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Anne O'Brien @anneobrienauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Another splendid October page, this one from the Huth Book of Hours produced possibly in Bruges between 1485 and 1490. The floral decoration is lovely.

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Juliane Witte @julianewitte.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So I've had a speaker drop-out last minute from the session dedicated to Old Norse female networks and communities! I still need to figure out next steps but is there coincidentally anyone who'd like to present in this session? #MedievalSky #OldNorse

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy #InternationalTranslationDay! To celebrate, we're sharing an image of Brian Walton's Polyglot Bible. The impressive six volume work presents the Old Testament in nine languages: Hebrew, Aramaic (Targum), Samaritan, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, Ethiopic, Greek, and Latin.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still!

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Tuija Ainonen @tainonen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Next 3 days will be on From Skin to Script workshop with @crasshlive.bsky.social Starting with dehairing soaked skins #Skin2Script #medievalMSS

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today is Michaelmas, a quarter day in the Irish calendar, and traditionally when rents were paid & contracts signed. It's also the last day to eat blackberries - after today, they belong to the Devil and will make you sick!

Detail of a page showing text in Spanish and a woodcut of blackberries. From Dioscorides' Materia Medica, 1555

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Me: I don’t allow AI in my classroom, but I do let them bring their tablets. The Tablet: (Late antique wooden board inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad now at the BM)

Wooden board (with iron handle for hanging) inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad.
Cultures/periods
Late Roman
Production date
400-500
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot: Egypt
Africa: Egypt
Materials
wood
iron
Dimensions
Length: 40.64 centimetres
Inscriptions
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription language: Greek
Inscription subject
educational
literary
Curator's comments
TM 61042; Mertens-Pack 00611.000
Journal of Hellenic Studies (JHS) 29 (1909), p. 39 (Kenyon, Frederic G.); Chronique d‘Égypte (CdE) 68 (1993), p. 145-154 (Cribiore, Raffaella); Allen, Sutton, and West 2001: 131; Debut 1986: 260, no. 161; Cauderlier 1992: 90, no. 272.
Bibliographic references
Cribiore 1993 / A Homeric exercise from the Byzantine schoolroom (pp. 145-154)
Location
On display (G69/dc7)
Exhibition history
Exhibited:

2019-2020 21 Nov-8 Mar, London, BM, SEG, Troy
Associated names
Associated with: Homer
Acquisition name
Donated by: British School of Archaeology, Egypt
Acquisition date
1906
Department
Greek and Roman
Registration number
1906,1020.2
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number: TM 61042 (Trismegistos)
Conservation
treatment: 24.4.19 British Museum

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

IDEA: rehabilitation centers for the modern, digitally ravaged attention span They could feature activities like lectures, seminar-style discussions, and reading. They could be called colleges, or maybe universities.

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am not given to hyperbole when it comes to university industrial relations, but this feels like an existential event. The heart of the university is being torn out, with long-lasting consequences. These strikes are a last-ditch attempt to stop that. Will anyone listen?

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Alberto J. Campillo Pardo @albertocampillo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm delighted to prresent "Privilege and Power Printing Privileges and the Regulation of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe" from the @be4copy.bsky.social project and edited by Marius Buning, @andreaottone.bsky.social and me. #Printingprivileges #Bookhistory #OpenAccess www.scup.com/doi/book/10....

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Privilege and Power | Books

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Crikey, hadn't realised this was already happening.

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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

📢This Thursday! The first #EarlyModern Hellenism colloquium for this semester hosted by me and @hlamers.bsky.social ✨Anastasia Stylianou (warburginstitute.bsky.social) will discuss ‘Uncovering the Hidden Histories of England’s ‘Invisible’ Greeks, c.1450-1715' 📆 24 Sept, 15:00-16.00 CET Link below 👇

Image of the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople Kyrillos Loukaris (1572-1638)

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Easy to navigate for whom? Just the timetabling team, assessment planning, and online module access? Because what exactly is ‘difficult’ for students to navigate in still having some actual specific module choices?

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/five-we... 90 courses to be closed at Edinburgh, most in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, incl. Portuguese, Persian studies, and apparently Medieval History. 1,800 job losses estimated. The University has confirmed there is no financial deficit.

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Five-week strike at Edinburgh University at start of new academic term — UCU Edinburgh

UCU SCOTLAND PRESS RELEASE 11:00 AM Thursday 17 September 2026 Members of the University and College Union (UCU) Scotland at Edinburgh University will strike for 25 days over five weeks from 2...

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bright futures ahead, #edusky.

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Join us this Friday, 18 September, for a free guided tour of Ireland's oldest public library. Tours run every 15 minutes from 5:30-8:45pm. No booking required. culturenight.ie/event/cultur... #CultureNight2026 #CultureNight #CultureNightDublin

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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For anyone in France in the next few months, this exhibition looks great! 🙂✨ #bookhistory #earlymodern #skystorians

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

C'est avec grand plaisir que je vous invite à venir à l'inauguration de l'exposition "À la recherche des Châlonnais. Livres et traces cachés du passé" ce samedi 19 septembre à 10h. L'exposition est organisée à la médiathèque Georges-Pompidou de Châlons-en-Champagne...

Affiche de l'exposition "à la recherche des Châlonnais"

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CARAA Center @caraacenter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

JOB : Directeur du Patrimoine F/H, musées d’Angers ➡️ www.emploipublic.fr/offre-emploi...

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Does anybody have access to vol 3 of Schneyer's Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters, who could send me the page ## relating to James of Lausanne? #MedievalSky

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You know what gets a library perpetual access to a book??? Purchasing the physical book. I guarantee the publisher won’t come steal it back!!!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Beverley Minster holds what is believed to be the largest collection of medieval musical carvings in the world, featuring more than 70 distinct stone and wood musicians playing roughly 20 different types of instruments. I love the expression on this one.

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Update: all issues of the Book Historical journal De Gulden Passer = The Golden Compass from 1923 up until 2015 are now available in Open Access on DBNL: www.dbnl.org/titels/tijds.... Later years will follow as the wall moves (and scanning infrastructure permits).

Cover for De Gulden Passer, Journal for Book History (2015/1).

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

How many times has Satan tempted you to neglect Learning, and follow Gaming?

Four panels from an early modern English printed broadside showing: 1) The School-master and Schollar: a teacher and student in a doorway 2) The Vertu-ous Student: a young man at his desk with books 3) Satan tempteth him to neglect Learning, and follow Gaming: Satan at a table with playing cards 4) SATAN tempteth him from his Study to evil company: satan at a table with men and women playing cards, drinking, and smoking
Source: THE YOUNGMANS VICTORY Over the POVVER of the DEVIL (London, 1672-1696?), Houghton Library, Harvard https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/34760/album

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A couple of 17th century limp vellum Spanish bindings. The title in large letters on the spine is typically Iberian. They cover Historica relación del Reyno de Chile, 1648 and Descripcion breve del monasterio de S. Lorenzo el Real del Escorial, 1657.

Photo of two books stacked on top of each other on a desk with other rare books standing on a shelf behind

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Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We are hiring! Permanent position for a University Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki. The application period is open and closes on 3 October 2026: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... Please read the job description carefully and feel free to spread the word widely.

jobs.helsinki.fi

University Lecturer in Digital Humanities

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is an excellent thread on the uselessness of generative AI. (Mitchell points only to the history classroom, but I think this applies more broadly.)

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Reading lots is good for one's writing... sometimes because it provides examples of what not to do. So, today's academic reading beef is articles that take too long to get to the point, especially if the set up is both long *and* repetitive.

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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

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Lake Michigan @lakemichigan13.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

SHAME on Google Maps 🌊🌊 As a lake I don’t have much use for mapping apps except when I verify that Big Ass Lake really does exist. But I will now use a different one.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A glimpse of a fragment of a medieval music manuscript, recycled in a 16th century binding, it's vellum lending strength as a guard. It's only a few notes, but someone might recognise it?

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos is on 15th August BL Harley MS 1810; Menologion and Four Gospels; late 12th century; Eastern Mediterranean (probably Cyprus or Palestine); f.174r @blmedieval.bsky.social

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

1578 Stephanus edition of Plato, showing a passage of Timaeus with the Latin translation and notes of Jean de Serres. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan...

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Anyone who plagiarizes should lose their job. Period. End of story.

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