Dr David Rundle

I'm sure all manuscript scholars want to second that vote of thanks. MLGB3 goes beyond what the hardcopy Medieval Libraries of GB could provide. It was a sad day when it had to be taken down; it is great to see it back and functioning well. And it is going to get better! Congratulations to the team.

The rebranding from MLGB3 to MLGB is a case of undersell: the print volumes of _Medieval Libraries of Great Britain_, overseen by Neil Ker and Andrew Watson, were succinct, with the detail stored on index cards. MLGB3 made that material public, and that is helpfully retained in this version.

Have you been bereft without MLGB3? It was the essential and much-used online listing of extant books from British medieval libraries. Those good people @bodleian.ox.ac.uk have been working away and have just re-launched it, with the promise of more in the year ahead:
mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

That dating...

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.

Come and join our friendly community @memsunikent.bsky.social:

TODAY TODAY TODAY

Sounds as if she is learning from the Liberal Democrats.

The last one certainly is (you might be able to make out the captions at top of leaf). Others combined nota drawings with mnemonics; the reader's manicula is written with some skill but these...

No, this is too much.

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).

I would have thought a better question would be how many 'i's there are in 'artificial intelligence' - but then we know AI is all about superego.

And our FIVE YEAR teaching and research position in Early Modern Europe and the World is now live..... Please do circulate and/or think about applying. I truly love our department! @kingshistory.bsky.social

Oh, Peter, just when I was imagining I could sit quietly at home... Thank you for the alert!

For you, Lisa... I will ask the speaker if he is willing.

Having returned from my travels, I am catching up with news and am very sorry to hear of the death of the former librarian of Oxford's Christ Church, John Wing. He was a quietly supportive and shrewd presence, with a prodigious memory. And a penchant for chocolate
chchconnections.org/news/the-hou...

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.

I am feeling over the hill. Because I am Vienna at the moment.

At least you are not a moose.

Not just any old screwups, the graviores ones.

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.

A day of papers to mark the 500th anniversary of the foundation of 'Cardinal College' College on Oxford: 4 October 10-5 with @dunning.bsky.social @drdavidrundle.bsky.social Sarah Foot, Mishtooni Bose among others.
www.chch.ox.ac.uk/events/saint...

Sorry, it's stuck in 1899.

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.

Ah, yes, the Dark Ages.

I'd say it's very close - by the skin of its teeth.

I think this might be hair side.

Bodleian MS. e Mus. 198*, fol. 10.

Sometimes you simply can't get the quality of parchment you might have liked.