgmemss.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

ICMS Kalamazoo 2027 CFP: sessions sponsored by the RGME for next year's Congress are- Ecologies of the Book: Materials, Environments, Representations Moving the Mail: Letters, Couriers, & Post Officers in the Medieval World manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2027-in...

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2027 International Congress on Medieval Studies: Call for Papers -

We announce the Call for Papers for the RGME Sessions at the 2027 ICMS (due by 15 September) on "Ecologies of the Book" and "Moving the Mail".

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

anyone who thinks ADHD is made up to sell pills or whatever should be forced to spend 8 hours alone with me in a car while I am fully unmedicated. let's see how you really feel after that

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The number of academic people I have emailed in the past two weeks outside of my own institution is MANY. Here’s to scholarly generosity and shared resources!

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Tom Hanks Working in You've Got Mail

ALT: Tom Hanks Working in You've Got Mail

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The actual exciting part of this is that I connected a manuscript from one of the Virginia collections in De Ricci that later went “untraced” as being at Princeton since 2004. The info was all out there, but now the dots are connected!

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Finally added an entry to Schoenberg today after months of putting it off…probably done iffily, but the data is in 😮‍💨

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

soaking up #Caturday with my perfect angel girl, who is helpfully not letting me be “productive” around the house

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Do you know what ILS your university uses? A lot of time we (technical services librarians) have to turn things on and off in the back end to make certain u searches work. But what you searched obviously should not be one of those more complex facets!

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Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Once again, I am so grateful for the online medievalist community. It’s been a little harder to ask the hivemind for research help since the downfall of the bird app, but THANK YOU to everyone who is still out here generously sharing your wisdom 🙏

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