Dr Bryony Coombs
@bryonycoombs.bsky.social
Art Historian I Medieval and Early Modern, PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
Renaissance Teaching Fellow, Edinburgh Uni
Franco-Scottish cultural connections: art, architecture and material culture.
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
Renaissance Teaching Fellow, Edinburgh Uni
Franco-Scottish cultural connections: art, architecture and material culture.
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
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✨🎉Hello new BlueSky people 👋
Who am I?
New Book: Visual Arts & the Auld Alliance.
New project: Scotland on Parchment: Scraped, Limned and Bound due 2026. Inaugural book in a new EUP series Visual and Material Cultures of Scotland🎉✨ @edinburghup.bsky.social
New approaches: wp.me/peZVQm-8R
Who am I?
New Book: Visual Arts & the Auld Alliance.
New project: Scotland on Parchment: Scraped, Limned and Bound due 2026. Inaugural book in a new EUP series Visual and Material Cultures of Scotland🎉✨ @edinburghup.bsky.social
New approaches: wp.me/peZVQm-8R
An interesting mix today. I'll be discussing AI with my first yrs and thinking about Sonja Drimmer & Christopher Nygren's very interesting work on this. This coincides with the week I ask them to take notes with quills and ink & consider embodied learning. Its going to be an interesting contrast...
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
An interesting mix today. I'll be discussing AI with my first yrs and thinking about Sonja Drimmer & Christopher Nygren's very interesting work on this. This coincides with the week I ask them to take notes with quills and ink & consider embodied learning. Its going to be an interesting contrast...
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HAD to put the bookplate there, didn't you...
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
HAD to put the bookplate there, didn't you...
Very interested in this... when can I get to Norway?
www.nb.no/hva-skjer/th...
www.nb.no/hva-skjer/th...
The Hagenes codex and the conservation of medieval manuscripts
www.nb.no
November 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Very interested in this... when can I get to Norway?
www.nb.no/hva-skjer/th...
www.nb.no/hva-skjer/th...
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I had a great time recently chatting with @cjfaraday.bsky.social about 'Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance' for the 'British Art Matters' Podcast. I am in the company of some wonderful authors discussing their (and others) works:
www.walpolesociety.org.uk/podcast
www.walpolesociety.org.uk/podcast
Podcast | The Walpole Society
www.walpolesociety.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I had a great time recently chatting with @cjfaraday.bsky.social about 'Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance' for the 'British Art Matters' Podcast. I am in the company of some wonderful authors discussing their (and others) works:
www.walpolesociety.org.uk/podcast
www.walpolesociety.org.uk/podcast
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I had a great time recently chatting with @cjfaraday.bsky.social about 'Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance' for the 'British Art Matters' Podcast. I am in the company of some wonderful authors discussing their (and others) works:
www.walpolesociety.org.uk/podcast
www.walpolesociety.org.uk/podcast
Podcast | The Walpole Society
www.walpolesociety.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I had a great time recently chatting with @cjfaraday.bsky.social about 'Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance' for the 'British Art Matters' Podcast. I am in the company of some wonderful authors discussing their (and others) works:
www.walpolesociety.org.uk/podcast
www.walpolesociety.org.uk/podcast
This afternoon I ran an embodied manuscripts workshop at Edinburgh CRC and we looked at some extraordinary manuscripts (just look at CRC MS 19👀👇), and I had the opportunity to spend time talking to some very interesting, engaged and enquiring students - honestly what could be better? Thank you LAMPS
November 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This afternoon I ran an embodied manuscripts workshop at Edinburgh CRC and we looked at some extraordinary manuscripts (just look at CRC MS 19👀👇), and I had the opportunity to spend time talking to some very interesting, engaged and enquiring students - honestly what could be better? Thank you LAMPS
Ohh look at this:
Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.
November 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Ohh look at this:
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ICYMI TOMORROW my colleague Nick Herman will show off our new-to-us Flemish book of hours - Noon ET on Zoom, registration link is in the quoted skeet.
For #CoffeeWithACodex on November 6 (12pm ET, Zoom), Lawrence J. Schoenberg Curator Nick Herman will bring out Ms. Codex 2324, a Flemish illuminated book of hours including 6 full-page arched miniatures and 15 historiated initials on gold grounds. #medievalsky
Register here: https://bit.ly/48JljzY
Register here: https://bit.ly/48JljzY
Coffee with a Codex: Flemish Book of Hours
An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
ICYMI TOMORROW my colleague Nick Herman will show off our new-to-us Flemish book of hours - Noon ET on Zoom, registration link is in the quoted skeet.
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This might include book history, textual transmission, the making and use of manuscripts, publishing, printing, bookbinding, book-ownership and book-collecting. These awards are intended to support research that advances the understanding of book cultures from all parts of the World.
Application Procedure - Bibliographical Society
bibsoc.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
This might include book history, textual transmission, the making and use of manuscripts, publishing, printing, bookbinding, book-ownership and book-collecting. These awards are intended to support research that advances the understanding of book cultures from all parts of the World.
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CFP: “Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World”
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
October 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM
CFP: “Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World”
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
These are the terrifying Halloween carved turnips of my youth....
Professor AidanO’Sullivan, Head of School of Archaeology at UCD, brings history to life, carving this year’s Irish Halloween Jack O’Lantern from a turnip.
@aidanosullivan.bsky.social
@aidanosullivan.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 5:14 PM
These are the terrifying Halloween carved turnips of my youth....
Had a meeting in the Scottish National Gallery yesterday and just enough time to reacquaint myself with what is on view...
Was interested to see evidence for scribal work with a couple of quills with plumes still attached and some lovely details of MS pen-work...
Was interested to see evidence for scribal work with a couple of quills with plumes still attached and some lovely details of MS pen-work...
October 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Had a meeting in the Scottish National Gallery yesterday and just enough time to reacquaint myself with what is on view...
Was interested to see evidence for scribal work with a couple of quills with plumes still attached and some lovely details of MS pen-work...
Was interested to see evidence for scribal work with a couple of quills with plumes still attached and some lovely details of MS pen-work...
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The university is threatening cuts on a massive scale with little to no justification. Truly surreal moment in HE.
Staff at Edinburgh Uni to continue strike action #WeAreTheUniversity #StopTheCuts #SaveHE www.heraldscotland.com/news/2557921...
Edinburgh University lecturers to continue strike action
Staff at Edinburgh University have voted to continue strike action over proposals to cut £140m from the institution’s annual budget.
www.heraldscotland.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
The university is threatening cuts on a massive scale with little to no justification. Truly surreal moment in HE.
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Oct 28: Feast of Dorbéne mac Altaíni (†713), abbot of Iona. Scribe of the earliest surviving copy of Adomnán’s Life of Columba. Fáelchú mac Dorbéni succeeded him. 📸Stadtbibliothek Schaffhausen #medievalsky
October 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Oct 28: Feast of Dorbéne mac Altaíni (†713), abbot of Iona. Scribe of the earliest surviving copy of Adomnán’s Life of Columba. Fáelchú mac Dorbéni succeeded him. 📸Stadtbibliothek Schaffhausen #medievalsky
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We are very pleased to be working with @ihr.bsky.social and @findmypast.bsky.social on this new Applied History Fellowship programme.
The launch event on Weds 19 November bit.ly/49vcgCS provides further details of the scheme and how to apply #Skystorians
The launch event on Weds 19 November bit.ly/49vcgCS provides further details of the scheme and how to apply #Skystorians
October 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
We are very pleased to be working with @ihr.bsky.social and @findmypast.bsky.social on this new Applied History Fellowship programme.
The launch event on Weds 19 November bit.ly/49vcgCS provides further details of the scheme and how to apply #Skystorians
The launch event on Weds 19 November bit.ly/49vcgCS provides further details of the scheme and how to apply #Skystorians
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𝗠𝗮𝗲𝗹𝘄𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗩𝗮𝗻 𝗟𝘆𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝟯
Edited by André Stufkens
More info: bit.ly/47H0Jz7
#Illumination #llustration #Manuscripts #Literature #ManuscriptStudies #MedievalTwitter #ArtHistory #MedievalArt
Edited by André Stufkens
More info: bit.ly/47H0Jz7
#Illumination #llustration #Manuscripts #Literature #ManuscriptStudies #MedievalTwitter #ArtHistory #MedievalArt
October 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
𝗠𝗮𝗲𝗹𝘄𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗩𝗮𝗻 𝗟𝘆𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝟯
Edited by André Stufkens
More info: bit.ly/47H0Jz7
#Illumination #llustration #Manuscripts #Literature #ManuscriptStudies #MedievalTwitter #ArtHistory #MedievalArt
Edited by André Stufkens
More info: bit.ly/47H0Jz7
#Illumination #llustration #Manuscripts #Literature #ManuscriptStudies #MedievalTwitter #ArtHistory #MedievalArt
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six views of Beinn Sgritheall, a word-mntn for Loch Hourn; the the-ben-of-screes
October 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
six views of Beinn Sgritheall, a word-mntn for Loch Hourn; the the-ben-of-screes
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Thank you all for joining us to celebrate Franco-Scottish friendship and the 730th anniversary of the #AuldAlliance! We were delighted to organize two inspiring conferences with Dr. Bryony Coombs and Clarisse Godard Desmarest as well as a wonderful choir concert at St Giles' Cathedral
October 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Thank you all for joining us to celebrate Franco-Scottish friendship and the 730th anniversary of the #AuldAlliance! We were delighted to organize two inspiring conferences with Dr. Bryony Coombs and Clarisse Godard Desmarest as well as a wonderful choir concert at St Giles' Cathedral
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October 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Found a joyful fragment in my collection: a 15th-century parchment leaf once reused in a bookbinding! 🎶
It preserves Tantum ergo Sacramentum — the Eucharistic hymn by Thomas Aquinas — complete with neumes and traces of blind-stamped leather.
#BookHistory
#Fragmentology
It preserves Tantum ergo Sacramentum — the Eucharistic hymn by Thomas Aquinas — complete with neumes and traces of blind-stamped leather.
#BookHistory
#Fragmentology
October 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Found a joyful fragment in my collection: a 15th-century parchment leaf once reused in a bookbinding! 🎶
It preserves Tantum ergo Sacramentum — the Eucharistic hymn by Thomas Aquinas — complete with neumes and traces of blind-stamped leather.
#BookHistory
#Fragmentology
It preserves Tantum ergo Sacramentum — the Eucharistic hymn by Thomas Aquinas — complete with neumes and traces of blind-stamped leather.
#BookHistory
#Fragmentology
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There are still 5 spots left in my upcoming workshop on ‘The Fundamentals of Academic Grant Writing’!
You can sign up below (and please DM me if you have questions!).
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
You can sign up below (and please DM me if you have questions!).
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The Fundamentals of Academic Grant Writing: 4-week workshop starting Thursday 13 November 2025
DATES/SCHEDULE:
Thursday 13 November 2025 4-6pm CET / 3-5pm GMT / 10am-12pm EST / 7-9am PST
Thursday 20 November 2025 4-6pm CET / 3-5pm GMT / 10am-12pm EST / 7-9am PST
Thursday 4 December 2025 4-6...
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October 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
There are still 5 spots left in my upcoming workshop on ‘The Fundamentals of Academic Grant Writing’!
You can sign up below (and please DM me if you have questions!).
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
You can sign up below (and please DM me if you have questions!).
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
It has been a big week, with a lot of talking to people. Now to catch-up on all the other things...
October 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
It has been a big week, with a lot of talking to people. Now to catch-up on all the other things...
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This early 16th century collection of papal letters dealing with the Eremite Friars of St. Augustine has a secret - a scrap of unidentified earlier manuscript that lurks in the depths of the spine. What could it be? We don’t know. (UPenn Ms. Codex 85) #medievalsky
🔗: https://bit.ly/473znDa
🔗: https://bit.ly/473znDa
October 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This early 16th century collection of papal letters dealing with the Eremite Friars of St. Augustine has a secret - a scrap of unidentified earlier manuscript that lurks in the depths of the spine. What could it be? We don’t know. (UPenn Ms. Codex 85) #medievalsky
🔗: https://bit.ly/473znDa
🔗: https://bit.ly/473znDa
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#EpigraphyTuesday - A stunning piece discovered in 2014 in the Galloway Hoard. A Roman rock-crystal column-head, repurposed and mounted in gold, ca. 8-9th Century, to serve as a small container for liquids. #Archaeology #Art 🏺 (1/2)
Image: National Museum of Scotland (X.2018.12.71.18.1).
Image: National Museum of Scotland (X.2018.12.71.18.1).
October 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
#EpigraphyTuesday - A stunning piece discovered in 2014 in the Galloway Hoard. A Roman rock-crystal column-head, repurposed and mounted in gold, ca. 8-9th Century, to serve as a small container for liquids. #Archaeology #Art 🏺 (1/2)
Image: National Museum of Scotland (X.2018.12.71.18.1).
Image: National Museum of Scotland (X.2018.12.71.18.1).