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Raphaëlle Goyeau
@biblioraphic.bsky.social
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Assistant Librarian in Cambridge, AHRC-funded PhD student at UEA and the British Library, book hoarder at home
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Raphaëlle Goyeau @biblioraphic.bsky.social · Nov 9
Having said I’m interested in #bookhistory and #libraryhistory I should probably introduce myself.
Hi, I’m Raphaëlle. I’m doing a PhD on the organisation, binding, and generally the history of the Cotton manuscripts at the British Library (specifically @BLMedieval but they aren’t over here yet)
biblioraphic.bsky.social
What are you reading this week bluesky? #books #booksaboutbooks #manuscripts
Title page “Illumino a history of medieval Britain in twelve illuminated manuscripts. Michelle P. Brown. Reaktion Books”. Main title in golden yellow, with detail of the miniature of St John the Evangelist in the Book of Cerne, CUL MS 1.l.1.10, inside the O. Subtitle in white, author’s name in golden yellow, publisher in black. Background terracotta red.
July 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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jonathanhealey.bsky.social
‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’
March 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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richove.bsky.social
Please enjoy looking at our new acquisition @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, the French New Testament, formally owned by Jean le Bon, King of France & Humfrey Duke of Gloucester, illuminated by the Cholet Master. Now on Digital Bodleian: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/d529...
Two Illuminations from a medieval manuscript of the 13th century
March 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
biblioraphic.bsky.social
What a brilliant (some might say… illuminating) day, can’t thank the Bodleian or the speakers enough. They covered an incredible range of subject, from the origins of the manuscript itself to Anglo-French exchanges in the medieval period (1/2)
March 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
biblioraphic.bsky.social
Happy #worldbookday to this diva
Portrait of Laura Battiferri by Bronzino, 1560, now kept at the Palazzio Vecchio in Florence. She is depicted with her body turned three quarters towards the painter, her head fully turned to her right, wearing a grey and white headpiece covered by a transparent veil falling onto her shoulders before gathering at the front of her bust, where it is pinned to her black dress. The front of her bust is covered by the chemise with an elegant plissé, with a golden bead holding it closed at her throat; the same white chemise also peeks out of her sleeves. For jewellery, she only wears a plain gold pendant, the bottom of which is hidden below the neckline of her dress, and a gold ring with a black stone on her left ring finger. Her hands hold open a manuscript, turned towards the painter. It is bound in black covers, edges coloured red, and uses brown ink.
March 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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librarycolleen.bsky.social
Association of Research Libraries Calls for Protection of US National Archives and Records Administration 📜
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Association of Research Libraries Calls for Protection of US National Archives and Records Administration — Association of Research Libraries
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) sent letters urging congressional committees that provide oversight and appropriations for the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to pro...
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February 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
biblioraphic.bsky.social
Pleasure as always, PBFA
Church housing a book fair. In the back, four different visible stands of early printed books and 20th century first editions or signed copies. To the right, closer to the foreground, a table covered in green cloth with piles of different catalogues and pamphlets. In the foreground, blurry snapshot of a paper bag bearing the symbol of the Provincial Booksellers Fair Association.
February 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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anzamems.bsky.social
Call for Papers: Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700 #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
Logo of Australian National University's School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics (within which sits the Centre for Early Modern Studies)
February 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
biblioraphic.bsky.social
Calling for #bookish recipe suggestions! I fancy bringing something into the office.

Picture of my deplorable attempt at making a galette des rois inspired by the BL’s Medieval Women design to grab attention. Still better than last year’s Cotton MS Claudius A III thanks to the homemade puff pastry
Square puff pastry carved in the shape of three arches, each housing a female figure. Close up of a blue magnet with three arches, each holding a depiction of a woman with her hands joined in front of her chest.
January 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
biblioraphic.bsky.social
Taking a break from reading to play tourist. Renovations going well, I’d say!
Altar and choir of Chartres cathedral, showcasing the renovation, including the whitening and overpainting, and cleaning of the stained glass windows
December 31, 2024 at 11:21 AM
biblioraphic.bsky.social
Wonder what this pile of blocky presents might be…
Three presents wrapped in brown paper with snowmen motifs, bundled with white ribbon.
December 25, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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srsrensoc.bsky.social
The fabulous feathery team in @unileiden.bsky.social is organising a conference on Scribes and Inky Fingerprints: Collaborative and Mediated Authorship in #EarlyModern English Manuscripts.

Conference: 7-9 May, Leiden
Deadline abstracts: 20 December
All info: rensoc.org.uk/event/scribe...
Scribes and Inky Fingerprints: Collaborative and Mediated Authorship in Early Modern English Manuscripts Leiden University, May 7, 2025 - May 9, 2025 Deadline for submission/application: December 20, 2024 CfP FEATHERS conference In early modern England, the production of manuscript texts, whether literary, governmental or legal, was typically a collaborative or “socialized” enterprise, involving both professionals and amateurs. Indeed, the person a modern reader might automatically identify as “the author” rarely exerted sole influence over a text’s production: scribes and manuscript users might repurpose and adjust extracts from earlier literary contexts, while others commissioned intermediaries, such as secretaries or lawyers, to commit their words to paper. At first glance these intermediaries appear either frustratingly anonymous or, as members of a royal secretariat or court of law, institutionalised and thus indistinguishable. Nevertheless, all these contributors leave inky, au
November 15, 2024 at 10:56 AM
biblioraphic.bsky.social
I have been going through and deleting the content I’ve uploaded to the other place, and in the process stumbled back on a thread created as a response to
@arbookworm.bsky.social who was asking some very interesting questions about identifying and manuscripts, and if Cotton class marks were fluid
Jonathon Lance (@arbookworm.bsky.social)
Reader. Student. Nashville, AR // Ruston, LA
arbookworm.bsky.social
November 14, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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librarycolleen.bsky.social
Interested in seeing what the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) annual conference is like? Scholarships are available for first-time attendees. Apply by December 13th!
Info: web.cvent.com/event/eec2eb...
Logo that says RBMS 2025 A Multitude of Stories
November 12, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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superteadrinker.bsky.social
I'm feeling intellectually lazy, so:
Does anyone know of a thesis or study on the libraries of new training colleges for modernising pre-industrial professions in the 19th century. e.g. Medical/legal/military college libraries?
#LibHist #BookHist
November 10, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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calthalas.bsky.social
Made a medieval manuscripts and book history starter pack (broadly defined). It is definitely not exhaustive so please comment and I'll add you and the accounts that you think are missing!

go.bsky.app/AN9pLVo
November 10, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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nicksturm.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/CtyRqgj

Please share widely & reply below if you'd like to be added📚!
November 9, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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bibliowingate.bsky.social
Starter pack for #BookHistory in Spanish/Spanish-speaking world!
Starter pack para #HistoriaDelLibro en español y el mundo hispano-hablante
¡Comenta o envíame un msj si quieres ser añadid@!
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November 9, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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ccockburn.bsky.social
Starting again on here! A few behind the scenes shots from our Medieval Women exhibition.
The Roll of Lucy of Hedingham The Talbot Shrewsbury Book The seal of Isabella of France And if I War a Maydyn
November 9, 2024 at 5:33 PM
biblioraphic.bsky.social
Having said I’m interested in #bookhistory and #libraryhistory I should probably introduce myself.
Hi, I’m Raphaëlle. I’m doing a PhD on the organisation, binding, and generally the history of the Cotton manuscripts at the British Library (specifically @BLMedieval but they aren’t over here yet)
November 9, 2024 at 2:13 PM
biblioraphic.bsky.social
Trying to find other #bookhistory and #libraryhistory people on here! I’m bound to have missed some (pun intended), so please do pen a little message if you have some names to add to the list!

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November 9, 2024 at 1:16 PM
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svanimpe.bsky.social
#CallForPapers: The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade (5-7 November 2025, Antwerp). #Bookhistory #HerBook #WomensHistory #Herstory

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Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade | Museum Plantin-Moretus
The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade Conference 2025 is organised by the Museum Plantin-Moretus, KU Leuven, Utrecht University, and Northumbria University as part of the FWO rese...
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November 7, 2024 at 12:06 PM
biblioraphic.bsky.social
Trying to play « spot the medievalist or early modernist » on the train to the @memrn.bsky.social conference
November 7, 2024 at 7:16 AM
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mediumaevum.bsky.social
As the sun sets on Canterbury Cathedral, so the BOOKS ACROSS BORDERS conference comes to a close.

Thank you to all of the speakers, and all of the attendees (both online and in-person), who joined us today - and to our fantastic collaborators at @memsunikent.bsky.social Bookscapes!
September 14, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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drdavidrundle.bsky.social
A wonderful little display at Canterbury Cathedral for our Bookscapes and @mediumaevum.bsky.social joint event, with help from @memsunikent.bsky.social
September 14, 2024 at 9:51 AM