Getting ready for #OERGISC2026 ! @royalholloway.bsky.social
Day 3 of the London International Palaeography Summer School and the directors are enjoying themselves! @ies-sas.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social
The London International Palaeography School 2026 comes to an end. A wonderful week of learning about manuscripts. Thank you to all the students and staff @ies-sas.bsky.social @senatehouselib.bsky.social who make this so much fun. See you in 2027. 🎉📖✍️🥂😴
What a treat to welcome Bernard Meehan to @ies-sas.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social to give the 2026 John Coffin Memorial Lecture in Palaeography! #MedievalSky
Happy #InternationalLynxDay!
I'm very lucky to live in Canadian lynx habitat. They are very elusive and their population ebbs and peaks with that of their main prey, snowshoe hare. I've only met one a few times and each moment is magical. #mammals. 🌿
This is the feast of Augustine of Canterbury, d. 604, Apostle to the English 🕯️, which gives me a chance to share my favorite moment of liturgical book theatre so far this millennium. The Gospels of St. Augustine, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 286, is a 6th-c. Italian manuscript ... 🧵
Our latest blog is a guest post by Linda van Rheinberg, a student at Heinrich Heine University (Düsseldorf) who spent time examining medieval manuscripts @theul.bsky.social with her fellow students earlier this year. Read all about it here! specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=31935
The 2026 London International Palaeography School is underway! ☕️☕️📖📚🎉🎉
Today is the feast day of St Columba (Colum Cille), who according to tradition, wrote the Cathach (RIA MS 12 R 33) as a copy of a Latin psalter belonging to St Finnian in a single night. A dispute arose about the ownership of the copy leading to the battle of Cúl Dreimne in AD 561.