Exhibition “Gennadius Library 100. A Century of Inspiration” YouTube video by ascsathens

Exhibition “Gennadius Library 100. A Century of Inspiration”
ascsathens - 9:20
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At the Gennadius Library in Athens. Intrigued that this lovely and very Greek-looking building was designed by the American architects Van Pelt and Thompson, opening in 1926.

I am in Athens and have found a friend.

A real jewel

This is annoying me: initial reaction was the royal library, but I think not. Then Eton, but I think not. Then Madresfield, but no, and the array of books on the shelves suggests an institution. I don’t think it’s Oxbridge. So, dear @lucyworsley.bsky.social, you seem to he winning:

Whether or not you have been to the Kederminster Library at Langley Marish (now in the suburbs of Slough), do share this one abd consider visiting. It’s utterly spectacular and worth a long journey. langleymarish.com/stmary/keder... - hats off for them for seeing that is open to be visited.

The Annunciation

BnF MS Latin 17325; Gospels for various feast days; 11th century; f.7v @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Aswarby and Folkingham.

Today in Lincs in the sunshine.

Gorgeous first visit to @lichfieldcathedral.bsky.social today in bright sunshine. The feet belong to John Hacket (d. 1670), Bishop of Lichfield & Coventry and donor of some quite nice books to @theul.bsky.social.

Priory Church, Leominster

The hexagonal font in the truncated nave of Carlisle Cathedral, by Sir Arthur Blomfield, 1890, for #FontsOnFriday. 1/2

Walking back from my meeting

a carnelian and silver fob seal as-is / mirrored / in palm for scale / rear-view

Persian (nasta'liq) and Gurmukhi are both scripts you might reasonably expect to find on an early 19th-century seal from north India...

Visiting Dante’s memorial at the Basilica di Santa Croce was a fitting end to my stay in Florence, especially as I’ve been reading La Divina Commedia (in English!). Bologna next…

Sssh … don’t wake up the fairies. #CottageGarden #bluebells #witchesthimbles

Nothing changes. Isaac Newton writing in 1672 to the mathematician John Collins, grumbling about the postal service:

‘About a month or five weeks since, I sent you an answer to you[r] last, accompanied with a little draught of problems about the constructions of equations’. (1/2)

A huge pleasure to welcome members of @thefnl.bsky.social to Cambridge today!

A Tironian manual was copied in the 10th century onto the folios that were originally blank

BnF MS Latin 1597A; Concilium Parisiense, anno 825; 9th century (between 882 et 900, with 10th and 13th century additions); Abbey of Saint-Rémi of Reims; f.2r-3v @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Henry Bynneman also dies today, one of London's more notable printers and also a client of Sir Christopher Hatton's. He printed the first edition of Holinshed. As a result of his ambitious printing plans (he's running three presses), he is in a considerable amount of debt. 3/

I never dare ask him …

On the anniversary (in 2019) of the Notre Dame fire, here are the gilt arms of the city of Paris. Appropriately on the binding of a copy of the anonymous ‘Les antiquitez de la ville de Paris’ (Paris, 1640). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Ll.2.20.

Conwy, north-west Wales, photo by Sarah Horrocks.

A church whose interior now looks best looking up.

Danish finds of lead-inset weights of Insular Scandinavian type, likely used to weigh hacksilver bullion. It seems the type originated in longphuirt and/or Great Army winter-camps.

Generally lead with a decorative top made from a hacked piece of often gilt copper-alloy Insular metalwork.

My 📷 NMD

Pleased to stumble over this - invitation to lunch @pembroke1347.bsky.social, my own college, following official opening of Giles Gilbert Scott’s new building for @theul.bsky.social. I was actually looking for something else - info on 1929 architectural model of the building which we still have.

Me with colourful flowers and woodwork in St Margaret's

Photo showing the Galleries, in the Triforium

View of gothic windows and vaulting

Memorials in Poets' Corner with the WW1 poets in the foreground

I had a brilliant time giving my Westminster Abbey lunchtime talk today, in St Margaret's. And it was my first visit to the Queen Elizabeth II Galleries (in the Triforium). An amazing experience to look down on the shrine of Edward the Confessor, the Cosmati Pavement, and right along the nave.

University of Exeter and University of Cambridge Libraries & Archives - Collections Connections Communities

Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity - Spitting Image: political satire in Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Working across @exeter.ac.uk and @theul.bsky.social in partnership with the @camglamresearch.bsky.social and drawing on the Roger Law archive.

#PhDsky

great grey owl perched in front of a large tree

Always fun spending some time with a beautiful great grey owl, even if it doesn't pick a very photogenic spot to perch.

#owl #owls #birds #canada #nature #wildlife #photography #birding #nikon #greatgreyowl #mcoupephotography