Need an intro to the basics of palaeography?

Book your spot by 22nd May: buff.ly/GEkudq3

#palaeography #paleography #LIPS26

It’s already on my summer reading list! 😊

Three images of a long dress with flowing skirt and elegant book spine motifs, including a close-up and an image of the dress on a model and one of the dress on a woman in a library

Steampunk style 'book dress' by French designer Sylvie Facon #womensart

700-year-old mummy from Bolivia contains earliest confirmed evidence of strep throat bacteria in the Americas A DNA analysis of pathogens from a pre-Hispanic mummy revealed that the bacterium that causes scarlet fever and strep throat was present in the Americas prior to European colonization.

Scientists have confirmed that group A strep can be identified in ancient remains. They found pathogen DNA in a prehispanic mummy from Bolivia — raising the question: Where did strep (and diseases like scarlet fever) originate? 🧪🏺

I think it’s more likely related campagne (military campaign / church militant language)

Ex-libris bookplate featuring a shield with a chevron design and two flowers, and a knight’s helmet with plume and a motto banner reading ‘Je suis de Campagnon Bon Seigneur’.

Mystery Bookplate! I’m trying without any luck to identify this bookplate after checking through printed sources and online databases, and would be grateful for any advice! 📖🔎

the letter "w" from a 15th century manuscript

Nothing-- I mean nothing, not even highly-abbreviated Latin-- stymies my students as much as this scribe's "w" does

The @peripheralmss.bsky.social project had its first delivery of mss from Saint Meinrad Archabbey as part of our @nehgov.bsky.social HCRR grant. I'll leave it to @lizhebbard.bsky.social & @sarahloleet.bsky.social to provide a more substantive assessment, but ahhhhhh look at some of these beauties.

influensewer.

Screenshot of an info page for the "Steam Medieval Fest 2026", with a banner reading "Steam Medieval Fest" on a stylized medieval shield, half yellow and half red, and a knight on horseback on each side, one wearing yellow and the other red. The text below reads: Medieval Fest is all about games that takes place in medieval times! Now, we know that 'medieval' is a bit fuzzy and there's no academic agreement on what it means, so for the sake of this Fest games in the following settings will be considered 'Medieval': • Post-iron but pre-guns • Feudalism (ex. lords, nobles, emperors, daimyos, kings) are the primary political structure • The majority of the population are peasants - The weapons of choice are swords, bows, crossbows, and cannons (for siege purposes) Games that take place in some vague pre-modern period but don't have the defining characteristics listed above will not be eligible. For example, you should note that lace, telescopes, and banks are all post-Middle Age developments. Some level of anachronism is fine, but medieval is more than just "pre-electricity". This event runs 20 April @ 10:00am PDT to 27 April @ 10:00am PDT and will include The phrase "there's no academic agreement" has been underlined

Absolutely fascinated to see this caveat on the description of the Steam Medieval Sale—as if more justification for our course on history-themed video games was needed! 😉

Do I know anyone on here familiar with 18th-century French legal documents?

Currently attempting to transcribe a legal record of 1790 & struggling for all the abbreviations

Please DM me if this is easy for you!

@kmcdono.bsky.social 👀

Waffles hath a goode tyme

🎉🎉

Bronze Age loom weaves a tale of ancient textiles A collapsed roof preserved wood from one of the world’s oldest weaving machines

Looms were one of mankind's first machines, but intact finds of the perishable wood constructions are extremely rare. In @antiquity.ac.uk, a Spanish team reports finding the remains of a Bronze Age weaving workshop, including one of the oldest looms ever recovered. @science.org

It is not an extreme position to want to be able to think for yourself, to write by just typing words in, to learn things from other people or to make art with your hands.

overlooking a series of circular water filled tanks of a sewage treatment plant at night. lights line a long brick building on the horizon as a blue-black sky is stark behind a veil of thin puffy clouds in the distance.

good night, sewers.
good night, streams.
good night, operations and maintenance teams.
good night, settling tanks.
good night, stream banks.
good night, engineers, scientists, crews, managers, inspectors, analysts too.
a good night for us means serving with care.

good night, sewers, everywhere.

This is monstrously fucked up and should be Streisand Effected to the greatest degree possible

The opening of Beowulf from the unique surviving manuscript of the Old English text, beginning with a large initial 'H'.

Hwaet! The Beowulf manuscript (Cotton MS Vitellius A XV) is now back online.

You can consult the entire manuscript through the online catalogue:

searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...

Book of minutes

So excited to see the second round of our project taking this important step!

A lovely volume!! Saint Meinrad's has such a fantastic collection of medieval manuscripts. So happy to have them as a partner in our project for both our first and second round!

And so many more treasures! All (okay, most…) to be captured by this bad boy. Stay tuned for more project updates, Really Good Manuscripts, and Midwestern adventures!

#midwestmss #medievalsky #manuscripts #scanmaster

I was extra excited about this one (ssshhhh don’t tell the others!)

#midwestmss #medievalsky #manuscripts

A teensy, precious book of hours! 😍😍😍

#midwestmss #medievalsky #manuscripts

I’ll share some of the items to be contributed from Saint Meinrad, starting with this amazing Hebrew scroll:

#midwestmss #medievalsky #manuscripts

Dan from Saint Meinrad made our first delivery of manuscripts this morning for this second round of the project!

It is always such a fun time to see items again, and to get excited about digitizing and describing them!

#midwestmss #medievalsky #manuscripts

If you're sorting through the details of this case, take a look at the motion for summary judgment filed by the exceptional lawyers for @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org, and MLA to understand how DOGE's sweeping cancellation of NEH grants violated the constitution. www.mla.org/content/down...

Do you know somebody who needs to learn Latin from scratch or improve their Latin to PhD standard? CMS Toronto's summer Latin program is now entirely online and a remarkable bargain for the intensity and quality of instruction. Details here: www.medieval.utoronto.ca/latin/summer...

#medievalsky

The market for medieval manuscripts in the age of Modernism, 1914-45

I’ll be talking about my recent research on the trade in medieval manuscripts on 25 March @ihr.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/marke...