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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 📜 🔬 📚 📊 🇨🇦
A Dispute? (‘The Cloisters Apocalypse’; Normandy, c.1330)
#MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #Critters #MedievalAnimals #Dragon #Wyvern 📚 📜
January 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
December 25, 2024 at 12:14 AM
The illustrator of Lambert of Saint-Omer’s Liber Floridus reminds us that we are not always the apex of the food-chain. #Critters #Griffons #Monsters #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscripts 📜 📚
November 25, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Interesting surface crackling of thick, red #ink in this German terrier (list of land-holdings) compiled in Klein-Karben, Kloppenheim (1483), and now held by University of Victoria (🇨🇦). #MedievalManuscriptsInCanada #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscripts 📜 📚
November 24, 2024 at 3:35 PM
November 22, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Please enjoy this 14th century depiction of the Virgin Mary wrestling a ferocious demon while an angel babysits (because why not? 🤷🏻‍♀️). #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #RareBooks #Women 📜 📚
November 22, 2024 at 3:53 AM
Exquisite imperfection. #Mess #Beauty #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #RareBooks 📜 📚
November 15, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Delighted to be settled in University of Toronto’s Robarts Library to take in this talk by Matthew Boyd Goldie. #MedievalTwitter #MedievalManuscripts 📜 📚
November 11, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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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October 19, 2024 at 3:34 PM

plus a great deal more.
Watch this space 👀
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#OBNS_MISHA #BookScience 📚 📜
#IMadeThis 😊
October 19, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Off to campus. Later, all. 👋 #Death #Skeleton #Halloween #MedievalManuscripts 💀 📚 📜
October 15, 2024 at 12:24 PM
October 1st! Time for a spot of #Halloween cooking…
#MedievalManuscripts #CdnMdvManuscripts #MedievalManuscriptsInCanada 📚 📜
October 1, 2024 at 12:37 PM
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September 19, 2024 at 3:05 PM
#Caturday #NotALion in a Book of Hours from @theul.bsky.social. #MedievalManuscripts 📜 📚
August 3, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Lower right: Me, skulking in a corner of a @theul.bsky.social Reading Room with My Precio— er, one of my #MedievalManuscripts. #PortraitOfTheCodicologistAsANotSoYoungFellow #BookGollum 📜 📚
July 30, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Error correction in the margin of a Book of Hours from Girton College, Cambridge. #MedievalManuscripts #Art #Devotion #Editing 📜 📚
July 22, 2024 at 11:27 AM
#Practice, practice! Evidence of a book artisan perfecting their technique in the margin of this @theul.bsky.social statute book. #MedievalManuscripts #LegalHistory #HistLaw #Law #Art 📜 📚
July 2, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Let us now sing the praises of the #maintenance staff of Girton College, who have just assisted me with my horribly recalcitrant bike lock (which has been complicating my week). Thank you so much, Dan (et alia).
June 18, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Visiting the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge today, taking in (you guessed it) yet more Statuta Angliæ #manuscripts — including one which features this rather unhappy little fellow. 😕 #MedievalManuscripts #LegalHistory #HistLaw #Law 📜 📚
June 17, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Decorated initials: notorious site of interspecies struggle since the 11th century. 😱 #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #MedievalAnimals #Critters 📜 📚
@theul.bsky.social
June 16, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Rub-a-dub-dub! Bath-time in a 15th-century, @theul.bsky.social copy of Régime du corps, a personal guide to home #healthcare composed by the physician Aldobrandino of Siena in 1256.
#MedievalManuscripts #Medicine #Bathing #Healing 📜 📚
June 9, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Polka-dots in a lovely copy of Platearius from @theul.bsky.social . #MedievalManuscripts #PolkaDots #Pretty 📜 📚
June 9, 2024 at 11:41 AM
“‘God created … every winged bird according to its kind’, by which Genesis 1:21 mainly meant #crows & #ravens, because what other #birds could you want?” — this 13th century artist, apparently

#MedievalManuscripts #corvids #Critters #MedievalAnimals 📜 📚

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June 6, 2024 at 3:10 PM
#TFW you’re overcome by the sheer horror of c.16 of the 1st Statute of Westminster (3 Edw 1) 😳. #MedievalManuscripts #LegalHistory #HistLaw #Law 📜 📚
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June 3, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Back in @theul.bsky.social today, taking in more medieval common #law #manuscripts. #MedievalManuscripts #LegalHistory #HistLaw 📜 📚
June 3, 2024 at 11:36 AM