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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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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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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
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
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
May 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
#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
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
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
“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
#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'.

Members can log into medium.aevum/space to read the full article.
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!
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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
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
#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
A Dispute? (‘The Cloisters Apocalypse’; Normandy, c.1330)
#MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #Critters #MedievalAnimals #Dragon #Wyvern 📚 📜
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
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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Bookmarked: liiive | Real-Time Collaborative IIIF Annotation https://liiive.now/ #digital_humanities_iiif Collaborate in real-time on IIIF image collections. Annotate, view, and explore high-resolution images with your team. Even without a login.
Real-time Collaborative Annotation for IIIF Collections
Collaborate in real-time on IIIF image collections. Annotate, view, and explore high-resolution images with your team. Even without a login.
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December 31, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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
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
📢 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
November 28, 2024 at 6:04 PM
@incunabula.bsky.social *psst* Please check your DMs on the bird site! 😉
November 28, 2024 at 1:37 AM