Ah thank you so much for picking up a copy! I’m so pleased I could contribute in a fun way to Julia’s fantastic work! 🤗

Book cover for ‘Dear Monica Lewinsky’ by Julia Langbein, published 2026

So thrilled my copy of the amazing Julia Langbein’s new novel, ‘Dear Monica Lewinsky’ has arrived! I’m so pleased to have my intensive knowledge of medieval illuminations came in handy to have helped with the book cover design! 🎨⚔️📖🎉

Visit the @rialibrary.bsky.social exhibition Ink & Innovation, showcasing some of the earliest printed books produced in Europe.

@liber-ray.bsky.social will host a Curator's Talk & Tour on 28 April. Book your tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

Watch the video for a little sneak peak 👇

A fun #RecordStoreDay at Tower Records and free ice cream with every purchase! Pleased with my analogue haul 🎶📀🍦

Long live Hookland! 🤗

Don't miss our Curator's Talk & Tour on 28 April, which is part of a programme of events to mark our new exhibition Ink & Innovation: the earliest printed books of the Royal Irish Academy. We're sharing a taster here and you can book your free place at the event now: www.ria.ie/events/ink-i...

Ink & Innovation is an exhibition of the earliest printed books in the Royal Irish Academy Library running from April to December 2026. Come and learn about early printing technology, the development of the printing trade and the varied interests of Renaissance readers: www.ria.ie/library/libr...

Amaze amaze amaze! Seeing stars after catching Project Hail Mary in IMAX like this fantastic illumination from a 15th-century text on the end of the world, now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Douce 134, f. 47r 🚀🌟

Amazing, thank you! 🍄⚔️

Amazing, thank you! The incunable I’m looking at was owned later by Prince Rainier III of Monaco, so it’s great to discount his library from the search!

Thank you very much, so helpful! ✍️

Amazing, thank you very much!

Thank you, another reply thinks this could be a deliberate pun!

Thank you so much, that’s brilliant and will absolutely refer to this person as the Mushroom Owner! 🤗📖🍄

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! 📖🔎

Some shots of Angers with my Rollei 35S camera! 📸

📚 Make sure to visit our new exhibition, Ink & Innovation and come along to our curator's lunchtime talk and tour on 28th April www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

The tapestries are so beautiful, so pleased I got to finally visit them and happy to share my pictures- I got right up in their business! 🤗

A great Easter break visit to Château d'Angers to see the incredible Apocalypse Tapestries depicting the events of the Book of Revelation! Originally commissioned by Louis I, Duke of Anjou, the tapestries were woven in Paris between 1377 and 1382! 😇😈🧵

View of Trinity College Dublin’s Old Library

Portrait photograph of Michael Davitt

View of Michael Davitt exhibition display

Laptop and incunable book

A fun @tcdlibrary.bsky.social visit today to see the Michael Davitt exhibition and an exciting training session on cataloguing for the @cerl-community.bsky.social Material Evidence in Incunabula project! 📖🎉

Read the latest blog post from @rialibrary.bsky.social about the new 'Ink & Innovation' exhibition, written by the curator, Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social📚

A small ceramic hand warmer in the shape of a closed book. It is white with blue writing

A small ceramic hand warmer in the shape of a closed book. It is coloured white, blue, green and yellow.

Designed to look like books, these ceramic objects are actually flasks or hand warmers.

They are thought to have been filled with hot water or coal to warm the hands of the wearer on a cold winter's day. They functioned as a sort of ceramic hot water bottle. The perfect gift for book lovers!

Ah thank you so much! 🤗 Yessss, we have an incredible in-house graphic designer and she was i spired by the design of this lovely initial Q for the exhibition logo! 🌿

Exhibition graphic reading ‘Ink & Innovation’

User notes by mathematical diagrams in a copy of Euclid’s Elements (RIA 24 E 24)

Woodcut scene of philosophers consulting books under and armillary sphere from a copy of Ptolemy’s Almagest (RIA 24 F 19)

Detail from a hand-coloured map of Scandinavia from a copy of Ptolemy’s Cosmographia (RIA 24 E 38)

Excited to share I have curated Ink & Innovation, an exhibition of the @rialibrary.bsky.social earliest printed books for 2026! Check out the blog for more details on our fantastic incunabula on display as well as how to visit and my upcoming talk in April! 🤗📖🎉

www.ria.ie/blog/ink-inn...

Thank you so much! 🤗

Thank you very much, what a lovely trip! 🤗

Ah thank you! You should definitely visit if you haven’t been! 🤗

Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem, from Bodleian Library MS. Douce 5, f. 16v

View of Palm Sunday procession from the Divinity School

It was wonderful to see the Oxford @universitychurch.bsky.social Palm Sunday procession this morning led by the best behaved donkey! 🫏🌿

Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem, from @bodleianlibrary.bsky.social MS. Douce 5, f. 16v

Model of the Grand Budapest Hotel

Magazine issue board from The French Dispatch

Book covers from Moonrise Kingdom

Magazine cover from the Royal Tenenbaums

Fantastic show @designmuseum.bsky.social of the Wes Anderson archives! As well as a film fan girl, I love how Anderson word-builds through his detailed props in graphic design and book culture! 📖🎬😍