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Dirk Schoenaers
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Senior Researcher @UAntwerpen | #Medievalist exploring #Chronicles & #Manuscripts | Codicology, Palaeography & #Translation | Focused on literature of the Low Countries: #Brabant, #Holland, #Hainaut, #Looz & #Liège | ORCID: 0000-0002-1308-005X
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A mini-fragment for #FragmentFriday: two small (adjacent) snippets from a glossed Bible from the 13th century, containing Mark 13:3-6. Pictures: MMFC.be; EHC B 255483:fragm.66 a-b. See also fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-m...
A small strip of parchment with gothic text in black. Below is a ruler. A small strip of parchment with gothic text in black. Below is a ruler.
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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#BookHistory
ticiaverveer.bsky.social Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · 4d
A family has handed over a 13th century book to the National Library of Norway. Conservator Chiara Palandri says its pages were made of calfskin parchment and that the cover appears to be hairy sealskin. The strap to hold the book together is thought to have been made from reindeer hide.
Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book
The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.
www.sciencenorway.no
November 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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The printer of this fine biblia in 1455 Mainz, Gutenberg was. #skystorians #bookhistory
A detail of a page from a 1455 bible print from Johannes Gutenberg: An illuminated initial of the text shows a man with ass' ears (looking a bit like Yoda from Star Wars). This incunable GW04201 can be found here: http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0001E0ED00000000
October 1, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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☞☞ Hands-on reading ☜☜

The manicules in #rarebooks are fantastically diverse. Some are tiny & discreet, others take up half the margin; some have flowing sleeves, or even little faces.

They’re glimpses into the personality of readers/scribes highlighting passages worth reading.
#bookhistory 💙📚📜
Detail of a manicure and a little face gesturing towards the handwritten text of a manuscript in gothic script written on parchment. The man depicted seems angry. The manicure has a sleeve A manicule with a stretched sleeve drawn in red in the margins pointing towards a text in Gothic script written on parchment A manicule used to highlight a rubricated section title in a medieval manuscript written in gothic script on parchment A very large vaguely drawn manicule pointing towards text in gothic script written on parchment
September 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Bears be bearing
Pieter Bruegel | Bears in the woods | c. 1554
London, British Museum, inv./cat.nr. 1872-10-12-3344
September 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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#FatBearWeek
Amiens. Bibliothèques d'Amiens Métropole, Ms. 200 | Amiens, c. 1460.
September 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Medieval patrons be like
amymantravadi.bsky.social Amy Mantravadi @amymantravadi.bsky.social · Nov 19
I have just purchased the medieval chronicle of Bury St. Edmund and look forward to reading it when life allows!
September 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Hogwash. Merlin transported the stones from Ireland.
August 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Just a tiny 14th-century doodle of a dog. Minimal strokes, but somehow it’s perfect. #InternationalDogDay

Torino, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, L. II. 14
August 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Apparently wearing a raspberry beret (the kind you find in a second hand store), this cheeky red-crested, tiny-tongued tessellated serpent features on a mid 4th century #Roman mosaic from Dorchester

Found in Durngate Street in 1905, it's now in @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social

📷 Sept 2024

#MosaicMonday
Depiction, from a Roman mosaic, of a red crested snake sticking out its tongue
August 4, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Proofs! (even if my hunch is unconfirmed).
July 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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If you like browsing unexpected collections of medieval MSS, have a look at the Auckland Council Libraries (NZ). The collection includes images of Aristoteles Latinus MS no. 1936 (Metaphysica, Physica, Meteora, transl. William of Moerbeke)! #medievalsky
kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/coll...
July 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Western Medieval Manuscripts (and fragments) @keiouniversity.bsky.social (Japan)! Enjoy a few spare minutes and browse this remarkable collection! Something for everyone's taste and interest!
dcollections.lib.keio.ac.jp/en/western-m...
Thumbnails of manuscripts images of the Keio university collection of Medieval Western Manuscripts! Including fragments of Aristotelica and Dutch books of hours.
July 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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I killed an 18th century printer (and I didn’t even have to use a time machine). An #EarlyModern #BookHistory 🧵
📚💙 📜
A title page of a book, 'Poësies diverses', printed in Brussels by François Foppens in 1750.
July 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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On this feast of the Belgians, let's recall Belgis, mighty capital of the 'realme des belges', founded by Bavo, cousin of Priam, five winters after Troy’s burning, when Abdon judged Israel. 🏰🇧🇪
#NationaleFeestdag #FêteNationale #Nationalfeiertag
Brussels, KBR, ms 9242 | Chroniques de Hainaut
July 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Oh yeah, looked at loads and loads of (virtual) stuff for our list of digitized Middle Dutch manuscripts and printed books and - it - is - definitely - worth - it! (no colleagues were harmed in this experiment) #lookingatstuff
svanimpe.bsky.social Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · Jul 1
Earlier today, I was thinking: "My research methodology is simply looking at lots of stuff" - and now Devin has thought the same thing!

I love looking at lots of stuff. My colleagues who fetch the books - not so much 😅
devinfitz.bsky.social Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social · Jul 1
This is simply to begin learning more about our collection. I always try to bring things by just looking at lots of stuff. I like to let observations and patterns slowly emerge. I text friends questions, smell some books, and just dig in.
July 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Congrats @judithpollmann.bsky.social! Well-deserved!
helmer.bsky.social Helmer Helmers @helmer.bsky.social · Jun 27
This is all over the Dutch media today: early modern historian @judithpollmann.bsky.social wins the Spinoza Prize, the highest prize in Dutch science!

Many congratulations, Judith, with a well-deserved tribute to your wonderful work.
June 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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We’re proud to announce that "The Medieval Chronicle" is now a journal, and has just published its first issue!
We’ve freshened up the look and with this issue we welcome our new editorial team.

brill.com/view/journals/mch/17/1/mch.17.issue-1.xml

#medievalhistory #MedievalSky
Cover of the book "The Medieval Chronicle", featuring a medieval illumination of Jean Gerson writing at a desk, wearing a red robe. The 15th-century illustration comes from a French manuscript held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, and is also known from editions of "The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas à Kempis. The book appears to float in a dimly lit stone hallway with arched walls and a paved floor.
June 26, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Found the cutest little Holy Family in Utrecht Hs. 1 M 5, fol. 26r (15c)

#MedievalSky

utrechtuniversity.on.worldcat.org/oclc/965428966
Cute pastel-y Holy Family scene in a manuscript.
June 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Which #Maerlant are you today?
MS Bremen SUB 39 | Jacob van Maerlant, Der naturen bloeme
June 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Medieval carving of a minstrel playing the bagpipes at Beverley Minster in East Yorkshire. The carving is one of over 70 depicting minstrels and musical instruments. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #Medieval #Beverley
June 15, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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On the "three mantras of Long DH" (Futurebuilding DH) from Johannes Burgers:
1) "go slow and build things",
2) "teamwork makes the dreamwork, but nagging helps" (people-first proj management),
3) "love your data like you love yourself" (tech changes, data doesn't; set your data free!). #ACH2025
June 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Het mysterie van de zwarte spaties...
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#MSCA #ResearchImpactEU #H2021 #REBPAF
A mysterious punctuation mark in Antoine Vérard’s editions? And how hands-on experience with a two-pull common press helped to understand its mystery.
Laurie Hoeben, University of Zurich For the last 1.5 years, I have been working on the editio princeps of Arthurian romances printed for the Parisian, 15th/16th- century éditeur-libraire Antoine Vé…
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June 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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June 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM