A fantastic Bodleian Libraries Coffee Morning with Mike Webb presenting on the Early Modern Letters Online project! I was also back in the reading room looking at works of Oxford antiquarian Brian Twyne 📜🎉

i would really like to know WHO was binding copies of George Sitwell's 1933 "Tales of my Native Village" in copies of Italian antiphoner pages, how many copies they did (at least 5) and why this book.... #fragmentfriday

'Romani ite domum' on a reconstruction of a Roman settlement in Britain, in the Hull and East Riding Museum 😆

Turkey's President Erdogan has called for Islamic countries to ally against “the growing threat of expansionism” from Israel. Let's go to the map shall we. That tiny speck of red - that's Israel. The rest are Arab League states, but tell me more about Israeli “expansionism”

Go behind the scenes of the Bodleian next week with #OxfordOpenDoors. We'll be giving tours of the Oxford University Herbaria, the Law Library, the Weston Library, the Divinity School, and the Collections Storage Facility in Swindon. All FREE, book now: go.glam.ox.ac.uk/BodOpenDoors

In 2004, in Norwich, England, construction workers stumbled upon 17 skeletons—six adults and 11 children—while beginning construction on a new shopping mall. Using genetic material extracted from the bones, scientists were able to identify the bodies. At least four of the

I've got big #Voynich news! manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2024/09/08/mul…

Very sad to hear of the death this morning of David Dumville. DND taught me palaeography, was a generous and thorough doctoral supervisor, and it’s devastating to think that his extraordinary mind is no more.

We've updated the article with the city where the contract was signed and the names of the bride and groom, with many thanks to محمد على ابو حمزة and Aḥmed ElAḳṭash أحمد الأقطش for their help. I've also come across this article, which seems relevant: academic.oup.com/jss/article-ab… (DM me for PDF).

One of the most *spectacular* medieval manuscripts in Belgium is now digitized. The illumination of the scribe on the purple vellum leaf is thought to have been inspired by models from antiquity.

MS Fragments still in the spine! Fragmentarium

We are still accepting proposals until 15 September!

1666 edition of the Hebrew Psalter with facing Dutch translation, by the Utrecht Hebraist Johannes Leusden & the Jewish printer Joseph Athias. To make more space for notes a reader had the book rebound with the pages pasted onto larger sheets of paper. KB Copenhagen, 82, 109 4473

Brb, going to Ghent

Paul Babinski OH!! We have a copy of the Pentateuch like this!! clio.columbia.edu/catalog/113735… (Geneva, 1617-18, just Hebrew) B893.1BJ C172

Thank you again to wonderful editors Hannah Armstrong and Dr Rebecca Menmuir! You can read my article “Medievalist Forgery? Editions, Adaptations, and Translations of Kudrun in the Nineteenth Century” for free at rdcu.be/dFflW

I've officially started at Lincoln College! I’ll be teaching and researching in Old and Middle English here for the next five years, with plenty of Classical Reception in the mix. Please drop me a line if you’re in Oxford and free for a coffee-would love to meet new people too😊

Can't wait to get started - continuing lots of research projects but excited to return to teaching! In the words of Bowie, rattling around my brain for the past few months...

Our miniature model of Stonehenge - 60x smaller and made from the same stones as the original. bit.ly/NHM-Miniature-…

Natural History Museum "…and made from the same type of stone as the original" !!!