Still time to register for tomorrow’s virtual visit to Vatican Apostolic Library!

Congrats to the amazing Oxford Conservation Consortium team for their new article in the @araukie.bsky.social journal on their projects to rehouse estates and livings records of @lincoln.ox.ac.uk and other colleges! 📜🎉
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Very interesting position at ASNC for a Celticist: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

When they said the library could have some additional study spaces, this wasn’t what I had in mind.

Will you be spending time with extended family over the holidays? Avoid those tedious annual arguments about politics & life choices — instead, this year try debating papal history! Out now, d’Avray’s new book offers themes & case studies galore! Tis the season! 🎄

Celebrating 15 years of Parker Library On the Web The Parker Library guards the legacy of Matthew Parker: a remarkable heritage that is safe, unharmed and yet accessible to all through Parker Library On the Web

15 and + years 🎉
Our teenage years online are all about unrestricted screentime

Go and explore Parker Library On the Web and find our 560 medieval and early modern manuscripts

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There is still time to apply for the position of Fellow Librarian at All Souls College Oxford (deadline is 5 December).

Read more: www.asc.ox.ac.uk/fellow-libra...
Please spread the word--this is a special opportunity!

Thrilled that the Merton Library window project has been awarded the plaque for Building Conservation by @oxfordprestrust.bsky.social Thanks to York Glaziers Trust who did magnificent work!🎉🎉

Promotional image for Islamic Art Week 2005 including the title of my talk (Reclaiming Kufi: A deeper understanding for more rooted creation), he date (18 november at 15:30), an old photo of me and my circular Book of the Moon as sample of my work.

It's a busy month: join me on Nov. 18, the UNESCO International Day of #IslamicArt, for an in-depth talk about "Kufi" as defining a self-contained early tradition of Arabic calligraphy.

For Islamic Art Week 2025, I've prepared a brand new, exhaustive (& kickass) presentation that will take us from…

MAA News - The Academy’s First Members

As the Medieval Academy marks its centenary, today’s members may be interested in learning about their counterparts a hundred years ago.
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-news-the...

Congratulations and good luck! (But we will miss you 😢)

Intermediate Latin Palaeography

Intermediate Latin palaeography will run online in February 2026 for those who want more advanced training. Book now 👇
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Medieval facade with gothic windows letting out light as the sky darkens

Central aisle of the library showing stacks of books on either side and the 16th century woodwork ceiling. A stained glass window at the end of the aisle and medieval tiles, red with some traces of patterns remaining

Book stack labelled Libri Theologiae, with rows of really old looking books

Gothic window at the end of a reading aisle

Tonight’s #Halloween special was a highly atmospheric visit of Merton College’s 14th c. library, guided by @juliawalworth.bsky.social.
Talk about gothic…

An atmospheric Halloween visit to the Merton library tonight.

Congratulations !! A must for our library!

A great pleasure to display some of the beautiful book creations by Paul Johnson and @majnouna.com for the Oxford Bibliophiles this evening!

Next Tuesday the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar is online. Kate Gerry will be sharing her work on the Guthlac Roll. Book 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Delighted we could help! The manuscript comprises eight tables, which bring together the fundamental tools for computing conjunctions (a term encompassing planetary conjunctions and lunar and solar eclipses), one of the most complex phenomena to compute in the Middle Ages.

A new academic year & the Upper Library is finally re-opened. The exhibition this term features Merton's 'newest' medieval manuscript (MS 329) acquired this year with the generous help of @thefnl.bsky.social. Booklet of 14th-century astronomical tables! Eclipses, conjunctions and more!

The couple are debating which route to take?

Congratulations!!

Merton College Chapel putting on a good welcome for today’s wedding! 😍

I love the expression ‘pop-up display’, as if the books and captions just appeared like mushrooms in the lawn!😀 Not that I don’t enjoy putting them together.

The joy of the pop-up display—greatly enhanced by the cup of tea afterwards!

It was too cloudy to see the lunar eclipse tonight, so here’s some fun diagrams of eclipses from a 13th century astronomical compilation, now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Arch. Selden. B. 34, f. 47v 🌘

Call for Papers - The Sale of Governance in Pre-Modern Europe and the Mediterranean (1100-1600)

Call for Papers
The Sale of Governance in Pre-Modern Europe and the Mediterranean (1100-1600)
Workshop
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-pap...

Kloster Andechs in Bavaria August 1985 and August 2025! We’ve changed, but the church is still stunning.

Apply now! John W. Baldwin Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Application Deadline: November 3, 2025

POSITION DESCRIPTION

The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies is pleased to announce a John W. Baldwin Post-Doctoral Fellowship for a recent Ph.D.
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Zwetschgenkuchen 2023 and 2025– thank goodness some good things don’t change. #vacation #Allgäu

The Society was kindly gifted a replica model of 'The Monk Astride a Wyvern' from The Met Museum by Prof. Mary Carruthers. The original dates from the mid c.12th, and was made in Magdeburg, Germany.

We need your help naming our new wyvern-riding wordsmith mascot! Comment your suggestions below 👇