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Stephanie J. Lahey PhD
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Mark Andrews Fellow in #BookScience, Old Books New Science Lab, University of Toronto · #MedievalManuscripts cataloguer & researcher · #Parchment #QuantitativeHumanities 📜 🔬 📚 📊 🇨🇦
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Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social · Oct 19
And thus one of my weirder childhood fantasies has been fulfilled: I am a sorceress, a necromancer. I wrest utterances from the void. I raise the dead. 📜🔬🪄👻😜 #OBNS_MISHA #BookScience #MedievalManuscripts
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The edge of a fragment of a medieval manuscript in poor condition. Riddled with holes, the strip of parchment has been folded in half horizontally. The text traversing its lower half is badly faded to the point of illegibility, while the text of its upper half is partially obscured by stains and ink transfers. The edge of the same fragment of a medieval manuscript shown in the first photograph. This is a pseudocolour or false colour image produced via special imaging techniques and software manipulation. Here, the fragment is rendered in multiple shades of crimson, dark red, and turquoise, rendering the formerly illegible text legible.
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LES bookstore Bluestockings, which served Narcan & radical reads, shutting down | Gothamist
#books #bookstores 📚
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LES bookstore Bluestockings, which served Narcan and radical reads, shutting down
The owners say mounting financial troubles and a lack of consensus on next steps prompted the closure.
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October 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Medieval Libraries of Great Britain is back!
📚🥳📜 #MedievalManuscripts

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Medieval Libraries of Great Britain
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October 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Just gave my first keynote.
(It went well—and was fun. 🙂🤓)
#BookHistory #BookScience #MedievalManuscripts
August 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Nearing the end of season 2 & we've hit over 100K listens on the podcast 🥂. Thanks to all of our guests for sharing their time & expertise! Thoroughly enjoyed talking medieval Ireland over the last 38 episodes, more anon! @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie
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The Medieval Irish History Podcast
Podcast · The Medieval Irish History Podcast · Hosted by Dr Niamh Wycherley, this podcast shows that medieval Irish history is complex and dynamic — not at all stuffy or static. Via lively and engagin...
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June 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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And some of the images of the poor (and once beautiful, but now not usable) manuscript I'm hoping to image one day to be able to virtually restore to its once-glorious illustrations.
@sjlahey.bsky.social (I found it!)
X893 H12 (it's a Haggadah, probably illustrated by Leipnik)
June 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Our brand-new Dye Garden is coming to life! With guidance from colleagues across the UL, and
@cubotanicgarden.bsky.social, our Conservation team has planted traditional dye plants once used in manuscript painting. 🎨

#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #CULconservation #DyeGarden
A member of the UL's Conservation team planting a seeding in a flower bed. A paper bag full of seeds ready to be planted. Little seedlings growing in the courtyard of the UL. We see a wooden plant label that says: "The Dye Garden".
May 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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#HappyBirthday to Lester Lawrence ‘Larry’ Lessig III (b. 1961), American legal scholar & political activist, & founder of Creative Commons @creativecommons.bsky.social 🎈🎂
June 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Welcome to June.
In this month, in 1749, settlers heading to Halifax, Nova Scotia with Cornwallis incl. Herbert Jefferie, printer, & Thomas Blackwell, bookbinder. Whether they carried type & related equipment is unclear. …
#books #typography #BookHistory #CdnHist 📚 📜
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June 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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#RIP Greg Cannom
#horror

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Oscar-Winning SFX Makeup Legend Greg Cannom Dead at 74
Oscar-winning special effects makeup legend Greg Cannom, responsible for the effects behind films like THE LOST BOYS, has passed away.
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May 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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CAUT (Canadian Association of University Teachers) advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S. www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S.
Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encou
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April 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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“You used a 3 million dollar piece of hospital equipment so you could read a novel?”
— Dr Cuddy, disapprovingly, to Dr House, who has done precisely that (“House MD”, s7e3)

I feel rather seen 😶 (yet defiant 😈💅)
#BookScience 📜📚🔬
April 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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#RIP Dr Joe Nickell (1944 Dec 01–2025 Mar 04), American skeptic and investigator of the paranormal. 😞😔
March 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Our final 'abstract spotlight' from Medium Ævum’s 93.1 issue is on @sjlahey.bsky.social and @aboyarin.bsky.social's '‘Et dixit anglice’: unpublished vernacular verses in British Library, Harley MS 912'.

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January 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Researchers using digitized photos or manuscripts in any manner in theirresearch, are invited to participate in this anonymous survey of McGill University (forms.office.com/r/nuqD9ZJzFq, 8-10 min to complete). (1/2)
Microsoft Forms
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January 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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The #Vatican was back this week with 40 #Manuscripts www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Including a ton more Cappella Pontificia annual diaries, a nice 8th C Greek Lectionary, some Chinese dictionaries (including rhymes), several Avvisi, some disappointment from Sire, and more!
#MedievalSky
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 2 of 2025
Although this is the second week of the year, no manuscripts were added in the last week, and so this becomes the first entry for 2025. A total of forty manuscripts were added, the majority, twenty-t...
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January 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Back at University of Toronto Engineering @uofteng.bsky.social today for an Old Books New Science Lab collaboration with Grasselli’s Geomechanics Group @civmin.bsky.social geogroup.utoronto.ca/contact-us/. We’re micro-CTing a birchbark codex. 👀 #Books #RareBooks #BookScience 📚 📜
Contact Us – Grasselli's Geomechanics Group
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January 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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#TIH #OTD 7 Jan 1779: The Quebec Gazette announced a new subscription for a public #library at Ville de Québec—the 1st public library established in what is now #Canada. Some of the books were purchased from local members of the public, but most were brought over from Europe…
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January 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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A Dispute? (‘The Cloisters Apocalypse’; Normandy, c.1330)
#MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #Critters #MedievalAnimals #Dragon #Wyvern 📚 📜
Lower left-hand corner of a medieval manuscript leaf: folio 20 verso in Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters Collection, manuscript 68.174. At top, above a very deep margin, run 9 lines of Latin text copied in brown ink, the first 3 lines indented to accommodate an enlarged decorative initial ‘E’ rendered in blue and ornamented with fine scrolling pen-work in red. Several threads of pen-work, in red and blue, extend from the initial, a few reaching to the right, over the text, but most descending down the left side of the page into the lower margin. Here, next to the pen-work and drawn in the same red and blue ink, we find 2 critters: at left, a long-necked bird with blue wings and orange feet, a crimson plume gracing his head; at right, a red wyvern—a dragon with wings in lieu of forelegs—with a thick beard and long, pointed tongue. They face each other. The bird, beak agape and eyes round with rage, raises a taloned foot to strike. The wyvern hisses, narrowing its eyes menacingly.
January 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Been waiting for an excuse to break this out...

#WeirdHistory #Medieval #ThisIsFine
#AlwaysAddALT #AlwaysReadTheALT
Meme of the bed of king Charles II of Navarre aflame with the king in it, based on the popular meme which shows a dog seated at a table in a room that's on fire, nonchalantly saying "This is fine!" In this version, vivid orange & yellow flames rise around the king's pillows. Under a white sheet & a red blanket, his knees are bowed. He holds his hands clasped in front of his bare chest. His eyes are closed & his head is tilted to the right. The expression on his clean shaven face is strangely serene, although he is sticking the tip of his tongue between his lips. A white cloth or towel's wrapped around his head like a turban. Above him appear the words: "This is fine!" This image is a detail from an illumination of the event in Ms. Ludwig XIII 7 (83.MP.150), fol. 274v - Bed of the King of Navarre Set on Fire - Master of the Getty Froissart (Flemish, ca. 1480–1483)
January 2, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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There is also a connected database: TM Ousia (www.trismegistos.org/ousia).

The monograph reflects literature until October 2020 and was produced in the framework of the ERC project PATRIMONIVM at the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne's Institut Ausonius (PI: Alberto Dallarosa; patrimonium.huma-num.fr)
Imperial estates in Roman Egypt
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December 5, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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December 31, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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According to the chronicler Froissart, #TIH #OTD 1 Jan 1387, Charles II, King of Navarre, suffering from illness, was ordered by his physician to be tightly sewn into a linen sheet soaked in distilled spirits. The sheet caught fire; the king later died of his injuries. #WeirdHistory #Medieval
January 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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#ChristmasEve #Christmas #MedievalManuscripts
Illumination from a medieval manuscript. Within a rectangular frame, an intimate portrait of the Nativity in a simple colour-scheme on gold leaf. The underlying gold gives the image great warmth. The artist depicted Mary reclining in bed as Joseph stands nearby. Their faces are peaceful and caring, yet weary. Next to Mary’s bed stands the wooden manger holding the infant Jesus. An ox and an ass have stuck their heads within the manger. The ass nuzzles the child tenderly while the ox, wearing an expression of consternation, stares the boy in the face. The child gazes back at the ox warily. The fragment was auctioned by Christie’s at their Valuable Books and Manuscripts sale in London on 10 July 2019. Sale number 17200, lot number 502.
December 25, 2024 at 12:14 AM
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Only ONE WEEK to go until the "Turning Page(s)" workshop! 📖
Join us—online or in person—for a phenomenal day of insights and discussions on the latest trends in book and library history. Don’t miss out on this must-attend event!
#BookHistory #LibraryStudies #marginalia #digitalhumanities #books
natvacalebre.bsky.social Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social · Nov 16
📢 The program for our upcoming workshop "Turning Page(s)" is now available! Join us on December 6th at the Arnamagnæan Institute or online via Zoom (link in the first rwply) for a full day of insightful talks on the history of books, libraries, and more.
Register now! #BookHistory #LibraryHistory
Program of the workshop "Turning Page(s): Nee Horizons in Book and Library History", Copenhagen, Arnamagnæan Institute, December 6th 2024
November 28, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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@incunabula.bsky.social *psst* Please check your DMs on the bird site! 😉
November 28, 2024 at 1:37 AM