New Carnegie Masters Grants to support fair access to postgraduate study in Scotland - The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland The Carnegie Education Fund is launching a new grant scheme to help more people in Scotland access postgraduate study. Carnegie Masters Grants will support students living in low‑income households in ...

Some good news!: New Carnegie Masters Grants to support fair access to postgraduate study in Scotland
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Great thread on this paper astronomical instrument by Johannes Stabius & Albrecht Dürer -- and for anyone interested in how one would actually use this instrument, Rich Kremer had a journal article in Centaurus a few years ago: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #HistSTM

Yes, it is some really heartening news in amongst all the gloom!

New Carnegie Masters Grants to support fair access to postgraduate study in Scotland - The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland The Carnegie Education Fund is launching a new grant scheme to help more people in Scotland access postgraduate study. Carnegie Masters Grants will support students living in low‑income households in ...

Some good news!: New Carnegie Masters Grants to support fair access to postgraduate study in Scotland
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A piece of collage from a late 17th century Irish manuscript. A manuscript made in Dublin but grafted with an image of the crucifixion (probably) from a Netherlandish printed book.

@bryonycoombs.bsky.social and I have been making ink @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social historical reconstruction lab. My v. easy 1555 recipe is from Alessio Piemontese’s Secrets - it involves wine, very Italian - and made pretty good ink, even with my Scottish galls. Can’t wait til our workshop!

Some really instructive (& fun) ink making experiments with @jillburke.bsky.social this afternoon in prep for a forthcoming ink & quills workshop. Scottish, English or Aleppo oak galls: which makes the best ink? we will tell you after the workshop! 😉
Many experimental ideas in the pipeline ✍️📜🍃

Manuscript marginalia of a green beast about to devour a mirror?

Manuscript marginalia of a monk with wild hair riding backwards on a griffin.

manuscript marginalia of a man with a beard brandishing a sword and riding a small green beast how holds his blue and red cloak in his mouth.

...I haven't found the iconography I was looking for but I am now forever lost in the world of Jean duc de Berry...

Manuscript marginalia: a hybrid-bishop/creature wearing bellows as a mitre and holding a gold crozier whiles blessing.

Manuscript marginalia: an old man riding a green lion-esque beast and holding a large glass flask of pink liquid.

Manuscript marginalia: a young man dressed in fine red and pink robes playing a large jawbone with a bow and riding backwards on a brown stork.

Manuscript marginalia: a hybrid woman figure with a pink robe and white headdress dangles from a line ending, holding a lantern and touching the hat of an old man-hybrid figure in a dark grey robe.

Researching Scottish illumination for the book project and I was led back to the Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry in trying to track down a particular piece of iconography....and it reminded me how incredible these manuscripts are.
Excited that I will be teaching them again next year
[BnF Ms lat 919]

I'm going to have to read it!

Congrats! This looks amazing!

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Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries I think it was fairly common - a thriving market for cut out illuminations unfortunately...

A close-up of a manuscript page with an illuminated initial roughly cut out so that you can see the folio beneath.

A close-up of a manuscript page with an illuminated initial roughly cut out so that you can see the folio beneath. Some decorative text in red and madder still visible to the right.

A close-up of a manuscript page with an illuminated initial roughly cut out. A rough mend of newer parchment added. Some decorative letter still just visible to the right.

A close-up of a manuscript page with an illuminated initial roughly cut out. A rough mend of newer parchment added.

Scenes to make a manuscript historian weep...🥲
[USALM MS BR65.A9]

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Magnusson Prize - Scottish Society for Northern Studies

Forthcoming deadline (1 April) for the Magnusson essay prize for students and early career scholars in the fields of Northern Studies (broadly defined) www.ssns.org.uk/magnusson-pr...

A treat at the top of Meall Greigh and a surprise appearance of a lizard on route to Meall Garbh...🦎

Surprising what you find near Loch Tay... (Cave of Caerbannog).

2 books on a windowsill. Volume 1 (parts 1 & 2) of the History of the Book in Scotland.

Phot of first page of chapter in History of the Book in Scotland vol. 1: Kate Ash-Irisarri, ‘The Manuscripts of Walter Bower’s Scotichronicon’.

So pleased to see this out in the world! 2 volumes, over 60 contributors (incl. a small one by me) - a huge achievement for the four editors congratulations to @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social et al for getting this over the line!

Stunning walks up Meall Corranaich and Meall a'Choire Lèith today 🤩

Could have done with an ice axe today...it was icy! Beautiful, but pretty arctic...

Lawers dam, so a different one but v. Similar :)

Look at this delightful visitor 🐿️

Easter holidays in Scotland can be a bit of a mixed bag for hillwalking... A surprising amount of snow and ice at the top of Meall nan Tarmachan.

🙏 won't be long I am sure!

Just received another message saying a parcel will be delivered to work today....maybe that is it!!!

Yes, very much so - do you know if it is on-route soon?

Love this... I feel their pain....😆