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Hannah Goeselt
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Boston/Cambridge based. MLIS. Lurking in the depths of the Mass Historical Society. Here to post about manuscripts.
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rgmemss.bsky.social
Up next: manuscriptevidence.org//wpme/2025-r... "Break-Up Books and Make-Up Books", 21-23 November (hybrid at Princeton and online). Experts, students, collectors, lovers of books look at fragments. Join us!
2025 RGME Autumn Colloquium on Fragments -
2025 RGME Autumn Colloquium on Fragments “Break-Up Books and Make-Up Books: Encountering and Reconstructing the Legacy of Otto F. Ege and Other Biblioclasts“ Friday to Sunday 21–23 November 2025 Hybri...
manuscriptevidence.org
November 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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matthewholford.bsky.social
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.
A magical text written in the 16th century on the previously blank margin of an earlier liturgical manuscript. Part of the original liturgical text can be seen at the bottom of the leaf. The leaf would originally have been part of the outer margin of a large leaf but has been rotated 90 degrees clockwise.
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
hgoeselt.bsky.social
#fragmentfriday time
October 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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October 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
hgoeselt.bsky.social
Happy #fragmentfriday to all who celebrate, especially this little fellow, who I only can imagine is a recycled parchment doc used as a seal bag.
October 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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For my newsletter, I wrote about how wantonly illegal and unconstitutional ICE is, how it must come to a stop now, how it's up to all of us to stop it, and how we will need to develop a way so the federal government can never do this to us again.

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We Can't Live Like This
Trump's ICE agents are wantonly breaking the law across the country, while he sends the national guard to forcibly occupy blue states. It's up to the good citizens of this country to oppose this uncon...
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October 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
hgoeselt.bsky.social
The online catalog at work has been getting slammed with bot traffic recently so if you find ABIGAIL timing out immediately after a search I am so sorry. We made an FAQ for it, even libanswers.masshist.org/faq/431698
September 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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bibsocamer.bsky.social
🚨 Funding Alert! 🚨 Are you passionate about book history, bibliography, or book arts? Check out this funding opportunity to support events in your community! 📖✨

📅 Deadline: 3 November – Don’t miss your chance to apply! Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities
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September 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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mark-walters.bsky.social
Scottish medieval plainchant as it may have been sung by Augustinian monks on the Feast day of St Columba (9th June) in the Abbey church on Inchcolm in the 13th & 14th century. The music is preserved in a 14th c. manuscript known as the Inchcolm Antiphoner MS 211, IV, f.2r #earlymusic #medieval
September 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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harvardmedieval.bsky.social
Join us @ the #medievalseminar next Monday, as we welcome @lauramorreale.bsky.social for a talk on the fascinating "Image du Monde" and its digital afterlives! 9/29, 5:30p, Barker 133. @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social @medievalacademy.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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rgmemss.bsky.social
#historyofcollections
archivemole.com Archive Mole @archivemole.com · May 28
This document marked the end of the Maison Dieu's 300-year religious life and its transfer to royal control during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

This record, held at The National Archives, UK, is one of thousands still undigitised.

We can help you access them.
September 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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enniusredloeb.bsky.social
It's nearly the Autumnal Equinox. The year continues to turn. Here's Stonehenge as depicted in the 16th century. #AutumnEquinox
BL Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r
September 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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mhs1791.bsky.social
Graduate students & faculty: Join us on September 17 for our Graduate Student Reception! Enjoy free refreshments and learn about the resources we offer to support your scholarship, from research fellowships to our seminars. Virtual attendees also welcome.

Register: www.masshist.org/events/gradu...
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September 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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visithmml.bsky.social
The first 86 volumes of the Libri Conciliorum of the Archives of the Order of Malta at the National Library of Malta are now digitized and available online in HMML Reading Room (vhmml.org).

Learn about the collections HMML has photographed at the National Library of Malta: hmml.org/collections/...
A manuscript in the Libri Conciliorum of the Archives of the Order of Malta at the National Library of Malta, digitized by HMML's Malta Study Center.
September 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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leoba.bsky.social
Fantastic little article about reproductions
August 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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rgmemss.bsky.social
#kzoo2026 CFP: this year the RGME is co-sponsoring 5 sessions at next year's ICMS- more details and portals for submissions on the website: manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2026-in...
Research Group on Manyscript Evidence 2026 ICMS call for papers to co-sponsored sessions
August 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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csmc-hamburg.bsky.social
‘We like lists because we don’t want to die’, said Umberto Eco. What drives our deep fascination with lists? PhD researcher Michael Hensley explores the meaning of Ethiopian and Eritrean book lists, offering glimpses into communities that would otherwise be lost:
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Ethiopian and Eritrean manuscript evidence from the medieval period survives until today in varying states of preservation, ranging from whole codices, small fragments, or somewhere in-between. Some exemplars, for example, were later palimpsested to accommodate new texts. One such case is shown in the image above. Now housed in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, this manuscript was acquired by Antoine d’Abbadie (1810–1897) during his travels in Ethiopia in the nineteenth century. While the overtext dates to the seventeenth century, the pages on which it was written were taken from at least four earlier manuscripts, ranging from the fourteenth (or possibly earlier) to the early sixteenth centuries. This written artefact, and other palimpsests like it in the Ethiopian and Eritrean context, was treated recently in Erho 2025. Image: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, ms. Ethiopien d’Abbadie 191, f. 96v. Gallica. Accessed 20 August 2025. Donation List of ʾIyasus Moʾa from the gospel book of ʾIyasus Moʾa = EMML 1832 (1280/1281), recording the manuscripts that he donated to the monastery of Ḥayq ʾƎsṭifānos on his death in 1292. This important document is treated in my dissertation. Image courtesy of Meseret Oldjira.
August 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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marshslibrary.bsky.social
Hollyhock in the garden this morning & on the pages of Hieronymus Bock's Herbal, printed 473 years ago & coloured by hand.
Woodcut of hand-coloured Hollyhock surrounded by text in Latin and an early reader's marginalia
August 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
hgoeselt.bsky.social
This was such a treat to see after Leeds; loved also the Faddan More Psalter as part of this exhibit- 9th c. and found in a bog!
thecelticist.bsky.social Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · Aug 9
If you're in Dublin between now and late October, don't miss the Words on the Wave exhibition at the National Museum on Kildare St. Some of our most important medieval Irish manuscripts are on loan from the Abbey of St Gallen & are back in Ireland for the first time in c. 1200 years. #MedievalSky
A close-up of a decorated initial P, with human and zoomorphic figures, in the early medieval Insular style, from the St Gall Priscian. Some of Priscian's Latin text is visible as are interlinear and marginal glosses in Old Irish. A close-up of a letter P in a highly decorated and colourful style characteristic of early medieval Insular Gospel books, with dots, geometric designs and zoomorphic figures. A highly decorative early medieval Irish Gospel book, open at the beginning of the Gospel of John: "In principio erat uerbum ...", with interlace and zoomorphic designs. Four manuscript fragments, dated to the seventh century, which formed part of the earliest known copy of Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae.
August 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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carinr.bsky.social
Update on the great discovery of archived BL manuscript metadata: I started putting together a page at my website to host PDFs of the archived pages I retrieve.

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British Library Manuscripts Metadata
Since the cyberattack of October 2023, the British Library has restored only a fraction of the manuscripts it digitized over the past decade-plus. Even for those MSS now back online, we have only t…
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August 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
hgoeselt.bsky.social
Big fan of the marks of use in this ms, especially this very confident inscription of its date by a later owner
"By tracing of the year with new ink I take it to be 1442 tho by the painting I think it much older."
July 28, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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manuelmunoz.bsky.social
No rest for the wicked! We’re now reciving expressions of interest @imems.bsky.social for our session(s) at @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2026 on MEDIEVAL FRAGMENTS.

Have a look at our CfP, and do get in touch with any proposals or questions. Also, please share if you can!
IMC 2026 CALL FOR PAPERS: MEDIEVAL FRAGMENTS. Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS), Durham University. Building on the success of Medieval Fragments at the IMC 2025, we would like to invite expressions of interest for 2026. Fragments,ever present across a great number of materials, are unique and tantalising windows to the past. Surviving as insertions in later textiles, in later buildings or as parts of bindings in manuscripts, fragments offer us layers of meaning: what were they, originally? What was their original purpose? And their later purpose? How have they survived? We understand fragments as physical pieces of any material. Some suggested topics are: - Manuscript fragmentology: collections of or individual fragments; selling and acquiring fragments; palaeographical and codicological analysis of fragments. - Any medieval fragments: Including but not limited to archaeological, architectural, textile, manuscript and incunabula fragments from anywhere within the medieval period. - Meaning, lives and usage: reconstructing the original object; the meaning of the original and of the fragment; original and later life and use of the fragment. - Methodology: Methods and techniques to work with fragments, manuscript or otherwise, including digital methods and digital projects. Please send us a short abstract (c. 300 words) and CV to Dr Manuel Muñoz García (manuel.munoz-garcia@durham.ac.uk) no later than September 15. We look forward to hearing from you!
July 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.social
The 2nd day of the sessions sponsored by #DigitalMedievalist at the #IMC2025 is coming to an end with roundtable on digital tools chaired by @lisafdavis.bsky.social with contributions from many fantastic digital medievalists.
@digitalmedievalist.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities
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July 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
hgoeselt.bsky.social
Busy getting everything ready for UK travel but this week a researcher found some great ms binding waste (from the Winthrop Library again) & its worth a small #fragmentfriday share
July 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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rgmemss.bsky.social
#IMC2025 is fast approaching, and we are very excited this year to be sponsoring four sessions as well as a roundtable. We'll see you there!
A detailed overview of the session programs are found on the website: manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-in...
2025 International Medieval Congress at Leeds: RGME Program -
We announce the Program for our scholarly events at the 2025 IMC at Leeds, including five sessions including a roundtable, to explore "Manuscripts as Worlds of Learning" and "Knowledge Games" as trans...
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June 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM