hard numbers here from @brodiewaddell.bsky.social are pretty sobering
1 PhD awarded for every 5.5 current staff in history departments in the UK.
for all PhD students to take up a full time post this means a historian’s career should av. < 6 years postphd🗃️
manyheadedmonster.com/2026/04/23/h...
I love that! Great topic!
I can certainly send some references ...
I had fun trying this out: try an English captial E in any of the following fonts in word: 'Dreaming out loud' 'Brush Script MT', or 'Vladimir' 🤓
🚨HOMER FRAGMENT ALERT🚨 Fragment of the Iliad found inside an Oxyrinchus mummy but as ritual, not as cartonnage, taking the place of what would normally be a magic text…
…and it’s the Catalogue of Ships! ❤️
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Thank you @lunatraktors.bsky.social for sending me this today!
The children of two prominent American art collectors have voluntarily returned to Greece five Greek antiquities acquired by their parents in the 1970s and 80s, the Culture Ministry said Tuesday
www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1301...
photo of exhibition
Exhibit open April 11, 2026 – August 2, 2026 @ransomcenter.bsky.social Lives and Literacy in Ancient Egypt www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/... @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
So, apparently archaeology news are more interesting than early printed books ... 🤓😯😂
#Medieval_Paleography. Two different #manuscript_fragments cover this Quintilian (Lyon 1538). One wraps the book. A smaller fragment from Liber Sextus, L. 5, T. 2, C 18, covers the spine. I have given up on the wrapper. Seems to be legal, but not from Sextus - maybe a Corpus Juris commentary?
A mummy containing a rare papyrus fragment which included text from Book II of Homer’s Iliad, the famous “Catalog of Ships” which lists the Greek forces that sailed to Troy #classicalreception
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Two hands hold an open book with printed and handwritten text, accompanied by a promotional banner from The Bibliographical Society of America. Transcribed Text: Left Page: THE HIGH TREASVRE... (text continues further down) Imprinted at London, for Gabriell Simson and William White. Right Page: I hate not, having a real note book, but when you order one you, note write... Banner Text: We Need More Bibliographers
The Bibliographical Society of America is participating in a social media campaign with ACLS this week, and we invite you to join in! The message is simple and proactive: we need more humanities and social sciences scholars and research.
#TalkAboutHumanities
A medieval manuscript page featuring decorative, handwritten text in Latin. At the center, there is a circular illustration of a mythical creature resembling a bull with horns and a long tail inside a gold-bordered circle.
Illustration of a bull representing the Taurus constellation. The bull is adorned with red stars marking the constellation's formation.
This is an illuminated manuscript illustration depicting a person in medieval attire standing beside a seated brown bull. The background on the left is filled with trees, while the right features a starry night sky. The border is adorned with intricate floral designs and decorative elements typical of medieval art.
Illustration of a bull with horns representing Taurus. The animal is emerging from a haze
Taurus in medieval manuscripts ♉️🐂
Taurus is a bull because of the myth of Zeus and Europa. Medieval artists kept the symbol as part of the zodiac calendar.
Shelfmarks:
MS. Rawl. D. 1220, fol. 004r
MS. Bodl. 266, fol. 108r
MS. Auct. D. 2, fol. 4r
MS. Canon. Misc. 46, fol. 113v
#MedievalMonday
Paper sheet with four different type settings of pages in liturgical books printed in black and red
Detail of two pages in different type but of the same text of a diurnum with handwritten notes below
Detail of a page of a breviary with a handwritten note below
Planned some cataloguing today, but didn’t expect to (re)discover this uncatalogued early 17th‑century specimen sheet comparing the same liturgical text in different type setting, with annotations noting the number of sheets required with that specific type and corresponding cost for printing!
Amazing find!
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]
Thanks everyone for your help. One fellow bskyer suggested I talk to the fly-tying community, and another recommended the featherbase.info website. I indirectly found a fisher who thought it could work for making flies, & suggested the bird is a plover. Featherbase indicates it might indeed be.
#CFP for #earlymodern folks! @hannah-historian.bsky.social and I are putting together a special edition of the Journal of Epistolary Studies on "Letters as Paratexts in the Early Modern World"!
Hellenic Society & Roman Society Online Course
Jan Haywood
Divination in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds
Wednesday 6, 13, 20, 27 May and 3 June 6pm-7.30pm (UK time)
For more information and to book:
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
📖 The Early Modern Hellenism Colloquia aim to foster a growing community of international scholars across various disciplines working on the reception of the ancient Greek heritage in the early modern period. Each session includes a 20-minute presentation followed by a 30-minute informal discussion.
Reposting for the evening crowd 🙂
📢 Next Early Modern #Hellenism Colloquium: Nicole Kuropka will talk about 'Philipp Melanchthon: Rhetoric, Exegesis, and St Paul'
📅 16 April, 15:00 CET (Zoom)
✨ All welcome! To register, click here www.hf.uio.no/dnir/english...
#Hellenism #ClassicalReception #Reformizing #Skystorians #Greek
✨Each session includes a 20-minute presentation followed by a 30-minute informal discussion. Open to all!
📜 The Early Modern Hellenism Colloquia, convened by me and @hlamers.bsky.social aim to foster a growing community of international scholars across various disciplines working on the reception of the ancient Greek heritage in the earlymoden period.
📢 Next Early Modern #Hellenism Colloquium: Nicole Kuropka will talk about 'Philipp Melanchthon: Rhetoric, Exegesis, and St Paul'
📅 16 April, 15:00 CET (Zoom)
✨ All welcome! To register, click here www.hf.uio.no/dnir/english...
#Hellenism #ClassicalReception #Reformizing #Skystorians #Greek
...copying a Byzantine church
Upcycling before its time! This 1612 edition of Ovid (call number 7A2272) was probably given a (new) binding later that same century. A cover from a student textbook dating from 1657 was used for this. The unidentified student came from Antwerp and was studying at the Pedagogy the Falcon in 1657.
'Greece, discoveries between Kasos and Karpathos: five Byzantine wrecks and anchors identified'
www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeolo...
Isaac Asimov, writing in 1957, was strangely prescient about the debates regarding the impact of AI on intellectual work.