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theulspeccoll.bsky.social
Attention current University of Cambridge students! Entries are welcome for this year's Rose Book Collecting Prize until 30 January. Your collection doesn't need to be large or valuable; just interesting.
January 6, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Today marks the #WinterSolstice ❄️

This illustrated page, ‘Erde und Sonne’, from a German atlas by Justus Perthes (c.1910), shows how Earth’s tilt and orbit create the solstices, equinoxes and seasons.

📜 | Bodleian Map Room Blog

More at: https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/2024/03/19/spring/
Close-up of a circular diagram showing the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. A label marks the Winter Solstice, explaining that it occurs when the North Pole tilts furthest from the Sun, creating the shortest day and longest night. Diagram showing the Earth’s 23.5° axial tilt in relation to its orbit around the Sun. Overlaid text explains that this tilt causes the changing seasons, noting that without it there would be no summer or winter. Section of the orbit diagram focusing on the position of Earth on 21 March, marking the Spring Equinox. Overlaid text explains that day and night are equal at this point and that medieval scholars associated it with the first days of Creation. Section of the orbit diagram highlighting March 25, known as Lady Day. Overlaid text explains that it was once considered the first day of the year until 1751 and marks the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, nine months before Christmas.
December 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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dogs100.bsky.social
Happy CaturDogDay Story
December 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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martinshammer.bsky.social
Frisch aus der (digitalen) Druckerpresse: Metalepsen im höfischen Roman. Narratologische Analyse und poetologische Interpretation anhand von ›Erec‹, ›Parzival‹ und ›Wildhelm von Österreich‹, Tübingen 2025 (Bibliotheca Germanica 81) @vernarrtinwissen.bsky.social
⚠️OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.24053/978...
Cover der Promotionsschrift von Martin Sebastian Hammer: Metalepsen im höfischen Roman. Narratologische Analyse und poetologische Interpretation anhand von ›Erec‹, ›Parzival‹ und ›Wildhelm von Österreich‹, Tübingen 2025 (Bibliotheca Germanica 81), DOI: https://doi.org/10.24053/9783381132225 (Open Access).
November 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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herbilis.bsky.social
Druckfahnen meiner Rezension für die Zeitschrift Simpliciana sind da. Zum Buch:
Jakob Koeman: Mandragora und Alraun in der deutschen Wissenschaft und Literatur. Am Beispiel Grimmelshausen und Grimm. Lausanne [u. a.]: Peter Lang 2024 (Beihefte zu Simpliciana 12). 218 S.
#LitWiss
Screenshot erster Seite meiner Rezension
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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emilybrand.bsky.social
Any transcription help, please, lovely bluesky? My language skills don't extend beyond the place and date 🙏
October 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
By Fra Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child with Two Angels, 1465. Everything about this picture is stunning but I really love the angel smiling at us!
October 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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sims-mss.bsky.social
Heart eyes! A loving bird flaps its wings in the bottom margin of f. 311v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag #medievalsky

🔗: https://bit.ly/4gNmqRc
October 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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merriam-webster.com
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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sarahebull.bsky.social
Hey, friends, do any of you know of a good reading (or instruction manual?) on reading pre-1900 (let's say 1700-1923) handwritten texts? Some of the students in my History of Reading class want to focus their final projects on older "traces of reading" and would love more specific instruction +
September 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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drrjwarren.bsky.social
One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall.

It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?
Photo of square orange tiles, set into the ground, across one of which several cats footprints are clearly visible.
September 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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bucksarchives.bsky.social
Welcome to the archives.
June 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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pembroke1347.bsky.social
Tune in to The One Show tonight to watch Pembroke graduate Di'Mario Downer (2022) talk about what it means to be a Stormzy Scholar, and the difference receiving the scholarship made to his time as a student.

📺 BBC One, 7 pm. Catch up on @BBCiPlayer. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

📷 Louis Browne
Destiny Charles, Drew Chateau, Stormzy and Di’Mario Downer. The two women are standing on steps, while the two men stand next to them, in front of foliage.
August 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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lolbrarian.bsky.social
Charming doodle in the margins of Paratus’ sermons, 1480 (Goff p92). This copy is from the sisters of “St Agnetis (?) in Dulimonia”
Lil thorny viny plant with roots
August 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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bodiesandbeing.bsky.social
We are looking for presenters for our online monthly speaker series! All levels of scholarship are warmly encouraged. Details in the link!

#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
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July 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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bodiesandbeing.bsky.social
#Latin #Medieval
July 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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illinoisrbml.bsky.social
Have you ever seen a book made entirely of silk? One item getting a lot of reading room attention recently is this "Livre de Prières." This book was manufactured with the Jacquard process, which relied on perforated punch cards to operate a loom, and is considered a precursor to early programming.
Book opened to highly illustrative title page Close up of highly-illustrative page of text Close up image of the word "Christ" woven from silk Close up image of silk fibers forming the letter C
July 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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trincolllibcam.bsky.social
Happy #marginaliamonday! This medieval man has been chasing away a moth for over 700 years...

Clearly some things never change!🦋

(Trinity College MS B.11.22)
Zoomed-in image of a richly decorated medieval manuscript, featuring a tunic-dressed man waving an orange cloth in the direction of a large white moth.
July 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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oewordhord.bsky.social
hungrig, adj: hungry, famished. (HUNG-grih / ˈhʌŋ-grɪj)
Image: Bestiary; England, 13th century; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Harley MS 3244, f. 42v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Medieval manuscript image of two goats, one nibbling leaves from a tree, he other climbing down a mountain and sniffing the ground.
July 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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camlibresearch.bsky.social
Part of today spent thinking and writing about this, the Breviary of Marie de St-Pol, made in Paris round 1330-1340, for the Foundress of @pembroke1347.bsky.social. A wonderful jewel-like manuscript.
July 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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downham.bsky.social
The fascinating secular Laws of Cnut were issued after seizing the throne of England. They intended to cement his power and reassure his subjects, largely repeating laws of earlier kings. Full of insights into medieval life. To share with you, I aim to post a law a day in sequence #medievalsky 1/2
June 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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jdmccafferty.bsky.social
Alexander the Great's underwater exploration off the building site of Alexandria.

I particularly like the lighting arrangements in his submarine.

Flemish, c. 1300-1325

(Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett / Jörg P. Anders)
July 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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awickenden.bsky.social
💘 💘 in UL Inc.2.B.7.19[4144]
July 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
damedurden.bsky.social
#dragons everywhere!
July 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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erikkwakkel.bsky.social
This spectacular Bible was created by a scribe in Mainz in 1452-53, while elsewhere in the city Gutenberg was creating the printed equivalent that would put the scribe out of business. The digitization is of equal high quality: www.loc.gov/item/52002226/. #medievalsky
March 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM