Listen and write what I tell you:
"Omnis sapientia a Domino Deo est"
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 004: The Dover Bible, Volume II; 12th century; f.66v
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Soon be time to sleep. 😴
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 004: The Dover Bible, Volume 2; 12th century; f.277r
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Journalist Christopher Donlan paid us a vist & wrote a lovely piece reflecting on the long view of the past and how our task (as entrusted to us by Matthew Parker) is to combat against loss of knowlege:
The Archbishop’s Library - An audit against entropy
#Booksky 📖
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
Postdoc opportunity! The Dictionary of Old English invites applications for two grant-funded postdoctoral fellowships.
1. Postdoctoral Fellow, Editorial, DOE - deadline June 12.
2. Postdoctoral Fellow, DEfOE / Ansund project - deadline June 19.
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/postdoc...
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Initial 'V'(erbum) at the beginning of the prophet Jeremiah:
"A A A, Dominus Deus, ecce nescio loqui, Qui puer ego sum."
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 003; The Dover Bible, Volume I; 12th century; f.195r @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social
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Initial 'P'(raevaricatus) at the beginning of 4 Kings depicting Christ in a chariot of fire holding Elijah, Elijah's mantle falling below, and Elisha beneath
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 003; Dover Bible, Volume I; 12th c; f.159v @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social
What a day!
Feast of Corpus Christi on 4 June: showing College silver along with new exhibition: Travellers and Scriptures: Looking East at the Parker
Choral Eucharist & Evensong, motets on New Court, feast in Hall & admission of Baroness Katherine Willis CBE and Murray Gold as Honorary Fellows 🎵🎉
Our new exhibition (June&July) opened on Corpus Christi Day
'Travellers and Scriptures: Looking East at the Parker' gives an impression of European engagements with the Arabic & Persianate east through our medieval & early modern books
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker-libra...
#BookSky #MedievalMSS
Two returns, two leaves
Two of our manuscripts are now on loan to @sainsburycentre.bsky.social in Norwich for the current exhibition 'Living by the Rule: Contemporary meets Medieval'
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker-libra...
Definitely worth a visit!
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U of T Centre for Medieval Studies
The Parker Library
Ha! Always a pleasure to see one of ours in action 📖🎵😍
CCCC MS 391, a.k.a. St Wulfstan's Portiforium (breviary from c. 1060s) is digitised & free to view (along with all our medieval and early-modern mss) on Parker Library On the Web:
parker.stanford.edu/parker/catal...
#MedievalMSS
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Living by the Rule in Norwich 16 May – 4 October 2026 Two of the Parker Library manuscripts have gone on their merry way to an exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich. The exhibition Living by t...
In an article for Wired in 1999, William Gibson idly mentions a coffee shop in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar. It sounds like a typical Turkish cafe, except for
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