Please enjoy this 14th century depiction of the Virgin Mary wrestling a ferocious demon while an angel babysits (because why not? 🤷🏻♀️). #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #RareBooks #Women 📜 📚
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My book is now available to pre-order! The Medieval Scriptorium takes an immersive journey through the world of medieval manuscript production - out July 2024 #manuscripts #bookhistory #medievalscriptorium www.waterstones.com/book/….
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Somehow I'd never realized that the digitization of the Exeter Book includes raking light photographs of drypoint images in the margins!
Overview here: theexeterbook.exeter.ac.u… and you can click through to the manuscript viewer to zoom in.
#medievalsky #manuscripts #oldenglish
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If you’re teaching #Greek, #palaeography, #manuscripts, #textcriticsm etc. this coming year, consider adding my website to your course assignments or resources.
It’s free, I don’t collect/sell your info, and it’d be nearly impossible to cheat with AI. See 🧵 for details
Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com
My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources. Please share and give feedback! xeirographa.com
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Here’s the thing, #Manuscripts almost never require gloves, but bindings sometimes do…. Houghton Library 2020hem-76
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🧵 Is this a Dire wolf... 🤔?
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Our @erc.europa.eu Beasts to Craft team led by Élodie Lévêque uncovered the true identity of mysterious hairy covers on #medieval #Cistercian #manuscripts - they're ...
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The so-called Plan F of the western facade of the Cologne Cathedral was probably made around 1300s. This incredibly detailed drawing is so well executed that it was mostly followed by the 19th C. builders who finished the church. 1/ #manuscripts #architecture
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We've had lots of fun photographing our Medieval #manuscripts this week - this grumpy fella was one of the many highlights!
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Angels from the Heidelberg Coptic Magical Papyri Project.
Michael accompanied by his two Powers, intended to be copied onto an amulet.
P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 686. (KYP M166), 10th century
#Medieval #Manuscripts #Angels #Papyrus #Coptic @anestudieswue.bsky.social @dfg.de
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The Tree of Knowledge (ca. 1330), from The Holkham Bible Picture Book.
Source: @britishlibrary.bsky.social
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#manuscripts #trees #fruit #christianity #serpents #bible #manuscript #art #publicdomain
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Today we're highlighting the source of our little draconic logo: folio 19r of the codex British Library, Add MS 21160. www.bl.uk/manuscripts/...
#manuscripts 🗃 #medievalsky
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The illustrator of Lambert of Saint-Omer’s Liber Floridus reminds us that we are not always the apex of the food-chain. #Critters #Griffons #Monsters #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscripts 📜 📚
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The Tree of Knowledge (ca. 1330), from The Holkham Bible Picture Book.
Source: @britishlibrary.bsky.social
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#manuscripts #trees #fruit #christianity #serpents #bible #manuscript #art #publicdomain
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Happy Feast of the Transfiguration! Last year for this feast we looked at how to use Eusebian canon tables and section numbers in Gospel manuscripts. It's a long thread, so I'll pull out some intermediate steps below. #medievalsky #paleography #manuscripts #gospels
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It's the Feast of the Transfiguration! 🕯️ Since that episode appears in all 3 synoptic Gospels, I thought I'd use this occasion to do a 🧵 on how to use the Eusebian canon tables that accompany early medieval Gospel MSS. I was going to use Walters MS W7, the one w/the super-cute Evangelist symbols...
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#Ottoman #history #manuscripts #DigitalHumanities
'The collection spans Ottoman scientific, cultural and literary history, with material dating back to the Anatolian Seljuk and Beylik periods that preceded Ottoman rule.'
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Türkiye manuscripts institution opens access to 6,388 works - Türkiye Today
The purchased manuscripts collection spans Ottoman, Seljuk and Beylik eras, with oldest text dating to the 14th century
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“Other religious houses were creative with their curses. ‘A book of [the Abbey of] SS Mary and Nicholas of Arnstein: If anyone steals it: may he die, may he be roasted in a frying pan, may the falling sickness [i.e. epilepsy] and fever attack him, and may he be rotated [on the breaking wheel] […]
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Biblia Arabica is a 21-year project to find & publish historic Jewish & Christian translations of the Tanakh/OT in #Arabic =~8K #manuscripts & fragments around the 🌍
Teams @goetheuni.bsky.social @jacculturelmu.bsky.social @lmu.de
Funded @adwmainz.bsky.social BAdW @akademienunion.bsky.social
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#Scam Alert! We're very disappointed to learn (via dozens of alerts) that someone is impersonating our editors (most especially, Sarah Haak). Please note that Acre Books is open for prose subs via our queue, but NOT soliciting #manuscripts privately. For guidelines, visit acre-books.com/submissions/
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"..probably the only Annunciation in art history with two Marys; the illuminator needed them to form the M of the 'Magnificat'...' (Luke 1:47-55)."
(O. Pächt, Buchmalerei des Mittelalters [Book Illumination in the Middle Ages], 1984 p. 58)
#ArtHistory #MedievalArt #Manuscripts #BookHistory
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If you’re teaching #Greek, #palaeography, #manuscripts, #textcriticsm etc. this coming year, consider adding my website to your course assignments or resources.
It’s free, I don’t collect/sell your info, and it’d be nearly impossible to cheat with AI. See 🧵 for details
Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com
My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources. Please share and give feedback! xeirographa.com
xeirographa.com
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41 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week, even while we were busy at #DH2026
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
Includes a bunch of (anti-)papal conclaves, illustrated botanical texts, Vegio on Old St. Peters, a 12th C Ceremoniale, another French Alchemical text and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 30 of 2026
A more active week for digitizing with forty-one manuscripts added to the repository. These were split between Barb.lat, contributing twenty-nine, and Ott.lat adding twelve. At the right side is p.9...
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The "argument from number of manuscripts" is somewhat less impressive when you run stats on the dates.
#Gospels #Christianity #scripture #manuscripts #apologetics
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Boosting the signal for any medievalists, digital humanists, historians of the book, or manuscript enthusiasts in the audience...
#skystorians #MedievalSky #Manuscripts
#BookHistory #DigitalHumanities #metadata 🗃️📜
Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social
Do you use digitized medieval manuscripts in any capacity? Do you have opinions about the metadata that describes them? We want to hear from you! Please take a moment to fill out our very short survey. Please repost and share with anyone you know who might be interested! forms.gle/sBPXAnoRhwe1...
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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
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The John Coffin Memorial Lecture in Palaeography 2026
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