Walking through the Rita Benton Music Library This is an installment in a multi-part series.  Located on the first floor of Voxman Music Building is a library with large glass windows. Sunlight streams from the panes of glass, illuminating studen...

Walking through the Rita Benton Music Library #Iowa 📜(Heavily features collections from the rare book room) dailyiowan.com/2026/04/14/w...

Having two bunnies, I can confirm this is how they are.

You see a handy paper plate offering access to all (!) Popes, Roman Emperors, Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, a lot of Christian kings, and more minor rulers. You need to move the paper pointer, find the correct ring, and read the information. #skystorians: it's an #earlymodern paper tool.

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Two new positions with the #ERC-BROKENSONG project at Maynooth University. The first position is for a Postdoctoral Researcher/Senior Postdoctoral Researcher to conduct analysis of the medieval Insular music corpus recovered, transcribed, and edited within the project. my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

The insensitivity is not on your end... Do gift the world the new episodes, please.

Pastedown with shelfmark and annotation of RARE VAULT LC BT100 .T44 1600, University of Missouri Columbia Special Collections

First page of RARE VAULT LC BT100 .T44 1600, a manuscript on paper from University of Missouri Columbia Special Collections

It's time for a fun Mizzou Library Special Collections item, at some time held in the library of Dupplin Castle. Collated by John Wright on December 31, 1723!

digital.library.missouri.edu/node/199333
#scottishhistory #scottishbooks #rarebooks

And CalRBS has a course on English paleography in August: www.calrbs.org/english-pale...

Schedules | Rare Book School

There is probably still time to apply to Rare Book School summer courses, although not for the first-round of admissions: rarebookschool.org/schedule/.

So excited to attend #ICMS as part of the Library Careers for Medievalists 1 roundtable! I'm very passionate about career development and alt-ac/ non-ac careers for PhDs: icms.confex.com/icms/2026/me...

A selection of books form the Fagel Collection

TCD Library is recruiting a Senior Bibliographer to help catalogue the Fagel Collection! This is a fabulous professional opportunity to work on one of Europe's great early modern private libraries. Closing 10 March at noon. Full details available at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies

Manuscript Data Curation Fellow University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...

DS seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for a full-time, NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship. To apply, please follow this link: wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...

Same experience: Took 2 tries to have the profile deleted.

That's a great find!

The updated MU Digital Library is here! Our Digital Initiatives team has made sure anyone can access Mizzou's special collections and archival holdings online.

digital.library.missouri.edu

#bookhistory #history

1000%!

*THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES*, a free, scholer-produced onlyne resource for teachinge and learninge *The Canterbury Tales* at the universitye level: opencanterburytales.lsusites.org

I never thought in my life that I would ever see a facsimile of Domesday Book again. But it was a hit in today's special collections tour!

@historyworkshop.org.uk is looking for new editorial fellows! For early career historians with an interest in radical, public and digital histories: paid, part-time work commissioning and editing on our digital history magazine. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...

Confirmed: We don't have Scottish cookbooks...

Not that I recall, but I can check!

I wasn't expecting Scottish docs in the Midwest, out of all places! And we also have some 18th c. Scottish and English scientific/medical books...

Found a Scottish document in our collections! land grant obligation from 1516 between John 2nd Lord Oliphant and David Anderson, previously described as English. With my thanks to @kiritekatawa.bsky.social for providing info on the contents! digital.library.missouri.edu/node/96506 #manuscript

Oooh, thanks for that! I'll have a look for other medieval docs mentioning Kynnesbury

At first I thought it could be a B...

#BookHistory

Fragmenta Manuscripta 210: Calendar for May and June (leaf), ca. 1390-1410 from England. Detail from the leaf: Would it read "Dedicatio ecclesiae Eynnesbury"?
library.missouri.edu/specialcolle... (University of Missouri-Columbia Special Collections)

English letter from an Englsh nun written c.1637. Words have been scribbled out and I'd like help figuring them out.

OK who wants to try help me identify the words that have been scribbled out here? #earlymodern 🗃️

#Medieval #manuscripts folios ✍️

"Symbols & Signs: Decoding Medieval Manuscripts": delightful examples in the article at www.getty.edu/news/can-you-crack-these... & an exhibition until 10 Aug at the Getty Center in LA.
#Getty #LosAngeles #medieval #manuscripts @medievodons
h/t @globalmuseum

No, I haven't had recent issues but I do recall a time when I did have this issue. I joked to myself that I'd broken the internet