Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group
@oxfordmedievalmss.bsky.social
Turning the study of medieval manuscripts into a more collaborative pursuit. 📜 📚
Follow us for more information about our seminar series, workshops, and training sessions.
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Follow us for more information about our seminar series, workshops, and training sessions.
#OMMG
Instagram account @medieval.mss
Our Work in Progress session this Friday 14 November will feature papers on the theme of "Science and Manuscripts" by Mathilde Mioche (The Courtauld) and Blanche Darbord (Cambridge). See you at St. Catherine's College or online!
📷 London, Wellcome MS 49, Germany, 1420, f. 31r.
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📷 London, Wellcome MS 49, Germany, 1420, f. 31r.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Our Work in Progress session this Friday 14 November will feature papers on the theme of "Science and Manuscripts" by Mathilde Mioche (The Courtauld) and Blanche Darbord (Cambridge). See you at St. Catherine's College or online!
📷 London, Wellcome MS 49, Germany, 1420, f. 31r.
#OMMG #medievalsky
📷 London, Wellcome MS 49, Germany, 1420, f. 31r.
#OMMG #medievalsky
October 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM
October 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
October 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Joumana Medlej, artist-scholar and former Merton Visiting Research Fellow, will open our science-themed term with a workshop entitled 'Pocketing Cosmos'.
Join us at 5 pm on Friday 24 October in the John Roberts Room at Merton College!
📷 Joumana Medlej, 'Circles of Time' (2025).
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Join us at 5 pm on Friday 24 October in the John Roberts Room at Merton College!
📷 Joumana Medlej, 'Circles of Time' (2025).
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October 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Joumana Medlej, artist-scholar and former Merton Visiting Research Fellow, will open our science-themed term with a workshop entitled 'Pocketing Cosmos'.
Join us at 5 pm on Friday 24 October in the John Roberts Room at Merton College!
📷 Joumana Medlej, 'Circles of Time' (2025).
#OMMG #medievalsky
Join us at 5 pm on Friday 24 October in the John Roberts Room at Merton College!
📷 Joumana Medlej, 'Circles of Time' (2025).
#OMMG #medievalsky
We are very excited to share our new programme for Michaelmas Term 2025, with a variety of events in Oxford and online on the theme of 'Science and Discovery'.
Please note that some venues have yet to be confirmed.
We look forward to seeing you!
#OMMG #medievalsky
Please note that some venues have yet to be confirmed.
We look forward to seeing you!
#OMMG #medievalsky
October 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
We are very excited to share our new programme for Michaelmas Term 2025, with a variety of events in Oxford and online on the theme of 'Science and Discovery'.
Please note that some venues have yet to be confirmed.
We look forward to seeing you!
#OMMG #medievalsky
Please note that some venues have yet to be confirmed.
We look forward to seeing you!
#OMMG #medievalsky
Happy September! As we prepare a crop of events for the new academic year, look out for our Michaelmas Term programme. We will share it with you soon.
Image: the September harvest in the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. Chantilly, Musée Condé, MS 65, 15th century, folio 9v.
#OMMG #medievalsky
Image: the September harvest in the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. Chantilly, Musée Condé, MS 65, 15th century, folio 9v.
#OMMG #medievalsky
September 2, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Happy September! As we prepare a crop of events for the new academic year, look out for our Michaelmas Term programme. We will share it with you soon.
Image: the September harvest in the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. Chantilly, Musée Condé, MS 65, 15th century, folio 9v.
#OMMG #medievalsky
Image: the September harvest in the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. Chantilly, Musée Condé, MS 65, 15th century, folio 9v.
#OMMG #medievalsky
"Fragments of Devotion" is live!
Discover a sensory history of illuminated manuscript cuttings in this online exhibition curated by MA students at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with the Barber Institute of Fine Arts and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
#OMMG #medievalsky
Discover a sensory history of illuminated manuscript cuttings in this online exhibition curated by MA students at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with the Barber Institute of Fine Arts and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
#OMMG #medievalsky
July 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"Fragments of Devotion" is live!
Discover a sensory history of illuminated manuscript cuttings in this online exhibition curated by MA students at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with the Barber Institute of Fine Arts and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
#OMMG #medievalsky
Discover a sensory history of illuminated manuscript cuttings in this online exhibition curated by MA students at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with the Barber Institute of Fine Arts and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
#OMMG #medievalsky
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@brasenoseoxford.bsky.social MS 91 - Genealogy of the kings of England to Henry VI - is on display +
Jim and Dilon presenting the amazing research they have done on it!
#medievalsky
Jim and Dilon presenting the amazing research they have done on it!
#medievalsky
June 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
@brasenoseoxford.bsky.social MS 91 - Genealogy of the kings of England to Henry VI - is on display +
Jim and Dilon presenting the amazing research they have done on it!
#medievalsky
Jim and Dilon presenting the amazing research they have done on it!
#medievalsky
Connoisseurship and Medieval Manuscripts: A Roundtable, will take place this Friday, 6 June, at 4 pm. Join us at the Weston Library for a lively discussion with Emily Guerry, Peter Kidd and Michael Michael!
Image: Sydney Cockerell, The Gorleston Psalter (London, 1907), pl. IX.
#OMMG #medievalsky
Image: Sydney Cockerell, The Gorleston Psalter (London, 1907), pl. IX.
#OMMG #medievalsky
June 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Connoisseurship and Medieval Manuscripts: A Roundtable, will take place this Friday, 6 June, at 4 pm. Join us at the Weston Library for a lively discussion with Emily Guerry, Peter Kidd and Michael Michael!
Image: Sydney Cockerell, The Gorleston Psalter (London, 1907), pl. IX.
#OMMG #medievalsky
Image: Sydney Cockerell, The Gorleston Psalter (London, 1907), pl. IX.
#OMMG #medievalsky
We are looking forward to welcoming Irene Van Eldere (Leiden University) and Elvira Miceli (Wolfson College, Oxford) to this week's work-in-progress session, held in the Hawkins Room at Merton College on Friday 30 May, 5pm.
Brussels, Royal Library (KBR) Ms. IV 12, f. 19v-20r.
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Brussels, Royal Library (KBR) Ms. IV 12, f. 19v-20r.
#OMMG #medievalsky
May 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
We are looking forward to welcoming Irene Van Eldere (Leiden University) and Elvira Miceli (Wolfson College, Oxford) to this week's work-in-progress session, held in the Hawkins Room at Merton College on Friday 30 May, 5pm.
Brussels, Royal Library (KBR) Ms. IV 12, f. 19v-20r.
#OMMG #medievalsky
Brussels, Royal Library (KBR) Ms. IV 12, f. 19v-20r.
#OMMG #medievalsky
After our hands-on gold workshop last week, we move online for our next event: our termly reading group on Friday 23 May at 5pm BST, this time discussing connoisseurship.
We hope to see many of you there!
Image: Auguste de Châtillon, Portrait of Léopoldine Hugo, 1835.
We hope to see many of you there!
Image: Auguste de Châtillon, Portrait of Léopoldine Hugo, 1835.
May 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
After our hands-on gold workshop last week, we move online for our next event: our termly reading group on Friday 23 May at 5pm BST, this time discussing connoisseurship.
We hope to see many of you there!
Image: Auguste de Châtillon, Portrait of Léopoldine Hugo, 1835.
We hope to see many of you there!
Image: Auguste de Châtillon, Portrait of Léopoldine Hugo, 1835.
The workshop on medieval book illumination was a huge success. Thanks @saracharles.bsky.social for another wonderful session!
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May 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The workshop on medieval book illumination was a huge success. Thanks @saracharles.bsky.social for another wonderful session!
#medievalsky
#OMMG
#medievalsky
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The countdown for our gold workshop with @saracharles.bsky.social has started!
We couldn’t be more excited!
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We couldn’t be more excited!
#medievalsky
#OMMG
May 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The countdown for our gold workshop with @saracharles.bsky.social has started!
We couldn’t be more excited!
#medievalsky
#OMMG
We couldn’t be more excited!
#medievalsky
#OMMG
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One day perhaps.....Pope Joan in a procession giving birth
BL Royal 16 G V; Giovanni Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation; c.1440; France, N. (Rouen); f.120r
BL Royal 16 G V; Giovanni Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation; c.1440; France, N. (Rouen); f.120r
May 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
One day perhaps.....Pope Joan in a procession giving birth
BL Royal 16 G V; Giovanni Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation; c.1440; France, N. (Rouen); f.120r
BL Royal 16 G V; Giovanni Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation; c.1440; France, N. (Rouen); f.120r
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The Manuscript of the Week is the Book of Uí Mhaine, RIA MS D ii 1. The contents of this 14th C manuscript are described in a marginal note as ‘bolg an tsolathair’ (bag of mixed content/miscellany).
Read more & find a link to the @dias-isos.bsky.social digital copy here: www.ria.ie/collections/...
Read more & find a link to the @dias-isos.bsky.social digital copy here: www.ria.ie/collections/...
April 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The Manuscript of the Week is the Book of Uí Mhaine, RIA MS D ii 1. The contents of this 14th C manuscript are described in a marginal note as ‘bolg an tsolathair’ (bag of mixed content/miscellany).
Read more & find a link to the @dias-isos.bsky.social digital copy here: www.ria.ie/collections/...
Read more & find a link to the @dias-isos.bsky.social digital copy here: www.ria.ie/collections/...
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Training in early Frankish palaeography is not just for those working on this period, it will help you understand Late Roman, Carolingian, and Protogothic scripts& to approach cursive writing from later centuries too.
It’s a doorway to many centuries of Latin palaeography!
#medievalsky
#manuscripts
It’s a doorway to many centuries of Latin palaeography!
#medievalsky
#manuscripts
May 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Training in early Frankish palaeography is not just for those working on this period, it will help you understand Late Roman, Carolingian, and Protogothic scripts& to approach cursive writing from later centuries too.
It’s a doorway to many centuries of Latin palaeography!
#medievalsky
#manuscripts
It’s a doorway to many centuries of Latin palaeography!
#medievalsky
#manuscripts
Some of the stars of the show this evening in Merton College Library.
Thank you @juliawalworth.bsky.social for the wonderful visit!
#OMMG
Thank you @juliawalworth.bsky.social for the wonderful visit!
#OMMG
May 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Some of the stars of the show this evening in Merton College Library.
Thank you @juliawalworth.bsky.social for the wonderful visit!
#OMMG
Thank you @juliawalworth.bsky.social for the wonderful visit!
#OMMG
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Amazing evening in Merton College Library analysing this beauty! Thank you @juliawalworth.bsky.social
and @oxfordmedievalmss.bsky.social
#OMMG
#medievalsky
and @oxfordmedievalmss.bsky.social
#OMMG
#medievalsky
May 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Amazing evening in Merton College Library analysing this beauty! Thank you @juliawalworth.bsky.social
and @oxfordmedievalmss.bsky.social
#OMMG
#medievalsky
and @oxfordmedievalmss.bsky.social
#OMMG
#medievalsky
This term's programme is now available!
Come and join us if you are around Oxford!
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#Oxford
Come and join us if you are around Oxford!
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#medievalsky
#Oxford
May 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
This term's programme is now available!
Come and join us if you are around Oxford!
#OMMG
#medievalsky
#Oxford
Come and join us if you are around Oxford!
#OMMG
#medievalsky
#Oxford
Gearing up for our visit to Merton College Library today at 5pm. Stay tuned for more events soon.
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#Merton
#Oxford
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#OMMG
#Merton
#Oxford
#medievalsky
May 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Gearing up for our visit to Merton College Library today at 5pm. Stay tuned for more events soon.
#OMMG
#Merton
#Oxford
#medievalsky
#OMMG
#Merton
#Oxford
#medievalsky