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Sebastian Sobecki is a medievalist specialising in English literature, history, and manuscript studies.

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Strong Statler and Waldorf vibes in this news item from 1572 about gun shooting monks. #skystorians

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Hangend over een notenbalk. Weer eens gebladerd in het bijzondere Chansonnier van Zeghere van Male (Brugge 1542). Cambrai BM 125-128
Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

Voor iedereen die van schrijven en wetenschap houdt: de Robbert Dijkgraaf essayprijs.
En wederom een prachtig thema dit jaar: ‘Hoe helpt het verleden ons de toekomst te begrijpen?’
Inspiratie? Schrijf een essay en wellicht tot ziens op het Gala van de wetenschap: www.newscientist.nl/blogs/schrij...
Schrijf mee met de Robbert Dijkgraaf Essayprijs 2025
Ben je student, oud-student of medewerker van een (hoger) onderwijsinstelling in Nederland of België? Dan nodigen we je graag uit om deel te nemen aan de Robbert Dijkgraaf Essayprijs 2025.
www.newscientist.nl

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Many congratulations to our CMS Faculty who have received SSHRC Insight Grant Funding! Shami Ghosh, James Ginther, Riccardo Macchioro, Chris Nighman, Sebastian Sobecki (@sebsobecki.bsky.social), and Renée Trilling (@rrtrilling.bsky.social)!
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/cms-fac...

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My book is out! Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile, with Cambridge UP @universitypress.cambridge.org.

I am so grateful to the friends, family, colleagues, librarians and archivists who helped along the way. Nervous and excited to see it in the world!

www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile
Cambridge Core - Classical Literature - Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile
www.cambridge.org

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Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, C II 10; Bernardus de Montemirato, Lectura super Decretales; 1st half of the 14th century; f.1r
(www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

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"In total, 190 manuscripts have been conserved, catalogued and digitised. More than 7,000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely displayed on the Cambridge Digital Library."

www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...
Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible
Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...
www.lib.cam.ac.uk
190 mss, over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes, 42000 new images, 7700+ texts, new cataloguing, imaging and conservation treatments - oh my!

We're so pleased to have been part of Curious Cures
Congrats to @theul.bsky.social and everyone who worked on it 🎉👏👏
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...
Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible
Over the course of the last three years, and thanks to the generous support of the Wellcome Trust, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval m...
www.lib.cam.ac.uk

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Alchemy is hot work!

BL Add MS 10302; Thomas Norton, Ordinal of Alchemy; 15th century; England; f.1r

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Wonderful to see this today @theul.bsky.social - a magnificent choirbook probably from the court of Henry VIII or Henry VIII, with a motet and a five-part mass which appears to be the work of a Welsh Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, John Lloyd (c.1475-1523).

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Starting this week with a pocket-sized species - the Pearl-spotted Owlet.

📍Akagera National Park, Rwanda.

#Birds #NaturePhotography 🪶

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"...this copy was written on a parchment scroll, but at an unknown date it was cut into 7 parts."

Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 183; Peter of Poitiers, Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi; mid 13th c; England or France (?)
(www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

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