Mary F. Wheaton

👆🧵👇 🐑 🐑 Sheep disease evidence retrieved from parchment!

screenshot of a tv user guide, showing two channels under Tue 8PM: MSNOW - State of the union TCM East- Gaslight

Masterful Troll, TCM.

Decided for my own peace of mind to not watch the big televised rambling mess tonight…so, naturally, I’m watching cult documentaries instead :)

@kilibrary.bsky.social I’d love a look at the Guard Catalogues to see if these two volumes are actually in there!

this little stamp sent me down a rabbit hole learning about the controversial 1970s sale of much of the non-legal materials in (then-uncatalogued!) King's Inns library, two volumes from which I can now say are held by UR.

I may have a stroke.

Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.”

A PROTESTant.

I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

Today is the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. May Mary protect our immigrant neighbors and intercede for full equality for all of us in our Church and in our world.

Art by: linktr.ee/kibbyer

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

If there’s one thing I’m thankful for in this year’s episode of writing my YWES section, it’s that any manuscript details I’ve needed to double check have been primarily at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Yay for Digital Bodleian and medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk!

my research assistant also wondering why 2024 was suddenly the year of questioning Middle English ‘canonicity’ (don’t get me wrong, we love it—but it comes up quite a bit in last year’s published work!) #medievalsky

my alt-ac career is somehow better than I could’ve dreamed, and I can’t wait to discuss at @kzooicms.bsky.social how more medievalists can fall into (and in love with) library technical services!

baby’s first Kzoo (I’m baby) 🥹 #medievalsky

Okay…she at some point remarries and becomes Edna Felix. Fred (who won a Silver Star at Okinawa) dies in PA in 1965 and she survives him. Social Security records have her still alive in 1976! That’s as much of her life as I could scrape via Ancestry/Family Search 😅

John Abraham Egbert (1877-1952) - Find a Grave... Adding information as I find it. Death Certificate Number: 22141

Looks as if she was still alive and living with her husband John A. at the same address at the time of the 1950 census. John passes away in 1952 and she is mentioned in the obit. (Fred is the son who wasn’t writing home) www.findagrave.com/memorial/222...

Cour extérieure de l'ancien hôtel particulier des abbés de Cluny construit au 15e siècle

Quel est le lien entre le musée de Cluny et l’abbaye de Cluny ? 🤔
L’hôtel des abbés de Cluny est édifié en 1485 au cœur du Quartier latin. Il s'agit de la résidence parisienne des puissants abbés de Cluny (en Bourgogne). Cet hôtel accueille désormais les collections du musée national du Moyen Âge !

The Kaweco though 💙

And Open Access, too! 😁

Came back after 2 weeks working ‘from home’ to see the 2024 review books starting to roll in…can’t wait to get into some of these! #medievalsky

OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models Experts working to benchmark resource use of AI models say new version’s enhanced capabilities come at a steep cost

Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

You kan not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys ther to make a profit. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.

British Library Manuscripts Metadata Since the cyberattack of October 2023, the British Library has restored only a fraction of the manuscripts it digitized over the past decade-plus. Even for those MSS now back online, we have only t…

Update on the great discovery of archived BL manuscript metadata: I started putting together a page at my website to host PDFs of the archived pages I retrieve.

ruffnotes.org/british-libr...

#medievalsky

Detail of a woodcut integrated in a typeset text to display visual damage on a funeral stone.

Detail of a woodcut integrated in a typeset text to display visual damage on a funeral stone.

Detail of a woodcut integrated in a typeset text to display visual damage on a funeral stone.

Engraved title page with typeset text in the middle. The engraving displays allegorical depictions and a historican scene at the bottom. The typeset text includes the title and the imprint.

Ingenious use of woodcuts that overlap typeset text in this 1588 edition, visually reproducing old inscriptions found on funerary stones, altars & Capitoline Tables, carefully rendering letters but also the erosion, fractures & surface damage of their material supports.

#rarebooks #bookhistory

My body is rejecting being in America! (= developed an infection just after returning to the U.S. and somehow those events feel related)

This whole thread highlights that a university education is supposed to be about more than job training. It can give you formative experiences that will stick with you for the rest of your life and make you a better person.

I am so sorry, Violet. This is awful news ❤️

Dublin-based nonprofit lays off 80 central Ohio workers, cites AI and federal cuts DUBLIN, Ohio (WCMH) — A Dublin-based organization that manages the Dewey Decimal System and partners with libraries worldwide has laid off dozens of central Ohio employees, citing the rise of…

80 employees at OCLC were laid off due to "AI" and "federal budget cuts."

www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...

I’ve been back in the states for a week and it’s been, frankly, a lot for my nervous system to handle.

Not totally unrelated, here’s a cool Frida Kahlo work that really spoke to me in the “Frida: Behond the Myth” exhibit currently at the VMFA

You kan not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys ther to make a profit. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.

These Medieval Monks Scribbled Notes in the Margins of Their Books More Than 1,000 Years Ago A new exhibition in Dublin showcases historic manuscripts written in Irish monasteries. The show also features medieval artifacts, such as a rare book shrine found in a river in the 1980s

The "Words on the Wave" exhibition is featured in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social
The article explores medieval marginalia—scribbled notes and doodles left by monks over a millennium ago.
Visit in person at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street.
🔗 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

Some of my other favorites in the exhibit: the earliest library ‘catalogue’ (Cod. Sang. 728, 9th c), a better lit look at the Faddan More Psalter, the Lough Kinale book shrine, and a marginal medieval cat-tiger-thing

That should be on* loan, and here’s some of the mss in question: