Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖
Medievalist 📜
I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
Dr Alison Ray
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Come to North Carolina to see family, stay to collect 19th-century prints of the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk! 😂📖🎉
B&W shots of Turin and Susa taken on my Nikon FM2n film camera! 🇮🇹📸
Our inaugural courses at the Harry Ransom Center are underway this week with G-60 Evidence in Handpress-Era Books, 1450-1830 (taught by Aaron T. Pratt) and L-165 Literary Manuscripts (Stephen Enniss & Megan Barnard)! We're excited to be expanding our RBS offerings with this new partnership!
Plus a fantastic day trip to the historic town of Susa at the foot of the Alps! 🗻
And an appreciation post for the medieval collections and herb garden of Turin’s Palazzo Madama! 🎨
Still very obsessed with this wonderful cat hieroglyph and the cat statues in Turin’s Museo Egizio! 🐈⬛
Catch those rays or they’ll catch you! Fantastic depictions of the sun in the mystical Rothschild Canticles, produced c. 1300 in Flanders or the Rhineland, now Yale, Beinecke MS 404, fols. 64r and 44r ☀️
Dead Man’s Bones! Happy #InternationalGothDay (and a fun Ryan Gosling reference) to those who celebrate from this amazing illustration of a cadaver tomb from the ‘Disputation Between the Body and Worms’ (c. 1460-70), now @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 37049, f. 32v ☠️🪱🖤
Had a fun weekend of #churchcrawling in Torino! 🇮🇹🔔
Dr Alison Ray
Excited to be in Austin, TX to attend @rarebookschool.bsky.social next week at the Harry Ransom Center! Happy for any tips on sightseeing and places to eat! 🐮📖
Dr Alison Ray
Rare Book School
Dr Alison Ray
Dr Alison Ray
Dr Alison Ray
Dr Alison Ray
Dr Alison Ray
Dr Alison Ray
Dr Alison Ray
Excited to be in Austin, TX to attend @rarebookschool.bsky.social next week at the Harry Ransom Center! Happy for any tips on sightseeing and places to eat! 🐮📖
