Two new positions with the #ERC-BROKENSONG project at Maynooth University. The first position is for a Postdoctoral Researcher/Senior Postdoctoral Researcher to conduct analysis of the medieval Insular music corpus recovered, transcribed, and edited within the project. my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
The second position with #ERC-BROKENSONG is for a Research assistant/Postdoctoral Researcher with experience in statistical image processing/multispectral image processing. Deadline Mar 29, 2026. my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
Peterborough Psalter and Bestiary is making a visit to London!
Why not drop by to say hi
The manuscript is on loan at a new exhibition:
The Painted Tower: Conservation in Context at Longthorpe
Courtauld Gallery, 26 Febโ27 May 2026
courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...
CCCC MS 53, ff. 7v-8r
#medievalMSS
Our #siteoftheweek is POP - Plateforme ouverte du patrimoine. POP describes and disseminates scientific descriptions of cultural assets that are studied or preserved in France (works of art, buildings or sites, objects or furniture, photographs, etc.).
#astrohistory #histsci #medievalsky
![[F-cqi6] Psalter (Fragment), Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.2582/402. Two strips of parchment, rather dirty, with script, rubrics, and a five-line initial Q, possibly made of gold. It's the beginning of Ps. 51, and this is a Psalter fragment. Is it a psalterium feriatum? That's an excellent question. At the bottom of the screen are the signs of a ruler in the image.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zvhdyvd34yjytldmu6dm3u4b/bafkreida2hddkvh3uqs7t3pcsddxz6osolagw6okpn2mb24cqbuuzxxm5e)
[F-cqi6] Psalter (Fragment), Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.2582/402. Two strips of parchment, rather dirty, with script, rubrics, and a five-line initial Q, possibly made of gold. It's the beginning of Ps. 51, and this is a Psalter fragment. Is it a psalterium feriatum? That's an excellent question. At the bottom of the screen are the signs of a ruler in the image.
Working with liturgical fragments? We're collaborating with the Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission project to hold a colloquium in Fribourg, July 1-3. CFP here: sites.google.com/view/scraps-...
"Meetings with unremarkable manuscripts" could actually be a very interesting book.
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Angรฉline Rais
More Info: bit.ly/4rn0aC5
#BookHistory #Books #Collector #Collections #History
Offre dโemploi โ Co3Dicology (Investigating the Codicology of Medieval Bookbindings through Digital Imaging)
rmblf.be/2026/02/18/o...
๐ข Demain, 18h : lancement du sรฉminaire ยซLier les #donnรฉes du #patrimoineยป.
Avec Charlotte Denoรซl, Armรขne Magnier et Alexandre Tur.
Rรฉflexion sur les mรฉthodes de liage des donnรฉes documentaires et instrumentales ร lโลuvre ร la BNF pour dรฉfinir un ยซmanuscrit augmentรฉยป.
โถ๏ธ https://urls.fr/sSNbyq
Web โ Mise en ligne en open-access des รฉditions du Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (volumes antรฉrieurs ร 2010)
rmblf.be/2026/02/14/w...
@kmcdono.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social and I have a new OA article out: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... Itโs about the fragmented landscape of historical data, and what we can do about it to improve discoverability, sustainability and reuse.
The lovely Michelle Pfeffer has invited me to speak at the Divination, Oracles and Omens seminar at Magdalen College, Oxford. 4pm on Wednesday 25 February. All welcome, free to attend!
My paper is called 'Doing onomancy in the later Middle Ages' and I will share more info as I have it! #MedievalSky
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Here is the very latest from Caroline Goodson, hot off the presses! It is an amazing and incredibly important study. Already put it in my syllabus! academic.oup.com/past/advance...
A little stop motion video I made of an almanac in the University of Rochester collection to try and give viewers an idea of how it functions ๐
(Video of RCL cod. a.1, a late 14th century folding almanac from England, likely Oxford)
Do I have any #DH #DigitalHumanities friends on here who do network visualization (Apr. 6) or digital exhibits/repositories (Apr. 13) who'd be willing to Zoom in for a guest lecture for my Intro to DH class?
If you have graduate students working with medieval manuscripts this free online training might be useful ๐
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Assistant Library sought! www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/as...
Delighted to be advertising three new vacancies in Collections at Glasgow University Library. This is an exciting time to join a world-class collection and team. Find out more at: www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs...
Now available: Sidonius Apollinaris: Selected Letters
Order at www.cambridge.org/9781009087629
Early birds save 20% off at checkout, code JOOP2026
#sidoniusapollinaris #epistolography #LatinLiterature #LateAntiquity
Strong competition from the ectoplasm though cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-SPR-...
Detail depicting an elephant from the British Library Collection: Cotton MS Tiberius B V/1, fol. 81r.
Issue 42.2 of Parergon was released just before Christmas. A special issue focused on medieval English attitudes to the outside world, Alison Hudson's article 'Elephants in English Literature, Art, and Material Culture before the Reign of Henry III' is currently open access!
doi.org/10.1353/pgn....
Are you a PG research student based outside of London? Did you know that you may be eligible for a bursary of up to ยฃ500 to take one of our short courses in 2026? Find out more on our IHR Research Training and Short Courses page: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini... Applications open until 31 Jan 2026
This has been great to follow! It doesn't extend after 900 but there is a search interface to Chartae Latinas Antiquiores that lets you search by writing support num-arche.unistra.fr/chla/
University of Southern Denmark, 3-year postdoc in Medieval Studies
memorients.com/news/univers...
The fonds named after him was only created in the early 20th century and it would be interesting to know more about why that happened
MS. Duke Humfrey c. 1 digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/d529..., described in detail by David Rundle in our catalogue medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manu...
You may know him as Humphrey duke of Gloucester but in the Bodleian the spelling with -f- is sacrosanct.
Christ in majestry from the Jesse tree,
St John writing the Apocalypse, fol. 93r
St Paul, historiated initial for Romans, fol. 50v
Jean II's ownership inscription, fol. 98v
#DigiBodAdvent has been a bit erratic but we are finishing strongly with a major new acquisition from 2024, digitized 2025, the 13th-century French bible which belonged to Jean II of France and later to Humfrey duke of Gloucester the great benefactor of Oxford's university library
