Dr David Rundle
@drdavidrundle.bsky.social
Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
Exciting range of wall-paintings, some original, some restored, some provided in the twentieth century.
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Exciting range of wall-paintings, some original, some restored, some provided in the twentieth century.
It was two months ago now, so a good moment to remember a highlight of our Austrian jaunt: a trip to Weiz, with its taborkirche (fortified church) dedicated to St Thomas of Canterbury. That's Becket to us who obey Henry VIII's laws.
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It was two months ago now, so a good moment to remember a highlight of our Austrian jaunt: a trip to Weiz, with its taborkirche (fortified church) dedicated to St Thomas of Canterbury. That's Becket to us who obey Henry VIII's laws.
Next to Jesus Maria Johannes, another triad: amen amen amen. Unusually, the reason for invoking it thrice is explained: it is in honour of the Trinity as the superscript letters show (p[ater], f[ilius], s[spiritus sanctus]). @magdalenoxford.bsky.social MS. lat. 71.
November 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Next to Jesus Maria Johannes, another triad: amen amen amen. Unusually, the reason for invoking it thrice is explained: it is in honour of the Trinity as the superscript letters show (p[ater], f[ilius], s[spiritus sanctus]). @magdalenoxford.bsky.social MS. lat. 71.
More evidence of the fun we had at the @memsunikent.bsky.social led and @chase-dtp.bsky.social funded Bookscapes workshop on Traditions of Lettering - from calligraphy to needlework via print, epigraphy and stained glass. Quite a day. Thank you, @cburycathedral.bsky.social Archives for hosting us.
November 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
More evidence of the fun we had at the @memsunikent.bsky.social led and @chase-dtp.bsky.social funded Bookscapes workshop on Traditions of Lettering - from calligraphy to needlework via print, epigraphy and stained glass. Quite a day. Thank you, @cburycathedral.bsky.social Archives for hosting us.
Then to see both stained glass experts and master stonemasons @cburycathedral.bsky.social at work.
November 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Then to see both stained glass experts and master stonemasons @cburycathedral.bsky.social at work.
And now out of the Cathedral and briefly to King's School Canterbury to wonder at some of their treasures of private printing and incunable predecessors. With thanks to our enthusiastic host, Peter Henderson.
November 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
And now out of the Cathedral and briefly to King's School Canterbury to wonder at some of their treasures of private printing and incunable predecessors. With thanks to our enthusiastic host, Peter Henderson.
After a small, rich display of @cburycathedral.bsky.social's own calligraphy items, we are now hearing from a real live calligrapher, Julia Baxter.
November 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
After a small, rich display of @cburycathedral.bsky.social's own calligraphy items, we are now hearing from a real live calligrapher, Julia Baxter.
The @memsunikent.bsky.social MA team are back in their second home, the Archives @cburycathedral.bsky.social for their first session of the term close up with manuscripts.
October 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The @memsunikent.bsky.social MA team are back in their second home, the Archives @cburycathedral.bsky.social for their first session of the term close up with manuscripts.
A meeting @cburycathedral.bsky.social to discuss the next @chase-dtp.bsky.social Bookscapes workshop on traditions of lettering, and had a few minutes to enjoy some of the new (and relevant) temporary display. Timeless questions in present dress. I found it thought-provoking. Thank you.
October 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
A meeting @cburycathedral.bsky.social to discuss the next @chase-dtp.bsky.social Bookscapes workshop on traditions of lettering, and had a few minutes to enjoy some of the new (and relevant) temporary display. Timeless questions in present dress. I found it thought-provoking. Thank you.
Back in Guersney for some #fragment fun with @tamarajatkin.bsky.social hosted by the Island Archives's Callum Tostevin-Hall.
October 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Back in Guersney for some #fragment fun with @tamarajatkin.bsky.social hosted by the Island Archives's Callum Tostevin-Hall.
Scotney not-so-much-a-Castle (and looking good on it). @nationaltrust.org.uk
October 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Scotney not-so-much-a-Castle (and looking good on it). @nationaltrust.org.uk
Back in Christ Church for a day to reflect on where it began, with the change from St Frideswide's Priory to Thomas Wolsey's Cardimal College five hundred years ago this year.
October 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Back in Christ Church for a day to reflect on where it began, with the change from St Frideswide's Priory to Thomas Wolsey's Cardimal College five hundred years ago this year.
No, this is too much.
September 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
No, this is too much.
I am beginning to find it difficult to take you seriously.
September 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I am beginning to find it difficult to take you seriously.
I'm not edgy. This is my happy face (@magdalenoxford.bsky.social MS. lat. 186).
September 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I'm not edgy. This is my happy face (@magdalenoxford.bsky.social MS. lat. 186).
Here's a treat for manuscript- and fragment-lovers everywhere: @manuelmunoz.bsky.social will speak at Senate House Library @ies-sas.bsky.social Tuesday, 30th September, 5:30pm on his research into fragments at Keio University. To attend in-person or online, register at ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
September 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Here's a treat for manuscript- and fragment-lovers everywhere: @manuelmunoz.bsky.social will speak at Senate House Library @ies-sas.bsky.social Tuesday, 30th September, 5:30pm on his research into fragments at Keio University. To attend in-person or online, register at ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Heiligenkreuz.
September 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Heiligenkreuz.
A bit modern but not a bad location for a palaeography conference. Thanks to our hosts in Vienna, @oeaw.bsky.social, for 23rd CIPL congress.
September 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
A bit modern but not a bad location for a palaeography conference. Thanks to our hosts in Vienna, @oeaw.bsky.social, for 23rd CIPL congress.
I am always impressed with the number of photographs I took before the twentieth century had dawned. Quite with it, I was, and (though I say it myself) impressively precocious too.
August 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I am always impressed with the number of photographs I took before the twentieth century had dawned. Quite with it, I was, and (though I say it myself) impressively precocious too.
Sometimes you simply can't get the quality of parchment you might have liked.
August 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Sometimes you simply can't get the quality of parchment you might have liked.
The dog don't get it @magdalenoxford.bsky.social MS. lat. 175).
August 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The dog don't get it @magdalenoxford.bsky.social MS. lat. 175).
True but there is something both stimulating and humbling about realising there is at least one more language you have to learn.
August 18, 2025 at 5:41 AM
True but there is something both stimulating and humbling about realising there is at least one more language you have to learn.
'1457 in madrussia sclavonie oppido audiui a cancellario domini comitis steffanis...' so 'I heard in Modrus, a town in Slavonia, from the Chancellor of Count Stjepan...'. Of the Frankopan family - a distant ancestor of yours, @peterfrankopan.bsky.social?
August 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
'1457 in madrussia sclavonie oppido audiui a cancellario domini comitis steffanis...' so 'I heard in Modrus, a town in Slavonia, from the Chancellor of Count Stjepan...'. Of the Frankopan family - a distant ancestor of yours, @peterfrankopan.bsky.social?
Yesterday's impulse buy, thanks to the excellence of @waterstones.bsky.social in Canterbury. And thanks go to @lswisnom.bsky.social for writing a book which manages to be both engaging and thought-provoking. Makes me wish I'd become an Assyriologist.
August 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Yesterday's impulse buy, thanks to the excellence of @waterstones.bsky.social in Canterbury. And thanks go to @lswisnom.bsky.social for writing a book which manages to be both engaging and thought-provoking. Makes me wish I'd become an Assyriologist.
Where we spent my birthday.
July 31, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Where we spent my birthday.