Emma Rothwell

Collections 🤝 Crafters

Absolute magic

The cover of a 1928 Pocket Dictionary featuring a smartly dressed gentleman.

The cover of Everywoman's Dictionary from 1928, featuring an elegant woman sitting at a writing desk. She is wearing a blue drop-waisted dress which one must assume has no pockets.

Because as we know, women very rarely have pockets 😢@theulspeccoll.bsky.social 1928.6 178 and 1928.6.179.

Come along to this lunchtime lecture if you love birds, records, museums or any combination of the above!

Why choose, when you can have it all?? 😍

Meet the independent, fierce, proactive women of medieval Ireland Translators of medieval romances reshaped stories to portray Irish women as more independent and proactive than their English counterparts

Meet the fiercely independent women of medieval Ireland #speirgorm www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Rylands BlogIntroducing the Early European Print collection John Gandy, Incunabula Cataloguer at the John Rylands Library, talks about the newly published early printing collection on Manchester Digital Collections

We are delighted to announce the first batch of the new Early European Print collection, now freely available to explore online here: www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/...

Read more about collection and some of its highlights in our latest blog post: ow.ly/g1MH50WxSmH

A snail climbing precariously up a dead poppy stalk and extending its head to stick its face into the seed head.

Find someone who loves you like this snail loves the poppy seed head in my garden.

Oh, it's a h. Of course!

Oh fantastic, thank you! The ink blot on the flourish made me think it was an 'iu' in the middle, which seemed all wrong!

Help! Anyone able to make out this former owner's name? Probably Irish language?

Native trees may not always be the best choice for Dublin as the climate changes, says city tree officer “Not all native species will survive what’s coming,” he told Dublin city councillors on the climate committee.

“We’re close to drought conditions this year. We’ve been out watering trees all over the city. We need trees that can resist both flood and drought. Not all native species will survive what’s coming.”

www.dublininquirer.com/native-trees...

I reckon Sir Walter Elliot was a fan of the Morning Chronicle.

#JaneAusten #Persuasion

Catching up on From That Small Island on RTÉ - fantastic! Just two nitpicks: the papyrus font for the document recreations (the Irish script is really famous) and the academic wandering into the stacks to retrieve an archival box herself is literally the most unrealistic thing I've ever seen on TV.

Insect pigments today at Montefiascone!

Noticeable difference between the earth colours and synthetic colours (i.e. requiring a chemical process to create; heat application, addition of acids, etc). What a wonderful palette!

Day 2 in Montefiascone: metals! Including gold... 😍

On a busman's holiday at the Monte Project learning about medieval pigments! 😍🖌🪨💎

So glad this exhibition is getting such great coverage. It really is monumental and we are incredibly lucky that it is free - not very common in this day and age!

On the train reading Robin Flower's account of a tax man being savagely murdered by a poet in early medieval Ireland as told in the Leabhar Breac. I see the lad beside me has an ID card to say he works for the Revenue Commissioner. I hope I haven't made him uncomfortable.

I'm giving this 15 min tour tomorrow, if you are Dublin city centre-based? I will make you excited about the Tudor Privy Council, or die trying... This is part of the 175,000 new documents on Irish history that was all over the news yesterday! www.ria.ie/events/libra...

@ria.ie The Deeds of St Anne collection included as a new Gold Seam here! virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/g...

Old St Paul’s cathedral, LPL MS 1106 f.96v

📢Attention Cathedrals!📢

Lambeth is opening a new programme to offer free cathedrals visits from our expert collections care team, to advise on a range of preservation issues.📚

More details here:

www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/cathedral-li...

@englishcathedrals.co.uk

Interestingly, it was taken for granted that while we're all capable of sight-reading the music, at least one of us was going to be too stupid to read pagination. 😂

The choir were discussing ways of quickly recognising the first page of this psalm. I said that the decorated capital surely made it obvious. That was not the winning answer...

Read about the LAI Rare Books Group's annual visit. This year the group visited the Special Collections & Archives at the Glucksman Library, University of Limerick @ullibrary.bksy.social 
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My colleague Dr Joseph Flahive @ria.ie is next up!

Suppressing a small 'whoop' as Dáibhí Ó Cróinín gives the Cathach a shout-out while outlining the history of the contested term "Libri Scottice scripti".

Immo Warntjes masterfully explaining why St Gall is the most important repository in Europe for the study of history before the year 1000! I, too, raise my hands in worshipful respect for this list of records! 😉

Excited to attend some of the lectures about the St Gall mss at Trinity College today!

From amazing retrieval systems, to exhibitions, to digitisation suites to the loveliest of reading rooms and most stunning of books! Enormous thanks to the Special Collections team @ullibrary.bsky.social for hosting the @laibluesky.bsky.social Rare Books Group for our annual visit this year!